The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-14
at'heeline Reaister.
Tuesday Morniug,............Ma May IL.
High Taxes.

High Taxes.
The two Clarksburg papers, Coaserrd-
Gr, and Telegraph, are havinga an inter
...irr sett1 Oh the tax question. Major
ConprR, of the Conservative, insists
ann, taxing the Government bonds as
= means of relieving, TO some extent at
least, The over-burdened portion of the
people whose money is invested in
other property than United States Sc
,nrities. General NORTHCOTr denies
,be propriety If such policy. He in
.ist. that rs the capitalists came to
,h. aid of the Government in its hour
o, need. thereby evincing their patriot
ism. loyalty and liberality, they should
,ssp the promised reward of their de-
,otion in the shape of interest and
entire exemption from taxation.
The faith oil tho Government
!. pledged TO the bOnd-holders,
he declares, and under no circum
stances should it be violated. Major
COOPER, on the other hand, replies that
although the bOnd-holders did loan
their money at some risk, yet, "like
other gamblers, they accepted the haz-
ard FOL The advantages they would de-
rive in usurious interest and exemption
rom onerous taxation, in case they
won. They bought the bonds at dis
count and took the risk of payment, as
any other gambler does when he plays
The game of heads l win-tails you
lose. That all contracts of this char
acter are null and void because they
are against the public interest, less dis
ringuished lawyers than himself, we'll
know"
lnicrring from this that the bond-ocracy
will get as much as il deserves when it
receives its principal, at the rate of one
dollar for fifty or sixty cents, the origi-
nal cost of the bonds, the Conservative
ran soc no bad faith OF injustice i'll equal
taxation. Finally the point of honor
~ etfectually disposed of by the citation
Of Radical prSeedents, such as the meet
ing of Parkersbnrg citizens. "held and
controlled by Radicals, ,'"at which ii was
recommended that the Government call
IN ali interest paying bonds and ISSUE
yrcenbacks in their place; "the violation
af the contract of the Government with
she laval slave States +" pay $500
,pi-ce for their slaves" and "the viola
ZION cfthc proposition to the C"nteder-
ale states that if they would lay down
then arms. acknowledge the authority
81 the Federal Government and send
rrprr.pntatiyes To fill the vacant seats
ia the two houses Of Congress, that all
monld be forgotten and forgiven and
everything would 90 on as il did before
thc war" After the lax ideas of moral
nv displayed by these public acts Of
dishnnor, the Conservative thinks that
thc less the Radicals say about virtne
lud good faith, the better it will be.
Bnt W. will let the Major tell his own
story
Our friend still insists that the rebels
are the cause of all our high taxes, not
withstanaing he himself has complain.
I'd Of the extravaganza OF the Radical
Congress We have never complained
vi the taxes requisite TO pay the leglti-
mate expenses of the government neces-
,ary to conqner the ragged rebels who,
fed upon mule meat detied "the best
government the world ever saw" with
us best appointed armies" &c, for
four years, although we might
well do So. A man may go 10
a theatre and get his pocket picked,
and then be cOolly told by the
thief that il was his own fault-that
if he had not come to SO bad a place as
theatre he would not have lost his
money: or, a rufiian may spit in the
face of gentleman and the gentleman
nay resent il. and the rufian, more
praNtieed i'm "the art of self-defence,"
>O.callCd. may break his nose and then
iell him that it is his OWN fault-that
II he had not kicked up fuss, he wonld
not have been hurt. These are the ar
sumen,s of the loyalists. An attempt
nj reiutation of them would be an in-
,nlt to the intelligence of our readers,
and we shall not make the effort, at the
present time at least.
Bnt onr contemporary, who IN old
party nomenclature, was Whig, and
from what We have heard of his ante
sedents, was of the straitest sect, can
not forget his animosity to the Demo-
Csatic party. He seems to think, or at
least seems to strive to create the i'm
preston upon his readers, that the idea
of the taxes being high, is n myth in
the minds of the old Democrats. he
says high taxes was always "catch
word" with the old Democratic party.
We are not rs old, nor have we had as
much experience as our amiable neigh
bor, but we car remember when, under
the old Democratic regime, person
could purchase pair of calf-skin boots
for FIVE dollars-our opponent now con-
graduates his bond holding friends up
on being able to buy them for tWelre
dollars. We remember, distinctly, of
buying Of Major Steel, a number of bar
rels Of -four at 81 so, under the old
Democratic administration. We now
have to pay eighteen. Ufth this erperi-
snee before MS, re wdRt more Democratic