The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
MORE ABOUT THE INTERN
AL REVENUE MATTERS.

NlOnL kI1L IN GNNo
AL REVENUE MATTERS.
OK last Saturday, Assistant Internal
Revenue Assessor, Andrew Kahler,
asked us if we would publish a state
ment of the business done by him, ex-
offcio, furnished by himself. He said
we had published erroneous statements
relative to the assessments made by
him during the months of February
and March. 1868, butthat we were right
as to the pay he received for his ser
vices during those two months. He
said, also, that he had been waiting for
US to get through with what we had to
say on the subject, and that he then
intended to give the people the facts in
the case. We told Mr.. Kahler that if
we had been in error, we would be
glad to correct it, 'and that we would
be very glad to publish his statement.
As yet, he has not made his appear
ance, and We conclude he intends to
make his own paper the organ of his
defense, and that his statement will
appear in this weeks issue of that pa
per.
We have 10 say that our statements
relative to this matter were taken of
the Deputy Collector of Internal RevN
enue's books, as the returns made by
this same Andrew Kahler for the
months above mentioned. We have
further t. say that Andrew Kahler re-
ceived a reprimand, through District
Assessor Woodbridge, of Marietta, from
Columbus Delano, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue at Washington, D. c.,
some time last Fall, for charging for
his services as Assistant Assessor more
per month than his Assessments am
ounted to. We have further to say
that the system of taxation, known as
! the Internal Revenue System, as at
present carried on in this District, and,
for all we know to the contrary,
throughout the length and breadth OF
the land, is but a system of legalized
robbery, which is expressing the PEG,
pie for no other purpose than that OF
sustaining in place and position certain
old party hacks, who seem to think
themselves born for no other purpose
than to fill fat offices. The truth is
that of the whole of the enormous sum
paid by the people of this District in
the shape of Internal Revenue taxes,
Excepting that derived from Stamp
duties of one kind and another and that
paid by the National Banks, all of
which we may say the Assessors have
nothing to do with, there is probably
not a dollar of it that goes into the Ma
tional Treasury. 1t all goes into the
pockets of official leeches, who do not
do enough real labor in their official
character, to earn for them, in any or
binary pursuit, what would average
them seYenty-fve cents a day each
And, yet, while this is true while our
farmers, mechanics, and business men
are tciling necessarily to provide their
families with the comforts of life, and
10 pay the tax-gatherer, most of them
not earning more than n dollar and
fifty cents day, and a great number
not more than one dollar these leech-
es are making the people pay them five
and ten dollars a day each, for sitting
by a good fire, telling jokes, and occa-
sionally scribbling down on Uncle
Sans paper the amount of A and BIS.
income, or the fact that C. has a god
watch. 1t is high time that such out
RACES as this are ventilated AMI that
the men, who are fattening on legal
lied stealings off the industry of the
country, should be laid bare in their
iniquity. As far as Mr.. Kahler IS con-
cerned, we will say that we do not
know that he has gouged the Govern
out of any nor money than other men
filing the same positions in other coun-
ties. We do know, however, the facts
above stated, and those heretofore sta
ted in other articles, to be true; and if
they reflect upon the gentleman we
cannot help it.