Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-12-24
BLOOMINGTON, IOWA. ERlDAY, DECEMBER a. 1871.

LET THE ODIous DisrRlsurloN Law BE-
NULLIviED OR REREALED.-Among the vile
measures imposed upon the people at the late
extra session of Congress, that which has been,
and will continue to be most strongly repudiat-
ed and condemned by the people is the Distrs-
button Act-an act intended to corrupt the peo-
pie with their own money. What champion
of federalism in New Hampshire dare advance
and contend before the people that this is
wise and salutary act? Suppose it should
present the State annually the sum Of fifty or
sixty thousand dollars Where dose it 90
then! Will the Legislature vote to receive it
and pay the State expenses? There are few
representatives who would vote to receive 1t
who would have the moral courage to do this :
the money received will be distributed to the
towns-each representative will take 1t home
with him /; and each town of the State, catch
ing the spirit Of Portsmouth and other towns
which distributed their money to every man,
woman and child, will pay it over by the head
to all the inhabitants, rich and poor. BY the
tirne Il arrives at its destination, It will afford
little or no relief. 1t will be what the surplus
fund distribution was in most Of the towns, a
subject of contention and wrangling.
But another most odious feature Of the dis
tribution law is, the necessity II has created
for additional tares on the neceSSnries Of life.
The same body that passed the law of dlstribu.
ton passed law to tax our sugar and salt and
other articles the full amount of one fifty Of the
price to supply the deficiency. The extra
session of Congress was called to bring back
taxation to the point where it stood under the
tariff law Of 1928; the whig rule brought back
the taxation as near that point as they could
90. More than hundred millions had been
saved In the pockets Of the people by the ex-
ertions Of the democrats in Congress since
1929 in the actnal reduction of taxation on The
necessaries of life: the prices of tea, coffee.
salt and sugar-the prices of many articles OF
wearing apparel HAD BEEN REDUCED
FROM ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF. II
was the first object of wing rule TO raise the
duties on all these articles, to drain the pock-
cts of the farmer and laborer by the imposition
of new taxes; and to make new taxes lrdls-
pensable they pass law to throw away on the
States, where the money will be caught up by
Spectators, the avails of the public lands
which, with prudent management, might 60
far towards defraying the expenses of the gen
eral government.
Seeing the universal odum and disgust with
which this vile distribution law is received as
is every where evinced in our elections, we are
not without strong hopes that the very Con-
gress which passed the law will at its next
session efiectualy mulIify it. At all events
the law can never go into effect if the democrat
ic States shall so will it. Let the Legislatures
of the States resolve not to receive the money
which the States must pay bacn with the ac-
nf .ftl arfIn LET
Legislatures instruct their Senators aud Rep
resentatives TO relieve the people from the UNI
inst taxation which the extra session imposed
upon them-to take off the odious excise upon
sugar and salt; and at once repeal the dlstllbu-
ton law.
Can the friends Of State rights stand quietly
by aud suffer the Distribution act to go into
eifect1 Will they willingly consent that the
States who boast of Independence shall be-
come mere serfs and trbutaried Of Congress.
with the glorious privilege Of paying back IN
oppressive taxation a larger sum than the a.
mount of money which buys and corrupts them!
Every principle of right aud justice impels the
friends of our free institutions to rally tor re-
sistance to the gross corrup,lons which have
commenced the wing administration. The
people are speaking in voice Of thunder-'he
hand writing is upon the wall. which will
consign the wing party to infamy let the
democratic legislatures of the States which are
successfully taking the place Of wing legisa.
lures, do their duty the present winter; and
The Observation-Disclosures OF Congress will be dnv-
en- to their dens, leaving a healthy majority for
the purpose Of just legislation even in the pre-
sent Congress.-Hill's Pat.