The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-08-13
THE NEXT HOUSE.

Congress adjourned with more conf
donco among the Radicals than they have
had for some two months past The 70
duction Of the taxes TO the amount Of
t7G,000000 rs to be- their great card In the
canvass, and with this and the restoration
OF the Union at last by the admission OF
Georgia, they think they can make some
head at the fall elections against the gen.
oral reaction throughout the country In
favor Of the Democratic party. The hol'
lowness Of the arguments on which they
rely may be easily exposed.
THE PRETENDED REDUCTION or THR
TAXES.
The reduction of the taxes, with which
every stump Is TO ring this fall, amounts
to this that while In n form the popu.
lar burdens have been lightened, in anoth.
er all the burdens have been reimposed,
and, perhaps, even new ones superadded,
Senator Sherman puts the reduction at
s76,000,0O0, Schenck calls 1t t~S0,000,000,
and Boutwell,, in a document sent in on
the 18th of June last, makes 1t $4,000,
900. OF these estimates for the reduo-
ton Is not a known but merely al esti-
mated reduction-B0utwelfs is, perhaps,
the most reliable, and that Ia not saying
much for 1t, The Secretary is not remark
able for his accuracy. According To
Dawes, he made a mistake of $37, 000, DOC
in his estimates of the general appropria.
tons, and there Is no telling hut he has
made another mistake of $50 100000 in
his estimates Of the reduction OF the taxes
But, conccding that there Is no mistake
C%oncedlng that $62, 100000, or even $76,'
000,0 600, are taken of Of the taxes, Is there
nothing added onY The answer 10 this Is
that there is something added on, as much
as, IL not more than, the amount taken off
At the tag end Of the act TO reduce the
t. .os and for other purposes" the "othei
purposes" appear In the shape Of
Sohenck'S tail tariff, which adds to thu
popular burdens all that the body of tht
act takes off, and probably even add,
more, The income tax is reduced from
to 21S per cent, and the exemption in
creased from $1,000 to $4,000; aloes
scammony, and gamboge, eggs, diamond
dust, scaweed, skeletons, and squtlls ar,
put upon the iree. list, and the duty OF
tea, sugar and coffee are de
creased, and on these changes tn,
reduction of the $76,000,000
claimed hut, coeval with these changes
the tail tariff raises the duty on steel, lax
hemp, co,ton goods, nickel, oils, and othe
most necessary articles TO q rate that will
take from the people of the United State
millions of dollars in the shape of an en-
HANGED cost, In the article of steel slon
100000 will in all probability be takel
In the shape Of q difference in rric
brought about in this "act to reduce tn
taxes !" from 100000 900 TO $40 900 600 o,
cottons; while on flax, hemp, oils an
nickel the duty Is raised from 8S 1 8 to 60
per cent II Is true that these are nc
taxes In the sense in which the incom
tax is--that Is, exactions which must b
met by goipg TO a collectors office, an
, planking down your money in ,xchang
for a receipt, bus they are rom the lc
taxes for all that. To pay more for Il
r samc articles is substantially a tax, an
, this is the tax levied by the tail tart
The steel worker or painter who has 4
income Of $1,000, and has heretofore pa
y, an income tax upon II of s95, is reliev,
: from further payment, IL is true, und
| this "act TO reduce the taxes and for 9th
= purposes" hut in the enhanced cost Of 1
y stool workers raw material, or the pair
er's oils, he will pay $25 many times oy
= in the course of the year, The tail tai
enhancing many of the main articles
- use, what Is said here Of the steel worn
n and the painter, applies to men of
other callings, Their incomes, II unt
" $4,000, are spared, and their tea and sug
comes q tribe cheaper but they pay I
~mcndously for this, and the money Il
~, they pay goes, not to the government,
TO those cormorauts, the protectionists
'. whose interests Schenok framed and G.
u, gress passed the tail tariff at tho end
- the Tax bill. Entitled an act to red
Nv the taxes, 1t is really an act to relieve
people from paying certain taxes to
,S Federal treasury on condition of pay
;" certain other and heavier taxes 10 prot
30 cd interests. The treasury loses dire,
" under this act, and the people lose
directly, and nobody profits much OK,
,s the Radical protectionlat who ms
al money, aud the Radical politician
makes party capital out Of It. The
uuotlOn Is q fraud.
.,sA. U@lrIRse SHSimipalgn clap-trap is
"Union restored" How restoredf w
az Is the universal amnesty Again
nc, again the effort to do away with all
leu harbarism Of test oaths and political
bilities was made, and again and .
I'M the effort failed. True, the CarpeI
10 gentry, to whom @ genuine represent
Of the South would be political ann
ton, were largely instrumental in Q
ing this result, but the Radical part,
Aep take nothing by this plea. These Ca
baggcrs are the children Of Radios
stin' 1t brought them into existence and
he sponsihie for what they do; and, |
the over, the fact Is that the Carpet.h
,rld, alone could not have defeated q uni
out, amnesty they we're aided by the &c
) be representatives Of the party to
, he they belong. But II will be said tbs
some Union Ia restored because Georgia
How inf There were Senators elecl
I'd In that State waiting at the door, and
wor- did the Senate not give a meaning
Ye act admitting Georgia by bringin
1t all Senators e Upon the floor4 To
rie1 n string of words In tha form ~ a