Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-14
DO RIght and Trust thS People.


fEom the Detroit Tribune.
EotwiiRstshdIu The passage dt the gold
bill, gold is steadily rising. Nor will il
cease to do so Without furIhtr leRisiatio ou.
The gold bill Will not check onrienOrmous
importAtioos, and uutil they are checked,
| gold must ati.lsGst maintain ids present
| premium, and il will most likely bemueh
higher than it is. These impotiatious are
The inevitable consequence Of'the inflaIion'
of the currency. high ,Asis The price Of
most OF the articles which are5impOrted,
people readily. buy them, 6ec5lss of our
redundancy of currency; and even If they
were not readily sold now, they would
! still be imported, because The importers
believe that the' Initiation of tie currency
| will be still greater than IL Is, aud that
they will receive an ample profit upon
their importatious q few moaths. or. it
may be few weeks, hence. But these
importations must be mainly paid for with
gold, because there is bal. little foreign
demand at present for the surplds bread.
stuis, and other surplus products; aud
even II there were the usnAlt demand for
them they would not pay5folS Sfinport rtatious
'uPS6 the bSaHy ksEls, ii j RESULT
OF the imitation OF Lhe currency.
The only remedy'ior this state of affairs
is to diminish the volume Of currency as
rapidly rs possible, and, 6rst of ali, to
convince tho people that the Government
IViu reduce the volume of the currency as
rapidly as possible. Aud the indispensa-
BILE first step toward both Of these results
is the passage of a law iproyidinRptor an
immediate increase of our Internal taxa.
ton. Every dollar of taxes which is paid
now will save the payment OF two dollars
which must otherwise be paid hereafIer.-
We are carrying on this var on a paper
basis. Had we been abls' to provide for
the payment Of all the expenses ofsthfs war
as they accrued. by taxes. or had we been
able to IispeuSe with the issuiug of Treas
uEy notes and the. suspension of specie
payments, wesh0GId' have shted hundreds
of millions of dollarH which Ne must here.
after pay, and pay In gold. And. the pso-
pie, know this, and are willing to be taxed,
and they are wondering why 1t is that Com
gress has, for month after month, delayed
p pass the necessary laws. The people
know that because OF the failure of
Congress 10 enact such laws, they
are every day paying TO the import
ers who ARE: specializing BnponL this
neglect, far heavier taxes than it
wonld have been necessary, 70 hayeSpsid
to the Government in order TO keep prices
attheir. proper level. Congress- 6esitates
Z. tax the people further, when the fact is
clear thst, by not doing so before, 1t is
practically taxing them now to the extent
Of more than two fifths of ths prices OF all
domeatie prodncts, and over half the prico
of all lmported Articles, /, Without adding
thereby one dollar TO ths NATIONAL Treas.
oIy, but rptherltaking ifromti isintf tide same
ratio that Il tsksS ft9msths, pockets Of the
people. 49,.
We say to Congress; Trust the people,
and you will not find them wanting. we
say 70 every Union Congressman: Be per-
suaded tini your own MUD what legislation
the condition OF the country needs, and
vote accordingly, wasting no Time Ia ask.
ing how far the people will submit to sn
ihereaSeiof hthst natiOh's taxes; for the
people will endure to the end, as they have
done from e6S btg filming. whatever il q
right aud necessary that they shall endure!
PBhe people are determined 10 put down
this rebellion, and they will chseffnlly
pay all 'tGxesFwhiehf are necgssary 10 effect
that object, at the earliest mument. They
would rather pay those taxes directly TO
the Govetnmelt for their beneRt.for
they know that the we'll being Of the
e6dutry is the weltbeipg ofeveEy Citizen
than to pay them iatb she Golfers OF gold
specu laioEs- and importers, AS they are
now compelled to do a9lTOH