Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-12
Facts AND FIGURES.
A Talk with Laboring Men on Take
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K Talk with LabOffng Men on Taxa
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The people of the United States have paid
into the Federal Treasury during the year
1866, FIVE HUNDRED AND TwENTY-THREE
MILLIONS NINE HUNDRED AND SEW ENTY-sEv-
EN- THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
DoLLARsl (Just read those figures over
once -more.) The expenses of the last year
of President Buchanan's administration
(1S59), denounced for its extravaganza and
corruption, amounted to $59,S4S,472! the
| former amount almost ten times in excess
of the latteri .t,.,.s-,rf...,...
From whom were these five hundred and
| twenty millions derived? Every dollar
from the toiling masses of the countryside
productive industry of the republic-dug
from the earth or manufactured by the
hands of workingmen, and laid as sacri-
| flee upon the affairs of Radical greed, lust
and bigotryi
And this is not all! To this enormous
amount must be added the vast sums paid
for State, county, municipal, school and
road taxesl Ponder this fact, turn it over
in your minds, workingmen, and you have
the key to the solution of the problem why
times are hard.
Three hundred million dollars of these
$521, 100000 were raised by international
taxation; the Democratic city New York,
the object of the hatred and every platter
brained s'loyalist," paying $50, 100000 in
| four years.
Workingmen are constantly organizing
| strikes for higher wages, demanding of
4 Legislatures eight hour enactments, striv-
ling to the Utmost of their ability to better
/ their conditions" beating about the bush"
/ when they should strike straight to the
mark. They are the dupes and slaves of a
bond-holding aristocracy and the victims
of New England tariff policy which pla-
ces taxes on sixteen thousand articles, sys-
4 tenn of revenue devised for the benefit of a
horde. of tax7gatherers and monopolists,
and the impoyerishment and annoyance of
the people.
Again. The last Rump passed law for
the reconstruction nof ten States of the
Union-itsi objects, in plain English and
few words, to disfranchise white men,
enfranchising niggers, and place the
people of that vast territory un-
der military despotism. To put this law
in working order cost $5,000.000, or about
j half as much as it cost to run the whole
government in the year 1S26I
| A. single military department created
by the provisions of the reconstruction
act, has 300 boards, of registration. These
have already held sessions for weeks and
will do so for weeks to come. Each mem
Der is paid eight dollars per day. At low
estimate the daily cost of these boards in
the five Rump kingdoms is $l20,000 per
| oay, OF $o4U,UVO per week ana We toOTE-
i ino7ne7 foot the bills Remember that!
The object of this registration is to place
the power of those conquered States, (four
of which were of the old thirteen colonies
!. which created the Union,) in the hands of
the plantation chattels of a few years since,
the s'unlettered.ignorant African" as Train
calls him, and bring the white descendants
of the rebels of '76 under the yoke of sub
lection to the semi-barbarians of the South
by Abolition enactments made your
equals, white workingmen of the Repub-
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