Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-30
The Tax Bill and the city.

The final passage Of the tax bill. directly int
resting TO every individual in the country, will of
course affect all persons doing business IN the
city For instance, every window adorned by the
transparent cOlored vases of the apothecary sig
nifes ten dollars for the Federal Government
Every eating house. whether elaborate affair,
or only little basement where sandwiches and
cold coffee are sold, must disgOrge an y. Prof
Anderson, the Wizard Of the North, will have to
pay the tax gatherer double this amount, for
jugeler's license is 800; and besides this 500 the
license for opening theater. Bankers, who are
generally supposed to have more money than
anybody else, will pay $780, and peddlers who
have less, are charged but So. Confectioners are
charged $40, and pawnbrokers $50. Every
reader can, by rejecting a moment on the mum
Der Of establishments in only his personal know
ledge, devoted to these pursuits, form some idea
of the vast revenue which must flow 10 the
Government from the license in this city alone.
We in America have been accustomed to make
frequent little squibs and satlres about English
taxation, but henceforth live in too fragile a
glass house TO throw stones. A walk up Broad
way shows that We can claim the hOnors of taxa
ton quite much down trodden" cous
ms in Europe
A TAX gatherers promenade in Broadway is by
no means unsuggestiye Leaving Bowling Green,
he sees several taxed hotels which paw licenses OF
at least 800. The bonded warehouse, a few
steps further reminds US that fifty cents duty is
paid for the entry into withdrawal therefrom
Of any goods The splendid stores OF the whole
sale dealers each worth fifty dollars year to
Uncle Sam. Every clerk standing in the door
way of these stores must pay per cent. of his
income over 5000 At the express Office you Oh
serve that for every receipt tor goods to be trans
mltted there is charge of from one TO five
cents. That porty stock broker turning out of
Wall street Is worth fifty dollars a year 10 his
government in licenses, while that carriage and
horse driving up near the corner represents an
other So AZ he goes past the nest OF lawyers
ut Trinity buildings il is satisfaction to the tax
gatherer to know that each of them has to pay n
license of so. He glances into the auctioneers'
stores, and complacently remembers that every
must contribute so TO the Government.
The druggist, where he stops for soda water, has
to pay his share, and on the eating house where
he takes a nibbe there is a similar claim. If he
passes newspaper office, he reflects that for ev-
cry advertisement the proprietor pays per cent.
on the gross receipts. Every physician whose
little tin sign he may see on his route must dis
gorge $40. The cigars smoked along the streets
taxed according to their value. Ii it rains
and he puts up an umbrella, he need not pay for
the privilege, unless it is silk umbrella, in which
case he must pay per cent. of its vaue-cOnse-
quently cotton umbrellas will be in active de
mand. The theatres, wholesale and retail stores,
and the incomes derived from every building on
your Broadway route, taxed. People,
clothes and what they eat are taxed. The glass
they look through and the gas they see by are
taxed 1T wish to slaughter hogs and sheep
for our own consumption, Uncle Sam permits US
to do so gratis but he will not permit us to hang
ourselves for nothing. hemp is taxed 3 per
cent. Ii We wish to leave the city and 90 to
New Jersey, we do freely; but if pre-
fer other foreign climes and think of Europe, we
must pay s. for the passport and dollar tax for
the privilege of buying your passage ticket
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