Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-20
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"WEDNESDAY EvEslNG..
n.Hv 40 REASON ToGh
r.. p.a,e,l brethren have e'en anus
-. and disgusting the con-
'"s ri,h their little impcaeh-
.hov for the past two men'ns' anu
:. s,o,,d ike very much to kno" iuss
az them nor ever thought I'M
Wv .nt q good thing. They look sick
lever the subject is mentioned. How
:. 9Th the people Let Us see II they |
- have no. cause for sicknsas--even in |
a;~r.,ion 81 all the pasrRsdicai rule, which, |
u !, be not ended soon, viii cause our sun. |
Nix. that Of Ancient Roms. y 81 p rise 20
more. For unless there b , shaneps
financial csisis mast eoms-a crisis that w1ll
~reck our credit. II u almest Inevitable.
tn. ;nuum.rabls agents Of the Gcvsrn-
man, With their sprodigious salaries are
daily increasing the taxes, and piling up the
debts amount no man can tcll-ali ere
,,ea under radical rule. 1t 10 OF that
gigantic magnitude that all the coined gold
III silver Of earth cannot cancel it, and
this, and the next generation will not see II
b,lf paid. Let us talk in more stubborn
tongue, with facts that more immediately
concern us.snd see fthere be not pstsnt..rsa.
sons for change of rulers, for there 10 no
need Of. this gensratioa's thsorixing about
the payment Of our national debt. Under
the present management wc cannst meet
even tho accommodating interest.
the American rebellion, with ito total
iosses, has cost the United States more
than eight billion u dollars. and sent to
un,imsly gravss soms elk hundred thou.
sand men while gsbs expenses Of Great
Britain for past ages By sanguinsry con-
bats amounting 70 unnuDbsesd billions,
have made the mathsmstician marvel In
his computations. Tho English tax payeI
pays about three per cent On The eonsols d
his kingdom. while the unfortunate Amssi
esn pays from Dc 10 seven thrse-tsnsha
Bus this 10 not I'll. Taxes must euhenc
the price 81 every article that enters u
mouth. clothes the back, OF warns the feet
taxes on every thing ssnsoliug 70 the tass'
smell. feeling. hearing and seeing taxes ;
heat, sLigration, machinery and light TAI
% on the sca, ocean. earth aud air. on every
thing ers~n Il home or brought from afar
tAxss On tho crude material and its increase
value By the improvement 81 sst taxes Q
the drug to restore man TO health and sh
sauce 70 gut his appetite; taxes on coffee
sugar. tsa, Gsh and oysters, and the me
that sells them taxes on rum, gin. be-
sad brandy, and the drunkard that drinI
them; taxes on theI steamboat, .tslsgrspl
rahsoad. and the hands that maze then
taxes on banks. lawyers. judges and butte
era and their bleeding victims taxes
bonds. mortgages, deeds and notes, and Il
missrs that held them taxes on the gal
that decks the kim aud tho hemp whi'
hsngs the rebel; on the queens spice Al
the pauper's salt on the brides wrea
and the nails Of tho coffin snt bed or boar
sick or well. wc must all pay. Tho schoc
boy gliics on his taxed skates the dand
runs his taxed horse with taxed sulke,
on . taxed highway and the dying Amer
can takes his nostrnm, which has cost hi
five per cent, from spoon that paid iiftes
pc, cent, falls back in expiring agony on
sestss that paid twenty-five per cent. n
died in The presence Of his physician, wi
paid ten dollars for license to hasten b
departure. Then bis whole estate is II
nsdiateiy taxed from ono to Ave per cent
after which his name 10 handed down 10 Fl
ture generations on taxed marble; then
goes 10 HE last resting place to be taxed Q
more.
Let % ask the laborers, mechanics, pr
fesslSnal men, clerks, merchants and ever
body in this great Northwest. il all this
not snoughto demand a change! Even Il
bonded interest should ask change, for
takes no prophetic eye to see kspudi
tom written in boldest characters on Il
banner Of the successful political party
the future. The people are thinking.