The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-05-19
The Tax Law.

The whig press of this State, forced by
their masters the bankers and money chan
gers, are making most bitter assault upon
the present tax law. Not daring to state the
true ground of their opposition to it, viz the
taxation of property invested in banking and
s,o:k iobb;ng, wi h their usual dupllcity they
evade the real issue, and endeavor by false
constructions of the law, low appeals to class
preiudices, and the like to render it odlous,
says the Coshocton Democrat, and thus try
to make unpopular law that taxes all pro
perty equally. Democrats should be eau
tious how they are drawn INTO the trap thus
set by federal demagogucs, as in the end
they will find it to be. Examine the law
care fully for yourselves-weigh its lrov-
sons wcll--conrast them wi h the tax laws
of whig legislatures that allowed the bank
nabob in his giILed carriage to go untaXed,
while the laborng man wGs tihcd to the
uuermost farthing-and our word for it, you
will agree with us, that it is by far the most
Just and equitable law on the subject, the
State has ever had.
Ifthere are errors, they exist in the de-
tails; the principle Of the law is just and G.
quitabe The errors, if any are discovered
in its practical workings, can easily be rene
died at the coming session.
We repeat then to democrats, be cautious
in endorsing the statements set anoat by
wings and whig presses, for upon invesiya
tion they will be found to be falSe-concoc
ted by the designing politicians of that party
to make capital for the coming campaign.
If they tell you that wheat is taxed in the
ground, ask them to show their authority,
and they will soon cave. If they say it tax
es grain differently from the old law, point
them to the fact that the instructions of the
present auditor of State in reference to that
are precisely the same words as those of the
whig auditor Woods. If they tell you the
law is unjust and unequal, point them to the
provision that brings $3o,00O,ooo of the
most productive property Of the State or
the duplicate, that under whig laws was ex-
empt from taxation, and its just proportion
saddlcd upon the productive industry of the
State.
Be not afraid Of the wolfcry thatthe bank:
will stop if they are taxed. They nevel
close in any honest manner. Every time
one of them stops it will be when it has it:
hundreds OF thousands of bills aAoat, fo
which the managers have their full face il
gold, silver and real estate, filched from thu
unsuspecting bill holder. That they vii
raise howl is to be expected. They hav
enjoyed their untaxed privilege of plunder
ing the public too long to resign it wiThou
struggle. But that they will quit bust
ness that yields six times the profit of an
other. because they are required to pay tax
cs the same as other property, is humbu
too transparent to force down the throats {
thinking men, twill not even answer III
secondary object that of drawing attentio
from the non -committal position of certai
mum candidate, who is trying to be puffe
into the favor Of the voting masses of th
country.
An important campaign is just opening
every nerve will be strained by our opp
nents to make the acts of a democratic legi
lature unpopular, and the subject of taxatlt
being the one through which the minds
the people are most readily reached, tn
has been selected as the point Of attack. b
they will find in the end their mistake. II
democracy are ready to meet them in tt
Issues presented in that law, and the electic
will show that privileged wealth has had
day with the success Of whiggery in Ohio
EU-The General Conference of the NJ.
Church is now in session in Boston. Not
ing of importance has been transacted til,
far.