The Placer herald., 1871-08-26
RADICAL POLICY.
sPec'Hi Legislation and rpntion--Eoh
bing the People and Destroyinx the states.


ping the People and Destroy ing the states.
All subsidies are secured by acts of special
legislation. Special legislation, therefore, and
not subsidy, would perhaps, be a better term to
designate this bane of Radical rule. Now, what
ever the opinions OF members of that party here
may De, there is no gainsaying the fact that with
the leaders of the party at Washington, two
lines of policy as distinctly marked out as the
course OF the sun through the Heavens; one is
by acts of special legislation to centralize the
wealth OF the country in the hands of few men:
ana the other, to centralize the local powers OF
the States in the general government. What is
'ne tariff, the pet measure of that party at Wash.
in9ton, but an act of special legislation, for the
oeneht OF manufacturing companies at the ex-
pshse of the people of the whole country? 1t is
ciied tariff if to blind the masses: it is simp-
iy' however. nothing less than tax imposed
upon tha consumer, and paid, no. into the Ma
uonal Treasury, but to the corporations At the
las' session of Congress they refused to repeal
the odous income tay: for having, By their high
'iin duties, cat oii .eign importations, those
income exactions must BE- imposed to mako up
what is lost to the nation, and paid to the cor
norants. Were the tariff rates. as now fixed
collected directly in money, other taxes are,
ITS barefaced robbery would be appalling. More
money is wrenched from the people by the in
sldious working OF the tariff, than perhaps by all
other subsidies combined; and the rascality OF
the measure is that it gives the money to cor
poratlons aud not to the government. To tax
The people to dofray the necessary expenses OF
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parahy q few men, is wrong, unjust and down
right robbery.
Akin to this is the National Banking system
special-leg Station, subsdizng taxing process,
previously unknown in the history of the country
The money Of the people is loaned to the banker
upon his deposit of government bonds--he uses
the money thus borrowed, and instead of payne
interest to the government, the government pays
The interest ON his bonds to him. The system
changes the ordinary rule as to the party paying
interest Here the government, the lender, pays
the interest to the banker, the borrower. and as
this interest is collected from the people, the
woole country is taxed for the benefit of these
banks.
Railroad and steamship subsidies are awarded
By acts of special legislation, and millions upon
millions stolen from the people in this way.
Now, how just these measures ire. Why
should one class of men be made rich by the
bestowal of millions, AMI others be made poor
by paying it? Are those favored scoun, ,rel, bet
ter mel than you--have they any better right to
rob you than you have to rob them lis it less
than robbery to take your money and give it to
another that he may whistle while you starve {:
This is no cxaggeration. The tlrif the Natona
Banhiay steamship and railroad subsidies tend
directly 10 these results. They are prime meas
ures Of the Radical chiefs ut Washington, plum
dering the people and gathering into their own
cribs the harvest of the nation.
The absorption of the local power il evidenced
in the Congressional repeal of our Chinese tax.
That we. as a State, had the power to exact this
tax was never question d. nor the matter eve,
interfered with until the usurpers asce ended tho
throne. Now, what Eaye they done They
have wiped the law from our Gtatute boo'ls-they
say: "Cu1ne, ChinaInan, )>'ene and part,ilse o.
our fields OF gold and silver free of charge, and
if any Am erican man, as Jackson of Trinity,
bother You take him before or Fadsfa} courts.
as ,ce hare Yrcciied, and we Will make him smart
for 5 ianelity, Gorham is your friend, and W;
like Gorhan. We made him Secretary of tie
Senate, you know, because he your friend
Booth helped hiJa too, and he is now helping
Booth, grateful man as he is, and SO kind to you.
Senator Nye put in good word for you too, thu
other evening ut San Francisco, when he talked
heap big talk. SO be Of good cheer, John, there
is a good time coming. You can stand it a little
while now, tie license and passenger + is out o.
the way and we don't sec how they can tax yoa
any other way very much.
We might extend this article AMI show that by
divers other measures, the powers at Washington
are fast absorbing the powers Of the States, and
packing them off as many Cinnamon. This
solitary instance of federal oncroachmont how
ever, ough. TO be enough to satisfy any thinking
man that the time is coming, and now is, when
the 5tates arc but so many provinces, lashed
ard controlled by the central power.