The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-30

Z price their own PRODUCTS In opel
81 market, but have, been. compellet
4 to sell as the combined buyer
. haye chosen to dictate This. ha
caused fam to foot most of th,
costs. OF local and State govern
81 ments.' It is hoped that associa
i tion and combination will get en-
4 able farmers to authoritatively Sc
il q price On their own products
/ adding local taxes and other nee
i essary expenses to the cost OF
: | conrno dities. sd sa2sAsh. - as
i It must be confessed that here
! in lies one of the sever"st prob
j lens of the farmers movement
Both State and national legisla.
i ton is needed to permit agricul.
4 ture to enjoy the benefits of bond
4 ed warehouses and cheap money
I tiil products are finally sold. az =
the tine aud manner Of collect
ing taxes is of great Importance.
President Grant tells US that dur
ing fail and winter, when money
Is needed to move products to mar
ket,, there is. greater demand for it,
and it commands higher rates of
interest. And yet, that is the very
| season OF the year WhenGthez tax
getherers is compelling US to cash
his, bills, driving US to the banks,
In our efforts to escape the penal
ties of the law THESE htsx i&Ws,
In their origin were evidently
manipulated by bank. Interests, and
they yield to the money lenders .
rich harvest. Z7elaE 5l-Har.
l suggest that one half of our
taxes be collected in autumn and
winter as now, and the remainder
in midsummer, giving the first in
stalment time to find it's way into
circulation before the second is de-
manded. Indirect taxes are paid
as duties on the commodities of
commerce. The amount of these
duties or taxes is added by the
merchant to the cost price of the
goods, and hence are paid, nlti-i
mately, by the consumers of COM
modities. Now unless there be
special pains taken in adjusting
these duties, or indirect taxes, they
fall heavily on poverty and but
lightly on wealth and the greater
the wealth of a single individual
the lighter his taxes in proportion
to his wealth. Let me illustrate.
VIM. B. Aston is said to be worth
one hundred millions of dollars.
He may be supposed to have a
family of q half a dozen persons.
These persons are all consumers,
and must bear their proportion of
the indirect taxes levied for the
support of government. AS neigh
bOrs, in the same city with Mr..
Aston, there resides ten thousand
men worth ten thousand dollars
each, they are engaged in substanti:
ally the same business as Mr.. AstOr,
each have similar families of half
dozen persons. they are subject to
the same municipal and general
taxes, both direct and Indirect.
Arc we not ready to exclaim that
here is an equal and just state
of things? Yet nothing can be
more deceptive. Mr.. Aston has a
family of six consumers, and pays
indirect taxes in proportion to
their consumption, and that is ali
the taxes that can be made to "lie"
on his vast estate of one hundred
l. IC lCu lhOuS6uu lhOu
with the same aggregate wealth,
have ten thousand times as many
consumers, and pay ten thousand
times as much taxes for the support
of the general government, as does
Mr.. Aston. Besides this, they at
ford to the government ten thous-
and times the men for all product
i've, mechanical, mental, and MILL
tary purposes, as does Mr.. Aston.
1t appears. then, that the system
OF iRdirect taxation, which yield
the government revenues, is q per-
fectly graduated system, touching
wealth lighter and still lighter as
its amount increases and bearing
On poverty heavier, and still heav-
Ter in proportion to its helpless
ness. just governments should
recognize this state of facts, and
levy duties only on goods used by
the most wealthy, leaving the more
common necessities of met nearly
or quite untouched. SIZE f -haaE
But with the utmost wisdom on
the part of law makers, il has been
found impossible to quite equaiize
the burdens of indirect taxes
among persons whose wealth is ex-
ceeding variable. This gives rise
to two parties. One proposes to
abolish all tariff duties. The other
to graduate the direct taxes on
property in such . manner as to
correct the evils, and unequal bnr.
dens of indirect ones.
This party says tax poverty moth.
ing,-tax small wealth lightly
| L., afS,
wealth-and, ON your monster
miIliOnares, who buy up legisla.
lures, cong esses, and courts, and
peril the sexistance of free govern.
ment, lay heavy direct taxes, which
shall reduce their wealth to safer
limits.
have no time to discuss the two
sides of this great question. 1t il
the mission of the farmers and tax
J payers of America to examine
these subjects well, If they would
, redeem and save the country. Thu
national patent laws, designed il
the beginning to foster inventive
genius, and to secure to the invent
or the exclusive profits of his labo
for limited period, are found cue
l ceptible of great abuses, Too often
3 in their operations, it is found tina
/ men of wealth and power stand be
: tween the inventor and the public
} cheating the one and oppressinI
the other and by unfair means se
curing long extensions of this prof
9 table monopoly. The patent law
! of the country badly need Invest
e CATION and amendment. eHE
Fellow citizensi I but touch ur
: on 3 few points in the great wor
: before US. AS a party of reforE
and progress, we need not soon e.
e pect to reach the days of ease an
!, idleness. Our tasks more tina
r. equal the twelve hbors of Hercule
On every hand lie the Auges
" stables of political corruption an
3 injustice which cFvs to heaven fo
pnrification.e Hercules is said
y typify the glorious orb ofs da
10 which. animates every living thiE
n and imparts fecundity to the m
IS verse. Agricultural labor and il
,r tegrity performs the same Off
among the avocations and instit
tions of civilized society. '
It was among the laberers
IN Hercules to destroy the lioas, a.
IN boars, and Hydras that ravaged {
Id beautiful provinces of Greece.
OF Is the mission OF the party OF c
o.? ricalture TO weed from among i
a. the wild beasts of American p,
Iv itics. To chase into air and destr
y the carrion COWS and vultures u
= are causing our srcadian county
N smell to the very skies, and in 1
lat nostriis of all nations, with
re- most unblushiDg corruption .
"a rottenness. a.
Die As . first step Ia this purificaii
ev it has been suggested that the ]
m tinnsl Executive, aud q. s. Sena
ON be elected by q direct vote OF
~ people. Aud, then, thst we el
only good add pure mentos OF
IS In theory, this is all we'll enoD
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