The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-10-23
The RJad and the Creenback
Question,

Every day brings ind cations Of the great
and increasing dislike Of the masses TO the
financial policy of the Radicals, especially to
those features of it that exempt the lordly
and aristOcrdtic bOndhOlder from taxation
imposes his taxes upon the poor, and pay
his debts in glod, while the FEST of the peo-
pie have to take legal-tendors for debts.
The Radical party of Ohio lost N any thou>
sand votes because they allowed their lea
ders to identify them with the National bank
and bondholding aristocracy, and appeared
to favor all the odfous and exclusive privile>
ges favored by the latter.
Ga this point Radical write a very sensi,
bic letter to tie Columbus Journal which
that paper prints, AMI attempts to answer
in its issue Of Monday ''frieUd" Of the
JJuraU informs it that the question Of nc
gro suffrage was not the most important
one that bore upon the contest. What
that question was that SO troubled his par
ty is thus stated by him:
1T is the unequal taxation that is pro-
ducing this trouble, and it will continue to
be source OF trouble so long as the bur-
denS of taxation are not equally divided.
TO tell the people we have no ria ht to
tax tha bonds: to say that it IS unconstltu-
tonal, that the Supreme Court has decided
this way or that way, is Of no avail to relieve
the burbln. That burden has a constant
pressure. 1t bears with a Calling weight
upon all the laboring classes that hold 10
bonds All kinds of men who are in active
| industry, and whose capital is not large
enough to spare any nancy to put into
bonds, feel it, They will tell you that no
act of Congress or of the Supreme Court can
make it right for the poor or laboring slai
ses to bear the burdens of taxation for the
rich, or for any cno class to pay the taxes
0! another.
Those bonds must be taxed for their
due proportion Of the expenses of the State;
and the Republican party must do it or go
out Of power. II it can be done, and the
! burdens of the expenses Of the Government
equally distributed among the people, the
Republican party are all right they car
carry any thing that is reasonable with the
people But if they don't do it, they go'
and you know that they will stop at anoth~
| ing W UUCdGtl 1dfCI Tllll tllS iLIdoSCSs l.t
publican, with all its consequence, or any
other expedient which they may think most
likely to carry their ends, will be adopted
and the country driven into a whirlpool
that will sink us, we know not where, but
to the bottom Of confusion and calamity
and ruin.
There are abundance of facts to be seer
and met with every day to sustain ny posi-
tion in this matter, and it is useless to den!
them or pass them unnotlced. "
The writer is right. This tax exemption
must cease and those people who were tol'
that Supreme Court decisions in favor o
slavery shall be disregarded can be easil.
taught that similar decisions in favor of
privileged aristocraey shall be served m tn
same manner. But the easiest and bes
way-the way to preserve the public homo
and keep the National faith untarnishcd
is to pay the bonds off in the same currenc
that pays all other debts-the same currep
cy by which the debt was created, and tn
only currency we are bound to pay. Thi
done, the greenbaoks can be put upon til
tax duplicate, and all people be alike CON
pclcl to contribute to the support Of tn
Government that protects them.