The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-10-01
TAXES.


the intelligence of the people, as to assert
that the farmers, mechanics and laborine
men pay no taxes at all that the national
revenue is derived from tariff duties on
imports and the income tax assessed upon
all persons having yearly incomes exceed
ing one thousand dollars. Let us, for the
benefit of those who have not investigated
the subject for themselves, examine into
the subject and see how much truth there
is in it. The government raised, from all
sources, an annual revenue of about four
hundred and fifty millions of dollars, or
about the sum of fifteen dollars per hea d
for every man, woman, and child, white or
black in the United States. Now this is
derived from many different sources, ar1on Q
the principle of which are the duties on
goods imported from foreign countries,
and the tax levied on goods of all kinds
manufactured in this country These
two sources alone furnish more than two
thirds of the entire yearly revenue of the
national government. The importer and
manufacturer pay the taxes and add the
same to the price Of the goods on which it
was paid. They then sell the goods to
wholesale merchant, and he adds his taxes
to the same goods and then sells them to
the retail merchant, who in like manner
adds his taxes to the same goods and his
profits besides, and then sells them out to
his customers, the ia rmers, mechanics, la
boring men and their families SO when
the farmer goes to the store to purchase
his dry goods, boots, shoes, groceries, &C.,
he pays not only for the real value of the
goods, but also the taxes Of the manufac-
turer, Wholesale merchant, and the retail
merchant which has been added to the
goods. The taxes and tariff (Which is
but another name for Indirect taxi add at
least one half or fifty per cent on an aver
age to the price Of all goods sold in our
stores. Hence it is Il very easy matter to
arrive at the taxes each one pays. He
pays on every article he buys, no matter
what it may be. If a family spend for
dry goods, boots shoes, hats, caps, bonnets,
groceries, hardware, medicines, DC, three
hundred dollars per year, that family has
Paid of that sum, in addition to the real
value of the article purchased, at least one
hundred and fifty dollars in taxes! The
common people who use the goods, pay
all the taxes aud tariff which has been
levied upon the goods. Is not that plain?
Does any man who has common sense
enough to so in when it rains doubt it !?
Then when those smoothe tongued radi-
cal speakers make the assertion that the
poor men pay no national taxes, they lie {.
Does any person of sound mind doubt that?
Now we wish to ask every candid man
who reads this another plain question Is
it necessary for men to lie if they have
truth and justice on their side? If not,
then does it not follow that when men seek
to deceive the people, as the radical speak
ers and leaders have done during this
campain, it is because there is some thirg
wrong which they are trying to conceal !;
some corruption they seek to hide from
the peoples sight? I" Fair play is jewel"
Now we wish to call the attention of our
readers to another fact. During the last
three years this nation has been at peace
Yet during that time the government has
collected Of the people, exclusive of the
bondholders, nearly fifteen hundred mill
lion dollars or twenty-five times as much
as the democrats speut in the
same length of time under James Buchan-
ans administration What has become
of it Can any one tell? There is a
mystery about it that no radical has been
bold enough to attempt to explain. They
have not applied it to the payment of the
national debt, for that is on the increase
at the rate of over ten million dollars per
month Where has it gone? Has any
portion Of it gone into the pockets of the
thieves who surround the national capitol
and fill its floors and galleries like locusts,
and fill nearly all the Offices of profit with
in the gift of the radical party From
the sudden fortunes these pimps of power
have amassed, it would seem so. Men in
high positions, who when the radicals
came into power were poor, are to-day mil
lionaires, living in marble-front palaces,
from whence they turn up their noses in
disdain at laboriug meu. 80
Farmers, mechanics, laboring men, of
Marshall county, we ask you to think of
these things; think of them seriously and
caudid:y. And when you deposit your
ballot on the thirteenth day Of October