The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-13
Reduction In TaxatiOn-Unequal Re.
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To the Hon. James Brooks, of the
Ways and Means Committee: Your
speecheJ in Congress upon the reduction
of the tariff and internal revenue, which
you always cOntended should be reduc-
ton of at least $10O,0O0,000, and YOUR
active service as member of the Ways
and Means Committee, have led me, as
chairman of the Democratic Compression
al Committee, to inclose to you the fol-
lowing, from the address of the Hon.
Henry Wilson, as chairman of the Con-
gressional Republican Committee, and to
ask for your comments thereon.
Yours, respectfully,
SAMUEL ]. RANDALL.
REDUCTION OF TAXATION.
during the recent session of Congress taxes
have been reduced more thar $3.50 0,O00 The
taxes have been removed on transportation by
canals and RAILWAYS from sales by dealers and
manufacturers. The income tax has been reduced
to 2Is per cent on all incomes above 1900. and ii
tea has been reduced from Is to IS cents per
pound; on coffee from TO cents, and the tax on
sugar and mo'asses has been reduced In the aggre
taxation the Industries of the people a the
secessaries of life have been relieved OF burdens
amounting to millions"
MIR. BROOKS REPLY.
To the Hon Samuel j. Randall, Chair
man of the Democratic Congressional
Committee: SIR: The reduction of tax
alton by the July act of Congress, as near
as can calculate from the returns of 1869,
is about sixty-five, not seventy five, mil
lions, as Mr. Wilson estimates-when the
reduction ought to have been al least
S1OO.OOOOOO-for one hundl ed millions
loot tod for tvUo un re
past beyond what was necessary TO carry
on the government and to pay the interest
on the public debt. What the Democratic
party from the start contended for In Con-
gress was reduction of 100000, 900,
which, if in power, they would have
made, with a corresponding reduction of
the expenses of the government, more
especially in the standing army, now used
mainly in the South as a brute force to
put down seifgovernment in the States,
and to carry elections there. Whether
the income tax will expire in two years
or not depends, a stated by Mr.. Wilson,
upon the caprice of the Republicans in
Congress The tax imposed during the
war was to continue two years, and no
longer; but it has been continued two
years longer, and it may be longer and
longer, if the Republicans deem it neces-
sary to keep up the collectors and the
patronage Of the offices necessary there
that Senator from Massachusetts
ner of the reductions of the tariff
and the revenue, when all, or almost all,
have been made in the interest of the
capital of Massachusetts,, though not of
the labor of Massachusetts,, and, in the
main, by Massachusetts intervention and
Massachusetts organization upon Con-
gress. The labor of Massachusetts, was
refused reduction of the tariff upon fish,
lumber, salt, potatoes, coal, while most of
the raw material entering into Msssachu
sets manufactures, to the amount or 3d.
600 900, has been admitted "duty free"
The food, the fuel, the tenements of the
Massachusetts, workingmen-say fish, pc
tatoes, coal, boards, doors, windows,
scantling, etc.-migLt be had 90 per cent
cheaper if admitted duty free from Cana
da and the provinces, while freedom"
from all tariffs was given by Mr.. Wilson
and his friends to acids, gums, the greater
part of the dye stuffs, etc.-stuffs that
Massachusetts, manufacturers aoork up, but
that Massachusetts so0rknen cannot eat
Alkekengi, kyolite, and kryolite are free,
while potatoes from Prince Edwards Isl
and pay % cents per bushel tax. The
better to understand how and why the
Senator from Massachusetts,, as the repre-
tentative of capital in Massachusetts, is
content with the reduction of the taxes,
while you and / are not, can best be seen
in the following table:
By the table given by Mr.. Brooks, he
shows that in the twelve States of Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Car
DINA, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas
and Virginia, the reductions Of internal
revenue taxes are as follows: