The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-02

receipts and expenditures, rkiek also in
clude all receipts from sales of captured
and abandoned property, cOnfscations,
prizes, sales Of fuartermGsters' stores, and
other property, sales Of Icar veSsels, 9'e.,
&C., items which do not appear in the
Registers accounts as published, and which
items during the past three years, with
the back receipts and expenditures have
averaged nearly fifty million dollars a
year.
In respect to the enormous gratuity
to manufacturers at the last session, it
is only to be said that haG not Congress
done thus much for them they would
have revolted, as they threatened from
the Radical party. True, agricultural
lists, mechanics, and laborers have to
make up the deficit, but they had no
pompous agents with well-lined pocket
books to operate upon Congressman in
their behalf The bill should have been
opposed by every means and device
known to parliamentary proceedings.
1t should have never passed into legis-
lative form without fall exposure of its
enormities. Think of it, men of toll,
that q gratuity of S50,000,000 a year
was given Outright to the nanufactur-
ers who, during the war, heaped up
their gains to mountain heights, and
were thus enabled to purchase Gov
ernment securities at from forty to sixty
cents on the dollar, bearing gold inter
est on the full dollar. If the infamous
bill was passed through menace of the
manufacturers of leaving the Radical
party, why shoald not the laborer,
mechanic and farmer adopt retaliatory
measuresi The latter interests, in
view of the situation, ought to rebel as
one man from the party of the corrupt
Congressional rump.
OF course, under the operation of the
bill referred to, the revenues for ex-
cises diminish and the public debt be-
comes augmented. The deficiency bill
at the next session will be frightful.
Meantime all other interests except
manufactures must be taxed well on to
500, 100000 a year to make up the
gratuity to the former. The outrage
was hideous beyond any other thing
that our legislation records.
The national debt is now kept down
by refusing to do justice to public
creditors, thousands upon thousands OF
whom are now in want because the
Government will not pay them their
just dues. To keep up the policy of the
negro party to enslave the whites OF
the South, great deal of really neGes-
sary legislation is denied to the people.
All this in order that Congress may
purchase support for themselves, or the
corrupt Radical party, by giving $780,
100000 q year to manufacturers by
taking off their taxes. Some day the
debt will work up to SI,000,0O0, 600,
when the Government shall have done
its whole duty in the respects we
have referred to. Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens
often set the figures at 5000 .0OO, 900, in
which, we take it, he included State,
city county and town war debts. We
are not quite sure, however, Oh this
head, as he did not speak of them as
to carry up the debt to S5,O0O,
100000. But let the toiling masses
think of what the Government burden
of taxation will be if the Radical policy
of paying principal in gold is to be the
law of the country. The interest on the
last named sum at present average
rates would be yearly, in
gold, S300,00O,000.
1t is clear, then, as we stated yes
terday, that we stand on the brink
of precipice, and at the bot
tom of the dark abyss will be
found, under the Radical policy, finan-
cial bankruptcy and national disgrace.
Indeed nothing can save us from i'm
pending ruin but an immediate change
of rulers and policy. Elect one more
Radical Congress, sustained by Radi-
cal Executive, and national repudiation
is inevitable. The people can change
he position by change of policy, as
indicated by the elections this fall.
After that IL wiH be Too late.