The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-10-14
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must'payme taxGod all you sell.p5 TIL,
s merchant. has no help; he pays the tax
j and he claPs that on the, price; and 81
/ when the young Copperbead comes ant
4 gives four dollars for his shirts, he ba,
three separate taxes to pay in that price o
four dollars So in the end, the man who
puts the shirt Oh his back is, the man who
pays the taxes. And so with everything
you wear. There is scarcely one thing you
4 have on, from the crown Of your head to
1.-The Isoles Of your feet, upon which you have
not paid to the United States, from three
to four taxes. -.
4 It will not; do, therefore, for these peo.
Pile to say that the laboripg men ]
taxes. Until they cease to wear clothes
until they cease to eat and drink, until they
cease TO die and be buried in Christian bu,
Trial, they win pay tax under this Radical
rule, If continued, on all they eat, on all
they drink, on all they wear. on the medi-
cine they take in sickness, and on the cof
fin in which they are buried AFTER death.
| tCries Of" That's So" and cheers
Let US look at another thing. What is
the amount OF money drawn by our Gene
raj Government alone out Of the pockets Of
the people? Now here again 1 speak BY
the official record for the last fiscal year,
1867, the official reports Of which have
been published, the receipts were, in round
numbers, 1922, 7ss 900 paid iuto the Treas
ury Of the United States. II you take
from that amount the sum received as pre-;
mism on the sales of gold, it will leave the
amount drawn from the pockets OF the peo-
pie, by taxation, at over 1919 600, 900 in
round numbers S5s0,000,000. Now, my
friends, just look at that; $500 900
deawn from the pockets of the people of
the United States BY the Federal Govern
ment alone in one single year; while in
Great Britain, the value Of whose property,
real and personal within the British Islands
alone il estimated TO be two and half
times that Of the property Of the United
States, the amount drawn from the people
by that Government was only 1884 .0OO,.
600. There are drawn from the pockets OF
the American people over S2OO,O00O0O a
year more than are drawn from the pockets
of the British people although the value
ofthe property in the United States, ac-
cording to the census Of 1860. was only
$4,000 100000, and the yalue of property
in the British Isles was $50, 900 ,OOO, 900. z
There has been great attempt to show
4made by the people who are interested
to make it appear that a national debt is a
national blessing Inever knew any man
80 understands his own debts) that to pay
the debt in gold is just as easy as to whis-
Tie Yankee Doodle; there has been an at
tempt to show that the census.takers did
not understand theAr business, and that the
property of this country IL worth a great
deal more than fourteen thousand million
dollars. The census takers in 1860 under
stood their business just as we'll as those
writing in the interest Of the bondholders
understand their business. think that
the aggregate value Of the property Of this
country, 90 far from having increased
since 1860, Is not as much to day. at gold
valuation, as in that year. In the first
place, in that fourteen thousand millions
ofproperty in 1860, the negroes were put
down at two thousand million IA voice,
;" That's gone, J and lands that can now be
bought at from FIVE to ten dollars an acre
because they have been laid waste by war
and this radical policy, then could not be
bought for less than fifty, seventy-Gye or
one hundred dollars an acre.5l .la VII
Have you any idea Of the'impoverish-
ment Of the Southf. Let me mention one
thing, which speaks without any mistake
atsall. 1t is this fact We have the most
inquisitorial, searching and vexatious tax
system, under the Federal Government that
any people ever saw. Il follows q man
wherever he goes it inquiries about every
thing he has. II his wife has made pound
OF butter, it demands that that shallIbe put
down "a income. 1.-THE old grandmother
plucks goose, and sells the feathers to
the merchant. to get the luxury oft little
tea, not only the poor old goose, bat the
feathers must be taxed. These inquisite-
rial men have ransacked this country, from
one end to the other, to find every particle
Of property they could possibly tax. And
how much nave they found in the South
ern Sta.esti si:p 8aii ii sai.i-,isa.
They have found 50 little property there
that the State of Ohio pays more than Eve
millions Of taxes to the Federal Govern
ment beyond the entire amount OF taxes
paid in the Southern States.y The county
of Hamilton, Mr.. Pendleton's own county,
paid 81 100, 900 more taxes the last fiscal
year, into the Treasury Of the United
States, than eight Of the Southern States.
Now, great God, what . pic. lure docs that
present ofthe impoyerishdient OF these
Southern States 1t tells more than any
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