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

Thursday Morning. June IL. 1873.
THE ORANGES. 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, rebellion against bis policy has
broken out in the Western States. From
shutting up the South for his party inte-
rests. he nnd his party have also shut up
tho West, to bo prey to the. monopo-
lists OF the East. The East keeps the
toll-gates; and with the Government of
the United States its toll collector, it
levies tribute out of the people Of the
West by all possible instrumentalitics of
exaction. Here is the declaration put
firth by the farmers Of Livingston
County, Illinois:
"This organization is opposed to rail
road steals, tariff steals, salary-prab
steals, bank steals, and every other form
of thieving, by which the farming and
laboring Glasses are robbed of the Ieg l.
mate fruits of their labor"
And they put forth the following spe-
cifications of their policy in eluciaation
Of their general declarations:
''2 The control of railroad corpora
lions OF the State by law.
SO. Submission to direct taxation and
duties to meet the necessities of the Go
vernment, but opposition to taxation for
the benefit OF privileged classes.
81. That the banking avatem ehould
be open alike to all men giving proper
security and complying with law.
"5. Opposition to all land grants to
corporations.
&c. Reform OF the civil service, BY
making honesty and capacity the only
valid claims for public employment.
The Chicago Times. in discussing this
movement, speaks as follows:
I'm declaring for the freedom princi-
pie. they have gone down to the bed
rock of justice and right, and by their
resolution to build on that foundation,
they have spoken to the whole country
the keynote OF political revolution that
freedom principle, they proclaim hos
tility against injustice, robbery, extor-
tion and spoliation in every Imaginable
form. For, as an able writer upon the
subject Well ssy6, the purpose of free
trade is not the adjustment of duties by
this or that standard, but the restoration
OF the verS function of government to its
Legitimate sphere. Free traders hold that
1t is no part OF the business of govern.
ment, which represents the whole ma
tion, and not a class or individual, to use
its powers for the benefit OF anything
short of tue whole nation. It does, when
1t begins to legislate about interest and
not about principle. Whom it undor.
takes to develop industry, as it is called,
or to encourage trade, or promote the
arts. instead Of maintaining justice and
liberty for every man, it opens the door
to all the schemes Of plunder and all the
corrupt practices which IRE deplored as
the peculiar iniquities of the times.
"a tidal wave OF corruption seems to
have swept over the land since the war:
but what is it that gave the first impulse
to the wave? what set it in motion and
has kept it in motion? Why, the pro.
tectlonlst pretext that government is o
mere dispeIsary of bounties. a regulator
Of interests. manipuiator of Jobs, not
simply aud only the defender of univer.
sal and individual rights. II Legislators
may make laws for cass, they may
make them for indiyiduals-for them
selves, as in the late pay .swintlle; and
they may justify the practice on the
same grounds that protective tariffs are
justified. Never, in our opinion, shall
We get rid of corruption in Legislative
halls nnd III bureaus until the people get
to sound notions of the rightful 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 we deplore, ;
are no more than the pernicious policy
OF protection aourishiDg till it has gone
to seed"
FOREIGN LEoAcIEs. One Of the great
sonrces OF income to New York and
London eharpers and peti:foggcrs. is the
foreign legacy dodge. Some immensely