Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
POLITICAL COMMENT.

some OF the KaSca11t1eS of SOUth Caro-.
lima Democracy --- N atIOnaf Taxation
southern Plans--.Want of Educa'
ttOn. 49, ia
Elk Congressman Rainey, of South
Carolina, said to representative of the
Cleveland (Ohio) Herald: Gin Sumter
county, at our last election, which oc-
Cured in 1878, the Republicans an.
nounced that they would hold meeting
in the court house upon O certain day.
The morning of the day about 200 red
shirted gentry came into town from all
the surrounding country, and planted a
half dozen cannon in such q position
that they bore upon the proposed place
of meeting. Two of these Implement
were loaded with nails, and then the
| proclamaticn was issued by the Demo-
crats That if the Republicans attempted
to hold meeting off would 60 the can
non. We did not hold q meeting that
day. could tell you of dozens of other
examples of their whipping their polit.
ical anniversaries, but this one is fair
sample, and is suffi cient to demonstrate
their feeling"
Oppressive TAxATIoN!"
Senator Blaine, in q recent speech in
New York, admirably exposed the hol-
lowness of the Democratic clamor about
oppressive national taxation. He said:
"Now, l shall esteem my visit to New
York very lucky for myself, if l shall be
enlightened upon that particular portion
of the tax of the United States bearing
down with oppression and severity upon
our citizens. I would like any citizen
to tell me what particular part of it, if
repealed to morrow, would let him go
forth freer and lighter next day? What
is the tax to-day levied, by tariff, that,
il repealed tomorrow, would make q
great relief? The internal revenue,
$l13, 100000. Wherce comes it? Well,
nearly all from the whisky and tobacco
trade. Do you regard that particularly
oppressive in New York? Laughter
and loud applause. You need not pay
a cent of it, if you choose not to chew,
drink or smoke" He pronounced the
the talk about United States taxes non
sense. He said he would be willing to
step out Of the canvass if any Democrat
could show him one solitary issue on
which publicons have taken grounds
that time had not proved them right.
Cries of "Good!" Good!" and ap-
plause.
NEEDS EDUCATION.
The Louisville Courier-J0urnal has
| finally walked up to the fact that Ken
| lucky needs something beside Democra-
cy, violence and intolerance to give her
| an exalted position in the family of
states. Here is what it recently said:
"We take no pleasure in calling at
| tention to such disagreeable facts; but
and printed, and dinged into the ears
of our people until they become fully
and anxiously aware of the vital impor-
lance of planting common-schools, with
good and faithful teachers, wherever
there are children to attend them,
through the state.
Kentucky needs great many
things. She needs railroads and capital
to develop ther coal and iron bonanzas;
she needs factories and immigration; she
needs to have her laws so supreme that
violence will hide its bloody head; but,
above all these things, Kentucky needs
that firm basis of all real and intelligent
prosperity, that groundwork of peace
and industry,-public education, dis
tributed 80 that not child shall grow
up in blighting ignorance to trouble the
state with crime. To bring this about,
public sentiment must be awakened.
Educate the people. While education
will Lot prevent all crime "a few people
claim that.) yet it minimizes it; it makes
lawlessness unpopular; it draws the
young into the earnest and enriching
| ,E e..
genders ambition for something better
and nobler than idleness. The greatest
blessing in fact, that Kentucky can
have will be the period when public
education becomes thoroughly popular
and fashionable. Let us have an educa-
| tional BOOM"
WILL PLAY, POSTUM.
The Chicago Times seems fully to
understand the character Of the Bourbon
ex-rebels Of the south, and does not
hesitate to expose them ON all occasions.
A recent issue contains the following
editorial, which is worthy of thoughtful
perusal:
An organ called The american, pub
lished in Nashville, Tennessee, thinks
sit is clear that close and conservative
attedtion to business is the duty of the
future" 80 far as congress is concerned.
That is to say, it is the duty of congress
not to revive the fight of the extra
session for the wiping out of all the
legislation resulting from the decision of
the war against the political theory of
the lost cause. But The american does
"not regret the issue raised at the extra
session, and only differed then slightly
as to the method" Neither does it
"greatly regret the method adopted"
| It believes that the extra sss-
sion issues are inevitable; that the
relation Of the states and the federal !"
government must be settled, and will be
settled eventually in accordance with
the notions of Blackburn, Chalmers,
Hill, and others who propose to unsettle
the decisions of war, and settle them
over again just as they would have been
settled had the lost cause been lost.
But, while the extra session must not be
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