Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-28
A Congress Of sapheads and Robbers.

The Chicago EUeRing Post, a Radical
is rather severe on Congress,
and publishes the following editorial under
the above caption:
"Mr. David A. Wells writes to a i.
Stewart that the amount OF 1ndebtedness
from this country to Europe has increased
in The last fiscal year, one hundred ana
ffty-seven millions; and that the aggre-
rate amount now owing to foreign capltal-
lists by the general and various lorms Oh
local government, the railroads works
of internal improvements, Is notices. tnsn
fifteen hundred millions Of dollarsi
THE apheadsin Congress are the mem
bers, mainly from the West and South,
who do not know that the prosperity of
their respective sections OF the country is
greatly hindered by the taxes on agricul-
ture-the special industry of their constit-
uents-imposed by the unprecedented
tariff on imports; and the Robbers are
those who, being interested in the various
forms of monopoly created by the tariff,
made use of their position in the House
or Senate to vote the money out OF tne
pockets of the masses of the people into
their own, under the lying pretense tnaS
they are protecting American i11us!lS.
WThese two classes in the National
JeOislature are in the ascendant; and
though from them jointly it is probable
that certain concessions will be wrung
for the amelioration of the condition of
agriculture, mining, marine pursuits, and
hired labor, it is now certain that no
change at all adequate to the demands OF
the country will be made; hence, that the
tariff schedule, as it now stands on the
statute book, will substantially be sus-
tanned. The fact that that schedule is at
once the cause of wonder and OF abhor
renee to all enlightened men who desire
the advancement of good and just gov
ernment; that a scheme for taxation OF
equally atrocious u~nfairness does not eise-
where exist in the civilized world that1t
is almost an irresistible incentive to fraud
and perjury on the part of importers, and
of unprecedented smuggling over all our
territorial boundaries; that it is the most
understandable of all human. contriv-
ances in its details, every one of which is a
encouragement to honesty in commerce
that it covers all the wide area between
q free list and a protective duty of
$40 per cent; that it thrusts itself into
every man. affairs, covering, as 1t does,
nearly 1000 articles, when imposts on
twenty-five commodities (mainly those
not produced in this country with a fur
ther duty on everything imported-a duty
equal to the sum of the. internal revenue
tax on what is made in this country
would suffice to yield all the revenue and
afford all the protection that we ought to
have from thai source; that 1t calls into
existence a horde of dishonest and inca
paDle OuClal5 anu q SIcdb army VI SpAos5
by whom the patience of the people is
abused that it has been again and again
demonstrated as plainlya as that two and
two make four, that a new, plain, simple,
honest, equal, woodworking, anti snug
Cling and cheap system of doing what
now is done with great cost, infinite
bungling, shocking debauchment of pub
lie morals and notorious ineflciency, may
be had for the asking,-an these facts are
of no avail. The Robbers are clutching
their plumber; and the Sapheads are grin-
ming with a foolish Consciousness of
knowing nothing of what they do The
work of despoiling helabor of a great ma
finn COaa on