The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-03
pa,;ef from Taxation

Ralief from 1axaUoA.
The mirage which in the desert oece'SeS
,,,a ,,;.,oods tho traveller, and which con-
,,s,, or ro,b;nr else than the barren, sandy
n,.iu itself. affords to him the same SOFT OF
Liz that our anti-funders offer to the pee
pie Of Virginia when they tell them tna'
their taxes shall DO reduced Tho clamoi
ara!ns. high taxation--if any cIa1nor there
be, outside Of few newspapers'~S sehse'
less one. The State tax is low. The eA'
pectation that exemption from the payhen'
OF the sum Of ten dollars a year Will enao!'
the man who owns q tc!i-thousano-aoli1A
farm to live In clover and to rlVi4 ''ic pio''
pcrity which marked his fortunes when 1T
had number of SLAVES 10 work that 'a'1h i0i
him 10 "a unioundcd and unrca-onoH ~
would DO The hope of recovering ,"os'
slaves By inducing tho General Assc'nr'! "
chanrp the rate of taxation from htty 10
forty cents on tho hundred dollars worth OF
nropcrtv. We cannot imagine how t!lis
foolish notion ever entered into any mans
hcad-much less how any man can reflect
upon 1t for ten minutes without perccivlng
It's character.
What do the annual expenses Of man
who ownsa ten.thousand-dollar flrm amount
to! Surely we may assume that, including
his taxes. they will rot DO less than two
thousand dollars. IIe tntarta!ns company
such hn extent, keeps SO many servants
III, nIsi 10
rEnncr, that TO live in the same style LII tf''
city would require twice rs much. Ihh
man Is to bs relieved by reducing his outgo
from two thousand dollars per nnnum to
nineteen hundred and ninety Or, if hall
his taxes DO taken of, to nineteen hundred:
and soventy-fvc. Is not this fair rcprescn-
tation Of tho relief which reduced taxes will
bring TO such man!
Or take the case of a man, say OH The south
side, where land is poor and cheap. Hchas
two hundred acres which arc assessed III ten
dollars each--a high assessment, perhaps. lie
therefore pays to the State ten dollars per
annum upon his .:a@ Suppose the Legisla-
rure should refuse to appropriate even a
dollar for any purpose and should abolish all
taxes, how much relief would be experienced
by this maus Exactly ten dollars worth
per annum! How much docs such mans
farm yield him annually In products which
would bring groenbacks in tho city markets
Perhaps not less than one thousand dellars'
worth. But put the total at five hundred
dollars, and suppose that lie consumes 1t all,
and we find that it is nothing but mockcry to
approach that man and offer to bring him
relief by reducing his expenses by solemn
act of the General Assembly Of Virginia
from five hundred dollars to four hundred
and ninety dollars per annum But the anti
fundcrs render this act of mockcry still more
insulting in proposing to relieve him l'y
reducing his expenses from five hundred dol
lars to four hundred and ninety-eight They
would reduce the rate of taxation from fifty
to forty cents, thereby relieving him from the
payment Of the large sum of two dollars Il
year-a SUN which q profitable hon would
make good to him. Can such "rclicf" i'm
pose upon even the most ignorant Of voters ?
CAN 1t be that they will not perceive the hol.
lowness Of the professions of those who have
deceived them In this matter?