The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-16

The Chicago EWaiR7 Post, q Radical
newspaper, Is rather severe ON Congress,
aud publishes The following editorial under
the above caption
"Mr. David A. Wells writes 10 A. r.
Stewart that the amount of Indebtedness
from this country 10 Europe has increased
In the last fiscal year, one hundred and
ATTY seven millions; aud that the aggre.
gate amount now owing 20 foreign capital.
lets by The general and various forms OF
local government, the railroads and works
Of internal Improvements, Is not less than
fifteen hundred millions Of dollars
'rhe Sapheadsin Congress are the men,
bar3, mainly from the West and South,
who do not know that the prosperity of
their respective sections of the country is
greatly hindcred 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 the
pockets of the masses of the people into
their own, under the lying pretense that
they are protecting American industry
"These two classes in the National
LegisIatYre are in the ascendant; and
though7r 20 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, ~ 1t nov 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
eminent; that a scheme for taxation of
equally atrOGious unfairness does not else
where exist in the civilized world that 1t
is almost an irresistible incentive to fraud
and peri Try on the part of importers, and
Of unprecedented smuggling over all our
territorial boundaries; that it is the most
unstatosmaulikc Of all human oontriv-
ances in its details, every one Of which is q
disecuragement to honesty in commerce
that it covers all the wide area between
y free list and o protective duty Of
$40 per cent; that it thrusts itself into
every mans affairs, covering, as it does,
nearly 1000 articles, when imposts on
twenty-five commodities (mainly those
not produced In this country with a fur,
Their duty on everything imported 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 that source; that it calls into
existence q horde of dishonest and inca.
pablo officials and a great army of spies,
by whom the patience of the people Is
abused that il has been again and again
demonstrated as plainly 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
hungling, shocking debauchment of pub.
lie morals and notorious ineflciency, may
be had for the asking,--all these facts are
Of no avail. The Robbers are clutching
their plumber; and the Sspheads aregrin,
ming with q foolish consciousness of
knowing nothing of what they dol The
I work of despoiling the labor Of a great ma
ton goes ON