The daily gazette., 1875-10-18

the State banks to supply the deficien-
cy with notes of their own. During
the suspension of 1887 Van Buren, met
the necessities of the time by issuing
Treasury post notes, as Madison had
done before him. In 1841 Governor
Porter and Democratic Legislature
OF Pennsylvania saved the people from
a general smash by causing a large
issue of 'relief notes" The Demo
cracy never has been mad enough to
crafty its aversion to paper money by
letting the busin 8 of the country die
of mere inanition.
R.-But the taxes on lands are not
paid to the State. The fraudulent alb.
straction from the funds of the com.
monwealth are not made up by the
agricultural laborer.
Judge B.-You are greatly mis-
taken. The officers Of the State do
not evade their responsibility to the
working ella = by not handliug the
land taxes. There are other sources
OF revenue applicable to all public pur.
poc0] J, such as taxes on corporations,
taverns, trade, manufactures, com.
merco, sc. Ali these are exhausted to
support the corrupt extravaganza of the
Federal and State governments, and
the whole burden of supporting the
court7, poor houses, jails, roads,
| bird res, &c, is thrown upon land and
the labor which cultivates it, II the
Federal Government had always been
conducted honestly and economically,
and if the State had not been robbed
of its productive property, neither one
nor the other would have required any
taxation to support it, and all the taxes
uow consumed by both of them might
then have been used for the reliet of
agricultural industry, or at least the
corporations and capitalists might have
| llghtencd the burdens of the farmers
by sharing them. Thus you see that
when the Treasury OF the State or the
| Union is robbed, the pockets of the
farmers are inevitably picked to make
up the loss. Land and labor ultimately
pay everything.
R.-Gou talk like q granger.
Judge B.-I believe the "Patrons OF
| Husbandry" object to swindles and
shams, and SO far at least l am like
them.
RS the"labor" movement coming
to anything?
Judge BIT has great numerical
strength, but as yet it has exerted no
moral influence outside of its own
body. All conscientious men admit
that the artificial regulations of our
social system are in favor of capital
and increase the natural disadvantage
of labor, The rich become richer and
the poor poorer. The miners and many
of the manufacturing worKmen are
conscious of being more and more
enslaved every day, and they struggle
in vain TO throw off the yoke. Many
of their leaders are men of ability, hut
none of them seem to see their way out
of this bondage or to suggest any feasi-
BILE remedy for the evils they suffer.
Perhaps there is no remedy. Perhaps
civilized society cannot exist without
giving one class the power to eat up
another, and men are cannibals by "a
divine thrusting on" At all events
the labor party proposes nothing fea-
sible that know of. Itsimply thrashes
about like blink giant mad with hum
lger.
! R.-What would you advise them to
ldos
Judge B.-I am not their adviser
They have never consulted me, and
of course would not take my advice if
had the presumption to volunteer it.
But in the present state of my informa-
tion the subject is as dark to me as to
them. Something will have to be
ldone, but what that something shall
be is just as difficult a question as the
American people have to solve.