Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1869 — Democratic Falsehoods. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Falsehoods.

The Ohio StateenXdn persists in its misrepresentation of a recent decision of the Assistant Commissioner of Internal Bevcnue to the effect that all peddlers who with teams go through the country buying and selling preduce, shall pay a speciiu tax as other peddlers do. The following is its language in reiteration of a misrepresentation already denied and exposedr “ This country, under Radical rate, is coming to a pretty pass, when the fanner who brings the product or his farm to market —or his good wire, “ who cornea to market her eggs to sell," must ilrst get a permit from the l ulled State* Revenue Office, and pay a license therefor, while millions upon millions or bonds, belonging to the rich, aud to the rich alone, pay no taxes “ Look to it, farmers, who bring a few bnshelsof potatoes, or a few pound* of butter to market, that there is not a Government spy lurking around to pounce upon yon, and get the price dr his scouaarelism either in " hush money, or oat of the fine which is inflicted npon yon," for not taking out license from General Uiytui’a officials, to sell the products you* own, labor has prodfiieif. ” No person is charged a special tax for selling in anv manner the products of his own farm. Nor is any one who, traveling on foot, buys and sells produce, charged a special tax for so doing. A buyer and seller of produce, however, with a team, going through the country, is liable to a special tax as any <*her peddler would be. The attempt to make political capital, by misrepresenting this decision, is entirely unwarranted, and can avail nothing except among the most prejudiced and ignorant of tbeweaders of that paper. We venture to say that all the oppression! suffered by tiie market

men or women selling butter and eggs, the products of their own farms, will never cxdtc a reaction strong enough to overturn an adminstration. When somebody is hurt, it will he time enough to complain. Toledo Blade.