Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-07-28
TAXES.

Our Democratic friends are continually
clamoring about high government taxes
and high tariffs, and demanding their re.
duction Well, we believe every body in
the country is in favor of r'ducing the
government revenue and the tariff to a
point as low ms may be consistent with
the necessary demands Of tfe government.
Iu order to save the government froL. de-
structton by faction of men WHO had
been reared up and fostered under it, we
necessarily had to incur heauy debt-a
debt increased by the policy Of the very
party who now reluctantly pay their por-
ton to sustain it, and to meet the payment
Of debts which they in great measure
caused by their continued opposition to
the coereive policy Of the administration
Of President Lincoln, by their constant
declarations that we could not whip the
rebels, and that the war was failure;
thus giving aid, comfort and energy to the
rebels.
In this we charge them with being par
~ to cause that made and increased the
necessity Of large expenditures, heavy
national debCs, and, worse than all, the
unnecessary loss Of thousands Of lives in
the bloody war which the policy of the
Democratic party, as party, protracted
There is no use for them TO deny that
their organization and their policy was
the means Of protracting the war, iHcreas
ing the debt, and adding a long and terri.
bic catalogue Of doaths, by the crucltieS of
war by our own citizens against the lest
government ever devised by hunt inge
putty and human wisdom.
Now they clamor against the payment Of
debts incurred partially by their own in.
sple policy, But considering the policy
they pursued during the blooOdy stIpg
gle, it is not to he marveled at that these
same men who would have withheld mon
ey from the payment Of our brave boys in
the strife for the life Of the Government,
should now at all their public meetings,
and in all theit party eOunsels denounce
the means necessary 10 raise money to
pay of the debts Of Government, |
which they as a party, not as individuals,
for me Of them performed oble part
during the struggle,) evincod less regard
for than they did for the success Of the en-
emies Of their government; for at that
time they regarded Republican victory
as tending to Democratic political defeat.
and rebel victory rs Democratic polit.
ical victory.
But in reference to the reduction of the
tariff, and the Government Internal Reye
nue., about which we hear so much from
the Democratic party, and such persistent
demapds for ts reduction, just before
the adjournmentof the late session Of Con-
gress. Governor Morton in his speech at
Terre Hautc the other day said: I'VE
have repealed ffty-sayen millions Of inter
nal taxes, and we have reduced the tariff
twenty.three millions" making reduC.
rion of eighty million dollars,
The Democracy, II win be remembered
d d'mand reduction, and II this was're-
ally whatthey meant In their demands, IL
they were honest In their professions, il
would 10 reasonable To suppose that their
members in Congress would jump at the
chance to vote for reduction of these
burdens But did they do IN Did they
vote for the reduction Of the tariff Did
they vote for the reduction Of Revenue
taxesY Mol not man of them! That
was not what they wanted, They want
the taxes to remain so high that they will
be insnff rable for the people to bear
That is the only ladder upon which they
have a ray Of hope Of climbing into power
again, aud they do not wish TO see the ,
Lakes nor the tariff reduced by Repu blcan
vutes IN Congress They regard that as
their especial thunder, and Il ia the only
thunder they have. Any reduction Of tar,
III Of taxesby the Republican party seems
10 take fhe teeth right out Of their venom.
nus jaws. and leaves them harmless, but
,h bow irritable.