The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-12-08

81 Europe.
q From the New York HetsId.
While the taxation OF the loyal States IA,
mot yet in any wav approached the severity
of' shat under whici t6e' rebsls groan. Il is
also certain that it in n, w,v imp p,.es ths
burdens which are this DAY ia,f 81 the ppeo-
PIE Of France. England Or Austria. even in
peace. While here no war tax has been laid
on landed estate, in Austria It Il even now
sixteen per cent. on al the prod icts Of the
land in the country. and twenty-one and .
half per cent. on all h mse r.ntsl. Licences,
stamps, are many hundred per oent. higher
than with Us. An agreement of an orriinary
stock company with capital OF one hundred
thousand dollars costs there, to make It !esal
six hundred and twenty-five dollars, and
here but Ave cents per shest. Tho whole
schedule y on the same enormous scale, in
every part and p,rcel Of its items. - ~
In Great Britain, as every one knows, The
people are taxed from Ire cradle to the grave,
and in every, possible shape. A potent IL
England costs eight hundred and any -one
dollars here, about twenty fire dollars. The
license tax on whiskey is here one dollar and
fifty cents FER gallon there. two dollars,and
forty-threc cents. StAmps licences, pro
bates indsntures, sre, more costly, ip most
|1nstances, by hundreds per cent. than with
5.T 5 Ts. ist.1sd tEa hundred Per cen. t.. !
on all the articles of necessi.y the tax gath.
erer takes An enormous proportion In Fran @
It is no better. Everybody pays taxes there,
whether he has property or not. Mechan-
ics, cooks, retailers, street svsnders and
shoe blacks. pay large sums for liberty to
ply their trade, though living from hand to
mouth. Real estate is heavily taxed, so are
doors and windows; every mans head is
taxed, and the tax on fermented liquors and
tobacco alone is equal to the whole interest
we are now paying on our national sdebt.-
Mr. Benjamin's statement is, thereiore, with
ont the least basis of truth. He makes an.
other assertion Of the same falsity, viz. that
if we carry on The war for another year Il
will be absolutely impossible, even with en-
tire unanimity," to meet "our obligations -
If we should not do so, We have at least q
precedent in the rebel States. But we are
not only unanimous ID the rmination to
pay, but have the means to do So @411s'
While the wealth of Great Britain in
creases decenially At the rate Of thirty.seven
per cent. ours is advancing at the rate Of one
hundred and twenty-six per cent. While
her population increases At the rate II about
fifteen per cent every ten yesrs, ours IN.
creases in eighteen new States and Terrific
ries at the rate Of one hundred and thirty
per cent, and in the free States together 1t
the rate Of nearly forty-two pcr cent. Our
population in the whole Union viii be, ii
1870, 42.sss.4s9; 1880. 5e,4so. .24i; 1890,
n, 7,2ss, sss. 1900, 100, $50, 500. The pop
ulation of Great Britain is limited by its area,
and even now cannot support itself, while
ours has no appreciable limits in this respect
There never was . nation on which . debt
win shortly sit As lightly as ours. Our gains
are not counted. as in France and England,
BY the annual accumulation Of interest but
by the rapid conpospngdi'ng q capital, An ex'
sraord'nary rise N sne vslue q lands, 'r sne
supasn s,oSn = cues .nu sowus, .rv on.,
80 81, ;,..,n., VA y = =. =.
,s.s T nroduc, ~ sold and silver from &. Ter.
ritor;es :, ven a the le,a precious. \. tr bu,
more ''elo. metals There = 20 nation ,.e %
'ne 'sos :. 'ns % e'DD' - ,.s .S4 - a-s. ..a'.' M
r;ous !, ;odns,r;ous So Mr R.n;,m;n ma,