Mr. ROGERS. No sir, that lady is not included. But I will tell on who is included: those men who have made money out of the blood and misery that have been stalking throughout our land for the last 5 years: the men who have almost drawn the life blood from this nation in their greed of wealth; the men who remained at home while the poor man went out and periled life and limb in defense of his country. Sir, had it not been for the poor men this country would have gone to ruin and destruction. The men who are unable to buy bonds of the Government because they have not the money to invest in them, they are the men who are entitled to the credit of putting down this most unjust and unrighteous rebellion and I am here today as the friend of the poor man who has risked his life that his country mightbe saved; as the friend of the widow and the or ban, to call upon the Congress of the U.S. to break 11 this most pernicious aristocracy of the land and make taxation equal upon all men throu hout our country. I am here to claim equal and exact justice to all men in this regard. The President, AndrewJohnson, in his mes sage to the Congress of the U.S., sustains the same doctrine that I am advocatin here to day . I know ou do not like him; know you do not like his Democratic doctrines. But they are doctrines which contain the elementary principles which lie at the foundation of our government. He says that iio privileged classes should be allowed to mm in this country, that all should share equally in the burdens necessary to sustain. support, and carry on this Government. What does that mean? It means that it is not right that $3,000,000,000 should be exempt from taxation, and that one 5th or one 6th of the entire wealth of this country should be locked up in the coffers of those rich aristocrats, and not allowed to be touched to the extent of one cent by taxation; while the western farmer who is selling his produce below the cost of its production. the mechanic who is working for his daily bread. the merchant who is trem bling at the crisis which even now threatens to overwhelm him, are compelled to pay that full amount of taxation by money which they have honestly earned. Why should these be taxed, while the speculatnrs on the woes and sullerings of their country, men who have always been opposed to the best interests of the great masses of the people are entirely exempt from that taxation which is necessary to carry on the proper governmental operations of the State, county, or township in which they live 7 Congress has full power to remove this oppressive and unjust iiie quality. Congress has already exercised the rit of taxing these bonds to the extent of compelling the bond holders to pay an income tax. If gentlemen on the other si e of the House do not like this proposition of mine, to give to the States the authority to tax these bonds as they tax other property and do not believe it legal, just, and right, have they any objection to saying that the Federal Government shall tax those bond holders, not only by compelling them to pay atax upon the income derived from those bonds, but also to pay a tax levied directly upon these bonds eo nomine? Sir, I do not believe there can be a man here on either side of the House so loose in his political opinions, so blindly tenacious of any imagined or real principles he may profess to sustain, as to say that it would not be right or properor just, or that it would be in violation of any contract whatever on the part of the Government, ifthis Congress should pass a law lacing a tax upon the bonds themselves. An shouId the federal Government tax those $3,000,000,000 of bonds, as it taxes the horse, wagons, machinery, implements, and every otherarticle of property owned byits citizen, it will do much to advance the interest of the bond holders themselves, as well as of.the community at large, by assuring them that every dollar of their bonds will be fully aid. [say it is to the interest of the bond ho ders themselves that these bonds should be taxed. I tell you that if you go on taxing the people under the present system, and allow these rich aristocrats who are rioting in all the luxuries which wealth can procure, withoutbearing their equal share of the burdens of the Government, the time may not be far distant when the down trodden masses will refuse longer to submit to the iniquitous and unjustburdeus imposed upon.hem. Here the hammer fell.]