The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-13

year; it had been, in fact, earned each
year during the progress of the case.
That was: ALL there was about the
NATTER If this is all that is to be
said in explanation of Tilden's contra
dictory statements, it had better not
have been said at all.
The law required him to return his
actual income within the year, THAT
is, the money received from all sourc-
eS,--and it had been decided by the
Courts over and over again that the
law required just this. Mr.. Tilden,
a lawyer himself, could not have been
ignorant of it. Besides, if he had been
earning this fee of $4,000 in previous
years, did he return any part of it as
his income before he received it! He
could scarcely have done this, as it was
not an income until it came into his
hands, but, if not, then there was a
part OF his income on which he paid
no tax. That is exactly the point. He
swindled the Government and swore
to Il false return in order to do so.
Mr.. Tilden's ,"defense" seems also to
be based on assumption that in the
year 1862, when he swOre his income
was OH S. lis, he had received nothing
but this single fee of $4,000. This
will scarcely do. Did Mr.. Tilden get
no other fees for a whole year, not
withstanding his large practice as a
corporation lawyer? Had he no other
resources, Notwithstanding he had al
ready amassed a large fortune 1t is
more probable that his income for the
year 1862 was 100000, the $4,000
having been but a single item but he
swore that it was only $7.11S.
The theory of Mr.. Tilden's ''de.
fense' would enable any man so dis
posed to whittle his inceme down to
insigni6cance. The professional man
might with equal propriety maintain
that he began to earn his income of
this year when he was a school-boy. as
he there began the education which
subsequently secured him his income.
This is the reductio ad absurdum
The simple fact is that sworn state
ment has been found in which Tilden
admits that i'll the year 1862 he re-
| celved SIC, 900 for services to one eli
ent alone, and another sworn statement
in which he claimed that his entire
AAANoAAAO AOA CAltSU COL w tso Ollly %( lilo.
And, to make the matter worse, one
OF these SWOln statements was made
for the purpose of swindling the Gov
eminent out of it's tax at Il time when
its necessity was greatest. Yet the
Democratic party still desires the peo-
pie OF this country to elect this man
the Chief magistrate Of this nation.
4 Hint to Tildcn.
Governor Underwood, Of Vermont,
says of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency:
Ihave known Tilden for twenty wears: |
know he holds the opinion that the war was
unconstitutional heard him declare. in
conversation with myself near the close of
| the war, that every man OF the United States
army that marched across Southern soil was
a trespasser, and liable to a suit for damages.
1t is Il little strange that Governor
Tilden has not added to his railway
Wrecking practice this class of profess
sionel business. According to Tilden,
every plantation owner at the South
over whose soil the Union armies
marched has an action for damages
against each ''boy in blue.'' What
more natural, in the event of his cleo
ton, than that Tilden should propose
to lump these suits for damages in one
grand clam for the benefit of the States
OF tile late Confederacy?