Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-25
u RISKY.

ed You're another. is the III cag.ul.-
Ian, argument Of the accused schooiboy.
and we wouli no: be understood as i'll
any way ju:ifying the peculiarities of
Belknap. Eahcock. Il ais, because OF the
Democratic ,ieviations from rectitude to
which We are about to call our readers
attention. Nevertheless thars is some
thing sail III the Scripture about cast
ing the beam :ruIn one , own eye before
calling pUblIc attention to the mote IN
our brother visual organ, and when the
entire Democratic party mounts the ros-
,rum of Indignant virtue, and demands
that its les!ors lie placed in possession
.os al the Offices IN the land because all
Republicans are thieves, 1t may be as
well. If W. usN the new oracle OF irteS-
liry to explain = few Of the riddles of
rascality which re painted and plastered
all owe, its h-szen front. We will invite
a,tention herewith 70 but one Of the nd
lies aforesaid it is one which is famil-
Ia. TO the Democratic stomach, If not
delightful 10 the Democratic recollection.
It is the inspiring beverage named in
the caption @; this Article. Whisky"
vas the WIZ Cry under which the first
serious assam. was made by our Demo
r-atic friends upon the citadel Of Repub-
bean good repr,r. and although post
traierships" and secre: services fund"
are used as miner melodies, whisky"
and whisky ring" still form the cEes-
cerio Of lis slogan.
We know that, according to Irs. Part
ins,on. comparisons are odorous, bu:
We cannot refrain from citing few in
struc:ive statistics. During the admin
is.ra;ion Of Andrew johnson tine Ezecu-
tive Department Of this Government. was
substantially in the hands OF the Demo
Ratio party. and the Democratic Assess
crs AMI Collectors who never said
whisky ring" once during the reign Of
e King Andy" made to the Government
the following returns from the whisky
tax. which vas then ts-o dollars PEI gr,!oit.
For the fiscal year ending the Ist o.
Jaiy, 1866, the receipts were So, PISS. 600;
for 1867. Sj5.5i2, zoe. and for 1868.
is, GlJ.G1a Now take the last five
years Of Grants administration. with q
tax mos; o: the time OF less than half
the sum imposed under johnson. For
the fiscal year ending il 1870, there was
paid into tie treasury Sj5. 900. 900; in
1871. 50. 0OU. 900: in 1872. Si9. 900. COO;
in 1878, 50, Oo0, 600; in 1874, $4,000
400, and in 1875, $4,000, coo In brief.
during the last year Of Grants admins
tra:ion the whisky tax Welded ffty-two
dollars, while during the last
year OF JoLrso0's administration i;
welded less than Eine:een million dol
lars, and the tax per Sallen was more
than twice as much under johnson IS
undzr Grant. These figures Of arithme-
tic are very interesting. They make a
problem very difficult for the Democratic
to figure out upon
any hypthesis consisItn; with vaunted
Democratic integrity. 1t will scarcely !
lie claimed that the American people !
drank six or even three times as much |
V Risky in 1870 as IN 1865, and if Repub-
lean whisky rings" could pay sfty-two |
millions into the treasury in 1910, and |
still manage to steal something, what |
anus. have been the dishonest appropria-
atoms of the Democratic whisky rings"
which in 1868 paid less than nineteen
millions into the treasury:
We can afford to leave the subject here
without further comment, only remind
ng those Democrats who yell so loudly
or reform" whici, shall give them
,ower, that in politics as in an &C.
ION of ejeciment THE plaintiff must
=cover on the strength of his own title,
nj not on the weakness o. his alver-
ary's"
OF the twenty state Senator's of CAL
fnrnia who hold over and will sit in
he next Legislature, sixteen are DEM