The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-11-03
Tell the whole truth, Squire.

Squire reads his farmer SUBSCRIBERS lee
ture on taxes. He tells them that thus
far thew ahave been more exempt from
taxes than any class in the community,
hut that change will soon come over
the spirit of their dreams, in shape of the
adirect tax on real estate imposed by act
of Congress of 1862, which will reach
them in 1868 After considerable pala-
yer about enormous taxes, duties, &C., he
branches off on to what the rich man is
doing to save his property from taxation
by investing it in Government securities,
which he says are exempt from taxation
'snot paving dollar towards the support
of the Government" and finally winds
up by saying that foreign capitalists will
come into our markets with their Goid
and ultimately absorb a large portion OF
our National debt now amounting to near
ly $4,000, 600, 600, at 39 cents on the dol
lar-"dooming the laboring man of this
country to perpetual bondage mortgaging
their houses, their blood and their sin
cws to the aristocratic nabob bond hold
ers of Europe"
The article from which We draw the
above has none of the peculiar earmarks,
which loom up so beautifully all through
the Squire's lucubrations. But as it no
doubt speaks his sentiments exactly, we
are willing to give him credit Tor Its pro-
duction. But why, while you were about
it, Squire, didn't you tell your farmer
readers the whole truth ? Why, Instead
of attempting to scare them nearly to
death by mere strips torn off not give
them the whole cloth, so that they might
Judge for themselves, instead of taking
your biassed judgment as to who was te
blame for the evils of which you speak
IF you have such thing as conscience
about you, it would have been far more
at ease over an open confession of all the
truth, than it can possibly be over such ar
insinuation of lies as 60 to make up your
appeal.
You should have told them that the
taxes, and duties, and impositions, from
which you fear so much, were the crea
lures of the unholy war with which oul
country is cursed and you might have
told them that that war was brought a
bout by the Southern Democracy, with
whom you and many of your farmer rea
ders have all along acted in concert, and
for whose success you are now SO earnest
Iy laboring. Thus much of truth would,
most undoubtedly, have led you to tel
more; and by the time you had got thus
far you would have been able to confess
what was equally true-that every dol
lar of income from Government bonds, oi
security in any shape, by positive enact
ment of law, pays percentage of its val
ue towards the support of the Government
the aggregate of which amounts to many
millions of dollars, instead of telling them
as you did, to the contrary.
And further. Bystarting even with the
truth, you might have been carried along
by it, and induced to set our war debt
down at less than $1,000, 900, 900, instead
of at s4,OO0,O 100000 as your first STEP
in the wrong direction has made you do
You would, too, have been enabled to tell
them that the reason why thirty-nine cents
in gold would buy dollar in bonds, was
because Belmont, the very head of the
Northern Democracy, and his Jewish
brethren in Wall street, for the purpose OF
gain, and to assist their brother Democrats
of the South, had brought all the wealth
Of the Rothschilds, and the Jewish mon
ey-heads of Europe generally, to depreci-
ate our currency, and thus destroy conf
dence in, and weaken the Government.
Again That same first step in the way
of truth might have led you to tell
your farmer readers that in providing for
the tax on real estate Congress took care
to guard the necessities of the poor man.
1t is not poverty that you find in palaces
or on large Estates, or on ordinary farms,
nor even yet in the dwellings OF our well
TODD citizens, and yet it is only the real
estate of such as these, who can afford it,
that will be touched by the tax law. The
man of the simple cottage, and the un-
pretending dwelling-in short the labor
ing man and the mechanic-will have no
more to do with tax on real Estate than
he has with tax on income; and no one
knows this fact better than does the
Squire. And perhaps you would have
told them, too, that all our war, and all
our consequent debt, taxes and troubles
were the result of Democratic misgoyern-
ment, and that the only way to redeem
ourselves from them is to elect Lincoln
g. johnson, and by still more vigorous
of the war crush out rebellion.