Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-07-20
HOW THE POOR MAN PAYS a HEAVY
TAX TO THE GOVERNMENT.

cost OF production. governs the price of
| the articles produced, unless it is in
some cases where capital has been trans
| teTred from one branch of industry to
another under the protection of Govern
ment, rs for illustration, under the op-
Grafton of the present OdioUs tariff sys-
/ tenn, which transfers capital from agri-
cultural to manufacturing interests,
which latter the government protects
/ by imposing heavy duty upon foreign
manufactured goods, at the expense of
| agriculture. What ever is the rate of
! duty imposed it is added to the home
manufactured article, and its price is by
! so much increased. But capital having
been largely Withdrawn from agricul-
/ ture and receiving no protection from.
the government nor foreign demand
Tor It's products, because a high tariff has
| driven commerce from our shores, and
| prohibits exchange of products between
| this and other countries, the cost of pro-
| ductiOn to the farmer is not realized in
| the price he receives for his wheat bar
ley and other articles. This exception
to the rule, however, that the price of
the article is governed by the cOstOf pro-
duction, is the result solely of the I'M
just and iniquitOUs workings of tariff
system, that rObs the many of the pro-
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the pockets of the rich.
The poor man pays tax the same as
the rich; and as the number of poor
men are largely in the ascendency, av-
eraging nine to one in the population of
the country, they of course and of nee
essity pay more tax than the rich. As
incOntestable evidence that the poor
man does pay tax, and a larger tax than
the rich man, we call attention to the
articles Of daily consumption. No mat
ter, now, what may have been the orig
inal cost of the article, themanufactUrer
or producer has his prOfitw which is added
to the original cost; the profits of the
commission merchant, the wholesale
dealer, and all cost for transportation,
the revenue tax and all other charges
are added, and he too must have his
profit and the cost for TRANSFORMATION !
which is also added 10 the price of the
goods. Now the poor mantle IabOrer
and the neutrality-suspicious. of the re- |
taller, and pays all the tax and other
costs upon the article from the manu-
facturer to the retail dealer. Thus, the
poor man, who is the largest consumer
pays the largest share of taxes. Yeti
there are many politicians so silly or
dishOnestas to contend that the Door man
pays no taX-that it is the rich man on
whom the the burden of taxation falls. /
Out upon such stupid nonsense, or low, /
knavish, deception and cunning hypOc-
risy.
But let us enquire further: The poor
man pays the same on all his groceries
as the rich man; he pays the same on
the clothing for him and family as the
rich man; he pays the same tariff on
iron, steel, tools, farming implements,
and ut nnrs nTkioInc l.,
There is no article Of daily consumption
upon which there is a tax, that the poor
man does not pay as much the rich.
But more, and what is most sbaTa5ful,
outrageous, and unjust, the poor man is
taxed upon his axe, his grubbing hoe,
his kit OF tools or his plough, and the
proceeds Ofhis labor, earned with these
very implements, are filched from him
in the form of other taxes, to Day the in
terest to bOnd-hOlders who have inves- /
ted their thousands In Government
bonds, ana VINO cut Of their coupons up-
on which they are taxed not cent. It'll
IS the poor man, then, who pays the lar
gest amount of taxes, and sweats and !
tolls from sun to sun, only to he robbed |
of large proportion of their earnings,
pays in addition to mis- taxes, the bloat- |
ed debauohed idlers and Ieeches, the in |
terest in gold on their bonds. Poor men
should study these facts, and remember |
the party which has so oppressed and 4
bnrdened them to maintain ViIlainOus /
mOnOpOlies and debaUohed bOnd-hold- |
ers.
There is still another way in which 1
poor men pay tax. We will suppose q |
capitalist to have invested his money i'm /
dwelling houses upon which he pays 4
State, county, municipal and income tax.
He rents these tenementS to poor men /
who are unable TO buy home of their
own, and all these taxes are added to
the price of the rent, which comes out
of the poor mans pocket. And further
in addition to the high rent which taxes
added, the owner must have his inter
est on the original investment, which
in the present state of Government, un-
der the control of scOundrels, outlaws,
thieves, gamblers, political stOck-iob-
bers, niggers and cOnspiratOrs, is at
least ten per cent, and which the pOOr
renter has also to pay,
Under the MOHgrel Government the
poor man is completely owned by the
capitalist He iS e, as much a slave as ev-
e1 W. - Lne nigger on q southern plan
tatiOn, and the very men-the puritan
ical winners, palm-singer, bible-ban-
gers, hypOCrites and nigger wOrshippers
of the God morality party, whose. sym
pathy for the nigger slave found vent in
putting bayOnets to the hearts of white
freemen, are the ones who raised the hue
and cry that the slave was robbed of his
earnings by his master, which were his
own by right, are now rObbing white
men and expressing them n hundred
times greater than was ever the south
ern slave under the most cruel master.