Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-07-31
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sayings Of our jealous ne'shoof, ~. :. 5
ask him 20 consider vel I'll thai 'oii0"'' = I
may q be soc,sfng
Tn. Radical party is opposed to equs.
..x.,;or. H. members hold governmei'
Noaas and hence IRE ne, in favor OF taxing
,s,m. although the right Of the general
Government, TO do 90 is unquestionable.
Their principles are Taxation for the
poor-exemp,ion for the rich. Costly liz
u.rs for the rioh--no cider for the poor
Double salaries for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
taacs foe the poor Wealth for the rulers
poverty for The masses. IMMUNITY Tor OH:
cial robbers Imprisonment for selling cii Ter
Under the Internal Revenue system near
y al the taxes are paid according TO popu-
iasion-taxss on what We eat, drink and
wear. and not on accumulated property
the pser iaboring man paying nearly OF
quite % much - the millionaire. Three
Avadyel and ten miliions collected :" one
yeor from the masses and paid out in htgh
salaries to office holders and for intfres' on
bonds erernpt from tara'ion This system
is hourly exhAusting the masses and en-
rching the few.
On Saturday we said "The public debt is
going up at the rate Of over tmenty .tour NIL
l.ons month. That is only fro hundred and
FORTH millions yedrt Cheap enough, GER
tanly for the grand experiment of radical
"a a. 4. sh.t.
FOR publishing our article We would have
their readers know the true state Of our
financial matters. Our neighbor brands It
As "roppcrheAd falsehood" This viii
only make their readers believe il all the
more. Yet the most absurd thing Of oil is,
asking their readers to compare these "so>
called" falsehoods with "the official state
msnss Of the Secretary Il the Treasury ,
published from time TO time, showing that
the national debt 10 being steadily and rap>
idly decreased. Why not give the last
statement Of the Secretary Of the Treasury,
from which Nc took our figures. so that this
comparison can b made? We want the
people 90 make these comparisons and some
others Of q similar nature. The Gazette
may 10 soothed by such labor, but not so
the people For the benefit Of Us oil won't
the Gasetts make few comparisons be-
tween the receipts and expenditures of our
county mon,esi Our county finances will
surely BE- benefited by little airing. Once
upon time our nsighbors might call state.
meots "copperhead falschoods" and its
readers would have all their fears sOothcd-
nor, they want to see for themselves not
that they do not believe The immaculate
Gazefts--oh, no By no mcans-but then il
10 so nice 10 see for ouc's self BY all means
lot 10 have companions.
That the radical party has become cofa
rupt beyond calculation is admitted by
many Of tho most influential and candid
members Of that organization indeed there
are none, we believe, who will have the bar
dihood to deny it, Hardly week passes
without admissions OF corruption from leads
ing men and jour nails of that party, which
ought 10 be sufficient 10 arouse an intense
feeling Of scorn and indignation in the pub
lilo mind. against an organization which is
responsible for such monstrous wickedness
Ii the people would but free themselves
from party slavery and bliad prejudice they
would need nothing more than what the
radicals say Of themselves and their party
10 draw down upon il such universal de
testation as no party ever yet received in
this or any other country.
We are Of the opinion the great toiline
masses will demand something more than
radical assertions 10 keep them voting fol
the perpetuatisn Of radical rule.
The Advantage 0r Free Trade.
The North American Recisr, in an adj
misable article ON tho 'Lsbor Cricis," ~ =
msrks. "thc men OF the revolution saw very
Clearly the advantages Of freedom Of trade
within certain limits, and accordingly es'
tablished il between the States. thus devo.
ting to II larger area aud greater variety
Of soil and ciinA.e than have elsewhere
ever been won for IL and thus OPENING
what has been PROFESSIONALLY ~, h
greatest sources of the $500 ,,.aa,-;,
RI, with one q tho..s-sSr''o'A' prospcFl',
''. wiz" o"e y MO failures Of logic, witt
ems csl hi tory is iilei, and whicl
c,-s the growth Of science of histor,
r NSesm impossible. they did not see, and
large mass Of the American public does no
see to shis day, that what was good for tn,
States between each Other might be goot
for the States between them and foreigners
Everybody acknowledges that, when Mas.
sachusetss men trade freely with New York
men, both are gamers, and that the es.ab-
lishment Of custom houses on ~ State line
would be great misfortune for both.
But most people nevertheless, 70 shi
hour. imagine that il Massachusetts, mcr
were allowed to trade freely with foreign
ers. the foreigners only would DO the game
and the Massachusetts, man would 90 or
losing and getting into debt 40 long as tn
trade lasted. let the foreigner cell ever q
cheaply. The dividing political line seem
to have some obfssoasing effect on the min,
when IL comes e deal with this sort O
problem. In the case Of Canada. the ab
surdity becomes more apparent, Aewsve,
than 10 the case Of Europe. II Cansd
were aa1exsd to the United. States TO- mo,
row. free trade across the Sc. I.awrenc
would b established at once, and to evesy
bedy's satisfaction and il would be uni
vessally accepted - self evident that in the
tra6lc which followed both the people q
the new State and Of the old States woul,
profit. But draw the political lne-ho,s
the stare and stripes on one side end III
union jack on the other-and nothing wi
persuade many that, If free uade were per
mittsd. al the profit would not fall TO the
Canadians and oil the loss to the American
and yet the political lines, of course, exis
only in the mind, and he's Of itself no NOR
res. effect on the results Of the trade than
the milky way.
THa New Hamshire Radicals did not d,,.
y try she "constabulary" system in tia,
State. They were afraid people vou,dn,,
tolerate 1t Or its authors. They had . ma