New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-20

Nassachu,ctts 2is,eoo 5o3f5G74 ...9.s,553 so!95s3
:hode island 800 l SS t.6 Ses1so
Totals.....' lss.559 sg0r7.Os3 C4o72o sl59.O7s9l2
Newiork and New-Engand in 1862 had 7J905o deposit
ors and SJIO20Il OF deposan increase Of depositors
OF lsg145, and Of deposits Of sl557Ol.2h ......
Franciscan 1867 had 26O2i depoSitorSand syGo'O
OF deposits There lot another such evidence OF pros
Weare told by our opponents that the income tax OPP
presses the poor man Now 10 does not reach hm Tor the
Law exemptS and house rent Fit qua Cypress the
poor iaan according 10 tls &c, VI ~ u
the Carbon district then Mr. Asa Packer ls hot
silver plate Now let US hook This matter Of income
tax rIgut here. went into your Assistant SCISSORS
office this after facts and hgnreS Tor thy zen lher
own story aud learned that IN towns m Columbia
County the tax on the Income itiuihod iQr
very oppressive taxation; and let NE Iere cay. II
you viii give me an tie eggs The mems at ~ icse seven
towns viii pay all the income taxes ana iue farmers
OF the State OF Penusy yana VIII give mo a he product
OF their hens Wi pay az tho tAt' tA' Government o
come ont minus IN this matter Nov, bow many hens
Will 10 take 10 pay TIE $3.50 income tax IA ,hese seven
that hen viii Law 100 eggs u year this Is fair average
aud the would yield s. 0S and Sl2 hens would pay
ant IN your agricultural counties aud estimate your
agricultural population at 1900 CO. ana the hens AZ 9dOo
aly this gives YOO.OtO,OOO eggs, or i6tWoo0
dozen, aud at - cents dozen we have only Ss,Souo
II Is truc az ogg small thing; but g. nome aud make
the calculations. and you Will ma that TINS estimate Is
pressing HIM ana We can't pay our G'Ot teiI nm the
hens Will take care OF IT, for when the Atile bldles
scratcLing aud cackg about houses, are 40 indus
trUu, and profitable We have DO fear o fcpuhaiou ana
only 10000 out OF the 4o.""o" oi our pulhial9n
returned any income for taxation IN l56- we can ruy
Say. taxed iess than any Other people rh taIih
Last year about 20UUO pei sons J. luiAtu ~. nv
United siatcs persons aud fraction o. each 100" VI
tie population. This not very Oppressive taxation
Tic whole amount of income returned On the United
states m 1868 was $S2g gG7 ID Mr A. L. stewart paid
an income ths year OF s5o9co 90 IL, h more than
was paid by either Arkansa Minnesota, Mississippi Yer
mont Oh West virginia aud more than paid by sew
era OF them combined, aud more than paid by either
state of New York ia 1865. Mr. VIM h. Aston paid
last year than wa, paid by several OF Tie states AMI
than paid 10y either one out Of 10 districts 10
ONO Messrb stewart and Aston pay more income tax
either oil Hc STATES And Of the 22 Congressional
gentlemen. Tho With District OF NewNork pays
income tax than either OF the sAter ~ the Union except
1ix states pay more than the IId district IN Aassachu-
setts The Ola BI{ stso ieluln1G ny year SOltO
AS Gu Of income, ana fennsl tV',tys ~ income
AT Lebanon into the AsSessOr's office o. uscer
tain how many pei9eas s cont @ e,ncG
of about 90. and Is one OF tho most beautiful rs well
p,rsdns RETURNING incomes this year was 27G OF this
humber 231 returned less than 81 GOO and 80 returned
tvothft- of the whole income tax Of the 27C persons.
