Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-22

Internal Revenue...,,................ S4,S99, ,756
Direct 9,lOS
Postage. lB,llSSzI
Public $3.50, 1852
Repsyments, largely from sales
of war material al......... ......,.., 69, zoe. .667
Premium on loans and sales Of
Gold so44
Miscellaneous. 1892 157
Total......................... 500, ,22s, 1856
Where do these sums go to? Ask
your Baileys, your Hodges, your in
ternal revenue collectors, your Cres-
well whisky rings, your cabinet sell
ing executive, applausel your swind-
ling government officials that fatten
of the sweat of the outraged peoplei
1Applause1 From 1892 to 1860 our
net revenue taxes were only 81, 1872,
SIG, 1888, in sixty-eight years, during
which we bought Florida, California,
Louisiana, paid of the old war debt,
and conquered Mexico, applausel
handing over TO the radical admins
tratiOn ST ,055, ,077l The war was
over in 1866. From July, 1865, to July,
1871, through six years of peace we
have WrHng 1886, ,4l3,97S from the
people in taxes sensationl, and now
owe e., 8O0, ,000, 900 Of debt. Six years
of Grantism costing more than sixty
eight years Of WashingtOnism.
A HARSH PICTURE.
All the world and the rest of man.
kind will pour in supplies to Chicago
for ten days. But even ten millions is
only a hundred dollars each for the
hundred thousand homeless Chicago
ans, sensation that cannot rebuild
Chicago. Fashion is contagious. /
frankly admit sent my contribution
because il was fashionable laughter |.
But as all donations commence with
dollars and end in cents, in few days
the Chicago-M Moscow will be only a
nine days WonderI ALI charities are
selfish. Bonner subs0ribes 10 catch
the papers. Clews the National
Banks. Jay Cooke the national loan,
and st. Louis to catch the Chicago
trade, sensation at these self evident
truths. No small disaster attracts
the benevolent now? What though
the wilderness is on fire in the Green
Bay country? What though a thou
sand burned cOrpses are in the morgue
at Maistee and PeshtigO? sensation |.
ber is wiped out by the FIRE e-flend. No
body thinks Of this, for. Chicago is all
the fashion, and thousands OF nonen-
titles viii get their names in the jour
mails, [applause1. While new ring
will be formed in Chicago out of the
fund, and all the committees will be
quarelllng over the spoils, IsensatiOn
and applause.
HE PRoPHEsIEs.
Mol Chicago for many years, If ever,
car never be as old. That's so. The
city was an aecident-the accident OF
government fort and a system Of
prairie and lake unknown before. 1t
was situated in swamp, and period
ically has been raised TO shut out Lake
Michigani Laughter. The stencil
of its putrid rivers was miasma, ma
Iaria, DEATH SensatiOn. Its grave.
wards are as well stocked as those Of
New Orleans, where rest all my FAM
ilv. or that tofL,One Mountain cemetery,
San Francisco, which Californians
count In the CENSUS. Laughter. No
one at one time was allowed TO vote
there who had not the ague. Laugh
ter Chicago, like adultery, was the
right thing in the wrong place. 1t
was built up by eastern capital that
was never returned when the panic
of tifty-seven smashed fifteen hundred
banksl ISensation.1 The Chicago
people were rich in what they owed.
In the midst OF life they were In debt.
| daughter. They had always lived
| OF of other people, making Chicago a
| mn arol,ouaa for IUnafoPn grain and nro.
visions, and bank Of deposit for all