Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-07
The Taxes Paid for Radical Rule
in One County.

IN Omc COunuys
Z A brief notice in the STATEsMAN of yes
serday announced that the revenue col
,ected in Franklin county for taxes for
Government purposes-that is, to support
The standing army in the South, feed
;lothe and school the negroes, pay salaries
the Freedmen's Bureau operatives, and
% make up the proper proportion of the
.tealings of Federal officials-was $19,67l.-
53. Nearly twenty thousand dollars per
nonth-over two hundred and thirty-six
thousand dollars per annum drawn from
single county within one year as the price
paid for Radical rule.
For more than third of q century,
while the country was governed by the
Democracy, such thing as National tax
gatherer was never heard of except during
he war of 1912 and for very few years
thereafter, and the idea of ofcollecting taxes to
support the General Government never en-
tered the head of mortal man. The child
held office, who never lived within the
time when the people of the United States
were asked to pay a single dollar, as taxes
to their National Government. Then the
Democracy ruled the Republic, and ruled
it wisely, economically and well.
But a change of rulers was had-the De-
mocracy, In consequence of quarrel with
in its own ranks, brought about by Presi-
dental aspirants, suffered its vote to be
divided, and the country passed into the
hands of the party now in power. The re-
suit was civil war, the sacrifice of hun
dreds of thousands of lives and thousands
of millions OF treasure, and a national debt,
the annual interest of which is greater
than that of any nation on earth. Besides
this, the annual expenditures of the gen
eral Government, by order of Congress
in the efforts of the Radicals to keep the
Union divided, is great beyond precedent
largely in excess of those when the Uni
ted States had foreign war on its hands
and many times over greater than at any
4 time during Democratic rule, when the
country had to pay of the debt of the Rev
olution and of the war of 1912.
Tne single county of Franklin now pays
| ANNUALLY more direct taxes to the General
Government than the entire amount Great
Britain proposed to levy on the Colonies
which attempt produced the war which
made the then American Colonies free and
independent States.
| The $l9, ,67l.53 thus raised in this county
alone during the past month, is but por
tion of the sum taken from the people. The
indirect taxes are such that check tt
draw money from Bank where it is de-
posted cannot be used without stamI
upon it-a note of hand is worthless with
out similar stamp, and deed for proper,
ty. unless it also has the stamp pasted on it
is null and void, and the maker thereo
liable to fine and imprisonment for moi
attaching it, because the non purchase o
the stamp and the putting it on the deed
is in law construed as an attempt to swim.
die the Government out OF its just righ
to fleece the people.
The soothing syrup that the mother pur.
chases to quiet her fretful child is likewise
stamped, all CONT acts in writing have tc
90 through the same operation to make
| them valid, and thus entering into all the
business affairs of life, these stamps, all o.
them to be bought and paid for before
using, constitute large addition to the
sum total that our people have to paysfoI
the pleasure of seeing the Union discovered
and ''corrup tion boil and bubble and over
| run the stew" in the administration o.
affairs at Washington where the Radical
leaders claim to be the Government"