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Show Taxes. Editor Record: When William tho Conqueror, or William tho colossal murdoror loft Normandy and landed in Britain, ho was ably aided by an army of cut -throats and vagabonds who overran tho country, putting to death tho inhabitants and confiscating their lands and chattels, ho appears to havo been somewhat llboral with tho stolon goods, giving to his honchmon hero and' thcro largo slices of land according to tho numbor of scalps thoy got. nwnj with, and bo thoy got to bo landlords. Theso lrtndlords also had followers or honuhmod who tilled their lands for them and tried every wny to make tKom o-i'mfortablo. Tho landlords had a llttlo fun among themselves occasionally, they would mako war over small mutters sometimes, some-times, on tho samo footing that holds good today. Somo follow, I havo forgotten for-gotten his name, wroto It this wny: "Tho plain old way sulllccd for thorn, Tho good old simple plan, That thoy shall tako who havo tho power, That thoy shall keep who nun." Well, tho kings woro good to tho landlords, and tho landlords woro good to tho kings. When tho kings had their hands full of ti'ouble, thoy would cull on tho landlords, for their honchmon honch-mon and yoomenrto go and fight their battles, to preserve tho country from Invas'on. This continued until tho ond of tho fuednl system, so that tho landlords paid hoavy taxes and boro tho burdens of tho stato In a great inoasuro. Howovor, thoy aro wiser now, refusing to nuy any taxes what-ovnr what-ovnr on tholr lands, and making lUws all the time, to put tho burdens of the stato on tho wealth producer. Our English cousins are bolng Btlrrcd upon that ono pointnt tho present tlmo. sThoBudgot, so.calloil, was gotten got-ten lip by tho ropro3ontutlveBof tho people, with tho objoat In view of making' mak-ing' tho lords pay tholr sharo of tho tas(.'3?iiutthoy,'httvoTojt,t;tuff't1iov'Bn(lir get, and old trick of tholrs, they havo blocked tho wheels of progress for years. Tho masses aro uttorley tired of thorn, that Is the lmsscs who think for themselves. It is to bo liop'od that tho olectlon that. Is now on over thoro will sottlo such a ono sided bifslni'S forovor. But to como nearer homo, tho trouble is tho same, but tho name Is rt liferent As a remedy tho Inconio tax has boon proposed, but tho American Houso of Lords 'do not tako kindly to It, and all kinds of I'luuslhlo theories are held out to tho Intelligent voter about lis tin-couistiiutlnnalily, tin-couistiiutlnnalily, and tho voter, poor follow, U pretty sure to travel tho road that is laid out for him by tho astute politicians. Doubtless this is all tho radicalism some of your readers can swallow at once, and probably 1 havo already trespassed tres-passed on your space. But I would bo willing to oxposo moro of my ignorance on tho matter of taxes ot somo futuro time. Yours for justice, Aw:x Matheson. |