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Show Taxation. The Sacramento Union and Austin Rtvrille are Republican papers, yet they with others feel keenly on the course pursued by the leading party in Congress on taxation. The following is from the h'cirille: The present administration appears determined to exasperate the people by the imposition of oppressive and obnoxious taxes. The ifacramento Union justly remarks that ''if there-publican there-publican party falls with the autumn leaves, taxation is the fatal . weight ; that brings it down. The verdict of history will be, 'death by Poutwell, Schenck and Sherman.' These thiee men, but especially the first named, have done and are doing more to break up aud utterly destroy the republican party than all other causes combined. Each of them has tax on the brain. One of them is a devotee of a splendid government, the other is a servant of lich .monopolies; the secretary is a man of one idea, which he is using, as he conceives, to promote the g'ory of the administration by payng off the public pub-lic debt in ten or a dozen years ; but, as the business men of the country know, to the grinding oppression of all industry. The income tax alone, which John Sherman thinks the most equal and just of all taxes kept at its present rate for ju-t one year more, is quite- enough to defeat the party responsible res-ponsible for it in more than half the states." But mean as is the income tax, it is respectable compared with that on which the commissioner of internal in-ternal revenue proposes to have congress con-gress enact. The fact that every incorporated in-corporated town has an ordinance levy ing a municipal tax on dogs does not influence the commissioner; he proposes propo-ses to levy a double tax. Just think of a tederal dog-peher chasing a mangy cur through the streets of Austin ! This is what might be called small business. bus-iness. It is not probable that congress will add this to the long list of annoyances annoy-ances already inflicted ; but it never-less never-less shows the animus of the men in power. I |