Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-10-06
FARMERS, LOOK AT THIS.

Morgan Il Co. don't like taxes,
and are spending their wind in de-
nouncing them in every shape
Well, taxes are not attractive things
of themselves. We don't any of us,
like them in the abstract. But,
Morgan and Co, know and admit
that we must raise money to pay
the current expenses of government;
national, state, county, township,
city, ETC., somehow! They don't
like tariff, and propose abolishing
that. They don't want any income
taX-that is all wrong. They don't
want any internal revenue tax, as is
now fixed upon whisky, tobacco, &c.
In short, they propose dispensing
with all these indirect methods, and
insist that we shall adopt a system
of direct tax upon the property of
everybody, real and personal. They
say that would certainly satisfy the
people. Let every man pay taxes
just in proportion to the amount of
his property. That sounds fair, and
equal. Gen. Morgan goes in for
that. He don't want any excep-
tions.
But the Republican plan is to
make exceptions. 1t proposes to
tax luxuries, and exempt lands, and
the general produce of the country.
1t proposes a levy upon articles
made in other countries, and brought
here for sale, commonly called a
tariff. 1t proposes tax upon
whisky and tobacco, to make up the
the balance, and if necessary it pro-
poses a tax upon incomes, over
$4,000 per year. That is the way
Republicans propose to raise the
funds necessary to carry on the
government.
What says the farmers, the me-
chanics, the voters of the country
to this difference? Do they prefer
General Morgan's plan? Do they
want to pay their share of the four
hundred millions of money raised
by the general government, by hav-
ing it levied upon their lands and
shops, rather than to have it raised
by tariffs, and taxes on tobacco and
whisky? In q recent speech at
Dayton, Gen. Schenck illustrated
the difference in these systems
very forcibly. Read his mastery
exposition:
Il want exemptions in favor of
the poor, and l don't want every
thing down to the last dollar, and
the last pig, taxed. am for leav-
ing the land out, rs we have done,
altogether from taxation, because
that underlies the whole of all the
industries, of all the labor, and all
the production of the country. l
am for taxing your artificial appe-
tite, and your accumulated capital
only. But Mr.. Campbell says No,
give us direct taxation. Let the
man who produces upon his farm
q gallon of milk, worth about as
much as gallon of whisky, pay the
same as is to be paid upon the
whisky. Let the man that produces
a bushel of potatoes pay upon that
as much as is paid upon manufac-
tured tobacco. Let every farmer
pay upon his land, every property
holder upon his lot and upon his
house, and thus tax, under this sys-
TEN of taxation, down to the last
cent, everybody just in proportion
to that which each one has. Have |
no exemptions, have nobody reliev-
ed, make no difference between
luXuries and necessaries, but make |
bread pay rs much as whisky. Are
you prepared for that? say again, |
am in favor of discrimination; am
in favor of taxing luxuries; / am in
favor of raising what we can to car
ry on the Government, and pay its
debts from artificial appetites in
which people may indulge, and when
these are not sufficient, then try the
accumulated capital of the country.
Farmers, mechanics, laboring
men; voters of all parties, consider
well which system of taxation you
prefer. If you prefer Morgan's,
then vote for him. If you prefer
the Republican system, then to be
honest, and consistent you must
vote for Potwin.-Mt. VeyWon Re
paJlicaR. |