The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-14
FACTS AND FIGURES!
A Talk With Laboriug Men on Taxa
ton and Suffrage.

The people of the United States have
paid into the Federal Treasury during
the year 1866. FIVE HUNDRED AND TWEEN
TY-THREE MILLIONS NINE HUNDRED AND
sEvENTY-sEvEN THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS Dust
read those figures over once more.)
TIE expenses of the last year of Presi-
dent Buchanan's administration (lS56,)
denounced for its eXtravagance, and
corruption, amounted to $50, SiS, 472 the
former amount almost ten times in eX-
cess of the latter
From whom were these five Hundred
and twenty millions derived? Every
dollar from the toiling masses of the
Countrywide productive industry of the
republic-dug from the earth or manu-
featured by the hand. of workinglnen,
and laid u sacrifice upon the affairs Of
Radical greed, lust and bigotry.
And this is not all To this enormous
amount must be added the vast sums
paid for State, county, municipal,
school and road taxes! Ponder this
fact, turn it over in your minds, work
ingmen, and you have the key to the
solution of the problem why times are
hard.
Three hundred million dollars of
these 1921, 000, 900 were rised by later
national taxation; the Democratic city
of New York, the object of the hatred
and every platter-brained "loyalist,"
paying $35, 0O0, 900 in 1866, and nearly
SlOO, 100000 for the past four years.
Workingmen are constantly organic
ing strikes for higher wages, demand.
ing of Legislatures eight hour enact
ments, striving to the utmost of their
ability to better their conditions
beating about the bush" when they
should strike straight TO the mark.
They are the dupes and slaves of bond
holding aristocracy and the victims
of New England tariff policy which
places taxes on siIteeR thousand articles,
system of revenue devised for the ben.
eiit of a horde of tax.gatherers and
monopolists, and the inipoverishment
and annoyance of the people.
Again. The last Rump passed law
for the reconstruction OF ten States of
the Union-its objects, in plain Eng
lish aud few words, 10 disfranchise
white men, enfranchising niggers, and
place the people OF that vast territory
under military despotisin. To put this
law in working order cost s, 0OD, 900, or
about half rs much as it cost Ia run the
whole government inthe year 1881
A single military department created
by the provisions of the reconstruction
act, has 300 boards of registration.
These have already held sessions for
weeks and will do so for weeks to come.
Each member is paid eight dollars per
day. AT low estimate the daily cost
of these boards in the five Rump king
doms is $780, OO per day, or $40, 900 per
week! Ind the srorkiagAea foot the
bills Remember that
The object of this registration is to
place the power Of those conquered
States, flour Of which were of the old
thirteen colonies which created the
Union,) IN the hands of the plantation
ehattels of few years since, the "un-
lettered, ignorant African as Train
call him, and bring the white descend
ants of the rebels Of '76 under the yoke
ofsubjection to the semi-barbarians Of
the South-by Abolition enactments
made your equals, white workingmen Of
the Republic.