The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-02-19
Why is it Right to Pile on New Taxes ?

why Is u NlSHl 10 file on new laAeS:
1t is proposed to take thirty or forty mil
lions year out of the pockets of the people
in taxes to be levied by Congress and col
lected by the agents Of the United States
Government. The country is already taxed
almost to the last verge of possibility, All
business is depressed; factories are closed;
real estate is everywhere shrinking in value;
railroads have ceased to yield dividends;
farmers are distressed and unable to pay
their mortgages merchants are losing mon
cy and are terrified respecting the future;
while laboring men are living upon the small
sums they have deposited in saving banks,
or else their families are suffering the tor
ments of priyation. And here comes Gcncr-
al Grant, who was reelected in 1872 express
ly to keep up our prosperity and to make
everything Gourishingand flush, aud proposes
to compel Us TO stand and deliver forty mil
lions more a year.
Under such circumstances it is well for the
public to know precisely why these addition
al millions are to be taken from them.
What is the money wanted for? We will
state sone o! the principal objects to which
it will be applied;
First. To pay the Presidcxt $50 900 a year
salary, although before he was elected lie
agreed to serve for $4,000 a year salary
and besides, to pay him in addition $4,000
year in various perquistcs, such as DO
former President enjoyed.
Second. To furnish Secretary Robson sew
eral millions q year to be squandcred in job
berry, paid out on fraudulent and illegal
claims, or otherwise stolen, under the pre-
tence Of supporting a navy, while in his
hands the navy has become worthless aad
useless, except as preteXt fJr eXtoring mon
ey from tie people for Robeson's ring to get
| rich on.
1HTd. To supply the Indian ring and
other rings that cluster around the Depart
ment Of the Interior with the necessary num-
Der Of millions to be taken by them, so that
they may grow rich while the people are
growing poor.
Fourth, To furnish Attorney General Will
liams with the means Of procuring himself
carriages and horses and servants, all at the
| public expense, out Of the contingent fund
of the socalle Department Of Justice
FVh. To provide great sums out Of which
J Measurer Babcock and Boss shepherd, and
the rest of them, may defraud the people by
false measurements, lying vouchers, and
other similar appliances of public robbery.
Sixth. To satisfy the appetite of United
States Marshal Sharp in Washington,
brother-in-law of the President, aud to pro-
vide him with $4,000 year, where an
ordinary marshal would not require over
$4,000 or $4,000.
Sereah To pay for the swndle in the f.
bre-paper on which United States securities
are printed, and to enable Mr.. Adolph l..
B Irie and others interested in that ring to
get for their PAPER two or three times its
market value.
Eighth. To supply millions to lot of
speculative rings, ostensibly for the purpose
| Of eilecting impracticable schemes Of social
ed internal Improvements, which are not
needed, which would be of little use if COM
pleted, and which the country could not al-
! ford to undertake in its present condition,
eyea if they were necessary.
Ninth, To cover the outays for new pub
lie buildings, custom house, post offices,
court houses, and the like all over the coun-
try
Tenth. To raise millions upon millions for
new railroad grants and subsidies, that are
, to be rushed through Congress under the
new rule which deprives the minority Of that
power Of resistance which even the slave
power, with all its fury, never diminished
E5eCeeh, To provide the means Of sending
troops to New Orleans for the purpose Of
turning out the Governor aud Legislature
that the people have elected, and putting in
power and keeping in power those whom
they have reiected-all in order that the peo-
pie of the State may be further robbed by
mere less gang of public pluuderers, and that
Brother-in-Iaw Casey may be made a Sena-
tor of the United States.
7wefh. To establish a corruption fund
for advancing the scheme Of Ulysses s. Grant !