The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-10-15

The Philadelphia Times says that the
speech was "doubly impertinent," and
it hopes it is "the last we shall have
from such source on such an occasion"
This marks the drift of discussion on
the subject, and shows how the President
has succeeded in his partisan endeavor.
The Bmrdems Of Tarafson.
In an address at the Central New
York Fair at Utica, a few days since,
says the Detrsit Free Press, Governor
Tilden delivered an address on the sub
ect of taxation, in which he drew some
pointed illustrations TO show the i'm
mensity of the burdens resting upon the
people. lie called attention to the fact
that the taxes of 1870 were five-fold what
they were in 1860. He states that at the
beginning Of the Legislative session last
winter he had occasion to state to the
Legislative bodies that the taxes for the
last ten years following the war had been
81 ,OOO, ,OOO, 900, or 800, 900, 900 a year on
an average for ten years The national
debt is but the amount Of three years
taxation. In the last forty years seventy
five thousand miles of railway have been
built in this country. The nominal
amount of their stocks and bonds, said
Governor Tilden, might be something
near a, 4,0O0,0 900, and the actual cost
about 81, SOC, 900 900, the latter sum be-
ing only equivalent to three and half
years of taxes. Another illustration of
the Governor was as follows: When you
have sent forward your gold and silver,
your petroleum, your wheat and your
corn. your cheese, your butter and meat
and cotton, and products of every kind;
when you have raked and scraped this
continent from the lakes to the gull, and
from the Atlantic TO the interior, what
have you done? When you have gath
cred together all these products and paid
the cost of carrying them to the seaboard
"a cost even larger than the original
cost of raising the products-with every
exportable commodity carried TO the
Atlantic seaboard and deposited in the
vessels of foreigners, you have paid ten
month'sof one years taxes.
No people of any other nation of the
world pay such enormous taxation in the
aggregate as do the people of the United
States. Foreign nations with their costly
royal establishments and their immense
military forces tax their subjects far
less per head, taking national and local
taxation together, than does the United
States with its republican form of Gov
ernment. This was not the case once,
however. 1t was once proud boast OF
the people of this country that they were
the lightest taxed of any civilized nation.
We cannot expect now, with an immense
burden of Indebtedness, Federal, State
and local, to get along with as light tax
alton as before that burden existed. But
the fact of its existence renders it dOubly
the duty of the Legislators to be eco
nomical, and should prompt the people to
demand frugality on the part of those TO
whom is intrusted the management of
affairs. And the experience OF the past
ten years shows that the nation will not
have an honest, economical Government
while the Republican party continues in
power. If the people want reduced tax
ation--if they want their burdens light
ened-they must get rid of the RePub-
| lican party.