Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-22
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Facts AND Figures.

a very lame article appeared in the Ne
gro Equality organ Of this city, 1.-THE
Journal, on the 18th, to show that the
poorer class pay comparatively no tax,
while the Weather was forced to pay all.
Is the editor Of that paper so foolish as to
try and make people believe such stuff as
that? Because a man has no income
amounting to six hundred dollars year,
therefore he is nottaxed i Black is col
or; green isa color; therefore black is
green ! That is the extent of the Jour
NAILS logic But to illustrate: A.. A
wealthy man, owns store. He receives
a bill of goods, and begins to mark the
selling prices on them. He takes into
consideration his Government tax ON
sales, his license for selling, his income
tax, and adds this to the selling price.
b., poor man, comes, buys bill of
goods Of A., and walks out. Now b
pays every cent of AS taxes on those
goods, while A. gets an enormous profit
beside Such is the manner of doing bu-
siness among all our merchants. And yet
the Abolition organ, the Journal, would
have the people believe that the laborer
is exempt from taxation, while the rich
man pays all the taxes.
"Why should the Government bonds
be taxed ?'' No man Of sense will deny
that the, outstanding bonds of the Gov
eminent are held by capitalists. Millions
and millions Of dollars that were sub
scribed to that loan, were individual sub
scriptions OF from fifty to hundred thou
sand dollars each. The laDoring class
hold lew if any. Take Montgomery coun-
ty, for instance. The total amount of
taxable property in this county for the
year 1864, was S29,879, ,280. This
amount taxed for State and County pur-
poses, the average per cent. on the hundred
dollars valuation was S1,S4. Up to the
present date, there are about 80, ,000. 900
of Government bonds taken up in this
county, and which are exempt from tax
alton. The amount of tax that would
have been collected on these three mil
lions, had they been taxed, for this coun-
ty, would have been the snug little sum
Of S54, 800. That amount would have
been added to the grand duplicate. There
is, therefore, deficit on the duplicate of
S53,oOO, because of the currency having
been taken up for these bonds. Now,
that amount has got to be made up on
the grand duplicate of taxes. Real estate
is always taxable, and is always relied
on when there is a deficiency existing in
the personal returns as taken by Assessors.
So whatever discrepancy there exists on
the duplicate for taxation, must be met by
real estate. The fact of this discrepancy
existing on the duplicate must be met,
and the poor mechanic that owns a small
home is called upon to pay his share of
the delinquency when he pays his taxes
into the county treasury, occasioned in
part by his wealthy neighbor holding ff- |
ty Thousand dollars of the non-taxable
bonds. These facts are supported by fig |
ures, and are indisputable,, and it is to the |
interest of every man to consider the facts
in plain, common. sober sense view. I'll
the honest laboring man will stand by and |
see his rights imposed on, his little home
gradually falling under the hammer of
the tax-gatherer, and his hard earned
weeks wages taken from his family to pay |
taxes which Constitutional laws never
intended he should pay, then vote to sus- |
tain the present party in power. If not,
vote for the good old Democratic ticket,
under whose rule we were once a happy
and united people, and whose motto al.
ways was Equal Rights and Equal Taxa
tion to all white men. JUsrrrIA.