West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-10-09

1 anu lhiai1y rearea Oy the RADICALS, Anu
kept in use long after the necessities and
extremities OF war had ceased. fell by
the axe welded in the hands OF Demo'
cratic yeomaury, aud the registration
guilotino tumbled down like banks o.
sand before the htllows OF the tides
The army OF registrars, cried out i'm des-
pair that their occupation, like othello's,
was gone, and the devils tha. tkAod the
huge stomach of it's ranks were biadeu
u come out, and byus, we've driven iuto
the dark seas OF death.
We With the constitution or our faith
ers IN onT hand. proclaimed from the
forum and the husrngs and the house
tops that NO man should stand uneQual~
~ bsfcEe the law, and the suitors' test
oath, and the lawyers an d teachers test
oaths fied from our stat ue books, chased
away by the fright sunlight of reason
We said that the war made no statute
OF limitations to bar tho honest claims OF
one and moi another.
We decla red thai for hate wo had no
shield and with ,us loYe needed no
sword.
We declared that no longer should
! there exist wicked DISCRIMINATION in
the enjoyment Of trades of pTofes lions.
| aud that every avenue 10 distinction
therein should TO opened and their gates
| kept no longer locked 10 the few and
against the many, and our laws with the
strong hands Of the smith, burst their
locks spd swung those gates wide open
( for all.
! We asserted because or the Auman ity
our mothers taug bt us that no man who
desired 10 earn his daily bread for him-
self and family She uld be denied such
right, and that the prescriptions that
held down our teachers aud lawyers
should oppress them no longer like the
'old man OF the sea-
RADICAL HATE.
Think Of IL, law being enacted or
! perpetuated I'm times OF peace for base
PARTISAN objects To keep our fair dAugh-
ter who hsS perhaps under the stars
held the baud. kissed the check, or
bathed Ihe brow OF lover ur brother,
from making her livelihood, aud the
nan OF learning aud brain and culture,
VIII perhaps had only held to his breast
and led and caressed his darling boy,
brought home and laid acruss the old
hearth stone to die, from earning
enough In hi~ profession to give decent
burial 60 the body of his child, and by q
party that calls Itself wise, liberal. anti
! Bourbon and that will ensure us place
| by their Jnapagsmont in the front paths
| % progress The Democratic party rose
! against these outrages aud pestiierous
and cruel laws, and they at once gave
up AIe ghost and they no longer crowd
! or crush our people. All these barba-
rous law and relies oftho Radical party
sleep a the graves our party dug, and
the black Loss4b stone ~ hate, that
marks their resting place, shall ever
! point us away from the party that once
gave aud sustained their vicious exis-
tence. With the defeat of the Republi-
can party these pllgues passed away /;
| they mas nOt come back.
We pledged you we would give you
better taen TO administer our governs
ment than she Peirpoints and Boremans
! who governed with hate, and whose mar
row ideas and bitter policies kept as vt
war aud drove all Of our best people
away.
The pledge has been SAeEAdly kept.
And the records tell the tale that theIe
Is no State In the Union which enjoys
greater freedom, botter or pucer sd~
ministration of he law =, or a safer pro-
! lection Of tho b,ilOt, or more ecOuOmi-
cal government Of our financial affairs,
than ours. They gFayely charge us with
no: having reduced our taxes and that
we have recklessiy managed our mon e
! oy Interest. This Is more than 40 idle
boast it IL liberal perversion Of the
facts. Take your own case. your own
county. and AZ OF the counties OF the
! State. There is not a State less burdens
| ed by taxation local as we'll ~ State.
have carefully examined the Official
records on the s1bje I. and can vouch
! for the accuracy OF what 1 say.
DEMOCRATIC TAXATION.
For the years 1868 and 1864 We paid
! forty cents on the hundred dollars.
/ These are hardly fair test years In
1855 and 1866 thirty cents and 1867 forty
cents on the hundred dollars, in 1893
and 1869 wo paid thirty cents, and In
| 1870 when the Radical legislsture added
/ l5) five eeptg on the hundred dollars for
the public building tax II was then thir-
| ty~fye cents OH the hundred dollars,
and 80 remained Till 1874, when the Eve
cent tax WAS removed by us. From
1874 10 this time the State tax has bseu
twenty cents and tho school tax ten
cents, making in the sggrogsle from
then to 1880 inclusive, but thirty cents
ON tho hundred dollars valuafion or ell
our real and personal property for oil
purposes. This rate Of taxes has been
deemed sufficient, and has proved to be.
for AL the machinery Of our State gov.
eminent, and with the county and dis-
trict levies ia many cases but nominal,
10 keep our scboQls In the finest condi-
lion. ~ they arc now shown n bo. In
some counties learn the school tax In
stead OF being 81 as Il used 10 be. it IL
about twelve cen ts on the hundred dol
lsrs valuation Of taxa BILE property in the
district. II So qlmost impossible n
even approximate our county and dis
trict taxes ~ they dopand each year on
the local needs, but 1 am advised by a.
good authority - csn be kad that they
are fer less than under the Republican
party.
There are other matters Of consldora-