Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-10
The WAY the Money Goes.

One of the causes enumerated in the
Declaration of Independence as justifying
separation from the Mother Country by
our forefathers, was that the King OF Great
Britain had sent hither swarms of Office
holders to eat out the substance OF the peo-
pie. If that circumstance was of char
acter 30 grievous, is it any the less grievous
now that the Radical officials eat out the
substance of the people? Fairly deducible
is the conclusion that it is not. We have
remedy to right this great wrong, and
that potential remedy is through the ballot
box. Ea 4, f-A1 = d d
Discomfort and unrest there are in the
great army of laborers. WADE, who is
candidate for reelection to the United
States Senate, and contingent Republican
candidate for President of the United
States, is quick to perceive it, and in an un-
guarded moment threw out the suggestion
that there should be grand division of
property. This suggestion was to propiti-
ate the favor OF the discontented and rest
less; and on the 4th inst, Gen. j. s. BRIs-
BIN, a Radical, advocated the contiscation
of Southern property for the benefit of
Southern Negroes. If Southern property
shall be confiscated for Southern Negroes,
precedent will be thereby set for the con-
fiscation of Northern property for North
ern Whites-for general equalization of
property. The thieving and corruption
and the wastefulness on the part of Radical
officials, are tending rapidly towards repu-
diation and general confiscation. Repub-
licau partisans are already advocating both
propositions.
i We digress, however. Our design was to
call attention to the gigantic frauds in the
Internal Revenue. The following forms a
part of lengthy editorial in the Neao York
Times of the 9Th inst:
sEvery person who watches the course of
public affairs understands perfectly that
, financial embarrassments are those which
threaten to be the most serious and dam
, aging to our future. We have an enormous
debt. and Congress has imposed enormous
taxation to meet it. Every interest and
every class of our people feels this burden.
increases the cost of all articles of consump-
ton, and falls with crushing weight upon
t those who are least able to bear it.
s'In part this arises from the necessities
of the case; but it is immensely aggravated
by the failure of the Government to collect
the taxes which Congress has levied upon
some of the most important of the many
articles in the list. Whatever tax any one
article escapes pay ing, falls upon the others.
WHISKY, for example, was selected as an ar
ticle which ought to yield very large share
of the aggregate taxation of the country
Being an article noto necessity but of vol
untary consumption, Congress imposed
upon it a tax of 50 gallon; and from this
source alone, at this rate, the Government
ought to receive $100,OO0,0O0 per annum.
"Previous to the war it was estimated that
I90000,000 gallons of spirits were produced
in the country. Allowing nothing for the
growth of the country since 1850, and as
suming that there has been decrease of
100000 gallons year consequent upon
the increase of price, we still have an an
nual production of 100000 gallons. If
only three fourthS of the whisky manufac-
receive over $l00,000000 annually. This
would relieve the Treasury at once and
place our finances upon sound basis.
LAST year the Government received from
whisky 100000. This year it will re-
ceive less than $20,000000, and for the last
two months it has not been receiving at the
rate of over $4,000 O00." ~
This exhibit Of the Times conveys the
idea that in the one item of whisky there
is now being perpetrated great fraud upon
the Federal Government. There is an un-
usual prevalence of fraud on the part of
United States Revenue officers. We have
been informed by parties who seem to have
the means of knowing, that the U. s. As
SCISSOR for this District, Mr.. HoGUE, has .fve
deputy Assessors employed i'll this county,
who receive each S5 per day for their SER
vices, when there is not toork enough for too.
If our information is not defective, and we
do not think it is, the June United States
assessment in this county does not exceed
$4,000. This is exclusive of what is called
the Annual Assessment. The Government
Tax on these $4,000 is about 500, and the
cost attending its assessment is about $3.50,
and by the time the United States Receiv-
ers get their compensation, there will not
be much left for the Government, if the
Government is not brought in debt to these
otfice-holders, who are eating out the sub
stance of the people. Under this sort of
man agement, although the taxes are near
ly up to war times, is it any wonder that
the Public Debt is not diminished to any
particular extent, and that the people are
beginning to demand that the Indebtedness
of the Government be paid in legal tender
notes? The people want relief-they must
haue it but they cannot get it by contlnu-
Ing the Republican party in power.
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