White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1864-05-26

OF every loyal citizen to bear bis share Of
the burden of taxation without complain
ing, when the object is to save the coun-
try and restore law and order but at all
times, in peace or war. every citizen has
. right to inquire how his money is ex.
pended, and to enter his protest if be finds
that it is unnecessarily squandered. or
employed for corrupt purposes. We are
met BY taxes at every turn. Every ar
ticls we eat or wear. must be purchased
at enormous prices. The material that
the mechanic works up. has been taxed
in every shape before it reaches him. BY
which time its cost is exorbitsnt then,
after paying heavy license for the priv
ilege of working it into another shape.
he must pay per centage upon the
value of all articles be thus manufactures;
and then, again. be must each year pay .
per centage upon all he has made the
preceding year, over 5000. If he sells
his wares on time, and taxes the pur-
chaser's note. he must pay q tax upon
the article sold, and stamp must 60
upon the note and that, whenever COL
lected. is taxed 3 per cent. Almost every
paper necessary to the safe transaction of
business must be stamped. or Q heavy
penalty forfeited. and probably the value
Of the matter in question lest. These
taxes must all be paid promptly. no mat
ter what the circumstances, or an in-
crease of one-half is clapped on. property
confisca!ed, and the individual harassed
Experience has by this time taught every
man what taxation means.
The war expenses of the Government
alone amount to two millions of dollars
per day. Af'er having paid their taxes
to defray the expense-they mast pay it.
willing or unwilling-tbe people may be
anxious to know what becomes of all the
money. We will account for q good
round sum of it. as far as Kansas is con-
cerned. The people of the State have to
pay over one hundred thousand dollars
q dollar for every man, woman and child
in the State-to uphold the political for
tunes of corrupt demagoguc. Wepre-
sumo every one understands that we refer
to james Fl. Lane. He is making his
entire political fight upon Government
money. wrung from the hard earnings of
the people of Kansas. For every Gov
eminent officer actually needed 10 Kan.
sas, there are at least ten, and for every
hundred dollars honestly earned by these
cormorants, ten thousand are squandered.
Kansas requires one Provost Marshal.
one Commissioner. and one Surgeon. with
the necessary clerks. She has two Provost
Marshals, two Commissioners, and two
Surgeons, with their clerks. :. In addition,
she has another Provost Marshal, such
as cannot be found anywhere else in the
Union-namely, general superint endent
over Kansas and several adjoining Terri.
tories. who has the whole recruiting SER
vice under his control. and can appoint
or dismiss at pleasure, as tho interests
of his master require. He, of course.
has his clerks. Then there are Deputy
Provost Marshals. some ten or twenty.
scattered throughout the State, many Of
them in localities where they cannot prob
ably earn FIVE dollars year. Then there
are still larger number of Detectives,
many of whom are thieves, and all of
whom are required to detect any danger
that threatens the man who made them.
Then there are Commissioners of En-
rollment in almost every Township in
the State, each one of whom receives
three dollars per day. and probably earns,
on an avsrsge. three cents per day. Then
there is Mail Agent, with big salary,
who travels around attending political
caucuses, while our mails are in wretch.
ed condition. Then there is a myriad of
Commissaries. Psymasters, QuaItermas-
ters, military officers. etc. who are loaf
ing about the State in their uniforms,
managing political meetings. Then there
are Indian Agents to swindle the Indians;
and Surveyor General. who draws q
large salary, and spends his time in
Safeguarding men who are doing their
best to save the State from ruin and
incompetent Judicial officers. who make
justice secondary to partisan servitude
Every one of the officers named above,
and some that we have omitted, draw
from one to two thousand dollars . year,
and the people Of Kansas have to writbe
under taxes to pay those salaries. No
other State is 80 overrun with useless off,
GERS. and therefore it is not done by the
Government, without some agency at
home to solicit and beg for it. They
have been saddled upon Us through the
importantly Of lane. who has agreed to
control the State in favor of the powers
that be, when shs required no controlling,
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