Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-08-04

a that is that we have recently
II passed a bill to reduce taxation
r and by that bill we have reduced
taxation to the amount Of 80 nit
e. lions oi dollars. Now reducing tax
e alton to the amount Of 50 millions
{ Of dollars is worth great many
G Democratic speeches, and a great
r many Democratic arguments Here
e is q great fact. We have just re
q. pealed 81 millions Of Internal taxes,
r and we have reduced the tariff %
q millions. Well, now, we could not
? cn down altogether, but we brought
Z it down just as low as we could, so
J as to raise the necessary amount OF
money to carry on the Government.
But we have by means Of certain
, great Improvements made in the
administration since Gen Grant
came in-we have been enabled
within the last ten days or within
the last fifteen days to repeal eighty
millions Of taxes. Well, how have
we done that? l will tell you first
in regard to the internal taxes.
We have repealed all or nearly
all the internal taxes except the tax
on whisky and tobacco, and The
sale OF whisky and tobacco. All
the rest have been abolished with
the exception ofstamps. We have
abolished stamps, too, on receipts,
which was a veXation to the peo-
lple. We have abolished stamps on
receipts, and have abolished stamps
on all notes under 800. We have
brought down this kind Of taxation
to the lowest point that we could,
and nearly all that is left OF it is left
upon tobacco and whisky. The
thousand other little taxes that had
to be levied during the war we have
now swept away.
Well, now about the tariff some
gentlemen may ask. We have taxi
en- off twenty-thrce millions from
the tariff, and we have taken it off,
principally, -ou tea, coffee and su
gar; IRON the neccssaries of life,
that are consumed by everybody
in this country. The laboring man,
the man in middle circumstances,
in every condition of life, must
have his coffee. and his tea, and his
sugar; and the most of twenty !
three millions that we have taken
off has been taken off these three
articles. We have reduced the du-
ty of tea from 25 TO Is cents a |
pound, and on coffee from 5 to 3 |
cents a pound. We have taken 3 |
cents pound off of sugar, or about /
33 per cent And then to come
down to the subject of iron. Wei
have reduced the duty on pig iron
from 50 to 81 per ton, bringing it.
down to that point whore we think !
there will be fair competition be
tween the home producer and the
foreign producer A great many
articles we have put on the free list
Il don't know how many, but a
great many upon which there was a
small duty.
And so this Congress, that has
been so mach abused and tradueed,
has reduced your taxes eighty mil |
lions of dollars. This is a grand
result. In the presence of a great
result of this kind all little grum-
blings, and carpings and fault find
ings disappear. There is a great
veut,and it has been brought about
by the Republican party, and with
out the aid of the Democratic
party,
WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE AND FOUND
WANTING.
Now, I want to call your atten-
ton to a fact, my friends, that,
Notwithstanding our Democratic
friends are complaining continual
ly about the tariff and continually |,
about taxation, not one of them i'll
eithel branch of Congress voted for
this bill that reduced taxation $780, ,
100000, An aged listener, who
had been hanging on the words of
the Senator ever since he reached
the subject of the reduction of tax
alton, here calculated in an accent
of surprise and Indignation, "By
George !" Not one of them. The
work has been done, but they did I
not do it, 1t has been done by
the Republican party in Congress.
Well, now, some of you perhaps
will wonder at that, that these Dem
ocratic politicians that have been
so earnestly and so con
stantly about the burdens Of taxa
ton, when they were brought to
the test, not one of them voted for .
the bill on its final passage, not
one. The most of them voted !
against it and some Of them dodg-
ed. But if there is one that voted
for it don't know it.
X
WHY THE TAXES WERE NOT REDUCED
BEFORE. {
Now, my friends, the question u
may present itself to your minds, !.
and doubtless has, as l have pass '
ed along, how it is that you have
not before been able to repeal so y
millions of taxes ? Why wasn't q
that done before? You have had
/ Republican Congress all the time, y
why couldn't you do it before = o
Well, now want to tell You. We t
nave had a Republican Con t,
PRESS. but we have not had q Re Y