The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23
..l.2i7 $50 BOP zs2a % -eii. sos .sOs ss' as
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'Io this table, .s in the preceding t.. vir
gins aud West Virginia are treated ~ enc. for the
sake Of comparison with $50.
EFFECTS OF cARPET-BAo RuLK.
Do not al zee that this fnghtful prostitution
of industry, this stsgnasion Of enterprise. thil
destruction Of values must affect the whole
country? We are driving industry from ON
richest region, because industry thefO canno,
pay its taxes. Will capital ever seah land
where local government lie little better than Z
machine for wholesale confscation? Can Z
people 20 hopeless and impoverished buy and
selll Strip from the people Of any State nearly
all their personal property BY war. and then
by misgovcmment impose taxes which eat up
all possible gains Of industry. and rob real
estate Of half its value, and can Won expect
them to thrive and maintain profitable inter.
course with others2 1t il no light thing that
the country suffers lose Of productive power
measured BY decrease Of GOO, 900 in acrss,
and e662, O0O, 600 in value Of improved farms
. sum one.third - large as our whole bonded
debt AK Eastern manufacturer, ask the
merchants Of our great commercial cities,
whether il enriches them to have the peop,s
of nine great states impoverished and their
industry strangled? To us in the Northwest
this il . matter Of serious personk concern.
Along the great river. the main artery of our
continent, there should be maintained the
most profitable interchange of products
supplement and bensfit each other By mutuh
exchange Of fruits Of industry, together pray
that no plunderer shall come between them.
consuming BY taxes and robbery the sub.
stance Of either, and separating those whom
God hath joined. But how can States % I'M.
poverished and FRUSTRATED bear their part in
this natural and benefcent commerce? Does
your wheat wander far across the ocean seek.
ing purchaserS Do your grain and cattle
fail in pricei An emancipaisd South would
neither lack immigration nor capital. ability to
consume nor means to purchase. Not only
justice, but even personal self-intereet impele
us to desire that reconciliation. that revival Of
local self-govesnmsut, that resurn Of genuine
peace which may free the South of xuel bur
dsns, invite industry and wealth, and revive
between Month and south q commerce greater
and moro bene6cent than ever
These are the results Of Grantism in those
States were the peculiar peacs which he gives
us has been most fxmly established. n the
picture is black, ii Is because the facts are
blsck. But you will ask how such Govern
ments a these came to be established, in the
name Of peace and in the name of Republican
ism, anywhere on the American TERRITORY.
Thank Heaven, such growths have not been
Indigenous to our soil. Hitherto, We have
Whence came these poisonous and final
weeds Where did We get the seed Of these
Governments, not Of the people, for the peo-
pie, nor by the people Did we bring it from
the shadow Of personal government in France?
Already. when Gen. Grant came into
power, attempts to maintain local govern
ments By. fore had begun 70 bear hitter fruit
The people saw 1t. They elected him because
he promised, instead Of war and itS methods,
peace and its local freedom; instead Of force,
reconciliation. Bot he lacked knowledge and
experience. He did not know that the Repub,