Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-15
The .Tax-Payer.' Candidate for
President.

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| President
The term, Taxpayers Candidate for
President, as applied to GEORGE II. PEN
DLEToN, is an expressive one.
There are large class of men who, be-
cause they are not on the Tax Duplicate Of
the State or National Government, are not
classed as tax payers, but in reality are so,
for they are forced to pay high taxes on all
tthey wear and consume. They pay taxes
on the tea the good wife drinks and the
sugar which sweetens it-on the cotton
| and the wooden the clothes of the children
and of the parents are made of-on the
medicine the doctor administers, on the
| linen which makes the shroud to cover
the lifeless remains. and on the coffin which
encloses all that is mortal. The grave is dug
with taxed shovel aided by taxed pick,
and it is not until the poor man is buried
that he escapes taxation. If man dies
leaving property, his wilrisstaxed and. his
heirs cheated out of a portion of the gift
affection. devises by a tax imposed on the
right of s. father to divide his property to
his offspring or his wife.
!, The boarding house keeper, pays taxes,
directly or indirectly, on all that he pur-
chases, and thattax hedivides among those
who eat at his table-or sleep in his BEDS
| AS SYDNEY SMITH once said of England,
the taxes continue from the cradle to the
grave, and beyond it. Except 1.-The
bondholders, all pay taxes on all
they earn and on all they own. These
favored sons of fortune pay no taxes on
the vast fortune they possess, although
an interest on the debt due them SO large
that, between men and men, that interest
would, by the laws, be deemed usurious.
The farmer who owns a tract, of land
pays taxes for State, county, township,
road, bridge, poor and school purposes
The bondholder, whose wealth is in Gov
ernment bonds, pays no taxes to the State
and none to the General Government, ex-
cept small per cent on his income. His
neighbor the farmer, whose little farm is
scarce sufficientto to support his family, no
matter If the weevil takes his wheat and
the drouth destroys his corn, is taxed just
as much on his land is if he had good
crop and made money out of it. He is
taxed to make roads for his bondholding
neighbor-is taxed to school that
bondholder's children is taxed to
aid in prosecuting the thief that steals one
of that bondholder's evidences of indebted
ness, bat for these things, that bondholder,
though he may be worth his millions if he
invests his great wealth in bonds, pays no
taxes, not even to school his own children.
or to build bridge or support pauper.-
These things must be done by his poorer
neighbors, while he alone, privileged like
a King, is exempt from taxation.
The bondholder is not a taxpayer, and
hence GEORGE II. PENDLEToN, being the
payers candidate, is not the candidate
of the bondholder.
All other citizens are tax payers-taxed
directly or Indirectly on all they eat and
on all they wear-and it is these that
claim GEORGE 81. PENDLEToN as their can
didate, because in Office and out of office
he is their friend and champion, and it is
the men who are crushed to the very earth
with unjust and onerous taxation. who will
nominate and elect him President of the
United States.
THE correspondent of the Zanesuille Sig
nal, writing under date, Columbus, Janu-
ary IL, says:
~ have seen and talked to Mr.. Vallan.
diyham on many occasions during his stay
in the city, and find him unalterably devo-
ted 10 the best interests of the country, and
willing to make any honorable sacrifice TO
insure the success of the Democrrtic party"
! THE Grand Rapids (Michigan) Democrat
nominates the old ticket of Mcclellan and
Pendleton. tjL-t1lcc