Taxation - Poverty - Wealth

WS 1865-08-11 Taxation-Poverty-Wealth p 1, col F.JPG

Title

Taxation - Poverty - Wealth

Subject

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Description

This report would have been of interest and would have brought satisfaction to those Democrats who opposed the huge growth of federal power during the Civil War, including taxation and the issuance of greenback currency. The dire predictions of the effects of the national debt include longstanding high taxation and depression of purchasing power. Throughout the war, this newspaper's editor had speculated on the Lincoln administration's unconstitutional powers, and on their designs to seize or tax the mines of Idaho and Washington.

Abstract

The Walla Walla Statesman reports the conclusions of a "loyal" editorialist in a "loyal" journal, that the United States will never recover from the financial consequences of the Civil War.

Source

Walla Walla Statesman

Publisher

Walla Walla W.T.: R.R. and S.G. Rees

Date Issued

1865-08-11

Medium

Web

Type

article

Bibliographic Citation

Vol. IV, IV, No. 35, p. 1, col. F

Provenance

Washington Secretary of State: Historic Newspapers

URL

http://sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx

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End Page

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