The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-26
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brief, just what jeff Davis proposed 32
years ago with which to injure the
North and play directly into the hands
of the English. Before Davis 1t wac
the device of Calhoun in his contro-
versy with jackson, and every student
of law or history will tell you that it
must always be adopted by the enemies
of the American workingmen as the
simplest and easiest way to injure
them. What is Meals plan? Simply
to put tariff, or tax, upon everything
the American workingman has to buy
from foreign countries. Tax his sugar,
tea, coffee, fruits, tobacco, spices and
medicines, making them pay the bur
den of the expenses of government. Let
everything he makes that enters into
competition with the goods of foreign
countries come into this country free;
that is, tax sugar and coffee that come
to America to help the English colonies,
but do not tax the cotton or woolen
goods that are made in England to pro-
tect American workingmen. In every
thing, help the foreigner, tax the Ameri-
can. Make life harder for the work
ingman of Cincinnati or Cleveland, but
easier for the workingman of London
or Liverpool. A tax of cents pound
on sugar or 10 cents on tea or coffee is a
direct tax; it comes out of the pockets
of the people who use sugar and tea
and coffee, it increases the cost just
that much to every Ohio consumer.
| The Larry Neal plan is to make sugar
cost 10 cents a pound instead of five,
tea 30 cents instead of 80 and coffee 10
cents instead of 35. There is no need
of this: indeed, there is little sense in it.
! yet it is easy on English and hard on
our American workingmen, and there
fore it is stubbornly insisted upon by
the solid South and its Northern allies.
| The Neal reformers propose to adopt
the English system of taxation entire,
principally because it is easiest upon
the rich and hardest upon the poor. 1t
is unjust and onerous in the extreme
upon the workingman, but that makes
no difference to Neal. 1t is exactly
what he wants; he has been aiming at
| it for years, and there is one feature
of it about which, in his practical ex-
perience and every day life, the Ameri-
can workingman knows nothing, name
ly, stamp duties. licenses and other
special taxes. In England if working.
man wishes lease, or perhaps deed
for property, he must have said docu-
| ment stamped by the Government with
stamp of the value of from Is cents to
$3.50, according to the rental agreed
upon. If he desires to go into domestic
service, that is, as coachman, butler,
cook, housekeeper or other servant, he
or his employer must pay a Govern.
ment license of S3.75 per annum. If he
has bright, intelligent son with a
taste for the law, before he can become
! an indentured clerk to solicitor" he
must first pay the Grown" the sum Of
S400, and after completing his studies
he must take out further license, at
the cost of $3.50, before he can present a
case in court or at the bar. If he wish
es to become notary public he must
be at further cost of $50. If, how.
ever, the young mans tastes run to
medicine license fee of $50 is required
before he can practice. There are, per-
haps, more whose tastes run in the di-
rection of matrimony. A special Ii
cense to marry is required and costs S25.
If the English workingman has lit
tie savings in the bank he must pay the
Government cents for every check he
draws. He must pay the same for
every receipt he signs OF. amounts over
So. All notes or due bills must also
bear Government stamp of from %
cents to So, according to the amount.
If he keeps dog he must have an an.
nual Government license of S. for each
animal. If he keeps gun he must
show So. 80 license. and to shoot winged
game he must pay S15. If he be a
tradesman who keeps a horse or pony,
and wishes to keep carriage for the
pleasure of his family, he must pay the
Government So. 80 per wheel per annum
Thus there are more two-wheel than
four-wheel carriages in England, though
very few indeed among the working
men. Those and many more taxes of a
like kind are incidental expenses not
often taken into consideration when
comparing the cost of living, and nigh,
fairly be classed under the head OF
''rent," as every householder feels them
to a greater or less extent, and they be.
come part of the annual cost of living,
although not coming under the head of
clothing or food.
The English workingman pays as
much for his food, nearly as much fol-
his clothes, saves little on rent, but
pays 10 times as much to support the
Government that is, the aristocracy) al
the American workingman does. With
only about half the wages, living il
more expensive to him than living flood
and comforts considered) is to the
American. Yet Larry Neal. the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio
is trying to fasten the English system
of labor and taxation upon Ohio work
ingmen. 1t will be strange indeed if il
the whole State there are 10 working
men 80 foolish as to vote for him. Hi
theories have already brought distress
enough upon the workingmen withou
still further encouragement from them
10, L. L. 4.