The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-22
"The Issue"-Monopoiies

Inc A5SAS
If here is any measurs IN this Re
publican World, which the eople oughl
to have a voice in, It, is in regard to ths
manner, in uhich they shall be taxed
If they are to- sustain the Goyernmenl
bgeobtSibutlng portion eedbeir means
they have a right to sayhoA thest
means shall be collected. The Demo
Gratis haze denied them that right and
this constitutes one of the issues with
Auditor Morgan and the Democratic
{party.-Iiagcs. D
We were much amused on reading the
above glaring assumption and silly twad
idle. of the "ISmes." With a bold SWEEP
of romantic fervor, the sagacious "bar.
~rister" plants himself upon a truism
and insists that the PEOPLE have a right
to have a voice in regard to how they
shall be lakeland urges that the
Democratic party with ~aatocratic power
and rule, have denied to them this right.
It is true that a man can fight any i'm
aginary thing, no difference how absurd
and foolish, thereby subjecting himself
to ridicuie by the better class of
community but his w%ell-known procliv-
ity to humbug, does not quite come up
to that standard of "chaUdkry, integrity,
and honor" which the Editor has always
claimed for himself. But to the point
at issue. Docs he ate npt to adduce
proof, either by resolution, platform OF
democratic action, to ~substantiate his
fallacious assertions? Certainly not.
He lays down a fictitious "principle''
and argues the case most admirably and
certainly concludes as he commenced,
with mere CANNON, bold assertion, re-
gardless of all truth. When and where
has the Democratic party ever attempted
to abridge the rights of the people
either in the collection, safe-keepiug or
distribution of their revenues? When
has the party had its Galphins, its Cor
wins aud its Kelleys to eat up the
Treasury of the people, and make bank
rupt the country. Neverl On the other
hand, we charge that by the operations
of the Kelly law, banks, corporate mo-
noPolies and capitalists wherever and
however used under his system of de-
auctions, escaped its due proportion of
taxation, and that the farmer, mechanic
and laboring mar was compelled, out of
their hard earnings to make up this de-
felt. Was that equal taxation-equal
rights? And yet the CARDINAL WoLsEY
of the Times" now insists that it Is
the only mode that viii protect the dear
people, 1t was the intention of the
trainers of the new Constitution, we
think, to tax by a uniform rule the
lordly banker and capitalist who live in
luxury aud wealth derived from, the toll
of the lpboripg classes, as, well as the
farmer the mechanic aud laboripg man.
And wereitptherWises Ohio Hould soon
become the rplunder ground of eastern
capitalists who would deduct their in.
debtedness from their, capital, after
being protected in their rights by our
courts and laws, and wholly escape bear
ing any proportion of the public bur
thens. Shall such a system be re-enac-
ted in Ohio? Here, and here only is
the issue. The "Tinues" longs to see
Aourishing again its fayorite old monop-
olies. VIII the people sanction these
outrages and make Ohio again the plum
der ground of "Red dog" enterprise?
But why make an issue with Mr..
MonGAN? Is he not acting under oath?
Dare he evade the law? Is not the
Supreme Court our highest tribunal?
Did it not decide deductions uneonsti-
tutional! Is Mr.. MORGAN to blame
then? He certainly cannot be censured
by any reasonable person. Why then
this bastard thrust in the dark? 1t is
alike unfair, unmanly and unjust. No
one will be found more ready to assail
him than the Editor of the "Tfn1es," if
he had set the decision Of the Supreme
Court aside and decided, as was often
said of CARDINAL WoLsEY, "thdt has olcn
opinion qcas always aW." How infn-
itely mean therefore is the present posi-
ton of the Editorl Let infamy fall
upon all such feeble attempts to get up
a. mor6id sympathy OF the tax question
for it always resolves itself into ia
yoritism. for the rich while it Expresses