The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-03-22
THE WAY THE MONEY GOES.
General Morgan on Radical Tax
alton and Radical Plundering
How the Vest Pays Ne,v England's
Share of 7ares-THe Income 7ar-
Greed of Massachusetts, Rad
icai DefauLters-Look to
the Treasury.

! In the House of Representatives. on
the 18th ultimo, General Morgan, oi
Ohio, addressed the House as fol-
/ lows:
! MR.. SPEAKER: The Federal
, Government was created by the peo-
pie of the States. through their dele
gates in convention, Tor the mutual
benefit of all in their confederate reIa
tions, and it is right that the citizens
of the States should, in proportion to
their fortunes, COT tribute to the sup
| port of the Government. am free to
admit that the subject of taxation is
one of the most difficult with which
the st te~man has to deal. From the
earliest history of our country two op
posing principles have been in conflict.
The Democrats have always claimed
that the true basis of taxation is cap
-ital while the FederaliSts Of the school
Hamilton, who, under the guise OF
Republicanism, stole into power ten
wears ago, have always when in p'wer
compelled labor instead OF capital to
bear the burdens of taxation.
1t would be oppressive and unjust
to impose sufficient tax upon the
industries of New England to defray
the expenditures of the General Gov
ernment, which alike protects the
States of the center, South, and West.
Ii unjust do so as to the New En-
gland States, it would not be less SO
aS to the States of the West, the cen.
ter, or the South. Yet we are t,ld
; by the Commissioner OF Internal Rev
enue that during the curren fiscal
year the people of five States will paw
two thirds OF the Revenue raised by
internal taxation.
! During the last session Of Congress,
in the course Of a nights debate like
the present, when standing where l
now stand, and holding in my hand as
| now do the report of the COmmis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, the House
seemed surprised when 1 declared
that Ohio paid one and a half millions
more taxes than all the New England
States together, although the real and
personal property of Massachusetts IS
alone are worth SO, 900 900 more than
all t':e property owned in Ohio. An
honnIab gentleman from New Hamp-
shire, (Mr. Benton,) net now in his
seat, demanded the authority upon
which l made such statement, and /
referred him to the page and the fig
ures On the page in the official report
1 have named, The mask torn off,
the proof made clear that the New
England States compel Ohio and 9TH
er agricultural States to pay their own
proportion of the internal revenue and
to b ar the additional burden of a tar
itf tax for the benefit Of New England
mnnopoiists, the Federalists OIL this
floor, following in the footsteps of their
great prngenitor, Alexander Hamil-
ton, now unblushingly justify what
they would have been glad to have de-
MED But, sir. il it was unjust to
make Ohio in $50 pay one and half
millions more internal revenue tax
than the six New England States and
in 1870 more than three millions more
than all these States, what language
can describe the outrage now proposed
to be enforced against Ohio. and in
deei against the entiIe States Of the
West and South, by the bill which is
set for Tomorrow.
During the canvass Of last year
leading trends of the Administration
trave .sed the country and sang praises
in their own lau.lation because they
had enacted, and heaped denunc alton
upon us becau e we had opposed the
odiou~, unequal. and oppressive tax
act approved by President Grant July
IA. 1870 am panied, sir, to be
compelled to admit that that act was
framed bv an Ohio,n. (N1r Schenck.
and voted for hy every Federalist from
that State who amuses himself and
seeks to dereive the people by calling
himself a Republican,, Mr.. Winans
excepted What, sir, is this law
which the plundered people of the
West and South were called upon to
apnlaud9 let US sec. According to