Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-11

Thus it will be seen that our State, coun-
ty and local taxation In Ohio this year is
NEARLY THIRTY MILLIONS. against
taxation last year, as reported by the
Auditor of State, of $1l,S59,473 6S.
In addition to this militia commntation
fee of FOUR DOLLARS is demanded from
able-bodied men, who did not see the pro-
priety of joining the National Guard, to be
ordered out of the State, at the " him OF
nod of the State Executive.
The taxes of the people of Ohio-to be
paid in December-will be double what
they have ever been before, while the grand
duplicate will show less property upon
which the tax is to be levied.
But these are taxing times. In addition
to the large sums extracted from the peo-
pie by paying the Draft Communication, they
are paying their National Income and di-
rect Taxes. Tha Federal Government eX-
poets Ohio to pay about FIFTEEN MIL
LIONS OFINTERNAL REVENUE THIS
| YEAR! Now add the fifteen millions to
the thirty millions of dollars, and we have
the enormous sum of FORTY-FIVE MIL
| LIONS!-an amount of taxation that will
not be regarded as great luxury even by
our Abolition friends! And what is the
prospect for its diminution? None what
ever, but if Lincoln, BrOugh d Co. are con-
IlHucu Ill DOWtl, anu bhOJ diN oiip"NN itiA
sway, they'll ruin every taxpayer in the C0an-
hyi
| The National debt of the country is esti-
mated at three thousand millions of dollars
probably more now, but Ohio's share OF
| all this is about one-tenth. The entire real
and chattel property of Ohio is estimated at
nine hundred millions of dollars. If the
war should stop tomorrow, and the debt
was to be paid, every man in Ohio would
be compelled to part with oNE-TnIRD OF
HIS PROPERTY ..
Now comes another feature. The Shod-
dyites, Contractors, Navy Supplyers, Office
| holders, &C., &C., by investing their money
| in United States Bonds get rid of paying
taxes! About four millions OF personal
property in Ohio is thus Withdrawn from
the duplicate, by Abolition financiering,
and the additional tax is added upon the
small property-holder and the owners OF
real estate. These bonds were bought at q
discount, yet the people are taxed to pay
their holders in gold, and bound to pay
the principal at par! Is this rights this
lust? Yet we call the attention of the peo-
pie of Ohio to the fact that when Demo-
cratic member of the last Legislature intro
duced bill with the view of taxing Ma
tional Securities, the Abolition majority
promptly voted it down! BY this act mil
lions of dollars which should be on oul
duplicate for taxation, which should beal
alike with real estate, the burden of gov
ernment, goes untaxed Capitalists and
Shoddyites may think this just, honest
righteous, but we mistake the plain people
if they do not put the seal of their con-
demnation on such detestable tinanciering.
THE SUM TOTAL! How do you like
it, people of Ohio? How much of this i'm
mense sum has been frittered away, by the
favorites of the party, in power? Wei
could the venerable Chairman of the FL
nance Committee of the Ohio House Of
Representatives declaim against the '.tiT!
of taxation" when the SUM TOTAL stared
him in the face! Well did he conceive thai
an outraged and over-taXed people would
rise up in judgment against their pitilcs'
public servants! He, more than his CO
laborers, could see the handwriting on the
wall! The sovereign people of Ohio are
awakening to the necessity of change Il
the ADMINISTRATION that has ecen disguised thou
sands Of its once todrm friends and drtre'
them into the necessity Of withdrawing from ii
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