The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-29
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IL The taxes paid IPy,9t people o
/ OhlIo & are of two, kinds--State an,
United States taxes, The State take
! are exclusively taxes On PROPERTY o
1scapitateseTerF person paying in pro
portion to- what he owns. et9f oe4dt
lZo Before the war, all, the property, il
the State, except church, school anG
1'publiC property, and fifty dollars eeSx eeSx
teInption of household goods, was on
1.-THE duplicate for taxation There wa,
no privileged class ofscitizens in, Ohio
entitled to hold large amounts of nron.
efty exempt from taxatio1l..f Nov
what Dove ffnd?i eTL is'2ino3iB'
yTIU Unifedt Estates bonds have been is
SUED to the amount Of over two thou
rI SAND mlllions, nj lions, exempt from all State
and municipal taxation, These bonds
| in the hands of the holders, are Simply
private property, and like the notes OF
bonds given by individuals, pass from
hand atqt hand, and should, like the lat
ter, be subject to taxation.
1t is estimated BY the Auditor 9 Of
State, that about one hundred million
dollars of these untaxedy bonds" are
ilei held in the State. of Ohio. What, is
the, result?
oThis Vast amount of 1p,irt property be ttaIhaa has
ibeeh with drawn from the !5dupifcate.
FLtIfoRmerly boresits share of taxation
and contributed to swell the produc-
tive capital of the State. Now it is
idle, 'unproductiVe and untaxed. while
the burdens it should bear, fall upon
sthe shoulders of other -property-hold-
eFs:Igol 9n.srqUC 9if 1o -aJi-.as:3 ,
The, workingman's, house and lot,
however. small, are taxed. If he owns
none, he must pay a higher rent in
consequence of his 3landl lords tax.
His horse his COW, his furniture except
the fifty, dollars exempted, his tools
and implements, the means by which
he and his family earn their livelihood.
are all taxed .lhsiloqseh zqgiili.8
5nThe amount of 81 this tax varies in
dit different .fI localities from one to three
and a half per cent. The average. in
Mtskingum county, and generally
throughout the State, probably about
two per cents OF two dollars on every
on one hundred y dollars valuation ofprop-
erty.
i It comes too this, then Che o, owner of
valued at a thousand dollars
PAYS Twenty dollors, for State, county
and municipal taxes, while the owner
Of GoYernment bonds to the same
amount which draws a gold interest,
pays not'a cent. And the same rule
holds good as to the tax on the one
hand, on larger or smaller amounts of
property, and on the other hand, as
the no tax at all on larger or. smaller
in bonds. ''''f''7 Il'7''7
Is this equality before the law
Y ct this is the system Sustained in re-
gard to our raown Estate, to say nothing
of United States, taxation by the men,
whose daily talk. is. about equality,
right lis ia and Justice to all men. Its a
system of gross injustice, wrong and
SUPPRESSION, crushing down the work
ing men, the poor, land the men of
nod - derate means, by compelling them
(, pay the taxes their rich neighbors
ought, on the common principIe of
equality afid Justice, to pay themselves.
7I6et, it is the system for which every
pan, g Votes who votes the Radical
lkf llekkfft'i094lagf!efsgl4e 10 lg!fa4e sfgnql,nrn. ii raa
d NEW BNeLANB sMARrriSsEss.-sena-
;or Wilson orowed over this in
AIb}any vi and with reason. She has
'Welve United States Senators of her
own, and sixteen more from the States
South. She has also had eight tariffs
n as many years, each more oppressive
han the other. She has drawn bounty
money from the Federal Treasury to
,ay for her fisheries; made navigation
in, her own interest; released the
axes, that fell heaviest on her, own
shirked the draft when it
'ecame necessary in order to, support
he war she helped to incite, and how
'njbys theGbenefit of that exemption
rom taxation secured to the bond
lolders. treat is New, England, and
summer and Wilson are her prophets!
But oh how unlike the New England ,
lays of Webster, Adams, Ellsworth,
Soger Sherman, Daggett, and host
+ worthless of the olden time. How
mike the time, too, when the elder ]
Ndams, of Massachusetts,, moved that
feorge Washington, of Virginia, COM
aandathe United States Army Our q,
anthers a Were all rebels first, but rebel
ion 10 did not not last foreyer.-Ne,o York
Cypress. -" H'''' -'''F
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THE New Y ork Herald says: The 4
ght in Gen. Buffers district (Fifth
fassachusetts) is quite warm. The
Inscription to assist Mr.. Dana in the