The daily gazette., 1882-03-20
MONDAY MARCH go. Isss.
oAnRYrNe THE WAR INTO AERIcA


CARRYING THE WAR INTO AFRICA.
On Saturday the GAzETTR published
some comments upon the position
taken by the Radical Press of Della
ware from the Philadelphia Eaening
Telegraph, (Republican, }. in which the
latter paper ridiculed the denuncia-
tion by the Republican papers of the
laws Of Delaware and the Collectors,
and asserted that the payment, or the
proposition to pay, the taxes OF the
negroes by the Republican poll
ticians Of Delaware to secure their
receipts and vote the negroes as they
pleased, was ''open and shameless bri-
berry of the very worst sort"
The Morning NetOs of this date
oyerlooks the comments of the GA
zETTE, and goes for the IeIegrGpHs
scalp with uplifted tomahawk in regu-
lar Mohawk fashion. 1t carries the
war into Africa, misrepresents our tax
system and concludes with giving its
Philadelphia contemporary the advice
that IL can gather from the following /:
"The next time the Telegraph un-
dertakes to make comments on Della"
ware politics it should cram up on the
subject, The colored people OF Della
ware have developed as much man
hood and independence as their brethN
rem of PhiladelphiS, and the late
municipal oontsst in that city proved
conclusively that the colored voters
we're as manly and honorable as any
of their white leaders or the news
papers either"
No attention at all would have been
paid to the TelegrGph's article by the
Neaos, had the GAZETTE not copied it
with comments. We therefore feel it
a duty to assure the Telegraph that
it's position was quite right. Every
voter in Delaware is secured in his
right of suffrage by going, any day
within three or four months, to the
tax collectors Office, or home, or place
where he is required to give notice he
will be to receive taxes, and pay pol
tax, which is 90 cents for laborinG
men. The tax is called poll tax be
cause it admits q man, white or black
rich or poor to vote. But as there
is no State tax in Delaware, it is made
up of county and poor tax. Some
times the collectors are authorized b!
their district school commissioners
to add the school and the dog tax
But receipt for county and poor ia;
constitutes the suffrage tax, and ou
State constitution, adopted in 1881
says: "Every white male citizen Q
the age OF twenty-five years or after
wards, having resided in the State on
year next before the election, and tn
last month thereof in the count
where he offers to vote, and havinI
within two years next before the cleo
tion, paid a county tax, which sha
have been assessed at least six month
before the election, shall enjoy tn
right of an election and every whit
male citizen of the age of twenty-on
years aud under the age of twenty
two years, having resided as afore
said, shall be entitled to vote withou
payment of any tax"
Before the Democrats get contrt
of the State Legislature every ma
who owned property had to pay b
property tax as well as his head la
before he could vote. Then If ma
owned house worth $4,000 he had [
pay about $50 before he could vot'
Now q man can vote on the paymeI
of 90 cents.
The colored people asked the Legi
lature to tax them for school purpo.e Q
and the legislature did SO, and hent
az their own request 80 cents on Il
one hundred dollars is added to the
tag. As they are assessed at so
their school tax is go cents, whi,
added to 90 cents makes their tf
$3.50. In the country the white pc
pie pay school tax also, but it h
always been paid as a separate ia
aud is so continued. But the seho
tax which the colofed man pays is Q
clusively for the education of color
children.