The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-03-16
THE BURDENS or TAXATION.

The burden OF taxation is the burden
OF very doleiul song sung, rather dis
cordantly it is true, by the Hon. John
Ireland and the Galveston Ne,os.
Whenever an impression is TO be made,
Juror raised for any purpose. the old
hobby of the terrible burden of the
states Indebtedness is dragged out and
made to do duty as the fabled steed
upon whose back IS seated the very de>
mon OF financial destruction The peo-
pie look on while these gyrations are
on, and in a dazed, amazed sort of
way, wonder what it is all about. The
Snowman shrieks, Behold the power
which is dragging you down. Here is
the weight which is sinking you be.
meath the dark waves of state and pri.
vate bankruptcy T. The prosperous
well-to-do Texan farmer quietly points
to his well titled acres, his well filed
barns and overfowing cribs, quietl,
taps his bank book, AMI remarks, Il
don't see it Nor do we. The great
state Of Texas, the wonderful empire,
whicn is yearly receiving prosperous
addition of two hundred thousand
working farmers to her population of
two millions which is yearly building
railroads, colleges and universities;
whose people are the richest and most
prosperous on the earth. owing an entire
debt Of all kinds less than many cities
Of an hundred thousand inhabitants
amountingsll told 80 s. .070 26l 90 fund.
ed. and but $4,000 unfunded Al the
close of the fiscal year 1877, and as.
sessing SSS, la. $50 on real property and
SlI4 i53 400 on personal properly; and
yet the Nesos and Judge Ireland forget.
ting their petty chickering's for mo,
nIent unite in common hatred TO Gov.
eruor Coke and howl over burden
which no one feels but them They
endeayor to create the impression at
home that the state is hurdened TO the
point of bankruptcy by debt. in order
to win cheap notoriety and away from
home to deter if possible capital and
population from coming into the state
But tor the stringency of the times
occasioned not by the wastefulness of
the state government under either Ds.
Wis, Coke or Hubbard, but by reason OF
the faulty financial policy of the na-
tionsl goverrment--we should now
never hear a single word of complaint
! about the rate of taxation or groan
from the people. The tirae, however.
is fast al lproaching when something
must be done, some terrible calamity
must threaten the people, or both men
and papers will sink out OF sight. The
| terrible danger must be ayerted NJ
whatever cost of truth, reason OF
shame. Nothing arouses the masses
move seusibly or effeetuaily than the
| subject OF taxation. 1t is easier to raise
a furor there than anywhere else.
Hence, the letter of Judge Ireland and
the comments of the Nesos in its issue
of the 18th.
! In the sale of the state bonds to cover
the deficiency between receipts and
current expenditures, the burdens oil
maintaining the state government were
distributed among the whole people,
whereas, had the bonds not been sold
the burden would have rested uron the
shoulders of few men who were hon.
estly and efficiently serving the state.
| They would have been compelled tc
receive at its face value the paper of the
state, and would have been compelled
to sell il in the market, at from forty
to sixty cents. What sort of service
could this sort Of psy securea And
yet, that is just what the Meas means
when it attacks the policy pursued b,
Governor Coke when he sold the bond,
Of the state, to meet deficiencies.
1 The Nsaas makes good point OF
Judge Ireland when 1t twits him will
/ the fact that at the time the transaction
Was being had. he Was silent The pape.
doubtless remembers how bitter ar,
! stinging was the rebuke adninisteres
| by the people to il when they re,nomi
mated and reelected Coke gcvernos
j and to make the matter uosss
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