Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-17

| Illiteracv-canuOt read. 6gI. 23S 3 .22 3,e
Internal revenue. o5,49l,Io3 1851, i3s
The statement also shows that between
1866 and 1878, inclusive, the government
collected from the people as internal
revenue, g., 055, 1917, SIG, of which sum the
ii Confederate States, which brought the
whole public debt upon the country, only
paid S20l 900, 096, while loyal States paid
as follows: Ohio, S215, 0l0, $40, or $13,-
104, 524 more than the whole confed-
eracy; Illinois, S2ll $751; 1872, and New
York 1884 ,4O6, re, or nearly twice as
much as all the Southern States. Being
obliged to furnish the money for the run
ming of the government, these States
ought to have control of its expenditure !:
party has the sole power of managing
the expenditures of the Nation. They
have 40 votes in the Senate, % of which
House. 100 from the South. They have
control of every important committee in
! both houses. The two great commercial
States of New York and Pennsylvania,
each of which has Democratic senator,
is disposed of by being given the chair
manships of the committees on patents
and the revision of the laws, while
Georgia, which has less commerce than
any Northern state, is given the commerce
committee, and little Delaware the
| finance But Delaware is too far North
for that position, as we hear i'll the NUT
terings against Bayard. In the lower
house - of the ~ committees-an the
most important ones, those which direct
and control legisation-are in the hands
of the South, while every committee of
both houses of any Importance is under
the practical control of the repudiating,
treasury ritling ex-confederates. These
are facts not intended for Republicans
alone-they are meant for the whole
people-for every man who pays taxes,
directly or indirectly--for every man who
works for his daily bread 1t is as much
IL question for the mechanic MS for the
capitalist whether the people who furn-
ish the money shall have a voice in dis
posing Of it. Our forefathcrs once fought
for the same principle-and the interests
involved now are greater than then. The
Democrats will, of course, claim that as
the people have placed their party in
power they did it with the consciousness
that the South would rule. But the PEG
pie Of the country have not placed the
Southern Democracy in power They |
wrested it by force and through blood |
Behind the ballot box they have per
petrated crimes MS gross as ever any other
usurper did 1t is the party of crime and |
and force and blood, and the people of |
the North are furnishing the money which |
incites their evil deeds. The Chisolm |
case and the murder Of Dixon show how
the Southern Democrats obtained their
power, and how they propose to keep it,
Liberty is strangled; the right of suffrage
is a hollow burlesque; the shotgun and
the lash rule the South-that the minor
ity. and the minority which attempted
the life of the Union, may retain power.
This same minority detics the revenue
laws. Illicit distilling il carried on i'll
every Southern State They demand
reduction of the whiskey and tobacco
tax, regardless of the fact that their con
tributions to the National treasury are out
If all proportion to the power they ENJOY
This one fact t., lis the story of their I'M
blushing impudence- their utter disregard
IF the North, save for what they can
make out of it. Are the people of the
North content with this state Of affairs?
Do they propose to allow the South,
which refuses to pay its Just share OF
aIation, unless revenue officers force
hem, and which is demanding reduction
# the little tax it really does pay, to
'xercisc the power OF ,lisposing of the
money they contribute? The South will /
not even fairly divide with Northern
Democratic representatives Look how
Senators Herman and Wallace hay" been
'helved Is Gen Gordon of Georgia {
'etter qualified for the clairmnnship of
he Commerce committee than MIR. hcr-
IAN of New York? The manner III which
le Inns been treated shows the greed for
'ower among the Democrats al the |
south Look IN the house The CHAIR
nnnship of majority of the committees
ne held by confederntes, and majority
# the members Of every important com
nittee are from the South. That section
ules the country to-day