Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-08

Tho " Poor. Miserable scabs'' that
senator Yates says Pay mo Tax
es while the BOndholder Foots
the Isill.
In the course of his great speech at
Springfield, Ill, Ex-Governor and United
States Senator YATES made the following
|intemperate and false assertion:
"They talk to you about debt and taxa
alton. Tell them to produce their receipts
to show where they paid one single dollar
of the public debt. Has Col. Logan and
| the other officers, collectors and assessors,
or anybody, called upon you to pay any
part of the public debt? He calls upon
nobody. who does not receive more than
$1,000 income; and those men who pay
| the taxes never grumble. But these poor,
miserable scdbs, who pay no taxes, who be-
long to what we call the Seymour Demo-
| cratic party laughter and applausel, and
who suffer 80 amazingly from these taxes
which they never pay, they cry out " bloat-
ed bondholders - Ask yourselves how
many of you have paid any part of the
national taxes. Who have paid it but the
bondholders and the men OF wealth and
capital in the country ?"
1.-THE poor miserable scabs" who ''belong
to the Democratic party" according to Mr.
RICHARD YATES, "pay no taxes" it is all
paid by the ''bondholders" and the men of
wealth and capital OF the country. If it
is such miserable falsehoods rs this that
form the staple of Mr.. Yates speeches,
his party friends had better withdraw him
from the canvass, and bid him hereafter
hold his peace.
The truth Is, there is not single man,
woman or child throughout the whole
length and breadth of the land, who earns
dollar and spends it, but pays taxes to
pay the interest on the bondholders' d. bt.
The old lady, poor, miserable and half
starved she may be, who can procure few
cents worth of tea, pays taxes thereon, and
Is taxed on the lump of sugar with which
she sweetens it. The laborer pays taxes
on the tobacco he smokes in his taxed pipe,
and on the match with which he lights it,
as Mr.. Senator YATES pays taxes on the
whisky he poured down his throat before
he spoke the falsehood contained in the
above.
Because mans name is not on the tax
duplicate made out by the County Auditor
or the United States Assessor, it is no rea-
son why he is exempt from taxation. There
Is scarcely an article that he eats, drinks or
wears but is taxed, and the "poor, misera-
BILE scabs," as Senator YATES calls the
men of the Democratic party, pay more |
than their fair proportion, because while
the necessaries of life are taxed, the great
wealth of the country, consisting of bonds,
In the hands of the wealthy and in the
vaults of the Treasury, placed there as a
basis for the redemption of National Bank
notes, pay no tax whatever, except the
miserable pittance Government exacts in
the shape of tax on income.
The bondholder pays the tax, does he
On the fifteen thousand dollars of bonds,
he owns, on which he draws nine hun
dred dollars in gold, as interest, he pays no
taxes to the State and none to the National
Government. 1t he has no other income |
he pays no tax, except as the ''poor. miser-
able scab" of Democrat pays on what he |
consumes. The poor man, with half a |
dozen children, consumes more of the ar
ticles taxed by che General Government, |
and hence he pays more taxes than the man |
who has fifteen thousand dollars in bonds,
drawing gold interest. Even on his income
of nine hundred dollars in gold, which |
the bondholder receives for his $4,000 in
Government bonds, he pays no taxes to the
State. The "poor, miserable scab," as Mr..
YATES calls the poor men, who, he says,
pay no taxes. if ne happens to have little
shanty worth one-half less than the amount
the $4,000 bondholder receives each year
in the shape of interest, is used to pay the |
interest on the State debt, to aid in school
ing Mr.. $4,000 bondholder's children, to
light the streets that the bondholder may
not stumble and break his neck of dark |
nights, and to keep them in repair. Still |
Mr.. YATES says the bondholder pays the |
taxes, the 'poor, miserable scabs OF men,"
who are not rich, pay none.
The coffin that encloses the corpse of the |
poor man, the cotton that makes his shroud,
and the medicine that the doctor admins
tered, in the effort to save him, are all tax
ed, and if these articles are paid for, the |
poor mans children and widow are robbed |
of a portion of the dead husband and |
fathers toll, to pay it.
The poor men not taxed Shame upon |
the demagogue who will put forth such an |
assertion, and greater shame upon the |
party that requires such falsehoods to sup
port it.
How a Peck OF Corn Meal Is Taxed |
The Gallipohs Dispatch, in answer to the |
charge that because man is poor he can
not be taxed, thus shows how even q peck |