The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-08-18
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must DO represented IN this ware 10
eqnalize the burdens, aud | have done
Just what I expectedin rOusing the ire
of one, of the ten men mentioned as
owning one million of property in this
county not represented in the eaimy.-
This one, speaks the sentiments of the
other nine and the banks, and shall be
answered. Ho asserted that the capital
of the country paid the expenses of the
war, and it was necessary that wealthy |
men, or men of property, and large
business should remain at homo and
accumulate money "as tho sinews OF
war; to carry our arms to success
He was simply mistaken, and | tried
to convince him, but
"Bcing convinced against his WILL
He's ofthc same opinion STILL"
Desirous of presenting this PROPOSE
ton in such light as that all can
comprehend and acknowledge it; will
use the same arguments to you, as |
enGeavored unsuccessfully, to convince
him. If this war were carried on BY
money obtained from the wealthy by
contribution, or tax, and at the end Of
each year wo were out of debt, it
would be but fair; that as property
and wealth had paid all expenses, and
as money can only be obtained by pro
per management Of property and la
Dor, those obtaining the money for the
past year, and looked to to supply the
money for the next and subsequent
years, it would be but fair, say that
such men should neither 90 themselves,
nor should their sons, sons -in.ldW. nor
hueIings, for these are indispensable to
tho production of money, and this
money is given the Government vol
unfairly or by taxation. This, unfor-
| Itunately, is not the fact, and the mon
of property Or money, who give these
to the Government, get 500 Bonds, or
some other certificate ofindebtedness,
which must bo paid in the future. 1t
is neither tax nor q voluntary G ift,
but a LOAN, binding all the property
in the nation, until paid pith interest IN
gold
Again he said, "If we do not pay il
now, our lands will be held in tho fu.
turc, when these bonds become due
and we shall then be liable as the only
: parties arc, who hold and possess pro
pcrty, for what can poor man pay
He has no farm, no mill, no storc-hops(
nothing has he, that can pay Tho
Bonds. We must pay them then, anc
why should we be called upon to dc
our share of fighting, and eventually
d to pay the whole eXpcnseY Thi
b. question was thought TO be poser
| an dygumentum dd homiaun, clincher
and would have been, lad | not refer
!, red him TO the day on which thos
!, Bonds woro duo lIo admitted tn
c lmpossibiity of himself or his heir
S living to the day when these bond
S will be paid and had to admit tina
G even the interest Of past issues was
and will be paid by revenues on fol-
: cign importations, or may be few O
&c tax on incomes, operating equal
t, upon the man who rents his house, Il
J. upon him. In other words, tho pres
cnt tax to support the war is not o
e property now hcld-not on houses an
n lands, but upon incomes or profits, 0
licenses for the transaction of any bus
& ness; from butcher or bIacksmit
c hiring thoir houses; to doctor, law
1t yer, or minister Of the gospel. All pa
\, alike; all>havc the Same eXcmptio
Is of equal sums alike.
Is One Of the men in my eye pays,
10 am told, S2S. He has one thousan
c. acres Of the finest land in tho count,
90 My next ncighbor pays SGT, and doc
Q. not own the house he lives in, nor or
I'd foot of ground in the State And thu
d, many mechanics and laboring me
I'd not owning tho house they live in, {
10 the shop they work in, pay more il
til come tax than this farmer of one thor
re sand acres. Why is this? Congrc
cs thought it bost to tax incomes, not ii
II property of the country. Now, it bch
tx clear that property is not taxed, WI
n should it not bo represented in the a
'lo my that protects it? The owners
,ir large amounts of property know tn
lc, they cannot live until the bonds no
rt issued for carrying on the war bccon
DO due, They have no assurance thoirso
he or sons in,law will then possess the
ny lands. Indeed it may be"somo your
ty soldier now seen IN our streets" wi
but ono arm or one leg, in the conc
ry ton of things in this changeable cou
Of try, aydic in possession OF part
nc whole of these lands; and their sons,
IN, sons-in:law or descendants, after Tho
by fathers fought and lost u limb in soc
Sc; ring the Government in tact, may
III, dosirous of examining the titles to t
IN descended estate and the most astu
ed lawyer will have trouble in search
wo the records to find tho name OF t
owner Of the farm or house in 1861,
m Many of our youthful soldiers in fgl
Us ing for their country-lovc it becau