Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-20
TIE COMING FEDERAL TAX.

FRIDAY MORNING.. ......JUEE 30. 1852.
TaE COMING FEDERAL TAX
Tho tax bill now before Congress I'll
soou lecome law and immediately foI'
lowing liz adoption will cone the tax
satherer, coll, citing up the Governmen;
dues. This will be something entirely
new to the present generation. AS
people we have been paying very llgn'
t,xes The Federal Government has
hitherto supported itself, and the people
were only required to pay for running
the machinery OF their own State and
county government. This fresh call up
on the PM es Of the people may cause
a little stir and futter at FIRST, but the
neople will soon eettle down into the
new order of things, aud the heavy ma
tional tax will be borne with no great
er amount OF murmuriog than has gene
rally been wasted over domestic taxa
ton. Our advice to all classes and con.
dition. Of men is to prepare for the day
when the tax gathcrer cometh, and pay
his bill and look happy. There il no
use Of grumbling and making up long
Eases, beside there is no occasion tor 1t.
The man who would not rather part
with his bottom dollar than see this
Confederacy of States divided up into
petty Governments, is evidently not the
man for this country. The country WAS
threatened with ruio-it required money
to save it, and that money must be paid
by the people. The more cheerfuIly
and promptly it is done the better it will
be.
Concerning the actual pressure upon
the people of each State, the New
York Herald, Of the 9th inst, submits
the following remarks, which 60 to show
that the burden will not be 80 oppres.
sive as some may have imagined:
1T will be interesting to our readers
to notice the following statements OF
the amounts which it is estimated will
be required of the inhabitants Of the
different sections and States. The esti-
mates we're made by Senator Simmons,
on the supposition that his substitute
for the tax bill would be adopted, aud
are consequently too large, as, it will be
remembered, the bill is calculated to
raise but about SllO,OOO,OOO, whereas
hls substitute was intended to yield about
1855 100000. The Senator estimates
that 10 the States Of New York, NJ ,ssa-
chu-ctts and Connecticut the pcpul, ton
Is 6,475, 572 aud that tue average amount,
each lndlv,dua! would be required TO
pay ,ud be SO per annum; in Penn
sylvan'a and New Jersey that the popu
lat,on is 3,57S, 900, aud the average
tax 1926 per anuum; in Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont, the popu'a
ton l,269,O and the tax 81 in Ohio
Michigan, Indiana, ILLINOIS, Iowa, MN
ne,ota, Kansas, California, Oregon am
the Terr'tor'es,,h population 9,535, 900
thc.tax in Ohio SO, and IN the o,he
States and Territories named 81 pc
annnm Maryland and the District o
Columbia, the tax 50; in Delaware
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, TIT
population 100000 (of GlS,oOU Q
whom no tax could he collccted,) ant
the tax 81 per annum.
1t will be seen, therefore, that we o
New York, and our eighbo OF Massa
chnsetts, Rhod. Islani and Con"ec'icn
will be required t. pay larger SUN oc'
capita that the inhabitants IF any otbe
States, and that this sum is not 49, l,
is we'll that the taxes are so arranged
for these States are the richest aud mos,
able to pay.
TIE consumer of manufactured a,ti
cics, whether they be OF cotton, iron
vol or other material. viii be require,
TO paw for the article consumed a prize,
larger by three per cent. than befnr,
the tax bill went into operation. Thi.
tax and that on incomes, from all sour
ces, are the principal ones levied. A
dress Of cotton material which heret,
fore cost - will cost only fifteen cent
more when taxes are lald, which add
ton is SO small as to be almo>; impercep
,ible. SO with other articles in commo,
use. Thus the three dollars to he pal,
is made up Of little drihcts, so ,ha
when the year is ended the consume
knows net when or how he has paid it
The whole sllO,O00,O0o will have bee,
raised, however, the credit Of TIL
nation sustained, its war wagcd and ii,
victories won.
TnE EDITOR Of the Gazette saws tha
lis party are in favor Of freeing the mig
gers and keeping them right achere they
are
The same great Kohinoor of the edito
rial world declares that the loro.slaver,
party are in for expatria,ing the slave.
op6 dp;vin.v than into ho L =.