The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-02
THE WORKING MAN
TAXPAYERS COLUMN.

This department Of the paper will be
devoted to the interests of Working
Men md Tar-P r-Payers-the WHITE SLAVE
of the North, now struggling in bond
age, under the most tyrannical Gov
crnment which was ever suffered to ex.
ist by q free people. 1t will be devo-
ted to the interests ofPooR WHITE MEN,
whose scanty earnings arc now taxed
in thousand different ways, and these
among others:
LIST. TO keep up q "Freedmcn's Bu-
reau' for supporting 100000 lazy
niggcrs in idleness, for the sole purpose
OF making voters of them to vote Rad
ical fanatics into office.
I'd. 10 pay the interest on the twcn-
ty-two hundred millions Of bonds which
pay no taees.
3d. 10 maintain an army OF sirty
thousand soldiers at an expense of sirty
millions Of dollars gear in a time of
peace, when not five thousand arc need
ed!
4th. TO support the horde of revc
nue. officers, tax assessors, spies, tax
collectors, treasury agents, military in
spectors, bureau agents, and other Rad.
ical office holders, whose services are
worse than needless, and who now in
fest every nook and Granny of Govern
ment, eating up the substance of the
people by enormous salaries wrung
from the earnings of the laboring man.
9TH. TO keep Radical fanatics in Con-
gress who vote themselves five thou
sand dollar salaries. Who distribute
millions of dollars of the peoples mon
ey to their friends and political favor
ties monthly. Who make laws by
which the ignorant, lazy niggers of the
South are supported in idleness at the
expense Of the white laborers of the
North Who allow niggers to vote in
the South to make laws for white men
in the North, while every Northern
State denies to blacks the righ, Of sui-
iraSe. Who propose to seize and cut
up tue cotton and rice lands of the
South and distribute them among Mig
gers in ten acre lots. Who propose to
destroy the power Of the President and
Supreme Court, and create MILITARY
DEsroTIsM. Who arc KEEPING THE UN.
ION DISSOLVED for partisan purposes,
by which the business of the country
has been ruined and the laboring white
man made pauper and slave.
How Poor Men Pay Taxes.
Sometimes We hear men say: "W ell,
if taxes are high they can't tax me
much; Ihaven't any propcrtyw Can't
they tax you much? Well, let us see.
But in the first place you hare prop
erty. You are the owner of a poor
body, which you are striving to feed
and warm and keep soul in. Per
haps you have wife, and, more than
likely, family of children. They all
have to beJed and clothed and warmed
You may not own houses, or stocks, or
bonds, but you have property, never
thcless, and of Il kind which is taxed
ten times over more than any other de-
scription. The tax may not be a d.
rect one, but it is hsavy one, and one
which you find it hard to bear. You
may be paying il even withom knowiny
that you pay tao, attributing it all the
while to something else; but that
doesn't change anything. 1t is a tar,
all the same, and you are Obliged to pay
it 1fyou ask, then hov you are taxed,
we answer, ON everything you eat and
drink and wear. Almost on every
breath you draw! You are taxed in so
many ways that we cannot enumerate
them. But in order that you may see
for yourself, we have had carefully pre-
pared the following Prices Current,
showing list ofprinciplc articles ev
cry man has to buy more or less Of
with what they cost before the war. and
what they cost now. The difference is
what you are paying in taxes. Look
it over carefully and you will probably
be able to decide whether you are pay
ing taxes or not.
| In the following Prices Current the
difference between gold and rags is
reckoned in as tax, where it properly
belongs.]
The Working Man and Tax.Pay-
| cr's Retail Prices Current.
| N. b. Niggers being Jres and sup
ported in idleness by taxes levied on
the whts Slaves of the North, no Price
Current is required for them. They
do sOthins and pay nothing.
For instancc-in this, Franklin
county, Tenn, and in this State, where
no property of any value is owned by
negroes, they are exempted from pay
ing poll tax, and yet are forced to vote
with the Jacobin party.
YOU support the Bureau" and the
"Bureau" supports them.
The following are among some of
the more common articles for which
every poor laboring man has to pay
from two to five times as much as he
did before the war, not only on account
Of the increased cost Of production,
transportation, DC, but becauseall 9TH
er articles for which these are usually
exchanged by farmers and Others.
have been doubled and trebled in price
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