The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-25

save further trouble In collecting pllls.
Our friends, regarding this ss bust
ness, will not fail to respond.
WALL STREET v. THE SOUTH.
THAT falling off of 50, O60, 900 in the
revenue, due to legislation in favor OF
the Solid South, is another inkling OF
what would happen were the Demo-
cratic party to be put in possession of
the government. The South not only
declines to pay its debts, but also in-
tends to have the cost OF governing the
country betrayed by the North.-Ne'o
York Tribune.
The North is taxed by the Federal
government on whisky alone; but this
burden falls with equal weight upon
the South. Whether the South con-
sumes more and thus pays more, rela-
lively, than the North is not ascer-
tanned. But all other forms of exag-
Rerated taxation fall almost wholly
upon the South. The diminution of
revenue, to which the Tribune adverts,
came of the reduction of ruinous bur-
aens imposed upon tobacco growers
Of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee
and perhaps from the lessening of bur-
dens imposed by the ubiquitous tariff
system, SO devised by Mr.. Fernando
Wood of New York, who is retained
gear after year as chairman of the COM
mittee, having this matter in charge,
that the s'provinces" may be plundered
and the great central seat of political
and commercial power may be fabu-
lousy rich even as we, hewers of wood
and drawers of water for our regal
bondholding masters of the East, may
be ridiculously impoverished. When
we pay an average tax of forty per
cent. on all We eat, drink and wear
that this sum may be added to the cost
Of Eastern manufactures; when we are
forced by ingenious navigation acts to
maintain Eastern-built steamers and
sailing vessels and are suffered to en-
ploy mono others; when we can
not even ship the products
Of our farms, except upon ves-
sells manned and built and owned
ey New Englanders; when we must
moreover pay these heaven-favored
people bounty on the fish they catch
aud clans they bake; when these good
people have 60 used the government
that the war which impoverished the
many enriched the few beyond
computation; when they made Black
Fridays memorable by publicly swind-
Ing .the best government the world
aver saw and coined blood drops in
20 mint drops; when they transformed
bonds payable in paper into bonds pay
able In gold; when they have finally
made the "Federal" Union the
s Nationan Union, and simply for the
purpose of giving these monopolists of
gold imperial power in dealing with
the people of remote States; when they
have the Congress of the United
States sitting under the shadow of
Wall street, and buy and sell it, even
80 they buy and sell the "nation's"
credit and good faith; when these
RodlS people complain through the
Tribune that burden of $4,000, 900
Il lifted from Southern tax-pay-
of., there is greYous insult adj
ded to legalized robbery. The popu-
nation which the Tribune represents
have been accustomed, through half
century, to owe wealth not to hard
work, but to systems of Federal legis-
Isnon. The net profits of New Eng
.hnd industry, for half a century, have
15nsisted in sums taken out of the
gus Of Western and Southern farmers
81 Federal law and transferred, with
cat the slightest consideration, into
ne pockets of Wall street maguates or
Eastern spinners ando manufactur-
. 1f5. While Western soldiers fought to
fe-cssablish the Union, those good
people Of Wall street sent out substi-
<a,es and shoddy and celebrated Black
. Rl'daya the year round, and now, when
be Union IS stronger IN the South
housand fold than when Andrew
I.eksan, the Improvisation of Union
.n, was omnipetent in the South;
when even JEFF Davis and Lamar do