Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-01
Tb. Sxs,s, y. T.x CoIIecttons


On Monday, the Journal informed the
public that about S6OOOOOO0 is annually
lost to the Government through the corrup-
tion and incompetency of the" ''Reoenue Off
GERS" This is independent of the unright-
eous donation of S2OOO0OOO a year to the
National Banks.
Now, to the eunsophisticated-to the farm
er, business man, mechanic and laborer-
who are kept on the trot from early morn
ing to late at night-this loss to the Gov
ernment-being millions greater than the
entire expense of carrying on the Govern
ment per year during any Administration
that ever administered the Government be-
fore the Republican party came into power
does seem enormous. Indeed, everybody
outside of the circle of the Republican Of
ficeholders, and the Republican editors
who are pensioned on the stealings from the
Government, does think this sort of dispo-
sition of the money wrung from the people
in the way of taxes outrageous. -
The Journal, in its issue OF Wednesday
morning, having, perhaps, been repri-
manded by some Revenue officer, whose
advertising it does, for having charged on
Monday that "about sirty million of dollars
are annually lost to the Government through
the corruption and tncompetency Of the" "ReU-
enue officers" said: h 9u- ai
"The Democratic papers keep up per-
petual howl about the swarms of officers,
and the immense expenses incident to the
collection of the internal revenue. The
truth is, it is the cheapest system of tdI coItec-
tionS ever deoiSed."
+" The cheapest system of tax collections
ever devisedr' The people, therefore, are
to consider themselves fortunate that they
do not have to contribute from their hard
earnings more than sirty millions of dollars
a yedr-more than it cost for every depart
menti of Government under BUCHANAN's
administration a year-to support corrupt
and incompetent "ReUenue officers" Oh,
magnanimous Revenue officers" for not
taking from the people, through theft and
incompetency, more than this enormous
sum of money each year. . 'i .t
But can our people stand this sort of
business long-this loss through corrup-
ton and incompetency of the Revenue Off
cers-while the interest on the Public Debt
and the immense cost of conducting every
depart of the Government, have to be
paid?
If this sis the cheapest system of tax
collections ever devised."in in heavens name
spare our people from its costly form un
der the rule of Republican partisans.
2
Morgan Raid Claims-Vhy Have
They NOT been Paid?
At the nominating Convention of the par
ty, whose great principle is Negro Suffrage,
at Logan, Hooking county, on Saturday
last, the preamble and resolutions, which
we give below, were passed:
WHEREAS, One John Morgan, in 1868,
made what is commonly called a raid
through Ohio, and destroyed and took pos
session of a vast amount of property be-
longing to citizens of Ohio, and whereas,
we believe the Government should remu-
nerate private citizens whose property was
destroyedby said raid, therefore,
ResOlued, That we pledge ourselves to
use all honorable means to secure such leg
islation as will remunerate all citizens OF
Ohio whose property was destroyed or TAX
en- by said John Morgan and the troops un-
der his command, and also to secure com-
pensation for property taken by the Union
forces while in pursuit of said Morgan's
forces.
Repeated efforts were made during the
sessions of the last Legislature to have the
property taken by MORGAN and his men,
and recaptured by the United States or
State troops, paid for, but without avail.
True to that mercenary feeling which
prompted them during the entire session,
every m ember of the Legislature from the
Western Reserve opposed this act of JUS
tice, and with aid from other parts of the
State, dete ated it. The Democratic mem
bers as a unit voted to pay for the property
thus taken, yet so little favor did it find at
the hands of the majority, that, even with
the aid of the entire Democratic vote, it
could not pass.
Those same Western Reserve Republi-
cans, who thus opposed the payment OF
this just debt, were able to coerce the Re-
publican members of the Legislature, whose
constituents were interested in the payment
of the MORGAN raid claims, into voting for
Negro Suffrage. Yet these teeble-minded
coax or drive their leaders into voting for
this act OF pure justice.
These facts being patent to every man
that read the newspapers last winter, the
wonder is, that the Hooking Preamble and
Resolution Makers if serious in their sup
port of the proposition to pay the MORGAN
Raid claims, did not administer fitting
rebuke to their political friends and leaders
in the last Legislature who opposed it.
Democratic VS.. Radical IRuIe-COs1
+ of n Pound of Tea.
1t is instructive and sometimes profitable
as well as curious, to examine the way in
which the cost of commodity is piled ur
between producer and consumer by
treights, handling duties, exchange, and