and oue-sixth of the whole amount Of the annual
tax paid 10 the Government IN Lebanon County-Sl0OJ-
inns year aud this r. average tax OF 62l cents upon
each inhabant OF the county Ills II not oppressive
furnaces or manufacturing establishments: but with
Included your hens more Than pay the amount IN
hens 40 you hano ~ o. 49, 600 ~ 49, 49, u, w
loO eggs each Tor the year. s Zg'vp-dhu these az -
cent? per dozen amount 10 $4,000 $4,000 more than the
taxes And j. that people oppressed by taxes, when IN
OF the richest agricultural counties IN the Unllcd
States where every hand there evidences Of the
nS and the lar away valleys laugh as they are COW
cred with lie gold Of God and where stranger
and paupersm II unknown. ana only one person m lsl
returns an income from which the Government derives
taxi But say Democrats, tho duties imports
oppressive Tile duties Oh tea are % cents pound on
coffee cents. and sugar - cents pound and these
duties on IL pounds OF tea, u pounds OF coffee aud Q?
pounds OF sugar. with gold at IS per cent premium
repOrt states IN regard 10 thnt while the duty under
the British ta reduced 10 the extent Of n per cent
between the years 1919 and 1866 from IS sd ~ l5i9 10
ca In 1885, the average price OF tea In bond duty
free during tho same period exhibited corresponding
increase OF about 20 per cent ana the supply had IN no
way abated" These duties II Is true, paid by ali
alike these articles, and they imposed for the
the principal of the national DEBT, piled upon
the people by the attempt OF rebels 10 destroy our Gov
ernmeut Ana are these duties pIeroub or u1ustf Lev
us Here Is mechanic or labOrer IN Lebanon. He
good wages. lie has yo children IN your public
schools lie not asscssed for taxes either by the Gen
eral Government the state the county or the borough
No tax gatherer visits nm ana u ne was oDgeu 20 send
his children 70 any othe: Than one OF the eonOn schools
IL would cost hun at the lowest possible estimate s2 goa
by sSS year, and bis children. educated at the expense
OF the property have the advantage or the best
teachers IN the best Of schools aud without money or
he
The leaders OF the Democratic party told last year.
that if Gen Grant was elected there would De dencen
CIV the OF sl5OOOOcO during the first year OF
his Administrations and this reply by tine comfort
ing fact that I'm months MI Boutwell, has paid S5,
100000 OF the national debt In some sections OF the
country the Democrats for free trade ana here and
there You viii ind Republican tic advocate OF free
trade
Ibe,icvc in taking care OF our family first and this
only be done by protection England aud France have
done IT, and we must do H. that here, where freedom
was won By by the sword and where II has beon pre-
served by The sword at fearful loss or human life, and
by the expenditure OF THOUSANDS OF millions OF treasure the
abOfg man can be paid better wages than In other
Lard under heaVeu--Docausc high enable him
ID
give his wife and children better support and
forts aud leisure than the families OF laboring men re-
ecVe ln any other country. The labOring men In this
world are ia the majority and go Tor the rights ana the
interest," ana the prosperity Of the majority With a fair
and t system or protection OF industry 10
that there cannot he antaROusm between labor and
capital here, capital no longer owns labor and labor
seek itS own employment and Is It's own master. |
aware, frieudh, that almost all legislation has
been for the almighty dollar aud that capital In the past
has not regarded Labor aud such has bOen the agArlee
whether labOring men and women and children
worked 10 hours or 10 hours All that
10 wanted was ~ get the most out of man for the
least possible Amount Of pay-o push him like slnyeto
make li believe mat he made only to work and
never 10 thiBkthat his bone aud muscle were for the
benet Of Oherslhat lac cOutd live In miserable
and that sunlight ana pure air hun his.
glad that very much OF all tins belongs the dead
past that labor has asserted IFS rChts-that
nave thet labor TO sell IN the Industrial markers mt
value upon themselves not only abOrers but as men
citizens who have the common rights and of
humanity and are determined that they
live better and 10 their children al That will
ift them higher plane by reason OF superior iute
rcnce Here every man N sovereign; he must moi be
inierfercd with by/ny other his Industrial pur.
sns bc lasthe ig 10 select his own trade or calling
IN mako m own bargain and 10 work as MANY hours and
for smell pay he deems proper best for himself
Tuls IL his right ANA he VINO Would Interfere with him