The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-08

One Of the fairest and most prOdue-
tive sources of British revenue is the
income tax assessed on all incomes in
the United Kingdom above $3.50 per
annum. Our corresponding tax eX-
empts incomes from taxation to the
amount Of $500, but 8xacts three per
cent. on all above that amount, snd
five per cent. on all excess over SlO,-
900 per annum. In other words here
is q tax that does not at all effect the
labOring class, but reaches nearly
every one above them"
Next We hear him vehementiy de-
nOuneing the income tax, so strenuous
" advocated in the foregoing extract.
June 10th, 1858, one year later.
1--WE do not believe there is q tax
levied by the Government so OnerOus
upon so large a class of people as the
income tax. It is not equal-its eX-
actions are unjust and it discrimin-
ates against persons Oflimited means"
Again, June %, 1859, he thus deliv-
cred himself:
"rhe income tax is one of the worst
ever levied, inquisitOrial, unequal,
and offering a preium for perjury.
We trust its days are nearly number
ed-that il will be the very next of
our heavy war burdens removed"
ask any candid man to look back
over this picture, and imagine what
would have been the condition of the
country had Horace Greeley been
President then.
In case of war how the country
could have relied upon him What
q beautiful commander-in-chief of the
army and navy he would have made :
WHAT II. C. KNOWS ABOUT DEMO
Gratis.
In the management of our financial
affairs what steady hand he would
have applied. AS COnkling has it,
sin case of storm next to going sea
/ in q Wash-tub what would be so safe
as the administration of such a man."
How beautifully he deals with his
late opponents and present supporters.
Here are a few specimens that will be
especially interesting to Democrats;
commend them to their prayerfull
consideration. They fully illustrate
what he knows about them.
"Every one who chooses to live by
pugilism or gambling or harlotry,
Will 4ACAAlg CNCE ~ net pei VI - u pllAlS
/ house, is politically a Democrat.
"If there were not q newspaper nor
common school in the country, the
Democratic party would be far strong
er than it is.
''The essential articles of the Demo-
cratic creed (are) love rum and hate
niggers. The less one learns and
knows the more certain he is to vote
the regular ticket from A to lizard.
1--WE thereupon ask our cOtempOr-
ary to state frankly whether the pug
lists, blacklegs, thieves, burglars,
keepers of dens of prostitution, ETC.,
etc.,-are not almost unanimously
Democrats.
'To smoke is Democratic virtue;
to chew is that virtue intensified; to
drink rum is that virtue in the sup
erlatiVe.
"a purely selfish interest attaches
the leWd, ruffianly, criminal and dan
gerOus classes to the Democratic par
ty.
'This would amount to six in a
bed, exclusive of any other Vermin,
for every Democratic couch in the
State of New York, including those at
Sing Sing and Auburn.
"All do know that there are sever
al hundred thousand mulattOes in this
| country; and we presume no one has
any serious doubt that the fathers of
| st least nine tenths of them are white
Democrats. And we hold that those
Democrats, if they will have yellow
children, might better than otherwise
have the mothers respectfully as
wives, after the laudable pattern of
/ that eminent Democrat, Vice Presi-
dent Richard NJ. Johnson.
'The brain, the heart, the soul of
the Democratic party is the rebel ele-
ment at the South with its Northern
allies and sympathizers. 1t is rebel at
the core to-day. 1t would come into
power with the hate, the chagrin, the
| wrath, the modification of ten bitter
years to impel and guide its steps
/ Whatever chastisement may be de-
served for our national sins, we must
hope that this disgrace and humilia-
tiOn will be spared US.
"FOr the last thirty years, every
American STAKEHOLDER on the African
coast, has accounted himselfin politics
a Democrat. So every one who chOO-
ses to live by pugilism, or gambling,
or harlOtry, with every keeper Of a
tippling house, is politically a Demo
erat. He believes in 'laisseZ fairen-
that the world is governed too much
that the best government is that
which governs least. He wants his
trade to move without restriction ,
He jOyfully subseribes to the World,
and echoes its cry. let the people
eat, drink and amuse themselves as
they see fit, so long as they do not in
fringe on the same liberty in others. "
Our Democratic brethren must have
digestion equal to an anaconda, if
they can swallow this dose without
producing severe nausea and death.
And now, finally, in signing the
call for the Cincinnati Free Trade Re
form Convention, he turned his back
on the only principle of prominence
/ that he has advocated consistently,
and of which he had not before taken
| both sides.
L ask candid, thinking men to study
these pictures.
How any sensible men i'm their
light, patent to any one, can fail to
support Gen. Grant and the Republi-
can party is past all human. eompre-
hensiOn, understanding or belief.
GENERALIZATION.
Our Republican and Democratic
| friends have a great deal to say about
the Capitalization tendency of the gen.
\ eral government. No one questions
| the power of the general government
to protect its humblest citizens in for
eign lands or on the high seas, and for
that purpose to use the whole power
of the army and navy. This new
"what is it' party, in sympathy with
/ the old pestilential secession and rebel
dogmss of State rights seems TO be
greatly alarmed, because, in the exer-
else of this power Of the government
to protect the citizens, they have sud-
denly made the discovery that when
the government interpOses to check
murders, and burnings, and barbara
| ties at which all humanity shudders,
we are. in danger of centralism.
! jeff. Davis could not spout more We
hemently against this tendency than
the "bushwhaeker of ChapPaqua" has
recently. Has Greeley forgotten his
/ former utteraLces? Listen to his
words spoken July II, 1871, after he
| had returned from the South:
''I hold our Government bound by
| its duty Of protecting our citizens in
their fundamental rights, to pass and
enforce laws for the eXtirpatiOn of the
exeeraLle Ku Klux conspiracy; and
if it has not the power to do it, then
I say our Government is no Govern
ment, but a sham. 1 therefore on
every proper occasion advocated and
/ justified the Ku KluX act. l hold it
| especially desirable for the South I;
and if it does not prove strong enough
to effect its purpose, hope it will be
made stronger aud stronger"
The republican party believed this
was sound doctrine then, and we be-
lieve the country Will indorse it now,
Notwithstanding the apOstasy OF him
who made this utteranee. The law
he speaks Of is the law exactly as it
exists to-day, except that the habeas
corpus provision has expired by limi-
LtatiOn. 1t received on its passage the
votes of all Republican members Of
both Houses, except Sohurz, who did
not vote.
No other act of eentralism has
been enacted during Grants Admin
| istratiOn, unless It be an amendment
/ to the election law vehemently de-
manded and approved by Horace
Greeley. Hear what he said about
| that only few months ago.
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