The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-21
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nor gather into barns, that hang about
the corners and howl Democracy, TINT
could not lift a finger to savothe Gov
ernment, that called it unconstitutional
to borrow the money in tho first place,
and equally so to pay it buck in the
second place. I4aughter. They come
and tell me, and tell everybody, that
the lnonied aristOcrncy are protected by
this law. Why, my good friends, L
helped to. fabric1te that system myself,
and l say hero Tonight, and it is a INIT
ter capable of mathematical demonstra-
ton, if you look to the returns of the
Treasury Department that the CONNER
cinl men of the United States who are
wealthy men, the manufacturers of the
United States who are wealthy men md
the lnonied capitalists of the United
States, pay three-fourthsO of all the inter
nal reHenue paid at the rate of n mil
lion day into your treasury. There is
not one farmer in a hundred in our
State, (and I think it is true in this, nm
less yours are a great deal better off
than ours and if they nre I am
glad of It, for our men are well'to do in
the world, and your men deserve to be
for what they have done already,-but
say there is not one farmer in a hum
dred in the State of Ohio, that paws one
single dollar of Federal tax under thnt
law: WhyY Because you do not Tux
his land In the first place-What next 2
You tax his income-well YOU tnx IL
over and above six hundred dollars.
and there is not one in a hundred thnt
has any income over that, and that
therefore pays any tax. Now Won are
in favor of equal taxation, Mr.. Demo-
crate i know the lie sticks cross-legUed
In your throat. Laughter and an
plRuse.l What are these capitalists taxed
on their income9 Five per cent ON their
first -, 400 over $500 oftncome. William
y. Astor Is allowed Just the same as
that little boy, and on the first 81, 400 is
required to pay five per cent, and ON
the balance of his million is REQUIRED
to pay ten per cent. Did you ever
hear of such tax anywhcre -
And why lay such burden
on him2 Simply because he ia
able to bear it, in the first place, and in
the next place because he is willing to
bear it, and in the third place because
he ought to bear it. did not propose
the men that plough the fields and
gather in the haryesls, because it is not
the policy of enlightened statesmen 10
tax the bread that feeds you. II had
been written long agO and atteSted by a
voice out of heaven, EYE shall not muz-
zle tho OK when he treadeth out the
corn" And we ought not to fetter with
the burdens of taxation the hand that
scatters the seed and gathers the har-
vest and gives us our daily bread, He
don't know how to cipher, as the schObl-
boys say, who don't know that equal
taxation means a like assessment of
equal values whether those values lie
lands or bonds, or tho productions OF
lands. Here are some of your good
farmers owning their two hundred
acres of land, n beautiful heritage 10 be
sure, under the prOtection of Your wise
and beneticent laws--R heritage to them
and tlleir children forever. They culti-
vate II, truly eating their bread in the
sweat of their faces; the nOblest cren-
lures on earth, honest men; but they
cannot be taxed ten per cent on tile
value of their land over 81, 400. Yet in
my own district called an old farmer
up and asked him, saysI !,
"Fathcr Coventry, what is your lnnd
Said he, "AIy nefghbors offer me
eighty=five dollars per acre."
How many acres have you" I
"Sight hundred" :" he replied.
'tS our eight hundred acres then are
worth siNty-tive thousand dollars"
CT Yes, about that, y he said.
"Well, tile first five thousand Is sub
ject to five percent, tax II we are to have
equal taxation, and the remaining sixty
thousand ten per cent, making YOUR
tax over six thousand dollars. ] wnnt
to know whether you tan pny it?'' la
why, God bless YOU" said he, 81
mover had an income of six Thousand
dollars u year, and / would have to sell
part of my farm simply to pay my
tnx.n
HOu nre in favor of equal taxation,
nTe your Suppose you come out OF the
bushes nnd say so. But If you nre in
favor fequal taxation, like rate of
taxation on equal valuations whether
those taxed be lands or money, l tell
you, you very suddenly relieve the rich
ana the poor. That is part
of their platform. r.
INTERIOR OBJECTS OF DEMOCRACY.
Now, what else Hre you in favor of?
Why, you might swcnt, and we might
all swear for you, that you are in favor
of rebellion again, when you propose to
break the covenant of the nation; and
when you break down the credit OF the
nation, these fellows have only to call
on Europe again to arm them for the
tight as they did before. History will
bear witness to the fact that more than
a thousand millions of the TREASURE of
the crowned despots of Europe went
down in this war against the Union.
You repudipte this debt, and they have
more money in their exchequers with
which to arm rebels again, aud after you
have destrOyed your credit, t,violhtedyOur
obligation and broken your covenant
tell me where you will get yOWI4 money
again to arm your people. Why the
dead defenders of the Republic in the
very grave would cry, aloud from the
dust against your informal Nvickedness,
and lnugh Mt you in the day OF your Gu
lhInity. A people that would do this
could not expect to survive. God in
history reveals this fact that n nation
unfnithful TO its pledged obligations
never can survive. A nation OF linrs
and covenant breakers ought to perish,
for the simple reason that God is Just
and he don't allow that kind of wicked
ness to prevail very long mt a time. !.
THE DIPoRrANT PROPOSITION 10 SOL
DIEIss. jim
/ You are the men to trust the cause of
the government tol You first get mp
treason and after 1t is put down in spite
of you, after the fallen ensign OF the re-
public has been tifted from the dust,
and the insurgent territory, half1s large
as the continent OF Europe, has been
lWfeSted from the hands OF n million of
armed rebels, you come round and say,
.Oh see here, my MANNED hero,
you were always democrat
come now muster in the Demo!
cratic party. 1t is true we turned
our backs on You, 1t is true tl1at we at
tempted to prevent the raising of more
volunteers, that We voted against SUBJ
scEtption. loans, and we propose now
% break the plighted faith OF the nation
and! Withhold your pension, aud tax
those Little orphans sitting Around a
vacant chair, to tax the bonds they have
received as the price of their filthet's
blood. Come and help us do this buAi-
ness In the name or DeinocFncy," Oh. in
the name OF the devil 4 Gust come and
help ms in the name of Democracy to do
this business.n