Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-08-27

OUh 1AAAFlON.-Ine DcOnarl0
Republican figures The national in
debtedness, including all Just dues
to loyal pafties-that is, the town,
city, county and State demands-at
more than four billions of dollars,
and says that all the gold and silver
now in coin on the whole earth
could not cancel it. The RepubH.
can makes a pretty parody on Sgd
ney Smith schedule Of British tag
alton, as follows:
Taxes must embrace the price of every
article bit enters the mouth, clothes ths
back or Warms the feet; on everything
consoling 10 the taste, smell, feeling, hesfl
ing sud seeing; taxes on hsat, emigration,
machinery and light; taxes on the seq,
ocean, esrth snd air; on everything groWft
at houie or brought from afar; taxes on
the Crtle material and It's iapreasal value
by the improvement Of art; taxes oH the
drug to restore man 10 health and the
aauas 10 glut his appetite taxes on ooffee,
sugar, tea, fish and oysters, and the 'fhiaA
that sells them; taxes on rum, gin, beer
and brandy, and the drunkard that drinks
themi taxes on the steamboat, telegraph,
railroad, aud the hands that made lbenr
taxes on banks, lawyers, Judges and
butchers, and their bleeding vietils,;
taxes on bonds, mortgages, deeds agi
notes, and the inisers that hold them
taxes on the garb that decks the king, and
the hemp which hangs the rebel or the
queens spice and the panpers sGh on
the bride's wresthf the shroud u the
corpse and the nsils Of elfe coffin.
The schoOlbuy glides on his taxed skatesi
the dandy rams his taxed horses, with Q
taxed sulkey, on taxed highWsyi and
the dying American takes hia iiostrum,
which has cost FIVE per CENT, from spoon
thai paid afteen per cent, falls back in
expiring agony on . setbte that paid
twenty-five per cent, and dies In tho
preaeRce Of his physicisn, who paid ten
dollars for license 10 ease his departure.
Then his whoIs estate is Immediately tax
ed from one TO FIVE per cent, after which
his name 10 handed down TO future gener-
ations on taxed marble then he goes TO
his last resting, place TO be taxed no more.
The World Of New York has also
La cheering picture to present to us
Eof this department Of affairs, The
| World says:
WHAT THE RADICALS eosT us.-Ip the
wear la6l-'6l, covering two Democratic
Administrations, the twenty eight millions
of human beings who, according to Com
missioner Wells, then aFelt i1 peace and
prosperity within these really United
States, found 1t perfectly easy 10 gst AAeW-
selves well governed OF Q cost per haad %
each man, woman and child 0f ihem oil,
Of no more than 40 dollprs sis cenis aud
fuc AJils year. The interest on the then
existing national debt vas also paid by
an outlay per head Of no moro than ten
eents year. In the year 1885, 81, being
ths first afeat year cf jubiles over the
romnipoEenee Of Congress and the Radical
reconstruction, the thirty ave millinqs Of
human beings then dwelling in trouble
and discord within these not YET reHnited
States, found Ii sors aga irylng business
TO get themselves somehow governed at a
cost per head of .fye dollars sizty-sight
cetts end nine mills, while the interpst on
the national debt then existing was paid
Eonly by an outlay per head Of -four dollars
and three esnts year. Put these figures
and those together, and we have the f9l-
loving result;
1 Yearly cost OF Dem. Yearly cost qk BAD.
| ocratic Law per ical hcenfe H,Il9:lt
head Of American
people e2,l65-10 ahtf
| Ii these Radicals we're pretty 10 look at
or pleasant 10 listen 10, or even good q
eat, il might be . little more rpaeonabls
perchnnee than 1t just now is 10 ask us x