The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-08

ColNGREss AND the FARnERs,

CONGRESS AND. THE FARMERS.
How Taxes have been Reduced ana
the Producing and ,LaBOrlng Glasses
Reelleyel.-on. which side the, In-
4 tSeIest OF yeis -, - I 2
[EFOE, ge .Vlloa Reralzl
The Internal Revenue for the fiscal
year just closed, Announced TO $500 226. :
s1S -. AT the recent session OF Com
gress, the taxes were reduced on the
schedule.as 1t has stood to an estlma7
TED amount OF one hundred millions OF
dollars, while the difference is to be
made elup mainly from the tax on cot2
ton. The reduction in taxes is designed
to be wholly for the benefit Of the Ia
boring and the producing GLASSES. For
Example, there are placed in the listjof
articles exempt from revenue ia Z,
brick, building stone, glass, and va.
rions building materials. ali of which
are required for the cohstruGtf ION OF the
homes-o OF the people IN city and coun-
try. 80 slaughtered animals are ex-
empt,l and all agricultural products
Except only cotton and tobacco, J
arei free from 4tax, nor is any tax
way every thing the farmer produces is
exempt from taxation, and the charge
E9tor orGtranspoFtation to market is lett
free from Government duty. The but=
ter and the cheese, the meat and the
gEqih, pay no tax either on the farm or
on their way to the consumer. The
amended law also places all fertilizers
all agricultural implements and. all
wooden ware In the free list.S5 It re-
duceS the revenue on iron from 81 70 to
s. per ,ton-more than ione.half, and
lLplgsiron is made free. How largely
iron, enters into the tools and imple-
ments and machinery used by aEfIcul-
tutists, vented not state; for The OBJ
vfous benefit to them in this one red uc-
ton and exemption is of great magni-
tude. Hence the farmer for all that he
requires for the Improvement of the
soth and for articles especially adopted
B6Shis use in the household, has little or
no no caii cal, from the tax gatherer. Hereto
fore all the products of the farm con-
sutned by the family, have been ac-
Counted as part OF the income and to be
taxed as suchi but the Thirty-ninth
Congress has expressly exempted such
products so consumed, from the taxable
schedule; - i3 o. irt5ffl 3 SO y : :,
All this is done in the hrst year after
the close OF, the war, The new provis-
lions went into effect on the first of Au-
gust, SO that they have hardly begun to
| be felt MS yet. The reduction OF taxa
ton TO the farmer is very considerab
alargeL per centage indeed of the sum
lhe has heretoforepa for Internal reVe-
/ AN0s AG uCEEuEd
to those who till the soil. But benefits
to them, are benefits to all; taxes upon
] them, are taxes upon all. The reduc-
ton. In internal revenue; will in time
work itself out into "a reduction of the
cost of articles of food and clothing 10
all clHsSeS. f4 f 1st
Congress has already done as much
| as It could in this direction. At its last
session. the tax on all manufaO-
lures was reduced from six to five per
i'cent!, or one-sixth OF the amount here
tofore coll lected is deducted, On reacy-
made clothing and boots and shoes, the
reduction Is still greater; the assess
mentss sinstead of six per cent, is reduce
edito two per cent.-a reduction of two
thirds, while all manufacturers maxi
ing or selling less than $1,000 worth a
| yeur are exempt from tax. These are
articles used by every body, and the re-
/ ductton of the tax here is directly and
inn1 ~ ediately for the benefit of the la
boring and the producing classes.
These are illustrations of the methods
and PRINCIPLES adopted by Congress in
the matter of taxation. The Union
imRjOrity have steadily and consistently
lstrtVen to make reductions as far as
E4he condition of the treasury will per-
NIT, and to adjust them all so as to re-
lieYe first of all the farmer, the me-
chanic, and the laboringa and producing
classes. In another year, il the Union
| party prevails, alsttll further reduction
of fly mil lions of dollars per year will
probably, be practicable, and SO stead
| lily for years 10 come regular process
of diminutton of taxation VIII be pur-
sued. ,-r-.s.s =, r 5,.f
- II; however, the rebels and their
Northern sympathfzers should by any
possibility obtain control OF Congress-,
they will want 70 pay bounties and
pensions to. Confederate soldiers, will
tYieldlto the Southern demand to reim-
burse the slave owners for their eman-
cipated schattels, and Will seek to con-
solidate the rebel With the national
/ debt. An increase. In taxation will be
the unayotdable result of the success of
theJ Johnson coalition. Not only will the
EUuion policy of reduction of taxes, al
ready inauguIated and in successful
Eoperation, be checked and overtbrown,
but new burdens, more grevious than
any heretofore devised, must be i'm
posed upon the farmers and other pro-
i ducers of the loyal States. Are we
/ ready to have our taxes increased in
order to put money into the pockets OF
the leaders and the bankers of the great
Econspiracy9 Itswe are, we ought all to
sustain the Johnson coalition aud Its
candidates for all official positions.
i But If, on the other hand, the true in
terests ofthe country are subserved by
the reduction of taxes already COM
| meneed, and still further Contemplated,
1t becomes all good citizens to approve
/ and sustain the action of Congress in
entering upun-this good work, and to
stand by the Union party, which, hav-
/ ing carried the country gloriously
through n great war, has shown the
principles and, policy. .uponWhichi it will
establish and maintain pence.
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