The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-09-02
from the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer-l
The Campaign in, a Nutshell.


The Campaign III Nutshell.
The public debt was two hundred
and seventy-nine million dollars more
on the 1st of July. 1869, than it was
on the Ist of April, 1865, when the
war substantially closed.
The disabled soldier who lost. it
may be, limb in the country's SER
vice, is taxed upon his humble cottage,
where his whole property exists, at
the rate of two per cent. The loTTlly
bondholder, who resides in palace.
if he has million dollars in bonds,
has them exempted from taxes.
The Government pay thirty million
dollars years to the National Banks
for Issuing currency, when it could
give us the same amount of green
backs for nothing.
In a time of profound peace, when
only a few hundred soldiers are re-
quired to maintain order among the
Indians on the Western Plains, the
Government is paying one million
dollars month for the army, or fifty
two million dollars a year.
Ship-building in this country is al
most annihilated, because the duties
under the tariff are SO high upon the
articles with which ships are built that
they can be constructed for half the
price in Europe. The articles afore-
said are lumber, iron, copper and can
vass.
The men who in New England pack
fish get their salt free of duty for
that purpose. The Western farmer
who packs pork and beef, is charged
seYenty-two cents barrel for salt.
The two thousand million dollars of
five-twenty bonds, were bought with
greenbacks, at the rate of forty or
fifty cents on dollar in gold. They
were to be paid in greenbacks.
Nevertheless the Republicans propose
to pay them in gold. In other words
they make a present of six OF eight
hundred million dollars to the bond
holders. .,..-..- .+,1
The Yankees of the East do not
drink whisky nor use much tobacco.
They are given to other stfmulants,
such as New England rum. Hence,
by their influence, a large part of the
revenue is derived from the whisky
and tobacco consumed almost exclu-
siyelY by the West and South. -
The interest on the bonds is one
hundred and seventy-fiye million dol.
lars a year in greenbacks. Five-sixths
of it goes to the bondholder of the
East or Europe. The Western peo-
pie are the e.bond-payers. The Casters,
are the bondholders. ....s 49,.
There is not near. money enough to
meet the wants of the people and the
requirements of business. But more
greenbacks are not issued, because.
forsooth, it might diminish the value
of bonds and National Bank stock. ~
In Democratic days the foreign
trade of the country was only bur-
dened with a tax of seventy. million
dollars year. Now there is tariff
upon it of one hundred and seventy
million dollars in gold. The, trade
was about the same in 1850 that it is
now, viz: $40Q000000. ~. me-. avn
By issuing greenbacks instead of
National Bank notes we would obtain
the same amount of revenue, and yet
dispense with the taxes upon tea, cof-ii
fee, and sugar, that now fall SC, heavily
upon the laboring man,
The bondholder pays no taxes to
keep the roads in repair over which he
travels, or for the support of the pub
lie schools that educate his children,
or for the police that prevent his bonds.
from being stolen. -,
Under the law creating the bonds
they can be taxed by the United States.
IF the tax was imposed similar in
amount to that which our property
pays, we should deriveba revenue of
forty million dollars a year, enabling.
us to dispense with the income tax,
that yields about that sum. -,
The last Republican Legislature of
Ohio nearly doubled the expenses. of.
future Legislatures by increasing the
pay of members from three to five
dollars day. The present Legisla
ture is Democratic, and of course
comes in for the extra per diem,
which, under the constitution they,
have no right, during their term, to in,
crease or diminish. Governor Hayes
and the Republican speakers seek to
hold the Democracy responsible for
the increase. si.5a.,3:I It. ri s-tift
Ohio voted down negro suffrage two
years ago by fifty thousand majority.
Nevertheless, Hayes and his associates
on the Republican, ticket are now en-
deayoring to force 1t upon the State
by another constitutional amendment
to be adopted without consulting the
people. iiss ii 10 =f,uhiy. sd 'isifs7l
The Radical leaders are in favor of
encouraging Chinese emigration to
our shores. They want to reduce the
price of labor. HE Chinese Will
work for five cents day, which is,
more than they receive at home. With
the Chinese as competitors, American
iaborers can work at the Chinese price
or go without it, They can then Ell
ther beg or starve, ..,.-r. f,ay
s' Nome but the Hich Pay Taxes.''
This assertion, (says the Statesman,
so often made by the Radical leaders,
had its falsity well illustrated a few
dave cippn. ... t-.' tl4.. .ir - -i'+l.5i.