The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-07-03
THE TAX BILL AND TIE CITY.
How Tax-Gatherer Would Look {
Broadway.
From lhe New York Post !


Broadway.
From the New York Posi.l
The final passage Of tbs Tax bill, d.
Iectly interesting to every individual 10
the country, will of course affect all per.
sons doing business 10 the city. For in
stance, every window adorned by the
Transparent cOlored vases Of the apothe
cary signifed ten dollars for the Federal
Government. Every eating house, wheth.
er an elaborate affair like Taylor's, or a
little basement in Nassau street where
sandwiches and cold coffee are sold, must
disgorge an x. Professor Anderson, the
Wizard Of the North, will have to pay che
tax. gather double this amount, for the
cost Of juggler's license is $50; and be.
sides this, $780, the license fec for open.
ing a theater. Bankers, who are general
ly supposed 70 have more money than
anybody else, willpay 81 90, and peddlers,
who have less. are charged but So
Confectioners are charged $40. and pawn
brokers' $50. Every reader can. by re.
flec,ing for moment on the number of
establishmentsin only his personal knowl-
edge devoted to the, pursuits, form some
I idea Of the vast revenue which must flow
to the Government from the licenses iu
this city alone.
Take the theaters. for inst4uce--Wal.
lacks Niblo's Winter Garden, the two
Boweres, Laura Keene's, Academy of
Music. Barnum's, Bryant's. Christy's,
Cremorns Gardens and the Stad. Thea
ter, all OF which come nuder the title Of
lheaters-wil bring In an annual income
of 81, 900. The rcfrsshment saloons at
,ached 10 these places will bring in Abou
$50 year. And when tLis Is ealcula,
ted for all the tleaters in the Union, the
rhea.er tax will amount up to very nice
little sum-enough to pay the salary oi al
Eleast ono of The thousand fat Offices and
Ia dozen Of tie { ensthousand lean ONES
which this bill will create.
We in America have been accustomed
to make frequent little squibs and saIrel
about English taxation, but benceforsl
live in too fragile glass house to indulge
further in,the luxury Of throwing stones
A walk up Broadway shows that we car
claim the honors of taxation quite a
much as our "down,trodden" cousins il
Europe. tgg 2 sEa "a. ss5 sis aa -
A tax gathsrer's promenads in BROAD
way is by no means unsuggestive. Lea
wing Bowling Gieen, he sees several tax
ed hotels which pay licenses of al loas
, Sl00 each. The bonded warehouses; "a feI
steps further, reminds us that 50 cent
duty is paid for the entry into or with
drawal therefrom of anyi'goods. TIL
a splendid stores Of the wholesale dealer
: are each worth $50 iayear to Uncle Sam
Every clark standing in the doorway Q
these storea must pay 3 per cent of hi
income oyer $500. AT the express off
# ces you observe that for every reoeip: fO
goods to be transmitted there is a charg
Of one to Eve cents. That porily stoc
Il broker turning out of Wal, street is wort
Is $50 year to his Govefrinent In license
while that carriage aud horses driving Il
J. near the cotner for him represents anotl
. er IS. As he goes past the nest oflaV
yers al Trinity Buildings, it is satisfac
- tion to know that each OF them has
n pay license Of $40. He glances in
is the auctioneer's stores and cOmpaccutl
IN remembers that every one must contril
ute 80 to the Government. The dru,
:, = gist where he stops for soda wstershAs
u pay his share, and on. the eating hou
9, here be takes a nibbls there is "a slmi
le claim. II he pass a newspaper Office, |
"A reflects that for every advertisement Il
proprietor pays 8 per. cent on the gro
receipts. Every physician whose ltt
10 tin sign he may see on his. route mu
y. disgorge $40. The cigars smoked alor
:, : the streets are taxed according to the
III value. If it rains and heputs an umbrel
1t up. he need not pay for the priviley
10 unless it isa silk umbrella, ID which ca
n. he must pay FIVE per cent. of its value.
(, consequently cotton umbrellas will be
:" active demand. The theatre, wholesa
and retail stores, and the incomes dery
~ from every building on your B road vi
re route are taxed. Peoples lclothes al
:. what they eat ara taxed. The glass th
=, look through and the gas they see by a
"a taxed. five wish to slaughter hogs al
It. sheep for our own, consumption, UnC
Sam permits us 10 do. gratis; but he W
not permit US to hang ourselves for not
Us ing. as hemp is taxed three per cent.
he we wish 10 leave the city and go 10 M
n. Jersey, we can do freely but If we pref
other foreign chimes and think Of EGror
, we must pay three dollars for the pas
81 port and dollar tax for the privilege
dc buying your passage ticket, $50
q These are some Of the results 10 II
city, Of taxation results which the Ia
Egatherers will soon enforce. The deia
: sound very dreadful at first, but are mu,
Il. less ,onerous on Individuals than would
pc supposed And were they fer more one
Gus than they are, the load would