The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-10-08


1t has been said that the poor man paws
the rich mans taxes. Is that true? And
if so, where, and how You all pay tax
es, and where does the poor man pay the
taxes of the rich man I? What State tax
do you pay on real estate None A
Republican Legislature took off the taxes
from real estate, and imposed them upon
railroad and telegraph companies, bank
stock, DC. The poor man surely does not
pay the rich mans taxes Come down to
the county tax, and what do you pay on
there Real estate, money at interest,
&c Are not the poor man and the rich
mai taxed according to their property ?
In the borough taxes, the poor man and
the rich man are taxed on the property
they own, and pay alike Now, where
does the poor man pay the rich mans
taxes Z The National taxes are imposed
| on whisky, petroleum, manufactured arti-
cles, incomes, &c, not the necessaries of
life, and these taxes are imposed alike
They say the poor man is taxed for all he
eats and wears. Is not the rich man toe?
| They say the bonds are not taxed The
income of the bonds, all over thousand
dollars, is taxed. They say the bondhold-
er pays no local tax. The United States
imposes this upon the interest of the
bonds, but they say they should pay State
taxes too. Now, the power does not exist
to impose State tax on United States Sc
| curities, and there must have been one
! hundred men in that New York Conven-
tion that knew it. If the men who are
cl2moring for this in our county do not
know it, they ought to be ashamed to con-
fess it.
What do these men propose to do?-
The fourth plank in their platform propo-
ses equal taxation of every species of
property, &c. That is, they propose to
begin at the ground and tax every man
for every dollar he has and yet they tell
you the poor man pays the rich man S
taxes This Democratic platform propo-
ses to tax poor houses, churches, school
houses, and every other property, accord
ing to its value. 1t is like the decree is
sued by Augustus Caesar to tax the whole
, world. They say the bonds locked in the
[ National banks ought to pay tax. They
, are paving three per cent. to the State and
General Government How do they pro
pose 10 tax the United States bonds BIZ
the State Every man of common sense
can see that 1t Is not in the power OF q
State government to tax the National
e bonds. We had Constitutional Amend
/ ment providing that our debt should be
C paid and that the rebel debt should not
y and while on Its passage, every Democrat
c voted against its adoption, and the mo-
:, ment the Legislature of some of the States
i that had adopted it changed, they wipeC
; out that amendment, saying that our deb
: should not be paid and the rebel deb
), should. Put in the hands of such a Leg
0 islature as that the power to tax the prop
/ erty of the General Government, and they
n would soon do so to such an extent as t.
S blot out the whole.
|, Judge Woodward must surely hang hi'
+ head in shame when he looks at the doc
y trines contained in that platform and theI
:, at the decisions of the Supreme Court, a
a rendered in 1919, 1924. and 1929, and 0
e our own State in 1912 and others, no les
} than six decisions of the Supreme Court 0
l. the United States, and one in the Suprem
V Court of our own State against taxin;
e United States securities or the salary o
s United States officers, and yet in the fac
/ of all this they are clamoring because ther
o is no State tax on Government bonds
/ How much road tax and school tax d
e these United States bonds pay they say
n How do you propose to get your schoo
IS tax and road tax from them, over SIX de
y cisions of the United States Supreme Court
IS and one of your own State?
10 BY applying your own doctrine to you
IF own platform, it is a cheat and lie, an
IS you can make nothing else out of it.
-e If any man can reconcile it with goo
i morals let him do it. The United States
according to clause In the Constitution
= has made contract with its bondholdel
x that they will not permit State or loc;
al taxation, and yet you want the Govern
a. ment to violate that contract and ths
,e clause of the Constitution. This is hk
as the subterfuges resorted to in the rebellion
and is bound to go down with the rebe
in lion.
s. The rebels and the Democratic part
lg say the Southern States are entitled
III Immediate restoration, and that the Coy
a, ernment has no power to impose upo
10 them any conditions They say the wa
of made no difference in their status. w
is say no; your rebellion authorized US
Id impose terms before you come back aGaI
We and upon that position we intend to stan
O. and triumph Talk about maintaining
ye government without the power to preser'
r. its own life We fought YOU when yC
is had the bayonet at our breast, and no
MS when you would inject poison into OF
lg veins we will take the liberty of stoppir
y, up the mouth of the syringe. sa
as We present the grandest and most g
its rious spectacle ever presented by any n
10 ton Of the earth We were the younge
to nation of the earth, and yet after emer
as ing from such contest as the world ney
nd saw, there came the Ministers and Ambs