The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-23


teries mt Washington city, from
ust ri, 1851, TO June SOth, 1885,
following commemorative verse
rvs the title:
on farus's eternal camping ground,
TIER silent tents are spread,
.nd glory guapi> with solemn sOund,
The b!VuCsc ot the dead
THNinsS Government Bonds.
BE- Democratic party nowhere claims
governmC nj bonds are legally tax
by or under State or municipal
lnriiy;' but 1t claims everywhere,
y hee!tug as well rs III New York,
these bonds are taxable for Federal
poses hy the Congress Of the United
-, and IL demands that they shall
% taxed. "Our Democratic friends''
eTstand this matter perfectly. We
land nothing in relation TO the pub
iebt. but such equalization of the
lic burdens AS Will enable the peo-
10 pay it without 4 sense of inins-
The exemption of government
DIS from all kinds oftnXation is man
lily and palpIbly unjust. 1t places
N a part Of the people the burden
lch should be borne by all. And
lie the Democratic party counSels no
lalth, 1t insists that ut least some
tion of the expenses of the govern
at be borne by the capitalists who
i've their incomes from their poorer
ow-citiZens. There is nothing in the
s authorizing the issue of govern
mt bonds which makes these bonds
mpt from taxation under Federal
hority. They may be made to bear
hare of the public burdens, without
+ violation of law or of good faith.
stice demands that they be taxed at
earliest possible moment.
Nud, while speaking of this subject,
call the attention of our readers to
estimate of the State and county
for the current year, published in
E local columns this morning. The
for state and county purposes which
assessed upon and must be paid hV
taxable citizens of Ohio county
iounts 10 about Jour per cent. of The
operty in the county. This tax is caus-
by the bounty levy-EDS. IST.) Now
us see how this exemption of govern
ent bonds from all species of taxation
9rks. \ returned soldier has succeed
I, by much priyation and rigid econo-
ny, in saving from his pay and bOun-
, two thousand dollars which he has
vested in a small house and lot and a
lnty stock of furniture. He is COM
lied TO labor hard, from morning I'M
night, to provide subsistence and
thing for his family. His taxes, ex-
lsive OF the CITY tax or of any tax
Wed by the Federal government,
lount 10 eightg dollars per GHnItEl, and
Is only by the most watchful and
lf-denying prudence that he is able
pay the tax and keep his family
ON starvation.
His neighbor, a 'loyal" man, who has
zen, like Dorsey of Ohio, ..fighting
in the rear during the
ar and who has managed by means
some fat contract or executive APP
ointment, to fill his pockets with pub
, plumber, has invested twenty thou
nd dollars in gold-bearing govern
ent bonds. He owns no real estate,
II he boards at n first-class hotel.
nds his children TO the public school,
projected by the police while he
aiks upon the streets, lighted ut CITY
ipense, spends his days in luxury and
Sc, enjoys all the protection and BEN
It of the federal, State and municipal
draws twelve hundred
1llars III gold from the United States
casury, and. except the poll tax of
ne Paltry half-dollar, is not taxed one
nj.
Now Is there any justice in this {?
nything equitable or right? Must
MS state OF things continue and grow
orsef The democratic party of Ohio
lunty, IN its recent convention Mt Tri-
dolphin, declared that it was Gin favor
such system of taxation as will
ear equally upon all classes of citi-
sns, and was opposed 10 the eXenlp-
on of any species of property from the
urdens which should be borne by ali. -
II who agree with that sentiment, and
nd who believe the present system
must and oppressive Will naturally
ipPort the party which protests against
lese things Wheeling Register.
1t is very seldom, indeed, us our read
: can bear witness, that we copy any
ling from, or notice anything appear
g in the Register, and for the sfmple
.ason that such citations or notices
'nerally lead to endless and protitIess
sputntion, tiresome and unpaIatable
the general reader. 1t would seem,
'wever, as if we ought to give the
Dove article some attention. for from
to end it is very gross mis-
of the whole subject of
.xation as regards the bonds of the
overnment. II lisa total misstatement
the case. We hope for the credit of
ie writer, that when he wrote the first
ntence of the above article, he sup
osed he had a fact to go upon in init
ating that Government bonds are OK
npt from Federal taxation. We are
enough to believe that he
opposed Government bonds are thus
tempt. And yet they are not. They
" precisely the same tax to the Uni
d States Government as any other
md. Hence all the writer says in re-
nd to equalizing them with other
operty, goes for naught, since he dis
aims so positively any desire or in
ition on the part of the Democratic
rty to impose tax .'by or under
ate or municipal authority" What
cans, then, we would inquire, the 4th
solution of the Triadelphia platform,
aiding as follows:
:. That we are i'll favor of such a svs-
N. ~ Vi taxation as will bear equally
y. Cy,,,,s,,,I ~ citlZens; and that we
- opposed to the exemption of nny
2 .S!I of property from the Burdens
men should he borne by alp
" nat does the above resolution meanP
We desire to know. Government Ior,is
re by taxed the United States as.
essors, the same as other property, and
the democraticparty nowhere claims
nat Government bonds are legally
ixable by or under State or municipal
nthority," as the Register SAYS, whv
i'd the Trindelphin convention adont
le resolution we have quoted? We
lbmit that If the Register. is authority
he resolution is confessedly a sham
nd shame. But is it true that "tbe
emocratic party nowhere claims that
bonds are legally taxable
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