Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-03-20
Mr.. Deans IncOnsisteucy.

tentiOn whatever OF offending MT Dean, |
but merely of reminding him that i'll
his great anxiety to relieve the tax on
farmers, he had overlooked very i'm
portant point, at least, he had never
seen proper to refer it in his political,
economical, free trade essays, which we
have read with the greatest of interest,
often with great astonishment and
amusement. We must confess that we
were never aware that Mr. Dean had
publicly denounced the present system
of taxation that collected the bulk of
the taxes from real estate and eXoser-
ated those who are only assessed for a
poll tax from the payment of such, un-
less they saw proper to hunt up the
collector and urge that official very
much against said collectors will to
accept such taxes.
But Mr.. Dean says he has entered
his voice against the political indignity
of the times, and we will take his word
for it, though we must confess that WE
have never heard that voice.
We have waded through columns of
IVA II. IJ.''., = iitlttt!it3 "a tItNfl li'iSl
England, published in the Every Even
ing, to say nothing Of our anxiety in
waiting for columns that we were in
formed by that paper, rested in its pig
con holes awaiting a favorable opportu-
nifty to be published we have read his
free trade ebulitions have enjoyed
his vigorous attacks on the ST. Georges
collector for holding back the taxes of
that Hundred. while other collectors
paid theirs to the COumtyTreaSurrr;have
read his dcttucrs Of the dear" farmers,
his attacks on manufacturers ; his 60
ing for an iron worker at Marshallton,
and waking up III" wrong passenger,
but We have failed to notice any pub
lished communication cOndemning the
ubiquitous system Of assessing the coun-
ty taxes upon everybody taxable, and
collecting it only from farmers, real
estate owners and manufacturers.
Mr.. Dean may have condemned the
system but it must have been still,
small voice" that lost force when COM
pared with the vrhrmcnCe with which
lie attacked the bloattd manufacturers.
We recollcct well when Mr. Dean was
in the Legislature the first time, and
when he was chairman Of the Ways
and Means COMMITTEES.
We give him credit for his indetat-
gable efforts in trying To tax every
thing connected with manufacturing.
We must aScribr to him the credit Of
apparent and We trn>t sincere unseltish-
ness in his efforts 10 relieve real estate
from some OF the huIthrns of taxation
and to lay some Of them upon luanutac-
lures, even though by doing so he as u
manufacture" was assuming additional
burthens. We Civ" him credit for all
this, and farther we VIII agree with him
that at that time as" ,.,inent laws had
not been tempered with and consequent
ly there was no occasion for him to
/" hit the head" at that time.
But the same stale Of affairs did not
exist when Mr.. Dean went to Dover
the second time us legislator by Re
publican votes. In the mean time the
law to cheat Republicans out Of their
votes and the State and County ont Of
taxes had been passed. II was made
no more the duty of the collector to call
upon any but property owners for their
taxes. As more than half the voters
Of the State We're non-pIopcrty owners
of cOu~e that class need pay no taxes
unless they saw proper to do SO. II is
this Ubiquitous system against which
Mr. Dean failed to take stand as Il re-
former. He has no right to arraign us
and attempt to place us in ridiculous
attitude before the public by such ca
preSsiOnS as these
II every person would attend to their own
business and pay their taxes the same as
have to do there need not he any complaint
of the law but when a lot Of mean. contempt
ible personstry to evade the p .yment their
share of the expense of the Government by
paying only every other years taxes. and
then get LEFT and lose their votes, | have no
sympathy for such a mean contemplate set.
II the Republican party want use tho negro
vote let them come square out and pay The
taxes due from them every year and not Try
to skulk out Ct the work as the have teen
trying TO every other year, and wh"n they
get left howl out as though they were being
drowned. Iftbeir votes are worth having
then pay 70 them for if /! Is LETT for the ne
groes Themselves to pay their taxes unless
they are better az pa ing taxes han other
debts they never VIII. not one in ten Of ii en-.
vote ! think the Republican party arc in
duty b0un to pay their taxes :" nat it can
be abls TO make an attempt to stow that
there is such a hing a. a hrpubi.rhE aTty
in delaware, tor without TIC rolcred hreth-
rem the party would not scarcely De thIe to
muster corporal udr".
Such language snacks "much Of the
modern day politician that Mr.. Dean
need not charg" us for doubling his sin
cerity in political reform. Wrne'n II"
further proof that Mr. Dean heartily
favOrs the present iniqUi'Gns "ss"ss-
ment and tax collection laws. II"
knew rs we'll as the men who mad"
that law that not one-fWlrth IF 1hoS,
only ASSESSED for poll take, would vol
unfairly hunt up the tax collector ana
pay their taxes, and he knows that Ii"
taxes they do not pay have 10 b" col
lected from farmers and other property
owners.
The expressions Of Mr.. Dean upon
this subject are fun and abundant
proof that if he ever did oppoS" such a
system of taxation there was no sirCcri-
tv at the back of il. We suggested in
our article to which Mr. Deans com
munication is ii reply, that he (Mr.
Dean), in his anxiety to benefit the
farmer and lessen his taxes could have
done 50 by opposing the present tax
laws. which throw the hurthen of taxa
ton upon farmers and property owners.
The quotation from his reply is the
answer received. 1t is not us but Mr..
Dean who places himself before the
public us an apologist for the inipuifouS
DISTINGUISHING laws Of til" Stat" thar
bear 50 hard upon the farmer. Let Mr..
Dean step into the Levy Court room
now while the Levy Court is in session
and look at the error list returned from
til" Hundreds. II" will find as high as
800 and 400 voters Tin ST. Georges
especially returned as delin1ucn'S ion
not paying taxes they have never been
asked to pay by the collector, ana the