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WHO PAYS YOUR TAXES?

The same remarks apply to the address entitled “ Taxation,” deliveredby George H, Andrews before the New York Assembly ’s Committee of Ways and Means , October 6, 1874.

A revision of these two would give, with little labor, all the necessaryfigures and statistics needed for an exhaustive study of this aspect of taxa-tion. Taxation is not, however, a matter of figures, but of principles.

minuteness and convincing clearness. The tax-payers owe to him a lasting debt ofgratitude for the courage and capacity he exhibited in striking a mortal blow at thegigantic fraud which, under the name of a personal assessment law, reduces the valueof real estate, fetters commerce, oppresses the manufacturer, cripples the tradesman,hinders the rising mechanic, robs the widow and orphan, makes the rich richer and thepoor poorer, expatriates many of our best citizens, taints the moral atmosphere, vitiatessocial relations—all to foster the interests of other cities and States at the expense ofour own.