The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-09

Total go .0eo.177 s2is,ll6,IH
Startling. however, as this exhibit may
seem. showing these Impoverished cominu,
mites to have been plundered OF Sl6S,Oo',o lo
in three short years of attempted rcstoiatlon'
il only represents very small part OF the
injury inflicted. The enhanced cost OF con-
Quoting State administrations has fully KEPT
mace with the unprecedented imitation OF
debt. while taxation has gone in many IN
stances to the extent of stripping the people
of all means of living. Thus in Arkansas
the annual cost of conducting the Govern
mcnt was, in 1860, S204, 600, while in 1917 II
il shown to have been $2,140,3l2. The tax
rate before the war was five and half mills
it now exceeds forty mills. Florida SHOWS
like increase of the general tax rate from
% cents on the 200 to $50, producing ST.
GOO of taxes then as against Sill ,Sll OF en-
tortjon now. In Georgia the expense oil ad-
ministration was in 1868 si25,G00; in 1871,
sg94,A13, with tax rate increased from "a
cents to $40 on the 800. The tax rate III
Louisiana has gone up from D mills to Ia
mills, while in Mississippi the conduct OF al
fairs. which cost annually about S3oO,000 III
1860. is reported at 81 100000 in 1870, show
ing an increase of 800 per cent. Alabama
likewise has been yictimzcd frigltfully. The
fax return there in 1860 was SS3l i'll III
1870 s. $50 1872, with an increase III the
rates from 20 cents to 3 on the hundred.
North Carolina in like manner. has been
nccessitated to multiply four or five times
her taxation to meet expenses, passing
from 40 cents to $3.50 on the hundred
South Carolina has been for Carpct-mggcrS
.a field of cloth of gold"-thc taxes levied
for State purposes being in 1861 only Sloo,-
600, whilst last year it is reported by the
Congressional Committee rs over 81 ,O00,0uo
Texas, the lust of these nine States, has now
a tax rate for State and county purposes OF
SIT. while committee appointed to lnVcS-
tigate the alarming increase of taxation re-,
ports that there was collected from the pco-
Die last year a. general taxes the enormous
sum of $j,3jl ,000-an eNtOrtion from an ull-
resisting community unprecedented i'll the
history of the world.
Bear in mind, too, that for this vast int1ic-
ton of debt, and this exhaustive annual
drain. the former mortgaging the itc-work
of more than one generation of men, and the
latter making the rich poorer than the poor.
there is absolutely nothing in the shape of IL
return to show. 1t has lccn stcalin@-litc-
ralIv steaing-and Il President Boosting of il
policy. an Administration calling itself roplIl'-
lican. party claiming to he upright and
honest, knowing fully to all the facts, has
sustained by force of arms and threats OF
military rcUccupaDcv such rule.
TIE TAXES INCREASED.
But consider still further the additional
exhibits | wish to present from the same
source. showing how local pillage has equal
" kept pace with the more elaborate system
of general plumber, and how it has had the
effect virtually to destroy all values in pro-
perty. 1t is said Of some parts OF South
America where Justice does not pretend to
dwell that only something which can be
swallowed or riddcn-a diamond or a mule
will command price, and truly it would
seem as il the same was about TO become
true i'm many of our southern States.