Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-06-17

-. e.,,.-;,c beautiful tribute to tho
craf,sman Of the ''stick and rule - from
~. men Of b. r. Taylor. and we take pleas
urc in reproducing Il;
err ,rinter 10 the adjutan! Of thought,
and this explains the mystery OF the won
d.vfnl word that cen kindie hope a. no
.orc can. that word I'VE" with hand w /
hand wartntn in it-!cr the author aud TIE
orinters are engineers together. Engineers
,nde.., When the 'i,tle Corsiean bo'ns |
barded ca6iz AT the distance Of five ml'e-,h
vas deemed the very triumph OF engineer
my. But y hat il tia, range 10 THIS, whsfe
~ they lombard the ages yet 10 DC
There n, The case he stands ana mar
.h.,s ,n,o line forces armed for truth,
cio,hea In Immortality and Eaglish. And
.h., can be noblcr than that eq'ipmen,
:, q ,houeh, 10 sterling Saxon--saxon With
mar or shield therein, and that commits
.ioninv il " hen we are dead to more grand.
Is on to "the latest syllable of recorded
time" This IL % win victory from death,
for this has no dying in i.
This printer 10 called laberos, aud the OF
flee he performs 10 toll. On, IL Is not work,
but a ublime life he is performing whom he
| thus sights the engine that 10 10 hl.g
worded truth in grxnder curve than missile
Ger before deserted; ding II into the bosom
of an age unborn. lie throws off his coat
indeed; we but wonder the rather, that he
does not put his shoes from off his feet, for
the place where he standsis holy ground
| A little song WAS uttered somewhere long
ago; II wandered through the twilight fee
bier than star II died upon the ca. But
the printer takes 1t up where It was lying
| there in the silence like a wounded bird.
and he sends it forth from the ARK. that had
preserved it. and i, II "a on into the future
with the olive branch OF peace, aud around
The wcr with melody. ike the dawninr OF
aspiring morning.
TnR publication of the income returns
not xithstai ding the objections heretofore
made, has become one If the customs o
the country But the returns are liable {
very erroneous interpretations. Tho Prov
idence JourHat says:
No Just estimate Of the incomes Of me
, engaged 10 commerce or production can
formed from the returns. Many men mus
pay, for the last year, taxes upon pro'it
that were lost before they were real xed.
| great oOuSe tuob u8S J1St bbiCO va AVE-
= York will have to return an income, II
: said, Of $500, 900 and manv msn Who hav
= not failed, and who do not mean to, Ietur
large incomes, but are really poorer tbs
- they were before their profits we're mad
. 70, they have lost them and more with thei
= Ii the income lax could be properly levie
:. and with ns much exac.ness ~ other take
:. II would obviously he the must equitat
that could oe Imposed even although q
ID tax might be paid, in some sascs. alter I
re in oose on which il was founded had To
b. lust. But no tax. except the whisky "a
has beenj subj.c 10 such Inequalities a
!" frauds. Tue income tex has not yield
de one half what might have reasonably be
10, calculated from the productive wealth
IN the country. vs. believe the taxes on
comes, whisky aud tobacco, 1t the pres
pe rates, would 60 nigh 10 the pay Went If I
r. whole cost Of IN. Government, and relic
at the industry Of the country from the 9th
:. gricvous burdens imposed upon It, '
have Thought tina, il might be better for I
ID assessors to estimate the income o. the Z
he SCISSORS OF local taxes do the personal pr,
W erty of the tax>psyer, leaving him the e
an eJy of disc osing h's income und r oath.
=, case he was over,axed. This System
u, worked very well here "