The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-09

struct1on IS not confined to the South.
1 The entire country feels it.
Northern business languishes for want
of Southern trade.
Northern factories are silent because
Southern pockets are empty.
! Western granaries and storehouses
are full, but poverty possesses their an
cient market, and their former buyers
are now begging bread. -
A commercial crash is imminent and
business stands still and trembles at tie
prospect.
The manufacturing interests Of the
nation are crippled and almost crushed.
The spindle is motionless; the shuttle
is silent; the forge and the furnace are
deserted; the workshop is vacant; the
mill is closed.
The hands of the artisan are unem.
ployed and empty; his children are
starving, homeless and in rags.
The impOverishment of the South,
throws the entire burden of tGrdtiOR
upsn the North and West.
The Southern States can render no
aid while the Government grinds them
with an iron heel.
If their people shared its benefits they
would be impelled to productive ac-
tivity.
As they partake only of its seventies
they could not support it If they would,
and so long as it itoFpresses them, ifthey
are fit to be- freemen, they would not
support it if they could.
THE CONGRESSIONAL PURPOSE.
| m l..1.-,.;a., or lo.l;n, pan,lE
cans in Congress, leave no room 10
doubt that the action Of that body has
been taken with reference To the future
of the Radical party, rather than the
unity of the American Republic.
The National Legislature has become
mere machine for the manufacture of
Radical majorities.
It's material is the worst and lowest
class of humanity, barely rescued from
the brutalities of the savage state, by
contact with civilization.
A valuable adjunct in the work is the
exclusion of white intelligence and ex-
perience from participation in the Gov.
ernment.
The guarantee of success is the red
right hand of the War Department.
. "A blbItIu W 10 bdoOu uHOh
stupidity, supported by bayOnets, and
designed to secure partisan triumphs
through the enslavement Of men of our
own race, may be instituted here through
force and fraud, but if IL can endure in
this land, the American people have
learned liberty to no purpose, and well
deserve to he taught its value under
that stern tutelage of tyranny which
awaits them in the future of Radical
supremacy.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
In its management of our financial af
fairs, the dominant party has enacted
the grOssest folly and injustice.
Repeated contractions of the currency
1 have caused incalculable commercial
disasters.
A still more dangerous measure OF
contraction is now proposed in the Sen
ate, by which the legal tenders are to
be withdrawn from circulation and re-
placed by interest bearing bonds.
If property aud business do not enter
an effective protest, the result Will be
little short of general ruin.
TIE NATIONAL DENT.
The National Debt amounts To -, 500
100000
1t cost the holders 81 ,25O,OOO.
The party in power would pay it in
gold, dollar for dollar.
They would give to the bOnd-holder q
currency, different from and bCtter than
that used by the people.
Specie for the money lenders and pa.
Por for the masses is the end of their
financial policy.
A discrimination so palpablc aud un'
fair is an insult to the popular sense OF
Justice.
By the terms of the act of issue
greenbacks are made legal tender .Jor
all debts, PUBLIC and private, except
duties on imports and interest on tho
public debt.
Even the soldiers of the Republic ac-
cepted paper as the price Of their tolls
and hardships.
Is the patriotism of cash more valu'
able than the public devotion which
fights, and bleeds, and dies.
Labor receives its wages in paper; the
products of the farm, the goods of the
merchant, professional fees, all prices
and values among the people, are paid
in paper.
Ii that kind of money is good for the
masses, good to buy all things from the
sweat of labor TO the blood Of valor
whv should not it suffice for the re-
demptiOn of the Federal securitics'
EXEMPTION OF THE BONDS.
Under Radical management, the
bonds are exempt from taxation. Re
ceiying from the Government the same
protection with other property, they
pay not a dollar TO its support.
Such exclusive privilege establishes
an aristocracy of money in the midst OF
n Republic of labor.
4 Toll is taxed; bonds are Exempt.
Toll produces; bonds consume.
Toll builds our public improvements
bondholders enjoy their benefits at no
cost.
Toll supports our schools; bondhold.
ers share their advantages and pay
nothing for the privilege.
Toll sustaiDs our Courts, pays ouI
Legislators and dofrays the general ex.
penses Of the Government. Bondhold.
ers partake of the blessings Of all and
contribute to the sustenance Of none.
A policy which makes labor so com
pletely tributary TO capital, is anti-re'
publican in its nature and grossly un'
Just in its effect upon the masses. We
greatly mistake the temper of the peo.
pie II they do no; demand that this
wrong be promptly righted, by such re-
peals and enactments as will compel all
property alike TO share the burdens OI
taxation.
The REVENUE SYSTEM.
Radicalism derives the bulk Of the
Federal revenue from home product,
and the DecessaTies Of life.
Over sixteen thousand articles, inclu'
ding almost everything that supports
life or lightsDs labor, are now the sub
jects Of taxation.
! Hence the great disparity between
wages and the cost Of living.
Frauds upon the revenue are another
characteristic Of the present system.
The laws are evaded. The officers are
bribed. The country is robbed.
| Over one hundred millions Of dollar.
were lost last year through downright
villainy, and the deficiencies Of wealthy
knayes must be made good by tOiIing
honestly.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
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