The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-26
Spring lot the proportions being as FIVE acres to sew

Spring ot the proportions being FIVE acres to sew
enty.n
But now it every cordially accepts the ''MAY-
''oRs Measure" (mark, not less than 200 acres 'as
"a substitute. 1t is not so outrageous and unheard
of a proposition after all.' This is pretty well,
even for our neighbour in one week. Another Gu
rious Illustration of this principle of "compensa-
ton" to call it by no worse name occurs in the
same article ofyesterday:
One word more about the injustice and inhumanity of
THIS fifth cent burden 1t is said that the poor are those
who are thus forced into paying for Park This is sheer
nunnuS and claptrap. The extremely poor do ride
. RAJ cars or emnibuses Any one who will take the
trouble to investigate will discover that there are five
broad cloth coats to fustan jacket the omnibus
ana that crinoline and poult de frequently
iouhu ere than Calico There three beggars who
solicited aims from us day two ago, and we after
wards saw the same three stepping into an omnibus If
it had been rail-car, they would have saved cent
apiece So that it appears to be positive charity to give
them the opportunity of riding after atigung
at present.
1t is 'clap-trap,' to say that the poor will ride in
the cars-and this observation is illustrated by
fact in the editors own experience of the three
beggars who, let US hope, had not appealed to his
benevolence in .vain-stepping into an omnibus,
IN his presence. This, of course, proves that the
poor never ride, and that it is 'sheer humbuq' TO
say that they do.
We avail ourselves of this occasion to add one
serious word in further explanation of the remark
made by us on Thursday morning, that we
should not oppose the setting apart whatever
amount might be derived from taxation on the
city railways, for the uses of Park No objection
was urged against receiving any amount of
bonus, from these lines directly into the city trea-
sury. Yet, when it is proposed that one cent per
passenger, shall be devoted to q specific purpose,
there is grand outcry behalf of the poor; as if
bonus, in any FORM levied on the railways
would not be paid by their passengers, and
the complexion Of the transaction be the
same, whether the amount be brought into the
general treasury, directly set apart for the Park.
We are very far from approving so extravagant
proposal as that of the MAYOR, but we would
have nothing to object to the one offered in the
First Branch of deductng small per centage on
the receipts to be held specifically and in
violably, as a sinking fund to pay the Park debt
There as much 'claptrap and humbug' in this cry
about taxing the poor in this way. A magnificent
boon might be afforded them, in the opportunity
to reach the cheap houses and pure air of the
suburbs-for a fare lower than that in any other
city-where they would save in doctors bills and
house rent, three times the amount of the addition
proposed as a Park tax-while that tax would
| be appropriated to bestow another priceless
| luxury on those whom chance misfortune may
confne to the central parts of the city In no State
are the poor or rather those without visible proper
| y better protected from taxation than here. Poll
taxes forbidden by our Bill of Rights, and for
all the protection afforded to the aborer in his life,
his family his free schools his right to labor without
fear or hndrance to better his condition. the State
charges nothing. There is a grace and fitness in
proposing to allow those who pay no tax other
WISE thus to tax themselves for so great benefit
to those like themselves. We remember as we
write, that great Park has recently been pur-
chased at Manchester in England, where land is
almost like gold, by the exclusive contributions,
voluntary, it is true, Of the aborers of that borough
We use the language 'tax themselves" advisedly,
for, after all, those who object to paying the
tax need not ride and will be no worse off
than now. They may remain in the centre
and enjoy the Park, provided for them, in part,
by those who wisely choose the suburbs
in spite of the tax. But it is not the poor
lahoring man who makes this objection,
and in his behalf we protest against this ofhcious
and slanderous use of his name in opposition to
what he would gladly sanction, if the opportunity
were afforded.