Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-20
A Radical Candidate on the,
Rampage.


Rampage.
General JOHN BEATTY, the candidate of
the Negro Suffrage party for Congress in
the Eighth Congressional District of this
State, made, a speech on the 10th inst. at
Caledonia, which the Cincinnati Commercial
hashad the cruelty topublish, much to the
modification Of the Generals supporters.
Ikis sasad compound OF folly and of ignor-
ance. In speaking of the financial meas
ures of the Radical party, which has well
nigh bankrupted che country and imposed
burthens on the people, such as no other
people in the world are cursed with,
General BEATTY, with more than Peck
sniffian hypocrisy, says: - os ,Vs 'ssh
1t is bsolutely true, as you will find,
upon careful examination, that our [th
Rsdical1 party has, in the distribution &
these burdens, manifested determination
to be generous to the poor, even at the
hazard of being thought unjust to the
rich.
Honest Sancho, after long absence frorri
ome,asreturned to find most of his oil
friends dead. Visiting the grave yarf
where he read glowing eulogies on me-
for virtues which they never possessed, b..
inyolnntarily exclaimed, Good Lord, hosl
this world is given to lying !'' Sancho's
Indignation at falsehood would have bee,
still greater had he read the extract abov
given.sfs3 TzzTas asa TRTe
Millions every year are raised by the Gen-
eral Government to pay the interest on tn
State. debt This money is; collected By
taxation-agents. so dishonest are employ
ed to collect this money that it has bee
said. by Republican organs. we doubt no
with truth, that it takes one-half of th,
whole amount to collect the other half. Th
people are taxed on every thing they es
or wear. The bondholder alone escape
taxation on his wealth, except small pc
cent: on bis income. On his. million O.
dollars invested in Government bonds he
pays no tax, except, as was before said, on
his income, while his poor neighbor, who
iss engaged in business, is so taxed as to
make manufacturing Improbable.
In State matters it is still worse. The
man with amillion dollars in bonds, draws
from the taxes of the people seventy three
thousand dollars. per annum, as interest,
and If he owns no other property he pays
no taxes to the State, none to the Town
ship, none to the County, none for Poor,
for Road, for Bridge, or for School pur-
poses.
His poor 1eighbor, with large family to
support, from the proceeds of the forty,
acre lot he owes for. is forced to pay taxes
to pay the State, debt, to build the Roads
for his rich bondholding neighbor to travel
upon-to aid in supporting the Poor of the
county-to build Bridges, so that his mill
lionaire neighbor can cross without wetting
his patent leather boots-to pay Judges,
Juries, Clerks, Sheriffs, who indict, try. con-
denim and imprison the manwhe knocks that
bondholding neighbor down for his inso-
lence, yet the bondhelder, with more money
than one-half the Township in which he
lives pays no taxes. for any of these pur-
poses. Nay more, that poor forty-acre
farmer, with his large family, cramped
from the 1st day of January to the 3lst
day of December to get money to pay his
taxes, to clothe his children and to furnish
little comforts fer his family, is absolutely
taxed to school the bondholders children,
while, perhaps, his own, for swantsof sufi-
cient clothing, cannot attend. the district
school and must therefore remain in ignor-
ence. This is the way Gen. BEArrY's party
is generous to the poor, by robbing them,
by forcing them by unjust taxation to SUP
port the Government that thus oppresses
them. The protection they give honest
labor, is the "protection which the vulture
gives the lamb, covering and devouring it.'
The men who thus, escape taxation, al,
though they bought their bonds with
greenb backs when they were worth but ene.s
third the amount their face calls tor, now
demand that they be. paid in gold-thus
giving thems at the present rate at which
gold is held, over third more than the
amount was contracted to be paid, by
paying it in gold, thus adding over one
thousand million dollars to the debt of the
nation to be paid by taxation The De-
mocracy propose to hold these bondholders
TO o'their bargain-to pay off the debt as it
becomes due in greenbacks, the same kind
of currency in which it was contracted,
ard thus to stop the millions of interest.
This, GenerallBEArTY says. would involve
us in hopeless bankruptcy, by DESTROYING
country, because itwould lead to the issue
Of fifteen or twenty hundred million of dol
lars on legal tender notes. s%Es z
Much of the present distress which per-.
vades the country is caused by the want of
How the issue of more money, to
pay off the bonds, and thus, when paid,
force the men receiving it, to invest it in
that which could be taxed, would produce
the effects Gen. BEATTY conternplares, is a
proposition too absurd to argue. That the
effect would be directly the opposite, must
be patent to every man of common sense.
1t would give money to carry ON the com.
merce and Inanufacturing' business of the
country-it would enable the farmer to nav
his taxes, for it would then give him money,
to do lit and it would wipe out the
greater part of the taxation of the General
Government to pay the high rate OF interest
on the bonds and bring about, as in days
when the Democracy ruled, low taxes and
the General Government administered
without taxes to support it. :.
The Republican party, as party, de-
nounce the payment of the bonds in green
backs as repudiation-as bad faith to the
bendholders and disgraceful to the country.
Yet we find that the Democratic argument
in favor of its justice, together with the
result of the late election and the fear of
the defeat which stares him in the face
has compelled Gen. BEATTY to take ground
In favor of the proposition. But he says
1t must be done gradually-you must not
give the people too much, money because
that, would - prostrates the entire CONNER
cial interests OF the country and involve
us in, homeless bankruptcy.' p - .s.G