Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-05
TARIFF AND BONDS.
Our platform should be simply

FREE TRADE AND GREENBACKS FOR
BOND HOLDERS AT ONCE, NOW AND
FOREVER, WITH DIRECT TAXATION
FOR NATIONAL AS WELL AS STATE
GOVERNMENTS.
Let the people adopt this simple
platform, and nothing else, and talk
about nothing else. This viii unite
the working, tax paying people every
where, who viii rise in their might
and crush out the villainOus schemes
of these WOUld-be aristOcrats and oil
garChists, whose sole object is to rob
and plumber the people. Correct these
two great evils, and all the others will
correct themselves. Suffer yourselves
not to be switched of this track.
The natiOnalt tax al be assessed and
collected at the same time and in the
same way that the State and county
taxes are collected, and not cost an adj
ditiOnal cent, and in the same way
pass into the State treasury, subject to
the order Of the Federal treasurer.
Pay these bonds of at once with
greenbacks. We bring three thousand
million Of dollars into circulatiOn-the
amount absolutely required by the
country.
Then with free trade, we not only
get all goods cheaper, choice of people
and markets tJ trade with, but curtaiI
the expenses of Government about
One-ffth, in absolute money paid out
for salaried offices, who in many cases
do not collect as much from customs
as they are paid, and at the same
time decrease the opportunity for cor
ruptiOn.
The amount of money the people
are robbed of every year through and
by the tariff would in two or three
years pay of the national debt and
the people would get rich by doing it
by tree trade and direct taxation. AS
it is, the people of this country are
working for two classes Only-the bond
holders and manUfacturers-and never
can pay the debt.
IT was to prevent this great principle
Of free trade that the war was made
and forced on the South, and if we
failed in the field, we can now triumph
with the ballot box, for the great
question comes home directly to the
pockets Of all sections, for all are
robbed and plUndered alike in the
name Of liberty and free government.
" ALA q VIZ aAA4AG AALA0 hAaA EaE AUH@
eminent they are building up a
bOndhOlding ~aristOcracy and manu-
featuring Oligarchy more powerful and
dangerous than are the crowned
heads Of Europe, and leveling the
people down, as there, to the condition
OF mere serfs, peasantry or plebians,
OF any other name they see proper to
give the people, for it all means the
same to them.
The millions are taxed, and working
for the few, and itremains for the peo7 /
pie to decide for themselves (for the
politicians are against yOu) it
remains to be seen whether
OF not they viii submit to still fur
Their tyranny and degradation. or
overthrow it through the ballot box
at the next Presidential election.
The South is master OF the situation.
and, if true to herself, can with safety
make the move which will without a
result in restoring to the whole
country that which we failed through
seas Of blood in securing to ourselves.
Thus through our sectional defeat we
will achieve a great national victory,
for by that defeat the only cause was
removed thatcOuld ever come between
destroy the mutual councils Of these
two great free trade, agricultural sec
tioDs, the South and West, whose
power must now be united, and can
control the future policy Of the Federal
Government.
We Wanta Well-knOWn and avOWed
free Irader-a mau who has not only
MADE his mark, not as q political
trlckster OF gold stock jobber, but as
athoroughs commercial, practical BUSH
ness man, and a who is beyond
want and above suspicion-one who
would not 60 into Office a beQoar and
retire a polluted millionaire: but
one who, by strict attention to an
honest and honorable business, has
made his fortune and can afford "a re-
tire from the White House Ieavino
everything Ia tact-a gentleman,
VOx PoPULI.