Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-10-25
S1s5 SO 1926 90

lhose ten leading articles show averages
Of advance OF 29e per cent in the aggregate,
or ia other words, A g. on settling his &C
counts will find the foileving result on his
balance sheets:
1860, A. B earned $3.50; paid out 1886 so
1864, A. b earned $3.50; paid out 1925 90
That is A. B. saved Sl64 so in 1860, at 81 SO
per day, and in 1864 he fell in debt Si5, con
Suuiug the same quantity of ten leading arti.
cles. Consequently 10 1864 he pays war tax
equal to the sum be saved in 1860, plus his
Indebtedness Of ls64-being s249 so. And
this is true beyond contradiction. Thus It
may be seen that the rich do not pay aRy
more war tax than the poor, ss the real estates
OF the rich are not taxed but by an income
tax. Suppose ID. owns house, worth $40, =
600, and occupies il himself, and owns 100
acres OF land, and has it cropped--tho land
being worth 10000 more; and his income
from the land is 81 ,OOOi he pays Sl2 income
tax, and is worth $4,000. Now suppose his
family is the scme as A. 3, and he consumes
the same, $s25 he saVes $l75, and pays only
$l2 more tax than A. B.--thus showing that
A. 8 labor 10 taxed within $l2 as high as
C, D.'S $40, 900 worth Of property But II c
ID. pays 10 proportion 20 A. B he should pay
$50 60; for A. b . labor is only $3.50, and
pays $249, while c. Ds capital is 1000,
and pays only $26l, by the same calculation
and same laws, But there are other articles Of
consumption not set forth in my ten leading
articleP. Matches are taxed l8 cents per /
grosS. or lsO per cent or $50 per cent more
than manufacturers prices. Now naRuiae
turers and capitalists pay NOSE taxes on the
articles they produce only so far as thoy are
consumers. All taxes are paid by The consu.
msr. Thus cotton is taxea-the mRn1iac-
turs is Iaxed-his commission merchant is
taxed-wholesals dealers arc taEed-and the
retailer adds all those tdrss.on the price,
aAd the consumer pays all. And all laboring
msn, say A. B is q producer, incidentally,
and philosophieslly Yet substantially be is
only q consumer. And this is tfae with all
laboring men, except the tssO, who combine
their own small capital aud labor TO produce
articles OF consumption. For, 10 s0ihmerei
language, the proprietor and not A. b, ID
the producer OF ears, and is so recognized
although the cars they sell represent their
capital and the combined labor of 200 zoe.
ehanies, out Of whose labor they make for.
tunes without dirtying hand themselves -
Hence, all laborers, being consumers only az
a class, they us class pay taOO'thirds Of all
indirect taxes
Fellow workingmen Of Montgomery county
lot the Uhion), are you thus blind TO youI
own interests to support policy intended di
reetly for your own ruin and enslRVemeni2-
; Look to your interests Fifty thousand fami
lies OF Virginia are thrown amongst you pen
niless, by the inceudiary orders Of Abraham
Lincoln; aHd still the conAagratiOA ragss -
Those people will be compelled to work their
country is all devastation--they will reduce
your wages At our poll, loyalist, high ia
authority, told me that as soon as the people
are PREPARED, (mGrk the WOTd,) traitors
, South and Copperhsads North will be hung
up by thousands Are you willing to eneour
age this II so, vote for Lincoln. His sixiy
day war has ragged with relentless fury fol
nearly tour years, our natioral cha aeter lost
and credit ruined, homes made desOlRls, and
hrssideS drapsd in mourning; while Que mil.
lion of men, with ire and sword in haRd, hI
q the despotic will of Abraham, arc com mmanded
10 march onSard aud destroy, pillage, burn
pIunder. and utterly make desolste whol'
counties and States, to aPpsass the craving
appetite Of puritanicAl fAnaLieism aud modsrI
abolitionism Fellow WOrkingmsn arous,
from your lslhargy Gird on the Armor o
, American frsemen Grasp firmly the shislC
of American liberty; sisss boldly that blood
sealed VsapOn, bought BY the blood and treas
ure Of your noble shesstors, and on the 9th o
November next, sss that YOU deposit the SAM
, 10 the ballot boz, inscribed Mcclellan, Pen
dlstOn and Liberty, and the greatest good tt