The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-12
COLUMBIA, S. G.
Thursday Morning, June IL. 1878.

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Thursday Morning. June IL, 1878.
TIE GRANaEs.-Whilst Grant, with
his fraudulent agents and bsyonets. is
trying to make close political mono
poly Of half dozen Southern States, to
further his Presidential and Radical in
tsrests, a rebellion against his policy has
broken out in the Western States. From
shutting up the South for his party inte-
rests. he and his party have also shut up
the West, to be prey to the monopo-
lists OF the East. The East keeps the
toll-gates; aud with the Government of
the United States its toll collector, it
levies, tribute out OF the people of the
West by all possible instrumentalities of
e1action.s Here is the declaration put
forth by the farmers OF Livingston
County, Illinois:
"This Organization is opposed TO rail-
road steals, tariff steals, salary grab
steals, bank steals, and every other form
OF :hicvings By which the farming and
Aboring GLASSES are robbed of the legisi-
And they put forth the following spe-
cifacations Of their policy in eluoidation
OF their general declaration:
80 The control of railroad corpora
tions OF the State by law.
80. Submission to direct taxation and
duties to meet the necessities OF the Go
vernment, but opposition to taxation for
the benefit of privileged CLASSES.
~. That the banking system should
be open alike to all men giving proper
security and complying with Law.
.:5. Opposition to all land ,grants to
corporations.
''6. Reform OF the civil service, by
making honesty and capacity the only
valid claims for public employment.
The Chicngo Times. in discussing this
movement, speaks as follows:
"In declaring for the freedom prinoi-
pie. they have gone down to the bed
rock of iustioe and right, and by their
resolution to build on that foundation,
they have spoken to the whole country
will not turn back. In declaring for the
freedom principle, they proclaim hos
tility against injustice, robbery, extor-
ton and spoliation in every Imaginable
form. For, as an able writer upon the
subject well says, the purpose OF fFee
trade is not the Adjustment of duties by
this or that standard, but the restoration
OF the very funntion;of government to its
legitimate sphere Free traders hold that
it is no part OF ithe hnbiness OF govern.
ment, which represents the whole ma
tion, and not class or individual, to use
its powers for the banefit of anything
short of the Mhble nation. It does, when
1t begins to legisiate about interest and
not about principle. When it under.
takes to develop industry, as it 'is called,
or to encourage trade, or promote the
arts, instead OF maintaining Justice and
liberty for every mani opens the door
to all the schemes OF plnnder and all the
corrupt practices which'are deplored as
the peculiar iniquities Of the times.
"a tidal wave OF corruption seems to
have swept over tbs land since the war:
but what is it that gave the first impulse
to the wave2 what set it'in motion ami
has kept it in motion? Why, the pro-
tectionist pretext that government is q
mere dispensary Of bounties, a regulator
OF interests. q manipulation of jobs, not
simply aud only the defender of univer.
sal and individual rights. II Legislators
may make laws for q class, they may
make them for indivduals-for them
selves. as in the late pay-swindle; and
they may justify the practice on the
same grounds that protective tariffs are
justified. Never, i1 our opinion, shalt
we get rid of corruption in Legislative
halls and in bureaus until the people get
to sound notions Of the rightfu duties
of government, and demand of their SER
wants tho most rigid adherence to them.
The Twceds and Oakes Ameses, and the
salary thieves. and the corporate extor
tionists, whose practices ws dsplofe,
are no more than the pernioous policy
OF protection Hourishng till it has gone
to seed"
FOREIGN LEaAc1Es. One OF the great
sources of income to New York and
London eharpers and pettifoggers, is the