Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-18
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bondholders. to keep up the Negro Bureau
aud to pay of the Standing Army. When
wheat is worth 81 - per bushel, the farmer
realizes but , 0j, and when the difference
between gold and greenbacks, is deducted,
be gets but 81 36, Meanwhile the bondhol-
der draws his interest in gold, pays no
State, County or Township taxes. and
evades the income tax. Hence the Demo
Gratis propose Equal IacahoR as a remedy
for the present defective because unequal
System Ei9Mal Idrdti0a viii compel the
bond holding nabobs and sristocrats to pay
their share of the taxes, aud Of course, will
proportionally lessen the taxes ofthe farmer,
middle and the poorer classes. Now, ace
dare the hq'arer to publish this article.
Come now, Lutz, toe the mark - Gasette
THE Gazette, no doubt, thinks it has done
something exceedingly smart. Let US see,
We spoke of excise or direct taxes as every
one can see who reads for himself
1t has eyaded every point in our article and
launched off in a TRADE against the tariff du-
ties laid on imported goods, question not
mentioned in our article. It has run away
from the issue entirely and for the very
good reason that it coull bot deny the truth
Of our statements. Now let US see what the
/ Gazette has forgotten to tell its readers.
After having got safely outof range every
thought in our article, i, deliberately sets TO
work to count up the tax on sugar aud oof-
fee in order to make out that the Repub-
licau party is still taxing the poor man, but
forgot to say that in these few articles the
rich man is taxed as well as the poor. and
the worst it has made out Of it is, that in
these two OF three articles all are taxed
alike because 1t would be impossible to do
otherwise. How can it as the advocate of
Eq,,ql Taxation complain Of this? But
the most brazen faced presumption and
impudence is displayed in going back
on its own record. The Democratic
party has always been a free trade party,
aud the Gazette has ever advocated
its principles. Now one Of the measures
most strenuously insisted upon by these
same ffee-traders has always been, that a
tariff should only be for revenue and further
that in order to compel all to bear an equal
portion Of the burden, these very arti-
cles Of sugar, coffee and tea should be heay-
lily taxed. The argument was. that as every
body poor and rich alike used these articles
the poor as well as the rich would have to
help pay the tax. How can the Gazette, al
ter having advocated the taxation Of the
poor man 5 tea, sugar and coffee for twenty
years, now permit itself, in gush ofunguard-
ed generosity, to take up the poor man 5
cause and abuse the Republican party for
what has almost always been done since the
inauguration of our government, and for
what it, as the organ Of the Democratic par
IT, has always advocated But the Gazette
has also forgotten to tell its readers that as
an opponent Of protective tariff the
Democratic party has always been in favor
of excise taxes and that if its avowed poll
80 fusl 0uu 1a o,1.y ,
foot of land and the p0or man house a1,d
garden as well as hiscow and pig would be
taxed. Now we dare the Gazette to deny
these stubborn facts. The Democratic par
ty has always been the advocate Of ffree-trade,
and as such, also the advocate ofexcise tax
es Of houses and lands and personal property;
for the necessary expenses Of the Govern
ment must be met, aud if it Is not to be OBJ
tanned by taxes on imported, manufactured
articles, something the Democratic party
has always opposed, then it must be raised
by heavy taxes on sugar, coffee and tea &e
articles that while the rich use, the poor
man cannot Go without and so the poor man
is taxed by this regy Democratic plan; and
when the taxes upon these few articles fail
to meet the necessary expenses, the resort
must be % excise taxes Now how did the
Democratic party propose to raise the taxes.
First it denies protection to our manufac-
lures, removes the duties upon foreign man
ufactures of every kind and brings US in di-
rect competition with the pauper labor Of
Europe. The result has always been, when
this plan has been tried, that our manulac-
lures stop and the agriculturalresouves Of the
country are left alone to bear the burden Of
taxes, and on houses and lands it must be
laid Now what becomes Of the Gazette's S
sympathy for the poor man. Instead Of
paying light tax upon a couple Of articles
as he now docs, he finds not only his tea,
sugar and coffee taxed, but also his cow and
pig, his house and garden, or if he is 50 un-
fortunate as not to own house and garden,
he is obliged to rent them of some good ar
istocratic Democrat, who finds them heavily
taxed and straightway lays the tax upon
his poor tenant in the shape Of increased
rent Such is the Equal Taeatiou for
which the Ga@ette is so anxions. Such are
theineyitable results of the policy the Ga
zette has always advocated. Such is the
policy it now advocates, Notwithstanding its
crocodile tears over the poor man s tea and
coffee. True enough the poor man S tea and
coffee are taxed, (and for the most Of it he
can thank Democratic rebellion) but the
past iree-trade policy, and the present Equal