The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-04-09

How Yankee Aboiitionist
SQuirms when you want him
tOpay mis- Proportion of Tax 20
pay the expenses Of the present
war.
We extract the following from the debate
on the tax bill in the House ol Representa-.
tives:--
Mr.. BLAKE Imove TO increase the tax
to twenty five cents a gallon. II gentlemen
will reflect on this matter q moment, they
will see that twenty five cents a gallon is not
too high tax. There are sixty four halt
gills in gallon. If am not correct, the
Chairman Of the Committee Of Ways and
Means will correct me.
Mr.. STEVENS. ! need not tell you. You
have counted it a hundred times. Laughter, ]
Mr.. BLAKE. | have understood from the
chairman OF the Comuittee OF Ways and
Means that q gill is just drink for an ordi-
nary man. So, then. when man takes a
drink bis heart will be moved with patriotic
emotion when he thinks that he has paid one
cent in tehalf of the stars and stripes OF our
country. Gentlemen, under those circum-
stances, will often take patriotic drink
Thers is not man who takes a drink who
will not console himself with the reflection
that on every drink he takes, he pays one
cent TO put down this accursed rebellion
which now RACES throughout the country
] Laughter.
Mr.. NORRIS. rise for the purpose o
opposing the amendment of my colleague
The gentleman thinks that every one will
feel patriotic il he knows that he is paying
one cent tax upon every dram he may i'm
bibe. Why does not the gentleman show
the same devotion to the stars and stripes il
regard to the production of the Western Re
serve, from which he comes? They manulac
ure there twenty-five million pounds o
cheese out oftwrnty- four millions manuf C
tured in the State. Will he show his patr
otism by putting tax of three cents pounC
on cheese, the same as is put on leaf tob1cct
which is SO largely grown in my district?
Mr.. BLAKE l desire to say to my lrienC
that he seems to misapprehend entirely th
character of my district. We manuiactur
a great deal of whisky. Cheese Is an articl
which may also be manufactured into whisk
as we'll as apples and peaches.
Mr.. MORRIS. | wished merely to cal
the attention of the committee to the stats
tics OF the State of Ohio In that State W
manu- acture 23,758,OO0 pounds of cheese
and in the Western Reserve 21,850,0O
+ pounds of that cheese is manufactured.
/ Mr. HUTCHINS. Good cheese. Laugh
teri
Mr.. MORRIS. Then ask my coleaue
[Mr. Blake when he is most patriotic
whether before or after he has drank the 81
Of whisky? He seems to think we ought
be patriotic enough to pay one cent drin
/ to uphold the stars and the stripes. Ii
him put from one to three cents per pound Q
/ cheese, and see how he likes it.
n Mr.. BLAKE. I did not hear the gentl'
mans remarks.
Mr.. MORRIS. merely asked the gel
n tleman question, but will waive it. thin
v when the gentlemen proposes to tax our lit
: distilleries fifteen cents per gallon, in add
q ton to the license, he will do great must;
!. to many Of our manufacturers, for some
q them in my district do not manuIsctu
/. three hundred barrels year, while othe
manufacture three hundred barrels da
and if he desires to be patriotic when
,e proposes to tax the agricultural products
v my district t--tobacco--three cents poun
he should also tax the products Of his ov
;, section the same amount.