Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-10-05
I'd Lieut.. Co. f, 9th Regt. lst A.
THE FURY OF TAXATION
The Enormous Amount OfTaXes
Paid by the People Of OHIO.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The history of the legislation of the State
Of Ohio for four years past under the ad-
minstration OF the sclt-styled Union"
party, has no parallel for reckless extrav-
agance aud foolish expenditure of public
money. The taxpayers who are now pay
ing their annual taxes in the different coun-
ties of the State, can form no Just idea of
the variety of ways in which money is filched
from the Treasury of the State by horde
Of hangers-on around the State House, who
by long occupancy of favorable positions
have become adopts in the art of abstraction
under the form and color of law.
Mr.. Peter Odlin, the gentleman who had
the honesty to expose the transactions of
&. Volney Dorsey, the late "Union" State
Treasurer-th ilustrious successor of the
dcfalter State-in speech delivered last
winter in the Ohio House of Representa-
tives to his colleagues, declared that they
were seized with the 'JM'y of taration, y
and that the people would sooner or later
execrate and denounce that Legislature for
its unfaithfulness to their interest and for
its extravagant and lavish expenditure of
the money drawn from the people through
the instrumentality of taxation. We be-
lieve Mr.. Odin to be an honest man, and to
him, Union man as he is, the taxpayers
are indebted for the defeat of many measures
which would have been fastened upon our
statute-books and increased our taxation,
but despite the vigilance of this man, his
more unscrupulous associates created a
number of new officers, and increased the
salaries of nearly all our County and State
officers. "A loan was authorized by the
Legislature of 1861, the principal of which
was exempted from taxation, thus wiping
off the duplicats Of our State, large sum
OF money and fastening more tax upon the
holders Of real estate. Our total State debt
is about fifteen millions of dollars, and the
annual interest thereon is about $92O, 900.
Now it is startling fact, that at least one
third of the whole wealth of the capitalists
of Ohio, is invested in Government bonds.
This sum is now withdrawn from the dupli-
cate of Ohio, because it is exempted from all
State and local taxation, and upon the real
estate owner and the man who has his
money in stock, merchandise and other per-
sonal property, the great proportion of this
taxation falls. The man who owns farm
or personal property, other than government
bonds, pays his State tax, school tax, coun-
ty tax, township tax, road tax, city tax and
other special taxes created in the fury of
taxation, while the rich bondholdcr, who
is best able to pay, folds his grecnbacks in
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struggles of the masses who toll from the
rising to the setting sun each day, in order
to support their families, pay their State
and National taxes and the interest on the
mrestn,e,lts of the Jondhoideri
We boast of ours being u government of
equal privileges, equal rights and equal in
sttutions Is it so? That there will be
inequality in the circumstances of men we
all know, but there is no reason why every
man should not pay into the treasury a sum
proportionate to his possessions-in proper
ton to his financial ability. Each returning
year finds the artisan, the mechanic and the
abOring man going to the tax office, and
paying their taxes on their little homes and
their small savings, which the rich bond
holder, as fast as they pay in, dra,oS ont as
his interest This is not right. The bond.
holder should have his interest, but he
should be compelled, like all other men, to
pay his share of the heavy taxes forced upon
the people of Ohio in the ''fury of ftaxatian.
Equal toration and no SPECIAL PRIVILEGES
is the doctrine of the great majority of the
people of Ohio, and we have every conf.
dence that on the second Tuesday of Octo
Der they will elect the Democratic ticket
which plants itself upan this platform, and
is willing to fight it out on that line.