Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-18

WO'n fabrics27 $50 5545O 2l.5s22l2O GAS. .2ss il
Total sI5s so 1g5 s33 sos "a Al 29a 209 10
This table settles this question forever.
The West gets out of 800 millions forty-one;
New England one1hundred and fifty three
TheiSouth gets absolutely nothing, un-
less the salt produced in Western Virginia
is charged to it. Is this justice ? --sr- .-,l
Let us now recapitulate
Official stealings ...t............ s2n 900 900 90
Underyaluations aud smugglinss.... SO, 100000 90
Tariff factory 321954.49S So
Merchants profits on them. Os5 4i9 50
Total of spurious tariff tax upon the .s...
:, people $40 Ols, ,s4s 43
But the iniquity is MT yet fully laid Ill.
bare. The whisky tax, under the
is computed that the fraudulent dis ...t-...
tillers and the officials have so far
divided annually between them
fraudulent profit of so,or0 900 90
Do. the brewers and their inspectors. 100000 90
Cigar and tobscco. observation-disclosures. 39j4, ,034 50
Other manufactures 10000, 600 60
Total of spurious taxation cfrom both -5-.
interna revenue and the tariff S547 sos, ,983 80
Total amounts the ,GOvernmedt actu- .... ~.
ally received. 396 ,OOO W
Entire taxation. Ss43, sos 1888 80
more than half spurious! This is called
''the best Government the world ever saw"
What fnancieringi Five dollars taken
from the people through tariff, of which
the Government gets one. -94-~s2
But has been all of one pattern through
out. The sliding whisky tax was the means
efenriching bad Congressman even durin g
the war, when the peoples pockets were
bleeding at every pore. frL a---u
So with the debt and its speculations.-
During the war its value sunk to forty cen is
on Sthe dollar; now it has risen again to
seventy-fiye cents, and each rise and fall at
the expense of the people. Washington
was right when he called such financiering
s'improving the rich mans field with the
poor mans toll"
| Now, will any one name me despotism,
civil, military or religious, which ever cost
the labor of any country what this has ?
Though highly paid, yet our laboring men
are franticaHy jerking at society. They
strike weeK1 by week for higher wages.
They can't help it. 1t is the instructive
effort of the betrayed to rectify the false
system of finance under which they live.
These men must be righted some way. AS
our opponents keep voting the Republican
ticket, and as Democrats keep discussing
the issues of their enemies, and as nobody
leads the laborer to see who it is that keeps
him poor, he must, thus torsaken, help
himself as best he may. What have told
you to-day should be known by all these
men. -.in-f tlH.. -r.. e 'f
1t is sorrowful sight to see people,
who might be free, bound hand and foot by
an anaconda of false taxation! What a
beautitulland is our West But who owns
it j.? Go to the books of our railroads: go
to the stock lists of our National banks
go to New England and you NAV learn.
| In Boston the average wealth of every
family is over $4,000 Their real and per-
sonal property amounting to $444, ,946, 100
and owned at home.
/ In Cincinnati it is but half that, and
m fOf H. owned
| In Massachusetts the incomes over So, 00C
amounted to 81, 254579 SO; in Ohio the in
comes amounted to only $2,529.3l0 OF. and
| the incomes of both States under $1,000
were nearly of the same amount.
Why are 1,25O,OOO people in Massachu-
setts twice as rich as 2,500009 in Ohio
Why are there in Massachusetts S45,772 5C
invested in pianos? Why in Ohio only
| $29414 so? A part of this difference may
| be due to superior activity, but the mair
| points the false taxation which have eX-
posed.
Just consider for a moment this genera
feature of both our tax systems. We are
all tax -gatherers as well as taxpayers. Nc
one pays his own tax. Each citizen pays
that of his fellow citizen. Why this shut.
fling? The brewer pays for the beer.
drinker; the gas company for the gas con
sumner: the real estate owner for his tenant
the butcher tor the meat eater; the railroad
for the traveler-all co-workers in one gen.
eral swindle, and all swindled; but none
knows how much. Each thinks he is no
swindled much. How well Adam Smith
knew mankind when he predicted JUS
such a state of things, in which whole
nation might be hoodwinked, and each
man thinking his neighbor in for it, and ht
himself go free.
| What's the remedy for all this? I know
but one: it is for our people to cease to
think and vote by passion, and to commence
to be a really free, intelligent peo-
States and neglects her own business, she
must suffer the inevitable consequence.
| SpOliation from him who uses her false
system of social ethics to blind her eyes tC
the robbery. Rome fell because it would
regulate every body except herself Ma
poleon fell from the same cause, and his
people are tax-ridden because they would
meddle with other peoples business anG
neglected their own. Elwood Fisher said
| "Meddling with Southern institutions will
lead to fratricide as well as suicider' Nc
people can do well who fail to take care o.
themselves.
| Excuse me, now, for reading to you ar
extract from speech. made by Judge Kel-
! ley, in Cincinnati, in which he attempts to
reply to former speech of mine on the
tariff question. read as find it in the
Cincinnati Commercial:
| "THE TARIFF-MR. REEMELIN REVIEWED.
"Judge Kelley then took up the tariff
question. Referred to the speech recently
delivered by Hon. Charles Reemelin, al
Plainville, Hamilton County, Ohio. He
claimed that the internal Federal tax made
it necessary to increase tariffs in order tc
keep our manufactures going, and just a.
that tax goes up SO must the tariff. He was
for such tariff legislation as shall always
insure fair days wages for fair days
labor, He read an extract from Mr.. Reem-
elin's plausible speech, and claimed that it
| does injustice to New England. There
was no legislation by Congress, he said
that should keep the people of Ohio from
employing their unsurpassed water-powe1
to manufacture their own wool and the
cotton that is transported through theil
oeautiini Ssate, 1t Is not New England's
1 fault that Ohio sends her wool abroad to be
manufactured. - - :,
! "He defended Congress for its tariff leg
islation, and claimed that it enured to The
benefit of labor. He said that a watch like
the one Reemelin brought from Europe