The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-14
COMMISSIONER WELLS.
From the New York Post

Congress having failed to renew the
office Of Special Commissioner Of Reve-
nue., it expired Friday by the limitation
of the act which created it; and thus one
of the ablest, most conscientious and most
useful officers that ever served the repub-
lie. one who has won the confidence Of
the mass of the people in an extraordina
~ degree, and whose name has become a
terror to monopolists, is sent into retire
ment
What the most influential Republican
ioul nails in all parts of the country think
of this matter, in which the President
and Mr.. Boutwell, are more to blame than
Congress, we have shown by extracts day
after day. To-day We print several more
ofthese.
Mr.. Wells has during four years per
formed inestimabie service for the coun-
try. He has patiently and skllfully in
vestIgated the sources of our prosperity,
and his reports, which have been circu-
lated and read by hundreds of thousands,
have shown the people, year by year.
where lay the burdens, the oppression of
which they felt and feel,
His work was done so honestly, so fair.
", so ably many of his conclusions adj
verse to protection were reached with
such evident unwillingness by himself ;
he had in such perfection the art of clear
statement, and was so evidently honest
ana painstakiDg, that the mass of the
people presently began to read and
study his reports and to Mr.. Wells be-
longs the credit of making a tax report
popular, and inducing whole nation to
study political economy.
The monopolists have succeeded in
quitting out the light" They have tax
en- care,that not another of those terrible
official reports of Mr. Wells shall worry
them. AS Special Commissioner, Mr.
Wells can no longer throw light for the
neople. upon the schemes of the salt, iron,
steel, copper or wool monopolists. The
rrotectionists have determined that the
people shall not be instructed in that
which concerns them so vitality.
Rut Mr.. Wells is not silenced; nor
will the people suffer him to remain in
retirement. We hear that as soon as it
became probable that he would not con.
Time in office. he received, from all parts
of the country urgent requests to lecture
before lyceunis, in cities, towns and vii
lagos to tell thespeoplc more in detail
about the wrongs and abuses which he
has 50 faithfully exposed Mr.. Wells is
an admirable speaker, and he cannot Go
the country better service than to de
vote himself to a popular exposure ofthe
mismanag cement of our tax system, in
which the instances are often laughably
absurd, and yet oftener Of q kind tomove
indignation.
Mr.. Wells takes with him, on his re-
tirement, the thanks of the great MAORI
ty of both Houses of Congress, expressed
in letter which is signed by the best
and ablest members of the House and
Senate. He has already the confidence
and esteem OF the people, andkwe be-
lieye that his labor in the great cause of
revenue reform will be as dilligent, and
perhaps even more effective, hereafter;
and that with him for their leader and
adviser the Revenue Reformers will car
~ this fall majority of the next Con1l
.freas. and thus press this reform to q tri-
umphant success.