Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-27

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Who have Lost By the ravages q the mob.
CSnsequenfly rents will be higher, and
prices of various commodities will be
advanced in exact proportions. Even the
whiskey seller, who deals out "wet
damnafionp 20 the men who organize riots,
must pay q higher rent IL be IL tenant,
or higher taxes IL he is an owner; and be
makes up the difference by exactipg an
indirect tax on his customers who are the
riotous "bread winners" Ia.
1t is an old saying that nothing IL Ger.
tain but death and taxes. Death cannot
be escaped by any possibility of human
Ingenuity. Sooner or later, 1t overtakes
each individual Of the race. To escape
taxation requires Q persistence and q
course of priystion to which few men
can submit themselves. A man who
makes q hermit Of himself, lives in q
cave of the earth, wears skins or cast-ofl
garments, and subsists on wild fruits and
roots, or ON stolen food, may be said to
have eluded the burdens Of taxation. The
same cannot be true of any other human
being 10 civilized community. He may
escape the tax-gatherer as completely Of
though he were . castaway ON Selkirk's
lonely island. But he Is lost when he
buys o scrap of meat, a crust of bread
ora garment to cover his nakedness
Unless he isa savage he 10 q consumer
and as soon as he is q consumer, q pur-
chaser, he is taxpayer. The New York
rioter of 1868 probably chuckled ovel
4 the reelection that the Astors, Stewards
and vandsrbilts were obliged to pay fol
Ibis fantastic madness. But there is nc
squAlid ! tenement house In the Sixth
Ward or Mackerslville to-day that Is mo-
paying its quota of the millions which
the City of New York pays for the dam
age done in'1S63. The rioter, if he lives
certainly pays his share.
| II is In this way, especially in q socia
system like ours, that the interests Of III
men are bound up together. A blow o
a great interest, like that of railroads
for example, is first felt by that partition
lar species of property. Its effects arr
long and oppressively endured by thu
men who are responsible for the origina
disaster. tits impossible that men shall
raise violent hands against the rights o
property without themselves suffering, Ii
some way, the consequences of their acts
We customarily speak Of taxpayers" a
a distinct class-those whose names ar,
on the books of the Assessor and Col
lector. But in another and broade
sense, all consumers are taxpayers. HI
who drinks wine, or whiskey, pays ia,
which the wster-drinker does not pay
The lsborer in Philadelphia who removed
q five-cent cigar from his mouth to "a,
that he could not live on wages paid d
men of his class pays tax from which
the non-smoking millionaire is exempt
1t would be good thing If men woul,
tion of taxation. That We are bringing
up class Of persons who think that be
cause they are not "tax-payers" in tn
narrow sense, they have no share in tn
burdens Of society, Is real calamity.
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