Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-22
3 COLUMBUS. O.. THURSDAY MORNING
sfore it reaches the. table of the consumer


nal cost of tea, imported. so cents discount
on currency to pay forit, 20 cents; duty in |
gold, T25 cents; discount on currency to |
make up for the gold, 15 cents; contingent
cies, 10 cents profit of importer, IL cents
profit of jobber, l3 cents; profit of retailer,
say % cents. Total $1.74. OF this 81 cents
are comprised in three profits-35 cents in
exchange for gold, 25 cents in duties. and
10 cents in contingencies; in all $1.24, in
addition to the cost on board ships at our
wharves. Before the war the cost would
have been about as follows: Original cost,
imported. 80 cents 10 per cent. for contin-
gencies, cents profit ofimporters, cents
profit of jobber, 6 cents profit to the re-
taller, IA cents. Total, so cents"
Z0n tea the Government gets twenty-five
cents in gold for every pound. This is rev.
euue. The tax is heavy-too heavy--bht it
goes at least toward helping to pay the ex-
penses of our Government. /. The severest
loss to the people in this tea tax are the
losses resulting from the use of a depreci-
ated currency. That loss is a part of an
other great wrong upon our people, in
fiicted by S. z. Chase.
Another popularity of our present reve-
nue. laws Is the tax on whisky. Under it,
0000 600 are levied from the people, but
Uncle Sam gets only $30,0O0,00O. Thus
$70000,O00 go to swindlers, who are re-
warded for cheating our Government and
people. i
The, latter two instances are both in
stances of pernicious taxation; but the
most unjust remains, after all-the tariff
under which, as have shown. one citizen
in one State levies tribute upon citizens of
another State. Revenue is the pretense
spoliation is the real purpose. -
l now repeat the question: Are people
who thus use our Federal Government tor
leather their own m nests nest good members OF a
Federal Government? Do they respect the
rights Of their sister States? These are
inquiries which L put as one citizen of the
United States to my fellow citizens in New
England. What do owe them? Nothing
but loyal heart to my duties as citizen
of the Unionl That they shall have. /
wish them all the success they can get
under free trade. What do they owe to
mt? Is it not an equal willingness on
their part to let me be free? That they
deny me. There is the distinction. All
else is sham and deception. 1 ask them:
Do you respect the United States Treasury
as sacredfy as l? Do you respect my
rights as 1 do yours? By that criterion
! they must be judged: =. .,.., .s,- .g,..y r.
Do not, my friends, suppose that we
| Democrats stand alone in asking such
questions. No! The Hungarian asks it of
the German, and he has just succeeded in
getting fair guarantees that in the Austri-'
an Union the Germans will no longer
spoliate the Hungarians. In Germany
4 The smaller German States ask for guaran-
| tees that Prussia will not abuse the taxing
power of the Union for purposes such as
! New England now does in our General
Government. Look Immediately north OF
us to Canada. What was and is the stiIm-
bling block there to a cordial Union? 1t is
fear of the abuse of the power which takes
| men and money without leave!
This, then, is my accusation against the
Republican party of OHIO! 1t is holding
us, their fellow citizens, down, while New
England takes money from our pockets. Is
| this honest?
am States right Democrat to-day, as
Ihave been for thirty years, because States
are the only feasible organism by which
this people or their children can eventually
resist organized tariff swindling. All in
diYidual' opposition is feeble against this
kind of tyranny. 1t is like that OF single
| man to a mob.
Don't let us mistake ourselves. Our cleo
| tions are only dragnets for the dominant
party. Persuasion is first used to catch the
gudgeons, next fraud to beat the obstinate,
and force is always prepared to put down
any resistance, which cannot be reached by
| the other two ways.
| All the niger questions are provender
for electioneering purposes. They are
means to an end. That end is money
money for New England capital.
There is, therefore, but one. 1 again say
but one fact worthy of our serious atten-
| ton, and from it radiate all the other
grievances. 1t is, first, that we have
among US several States and the people
thereof who are not satisfied to get rich
under equal laws, and who want tariffs and
bounties through which to levy tribute
upon other peoples industry. Second,
that this craving for the abuses of the Fed
eral authority has spread over the country
q ta hoe
its ramifications in our National Banks, in
insurance companies-ownedE East, or part
East-in whisky smuggling, in vast rail-
| road schemes, and in all kinds OF enter
| prises. All our public immortality, all our
political corruption, arises from this now
prevailing public vice in a part of our peo-
| pie, whose virus is to want to live through
some abuse of Federal power without regu-
| lar work. ~ 49,.
This vice is represented and incorpora-
| ted in the Union Leagues and all the work
/ ings OF the Republican party. That organ
izatiOn is not, as was charged in 1924, "a
union of the Puritan and the blackleg;" it
is the union of ambitious men, the small
toffice-seeker, the banker. the manufacturer
and the Puritan. Verify, it is strong
combination. It is the conjunction of the
social fanatic with the political knave.
Negro suffrage! More degradation for
\ the ballot-boX! Well, and what it? We
| have not had fair ballot-boX for some
time. Our party conventions and the
Union Leaguers have stolen it long ago.
Now the negroes are to try their hand at
it. Much good may it do them. For thir-
4 ty years have 1, with the help of good
| friends, tried the ballot-box to keep out
bad men, and to put in good men. and when
! you ask me, "Watchman. what of the
night?" have only to admit the bad men
| are ahead.
T., What difference will black votes make
Elections will only cost more, for the more
votes the more ambition has to pay to get
| in, and the more it cheats after it gets in.
The people are under an infatuation. They
see in every Democrat a fearful ghost
They have beaten US again and again, and
still they are afraid of US. This can't last
always. Even Vallandigham has ceased
to frighten crowds. The rest of us rebels,
traitors and copperheads will yet, if we
will but bear untiring testimony against
evil, be recognized as -citizens, good
for something else besides being knocked
over at elections. There is too much wrong
in the Republican party to last very long.
Let us then bide our time, caring only to
be right in our principles, and to testify on
all proper occasions in their behalf. For
this have spoken to-day, and feel thank
full for the opportunity you have afforded