The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-09-24
To the Tobacco Growers and Farmers
ofthe Third Congressional District.
How You Came 20 Pay Double
Income Tax.

vious year, you were required 10 pay upon
the estimated pdlWe Of your crops remain
ing on your hands unsold, Afterwards,
when in the year 1864, you sold this same
tobacco and other produce, you were re-
quired by the u. s. Assessors to return the
money you received from such sales as IN
come for the year 1864 and paid another tar
upon It Of five per cent.
You therefore paid upon the same prop
erty-
Flrst-An income tax OF three per cent.
Second-An extra income tax for the
same year, of five per cent. more, q. .-
Third-An additional tax OF five per
cent. upon the proceeds Of the same property,
sold In 1854. H.
You were thus taxed THIRTEEN PER CENT
upon THR SAME PROPERTY, when everybody
else only paid eight, This extra tax,
amounting I'm many individual cases to
my, sfrtg eighty and an hundred dollars,
must have reached an aggregate in this dis
trict Of many thousands of dollaIs--every
cent of which amount, this day wrOngfully
remains out of your pockets, and in the
1t is important that you should know
through whose default and negligence you
have thus been so grossly wronged.
General II. G. SoHENCK was elected your
Representative in Congress in the fall of
1862, and was reelected in the fall of 1884.
Under the income tax law passed in 1862,
you had been required to return the value
OF your crops, under the following instruc-
tions issued May l, 1sG3-to-wit:
"Every farmer and planter will be re-
quired to make return Of the value of the
produce of his farm or plantation without
deduction for the labor of himself and his
family or for any portion of such produce
consumed by himself and family"
Upon this value, you had paid the three
per cent, and the additional five per cent.
extra, in the fall Of ls64, as your receipts
will show.
! In June 1864 another general revenue
law was passed, the one hundred and sew
enteenth section of which fixes the income
tax at five per eent.--and provides that the
Assessor in estimating the annual gains or
income of any person, must include the in
COME deriped from the sale Of all descriptions
Of produce and property being the Dro,oth or
produce Of the estate Of such person sold"
At the time this act was passed. General
ScHRNcK was your Representative in Con-
gress, and voted for 1t. If he had
been as much interested in looking after
your interests, as he was in getting the
right of suffrage conferred upon the negroes
in the District of Columbia, he would have
discovered at a glance that this law required
you to pay A DOUBLE INCOME TAX
Ifhe had simply offered an amendment,
declaring that where property had been
listed at its value for income tax under the
former law, and had paid it, thatnO revenue
derived from the sale of the same property
or produce, should be again listed, your
money would have been saved to you
WHY DID HE NOT DO IT?
There can be but one answer-for GEN
eral ScHENCK at least cannot be charged
with stupidity. He was too much interest
ed ON behalf of the negroes to watch the
interests Of his constituents. He thereforG
sat there, and permitted law to be
passed, wTongfully filching thousands
of dollars from your pockets In the way ol
a DOUBLE INCOME TAX, without a word oi
remonstrance, and indeed without mo-
ment's attentioh-and yet'claiming now tc
you, that his services were so valuable, thai
he must have two thousand dollars yeal
extra pay for the time he thus represented
you. f O.
But this is notall tAti'
How are you to get your money backg
/ This is the practical question. .ggui
/ The revenue officers, when you apply tC
: them to refund the extra five per cent. thu
Q wrongfullY levied upon you, say they have
: no power to refund-because THE LAW re,
quired this double tax, and that Congress Il
the only power that can afEord you relief
You paid your money in 1865, before Ia,
last session of Congress. Did Congress
! grantyou relietP No-they were too inten
= upon deyising constitutional amendment
to enfranehise Southern negroes, to dC
! justice to Northern laboring white men
! They had wrongfully gotten your money
I they felt therefore no further. concern
about you.
|. WHXDID MOI GENRRAL scHENCK, YOUI
REPRESENTATIVES,, HAVE AN ACT PASSED T,
REFUND THE TAX, THUS IMPOSED UPoN YOI
IN VIOLATION or EVERY PRINcIpLE OF Jus
rIcE AND RouALuYP fFtfEf
Yet he now asks you to return him agail
TO Congress.
lfyou want Representative in Congress
TO look after the interests of the ''freed
men" Of the South, aud the negroes of tn
) District of Columbia ! If you want maj
! whose whole time and attention Is oceupie,
in deyislng means to perpetuate the powe
of Radicallsm, and TO prevent the reeoncil
i iation Of the country, man whose Who'll
) influence is employed in fonlentinI
) civil diseOrd, and in precipltatln,
} the country into another civil war thas vii
plunge you into the hopeless abyss 0
national and individual bankruptcy, and Il
which he will again enjoy thehOnOrs of
, Major Generals commission at eight thou
sand two hundred dollars year, Genera