Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1871-03-09


| dad on my table pamphlet entitled "Dels-
ws5a EAxa:lon,3 hsng.A letter thereon from
Wilmington and BaLbhore railroad company to
Hon.J. r. Comegys,n allow me to ask you to
publish the following extract. Indeed ii would
be well that the whole letter should be printed
in your widely circulated journal and that the
arguments therein should be applied to other OBJ
iscts Of taxation. Our Legislators after listen
Ing to bowls and groans Of two speakers over
the iniquities of the u. s. Revenue Laws, go TO
Dover and copy al of the WORT and most obi
ous features OF those laws and without the eI.
cuses Of AGAR, Cypress our people in this county
Wilmington, Del, January 9th, 1871.
~ thank you for copy of Governor 5auls-
burys Message which was presented ana
read 10 the General Assembly upon the Sd
instant.
The opinions therein enunciAtAd upon the
subject of Taxation, strike me forclby as being
eminently Just and sound, They npst, / think,
meet with the approval OF all fair-minded ctt-
gems. Emsnating from so high and 30 intiuens
tlal source, they ought not to fail to induce a
marked change In the system OF taxation hther-,
to followed in our State. sincerely hope that
henceforth taxes are to be equally borne by all
interests. and all individuals in the State, pro-
portionally with the value of those interests and
the wealth of those individuals as recommended
by His Excellency.
This following extracts frnn the Message are
the embodiment Of fairness aud could emanate
only from uDe who sees clearly the right, and
dares to proclaim it,
"The imposition of special taxes on particular
classes, Is wrong In principle, unjust p It's opera.
ton and offensive to those TO whom 1t 10 ap
Piled"
"Tax Laws should be uniform in their applica.
ton and bear upon every variety Of productive
property alike"
"The measure Of every mans tax should b,
| the amount of bis net wealth.
"No fair minded citizen can be unwilling u
bear his fair proportion of the public burdens
according TO the interests he has protected by thu
laws of the community in which he lives. MOI
can any honest man desire that his fellowsciti.
zen he made to pay the proportion of public tax
| es which rightfnlly pertains to himself"
| These words should be written In Letters o
gold upon the walls OF our halls of Legislation
\ as guide for the trainers of our tax laws
Their sense Is clear, their moral is Just, thei
| truth ia plain to every honest man. May the,
impress our Legislators, and lead to the euactin
| of Q new Tax-laW, to supplant those now 10 on
Statute books, which are in direct antagonism Il
the principles 80 clearly enuncisted by His Rx'
/ celency,
The sentence last above quoted might be am
plifed = @Rdtktil, think, be recognized IS SCUM
doctrine b. dis ExcelencY. 1t might read a
| follows, via;
"Nor can any honest mao desire thai his fel
low citizen, or still less the citizen of anotbe
State be made TO pay The proportion of publ
taxes, which rigbtiully pertains to himself" an
! should appeal With confidence, to his Excellsn
CT to endorse this addition to his words.
How strangely and widely at variance wit
the above quoted admirable opinions of His he
callency was the Tax Law OF 1894"
FAIR PLAY.