The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-11-04
Facts l0r the People About
Taxes

THIS following statements with reference
to our financial condition are derived from
official sources. Thev may be relied upon
and every tax naye" should Garry them il
in his pocket:
First = The amount of money collected
from the reople by Fcder taxation, fron
July, 1865, to July, 1868 three year, O.
peace Eached 81 5Q4 l74.O0O
Second = The taxes laid by the people
into be Federal Treasury for the year end
ing Ja'y, 1868, were over Eve hundred and
sixty millions; hr 1867. over five hundred
millions, and for 1868, over four hundred
and seventy millions.
7htW These are in addition to all in
direct taxation, such as taxation on the
necessares OF life, for the protection o.
manufactures, for fees TO offce-ho dcrs not
paid ont Of the Treasury, e., aud to all lo>
cal taXaIion. They are all in addition to
the lmuense revenue derived from the sale
Of properly accumulated during thu war.
F0mth The direct tax paid into the
Gus som houses on imported goods the past
three Years amounted tO,m0re than SEVEN
HuNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOL
LARS, rai paid BY the peopc who used the
IN ported prtces.
FM. The expenditures Of the Govern
n''nt during these three years., including
d. fioiencies, equal the whole sum Of taxes
co lccted
S@rth --1'ht Federal taxation Of the past
three years has aycraged over $3i to each
man woman and child OF the whole popu a.
ticn while the average taxation in France
icr the same time is bur So to each In
diVidual, ard in Austria les than SIG, and
in the last Two countries the local taxes are
paraiyely mall.
SeUentb The national debt averages
nearly a halt more to each individual Of the
populalion than in France, and is more
than twelve times larger in proportion to
POI ulation Ihan that of Prussia.
EGgh.-The u,arly sixteen hundred
Mill us III tax collected from the people
of this counny during the past three years
-huge- been mainly collected from the peck
ets.6f merchants, mechauics, farmers, ard
lahGrerS
N"tb To pay the principal Of the debt
according to the Radical programme would
require more coin than now exists in the
known world aud the interest would have
to Re provided Tor in addition. Z,
1eHfh.-ln he last three years that pr
ton of the national debt which requires the
payment OF interest IL gold by Radical
connivance has been increased more than
xix hundred millions wholly at the cx
lcnse Of the people, and for the bonahold
erS, 20
E2erenH. The expenditures of the Gov
renment for 1S67-'6S amounted to $l4S.-
000,00O more than when the denat cratic
party was in power during 1860. -Dnriog
the decade from 18j0-'5l to 1860 '6l the
acreage cxp6 nditures OF the Government
amounted to Gnly fifty two millions dollars
iWcHh. w arc told in the report OF
the Commissioner Of Revenue, (see page
27,) sent to the United States Senate,
January Sd, 1867. that assuming the value
Of the real and persona property of the
UDited States to have increased since 1860
the date OF lie late census -suffic ntiy to
compensate for all the losses and depreca-
tions growing ont Of the war, the ratio OF
taxation to property the last fiscal year,
was three and uinrty.three haLdrcdths lcr
cent.
Nearly four cents on dollar, which is
fur dollars on every lullrcds dollars of
property, While
During the SAME year the estimated
ratio Of taxation toproperty in '1r.nt brit
ain was nine-tentE of one per cent. which
is nine mills on the dAinr. or only ninety
cents to ever hundred dollars on the general
valuation of properly This-cstinaie is not
hasfd upon the taxes directly collected from
the pacll,; but it is the general amount
nised from all the sources Of taxation, dir
ect and indirect
In proportion to the wealth Of the two
nations. the taxes IL the l!rited States are
five times rs great as in Great Britain; and
yet England supports the largest navy the
world has ever seen, has monarchy, and
royal blood whose pensions amount to mil
lions. and is a proud and naughty aristocra-
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