The daily gazette., 1882-04-08
s1T1RDAT. APRTL 5, Issa.
How rHr RADICALa WoUID TRnA'

" How THE RADICALS WoULD TREAT
" DnLINQuMETs.--It is one Of the of
fences that the Democratic Legisla-
lures are charged with that they
Z. would not permit the Collectors and
y Assessors TO imprison poor men for
their taxes. This could be done un7
der the old law, which armed the Col
.e lector with warrant and empowered
him to enforce the collection Of taxes
by arrssting man and putting him
in prison. II poor man went to a
neighbor's house or farm to do days
work, the Collector could follow him
and IL be found the. laborer or me.
ohaDic's coat or hat laid aside for con-
venience could seize them and carry
them of. If the coat was worth ton
dollars and the laborer owed but dol
lar and q half, the result was the
same, it could be taken. And SO the
Collector could take of poor mans
furniture, table, chair or cradle, to
pay the tax. Getting none of these
things he put him in jail, and could
do this too for resistance. This was
the law that the Democrats repealed,
I and for which they substituted the
present law that reduced the poll tar
and deprives a man Of his vote If he
does not 60 within three or four
months and pay his tar and by doiRg
so become assessed. 1t is for adheriDg
to this law, and voting to Sustain II in
the Court of which they arc members,
under the counsel of the States ATT
b ,torney, that the Democratic members
Of the Levy Court of this county are
summoned to appear before the Su-
7 perior Court Of Sussex county, at
Georgetown, on Monday next, and
summoned again to appear before the
Court Of this county on Monday, the
18th Of May.
The design Of the Republican party
in these proceedings is foreshadowed
by the Republican, its organ.
1t may be found in the extracts
from That paper which the GAZETTE
has already publlshed. It claims that
every delinquent taxpayer should have
been arrested and shown the inside of
aprisOn cell; and alleges that there
are twenty-five hundred Of its party
disfranchised because the collectors
would not call on them for their taxes.
1t now exhonorates the collectors from
all blame it declares that they have
carried out the law, but that for those
people who would rob The poor estab
lshment Of the county by Withholding
their taxes it would have "no sympa-
thy" if the Republican party could
spare their Votes." 1t is at this class
that it raves and unites with its party
in the demand that the law be declared
unconstitutional. What it would
substitute may be inferred from the
following which we copy again:
"The law should be made, and was
formerly so exactlng and stringent
that the class Of persons referred to
were compelled to pay their taxes OF
they would be shown the inside of a
prison cell.
That is what the Republican party
have in store for its poor mon. Thai
is what the Radical party would dc
With ovOry poor "Irishman, English
man, Dutchman and Frenchman, u
who was found unable to pay his
taxes, and whom it puts on level with
the heather Chinese that it would
have come to America to underworld
the laborer here.
What a spectacle it would hay.
presented 10 the people. Onl,
imagine a prison filed ~ 2,5Ot
voters Of Delaware would I'll
prison; and all to enforce the pay
msnt of money to keep up poor es
tsblishment, often crowded with laz
bummers who, if they were not KEEP
in the Poor House, would have to b
kept in jail for vagrancy. We pity tn
pOor man, white or black, that fall
into the hands of such party led b
such men as formed the Neal jury
Those who would not interpose wit
the law to save The chastity of woma
now want to have law by which the
can say 'pay your tax or go to Jail.
Save us from such barbarous enact
ments. A man is not slave that b
shSuld be made to pay and vote
keep up a party which the peopl
voted out of power because 1t robbie
the city treasury, robbed the post-ol
fee, robbed the Custom House, an
robbed the Waer Department. N
indeed, the Radicals are simply he
in allegiance because of the crimes +,
which more OF Them should have su
ferad than did.
EASTER SERVICES will be held /
. AL the Churches tomorrow. In Il