The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1876-02-23
7dXATi0N ar TIE ROOT OF
TROUBLES.

TROUBLES.
II Is ascertaincd BY careful calculation
that the increase Of taxation for the whole
country since the war, for State purposes
alone, is l5s per cent higher than it was
before the war. How much the national
taxation has increased. any one may infer
By recalling the subjects Of taxation which
previous to The war were free, MS for M
stance tobacco and whiskev, which are the
largest items of internal revenue for the
support Of the national government. 1.-THE
taxation Of the Southern States for State
expenses we're taken alone We would find
that the per ccntage Of increase would run
much higher than l5S per celt. For tue
debt Of every State has been increased BY
radical Legislatures in every State from
800 to . thousand per cent, and while ma
~ Of these debts stand ~ q condition. 81
contemplation BY rcasonof their palpa,
be ini9uity, many Of them are held 70 be
binding, anltaxes are levied u psy the IN,
terest thereon. And wnat holds good Of
States. holds good OF Counties. So that
between taxation @ support the Natioupl
Government. 10 maintain the State govern
inents and 10 meet County expenses, the
people hare the very life blood squeezed
out of them.
sTAFE AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS FAR
TALLY RELIEVED.
la the Counties aud the States. some
steps have been taken towards relief The
Republican party b. is rapacity and its
dishonesty has cyerresehei itself, and IN
number Of States has been overthrow, and
a system Of economy aud reform entered
uyon which viii eventually reduce espeu-
ses within lcierable limits. The samemay
be said Of County governments. which are
gradually being reduced to sounder fnan-
slai control.
,TmE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT THE
GREAT coRNoEANT.
Blu: the burden Of the National Govern
nent still remains, snd TO remain, un-
less ,hc people determine to 90 with that
as IN most Of the States. they have done
With their State governments
PRETExT ron HEAVY TAXATION.
The great pretext for the heavy burden
AZ taxation Is % meet the interest on the
National debt and to reduce its volume
But with revenues from 1865 to the pres
ent ranging from six hundred millions Of
dollars year doFn 10 three hundred and
fly millions. the debt has not been rcdue-
el in all Eve hundred millions. And the
current expenses 81 the general government
for The last fiscal year. outside Of toe inte-
rest paid or the national debt, and the a.
mounts applied TO its reduction amounted
- Or Iawiresl sa,d serenity three afiilions
Il dollars. or one hundred and thirty three
millions more aap the extravagant p ex>
Ienses of Martin Van Buren,. with the
FIoridl war On his banls. which cost him
his secoul term. and drose him into retire
ment as tie squandersr u the peoples sub.
ssDe1
nov DOES THE NoxEY CO.
iigs docs The money 81, By extnva-
CAN'T salaries - the President, The Cabinet
ofsces. The Judiciary department and the
Congress; 81 waste and peeulation in 81
tie departments; il corrupt joLs. and fa-
vorsd contracts " frauds aud conspiraeies
TO steal the Eeyenue wrung from the PEG.
PIE; by enibezxlesneats and dcfalcatious
wipked u. nnpunislei. sGdoned y par
d0Bed. and ~ combination of zen ga,
seated 10 eEise. who determine TO bold 90
70 their sests BY the aeapunsthe reoplcpu
IN their lands. that they may ~ those
weapons 70 rerpeiuaie thu oppression, this
sxtraYsgapee. III. corruption.
THK oSLx nEaEDy.
Tsis i sac question CIR tie country ih;s
Jvsr. Viii lie people sustain lbis system.
aud peiish? Or viii they free iliein.elyes
and tLrises TO u this. they nust ejee,
ibe present. party from tie cob.rsl u nation.
II sIfair.. and exclude ihe Republican par-
y from al participation 10 ilisse Of the
state.
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TIE BABcOCK TRIfL.
This trial. one II The most irnnnrtani erer