Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-16
aRpRRsrsrArIoN OF PROPERTY.

A little pamphlet, by Cris6eld john
son, lately a sergeant in the Seventh
Kansas Cavalry, proposes a novel plan
for the representation of property. The
writer would have a third legislative
body representing property only, to act
as a check upon the other Houses, which
represent persons, in all matters of tax
alton and the appropriation of money.
The scheme is wrought out with some
ingenuity, and the writer thinks he sees
a necessity for the proposed check in
the tendency of the non-taIpayers to
lay heavy burdens upon property by
legislation. In illustrating this part Of
the subject he points out some of the
present aspects and tendencies Of things
in q rather striking way-and it should
be recollected that he wrote before Gen.
Buffers recent hints towards repudia-
ton
"There is no danger of the Republic
cans being beaten by a conservative
party any party that wants to get into
power must out-radical the Republicans.
There will undoubtedly DO some party
that will make the attempt, and under
the present system they must inevitably
succeed. Let a party be formed in
favor of removing all indirect taxes,
placing the burdens Of the national as
we'll as of the State Government di-
rectly on property, and they a catch
both the negro and Irish vote and
a large share of the American. The
resurrection of slavery isn't a bit Of
sp~iritualism that troubles my mind at
all the phantom that hauuts my soul
in its hours Of political cl%airvoyance is
that of such men as Fernando Wood or
Benjamin F. Butler, with n arm
around Patrick's waist, and the other
over Sambo's neck, and both hands in
the pockets Of the taxpayers.
at is no triAing nor distant danger
that a the taxpayers of the ma
ton. At least two-ffths OF the people
of the whole country are opposed by
their interests to the rights of property,
and the whole world is their recruiting
ground. They, or rather the aristocracy
Of scoundrels who lead them, have al
ready got the city Of New York under
their control. Many Of the other cities
are in almost as bad a condition. The
three central States, New York, Penn
~sylvania, and New Jersey, are rapidly
na,s;nr ,ndsr che oontrnl sc tha ;rraa.
ponsible leaders of the non-tax paying
votesr. Whatever may be the condition
of things in the South now, it cannot
be doubted that the same kind of men
will eventually gain the control of the
negro vote, and certainly will not be
less greedy than the Woods and Bodies
Of the metropolis. We can't possibly
help having millions of Mexicaus and
Chinese as fellow citizens, and if all
these unfortunate sons of Shem, Ham
and Japheth don't pile up the taxes
equal to the metropolitan standard, and
make the property Of Americans more
insecure than that of any other people
on earth, it will be on account Of some
miraculous change in human nature on
which it would be unsafe to rely. If
tho negroes should be restrained by
gratitude toward their liberators from
throwing all the burdens possible off
from their own shoulders on to the pro-
perty owners both of the North and
South, it will be a better proof than any
of the cthnologists have produced that
they are not human, because that is not
the way that men generally act under
similar temptation. Look out for the
Negro-Irish-M exican-Chi party it
is coming, and then let American farm
ers, mechanics, and merchants look
out for the property that has been accu-
mulated by their industry, skill and in
telligencc; whether the schemes Of
French socialists DO attempted, or
whether their income be wrung from
them by taxes for the benefit Of rapa-
cious demagogues, the result must be
equally disastrous"