The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-07

dollars, but he was smart, anu
only issued four dollars and half worth
/ of them. So they were never presented
and never paid. And inasmuch as the
| Confederate treasury notes cannot be
presented st the time set for their pay
ment, they, likewise, can never be paid.
But even if this were not SO, there was
the Atm section ol the l4th Amendment 10
the U. 5. Constitution, which expressly
SAYS that not one dollar Of such debt,
or Of claims for emancipation, shall be
paid. That settled it, and showed the
flimsiness and audscity of the Radicals
in preferring such charges to the public.
Regarding Southern claims, OF which
80 much is said, VINO, he would ask, in
augurated and appointed commission to
examine into and pay such claims as
/ the said = commission should pass?
A Radical Congress and it alone. And
regarding the reports of intimidation in
the Southern States of which Radical
orators also pirate, he said look at the
facts. There were four thousand troops
in the South kept there what forf
Solely t. intimidate the Dhtte people
there and keep them from voting, while
the negroes we're permitted TO vote as
frequently as they pleased. 1t was the
white people of the South upon whom
intimidation was practiced, and not the
negroes. And if these four thousand
bayonets kept South for such in.
Limitations had been where they ought
TO have been, on the Western frontier,
the story OF Clusters fate would not to-
day be told in our ears. Every soldier
who died in that terrible ravine with
Custer was constant reproach on
the policy of the administration which,
instead of sending soldiers TO their res
cue which would have swept away these
savages like chsff before the wind, kept
them down South to control by force
sovereign States, and make them cast
their votes for a continuance OF Radical
ism. In those southern States where
| Democracy ruled there was no irtimida-
tIo.; no trouble; all was peaceful and
prosperous, and only where rsdicalism
was predominant did discord and trouble
exist.
Now, leaving these Radical orators, he
would proceed to discuss the first OF the
main questions to be answered, VIZ:
What snail we do TO relieve the business
depression OF the present time, which ex-
tends over the whole land2 Did you
ever know, said he, time when so many
men were out of employment, or were
working on half time? Did you ever
know Il to be so hard for capital
to find remunerative employment in
the productive industries of the country
! This was the same thing everywhere.
Even IN New York. where money Is
plenty, men we're idle, and business fall
ures were numerous. Now, Il these
things were so, and they cannot be de-
med, can any man say that our rulers
are not responsible? The Radical party
has had unlimited power for II years oil
peace yet these things exist, and by It's
bad management of our public affairs.
Now, in private lite, if we have an agent
who threatens TO ruin us by improperly
managing our business we know that
all we can do Is to turn him out. So it
was in our National life. The rulers ale
our agents. They have clearly not prop
erly looked after our interests, and we
are threatened with ruin and bank
ruptcy. Therefore common sense says
| turn them out.
The Senator then spoke about the enor-
nous taxation which oppresses the peo-
pie, itself prime cause OF the hard
! times. What, he asked, are taxes
They are payments made to the govern
ment from the proceeds OF our earnings,
and if more are imposed than is neces-
sary, It is reduction of our earnings by
the government which is sure 10 bring
distress. What had the people paid TO
the Radical government in taxes since
the war? The enormous sum OF forty-
i've thousand million dollars, and adding
local and municipal taxes, which amount
to three thousand million more, 1t is seen
that the people have paid out seren
thousand million dollars in tdrdttOn alone,
or the sum OF Sl8 per head per annum
for every man, woman and child IN the
United States.
The speaker then exhibited in its true
light the subject of
INDIRECT TAXATION.
Many people have an idea that they
are not taxed, because they say they
never see the tax collector. They say
how are..we taxed; we have never met
nor known the collector, nor have any
of our friends met him? That is very
pertinent question, and one which ought
to be answered. And the answer ls
that consumers pay taxes on everything
they consume. Suppose" said he, 81
own a house which can be rented one
year at $500 per year and a fair rate Of
interest on the capital invested be real
lied. The next year 500 OF tax
is placed on the property; |
Immediately go 10 my tenant, aud say to
him, Il can no longer rent the house at
$500; you must pay me 5000" So the
tenant pays the tax in the first instance.
But it does n ot stop there, by any means.
The tenant puts thst 800 OF tax on
every article he sells. and so when the
consumer buys from him anything, from
paper of pins to suit OF clothes, he, the
purchaser and consumer, has 10 pay his
share of that tax.
In this way the distinguished speaker
proceeded, in u practical, concise and
convincing manner, to illustrate his sub
ject, and he did 1t fully aud completely,
10 the satisfaction OF all who heard
him, and showing as he went
that it was this very indirect
taxation which every man bad TO pay on
the clothes be wore or the cigars be
smoked, which caused the present en-
barrsssment and hard times He also
showed how that distress Vas aided and
sbetted By Radical Congress IN the 60
called Resumption act, and by their de-
nonetization OF silver. The first by un-
settling values, and causing the capitalist
10 be afraid to invest his means, and the
second by virtual increase Of the pub
lie debt millions and millions Of dollars.
He then proceeded TO discuss
THE SECOND QUESTION
before him, viz: How shall We banish
the corruption which tslns and dis
graces the American name before the
world? Radical orators, such as Morton,
49, go bava tho ntIrest Government the