The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-11-17
| From the New York Herald.
Oar Taxes ComparsA with those Of Europe.

: From the New York Herald.
Oar Taxes Comparsd with those Of Earope.
While the taxation Of the loyal States
has not yet in any way approached the
severity Of that under which the rebels
groan, it is also certsin thst it 10 no way
imposes the burdens which are this day
laid on the people of France, England or
Austris, even in peace. While here no
war tax has been laid on landed estate, in
Austria it is even now sixteen per cent
on all the products Of the land 10 the
country, and twenty one and half per
cent on al house rentals. Licenses,
stamps, are many hundred per cent. high.
er THAI with ~. An agreement Of %
ordinary stock company with . capital Of
one hundred thousssd dollars costs there,
to make it legal, six huodred and twenty
Eve dollars, aud here but Eve cents per
sheet. The whole schedule il on the
same enormous scale, 10 every part and
parcel of its items. 5. a.s @
Iu Great Britain, Is every one knows,
the people are taxed from the cradle to
the grave, and in every possible shape.
A patent 10 England costs eight hundred
and 6fty.one dollars; here, shout twenty
Eve dollars. The license tar on whisky
10 here one dollar and sfsy cents per gal
Ion, there, two dollars and forsy-three
cents. Stamps, licenses, probatcs, in
dentures, arc more costly, in most instan-
ces, By hundreds per cent. than with US.
Tea. is taxed two hundred per ceat.,. TO-
bacco about seven hundred per cent and
so on oil the articles of necessity tho tax
gatherer t.kcs an enormous proportion.
In France it is NO better, every body poys
taxes there, whether he has property or
, not Mechanics, cooks retailers, street
vendors, and shoe blacks, pay largo sums
for liberty to ply their trade, though liv.
ing from hand to mouth. Real estate is
heavily taxed, 50 are doors and windows;
every mans head is taxed, aud the tax
on fermentsd liquors and tobacco alone
is equal to the whole interest We are now
paying 90 our national debt. Mr.. Benja-
minis statement is, therefore, without
the least basis Of truth. He makes an
other assertion of tho samc fslsity, viz.
that if No carry on the war for anothes
year it will be absolutely impossible, even
with the entire unanimity," to meet
tour obligations" live should not dc
so, We have at least a precedent in the
rebel States. But We are not ouly unan
imous in the determination to pay, but
have the means to do 20.
While the wealth Of Great Britain In
creascs decennially At the rate of thity-
seven per cent, ours is advancing At the
rate of one hundred and twenty-six pei
cent. While her population Increases d
the rate Of about fifteen per cent. every
ten years, ours increases in eighteen new
States and Territories At the rate of ens
hundred and thirty per cent, and 10 th'
free States together At the rate Of nearly
forty.two per cent. Our population il
tho whole Uoion will DO in 1870, AZ,
328, 1872; 1880, 56,450,241; 1890, II,
266, 989, 1900, 1O0, 1855, 802. The pop
ulation Of Great Britain is limited b.
arcs, and even now cannot support II
self, while ours has no sppreciable limi.
in this respect.
There never Was nation on which
debt will shortly sis - lightly IS ours
Our gains are not counted, 40 10 Francs
and England, by the annual accuDula-
sion OF interest; but BY the rapid com
pounding Of capital, an extraordibar,
rise in the value Of lands, in tho suddol
growth Of cities and towns, like Ch;esg,
or Brooklyn; 10 the enormous increase o.
our internal commerce, and 10 the ex-
haustless product Of gold aod silver from
the Territories, as we'll . tho less pre-
cious, but more useful metals. There il
no nation on the face Of the globe 90 ful
of natural wealth % ours, Or pcoplcd will
rsce more ingenious aDd industrious
50 Mr.. Deojamin may - we'll give NJ
the attempt to cry down our resources
and our credit. II he has sny skill il
figures DO had better assist bis own Soc
rstary Of the Treasury 10 ascertainisl
what is TO become Of the rebel debt, nov
not worth ono cent on the dollar, its mil
lions Of demoralizcd slaves, its population
decimatsd BY an uuholy rebellion, and
it's whole material interests Get back IL
blood and poverty for half century.
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