The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-16
being proprietor of the big show. Hard

being proprietor of the big show. Hard
isn't it?
Billiard hall and bowling alley pro-
prietors are the next to be taxed and
then come the retailers, wholesalers
and manufacturers of tobacco products.
We have yet to here how these taxes
have been oppressive to the consumers
either of cigars OF billiard tables.
Now come the stamp taxes. Under
schedule A we find
Bond, debentures OF certificate of
Indebtedness issued by any association
or corporation, cents on each $4,000.
Who pays this the ''(common people)'
or the bloated bondholder and soulless
corporation?
"Sales Of shares or certificates Of
stock in any company, 3 cents per $780,
Any OF our common people around here
who wish to transfer their railroad
stock must pay the tax.
Now everybody please howl:Come We
calamity shouters, ye played out Office
seekers, ye hypocritical reformers, come
join in lamentations for according to
this deep laid republican plot against
the common people, Sales, agreements
to sell any product or merchandise at
any exchange or board of trade, cent
for each 800 of value.
The common people are further
c1y,n off cd NO. 8
bank checks, certificates of deposit or
money order of any kind. In the first
place man usually has to have money
III the bank before he checks it out.
When the farmer comes TO town and
sells his hogs he gets check from the
buyer and the buyer not the farmer
pays the tax. AS far as money orders,
drafts. ETC.. are concerned, the rich
men, the heavy business men and not
the common people, are the ones who
pay by far the largest part of the tax.
This also applies TO the tax paid on
foreign exchange,sbills of laden for ex-
port, etc.
| Bills of laden or receipts for all pack
ages forwarded by express, railroad or
steamboat lines are taxed at one cent.
The railroads pay this tax but the eN-
press companies claim the tax must be
paid by the sender. This matter is now
in the courts and the lower courts have
already decided against the companies
and for the people. In event that the
supreme court attirms this decision the
express companies will be obliged to
pay the tax. The telephone tax is paid
by the companies, the telegraph tax viii
be as soon as the matter is adjudicated
: To be brief, here are some Other
things subject to the stamp tax. In
Identifying bonds, certificates fprofits
) of damage, and of and other descrip
ton, charter party for vessels, broker.
contract, custom house entry. How
, much of these do you pay?
+ Life insurance policies are taxed bu
g the company not the policy holder pay
e it. Even if he did-insurance is lux
"'y of tho rich NOT of the poor.
Marine, Inland, and Fire insurance
:. are also taxed These taxes are pal,
by the companies and further al
mutual companies such as the Farmer
Insurance companies of this country
are especially exempted.
: 1t would be useless to go over the re
mainder of the list but we will let i
suffice to say that, of all the other item
:, there are but Cwo which do not fal
almost exclusively upon the wealthy 0
upon dealers, and not upon the con
: sumers or the common people. Thu
two items which may be paid by til
= common people, are the tax on mort
cages and the tax ON deeds. The TIA
on deeds is paid by the seller. The TIA
on mortgages begin with those of owe
$1,000 and thus nearly all the ordinar
= mortgages given in this country al
: exempt.
The repetition of these details ma
4 have been tiresome and unnecessary
J. but we want you to be able to give TIL
9 lie to the next calamity bowler VIII
). tell how unjustly you are being taxet
n After careful computation it has bee
n estimated that the amount of war ia
paid by the workingman will not e,
coed sl.00 per year. And if anyoll
thinks the workingmen of Crawfor
. county are not willing to pay that dolls
: per year, for the glory of our flag, fo
the freeing OF Cuba and the overthro
= of Spanish inhumanity, they are mi
: taken, they underestimate the patlo
= ism, the generosity and the humanit
y of our people.