The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-12

lnhl ulu moi Dullu my mouse because Olu
not create the material out of which il is
built, or that my house is not a hou,e be-
cause did not create the material out OF
which II Is built. The very terms in which
the HERALD's proposition is stated refute
both it, logic and conclusion. The verb 40
coin, according to our best photographers,
means to make, create ard fabrcste The
HERALDs logic 10 but little better, if any,
than that Of the Hon. Orsn NJ. Roberts, the
late Judicial luminary of Texas, who declares
that gold and silver are Gods money"
Ia the monarchies Of Europe the tax pay
lng millions are overburdened with taxation
for the benefit OF the privileged and ex'
empled classes, and there the only question
seems to DO how much they can pile on
without breaking the "csmel's back."
In our own country the history
OF Europe is but repeating ITSELF we
are loaded down with $20O,OO0O00 taxation
including costs Of collection, Oh federal ac-
count alone, for the benefit OF privileged
exempted classes. This is extortsd through
unjust laws levying unequal and unjust Inn
port aRd excise duties; through interest paid,
TO national bankers for the use Of the black
back notes, which our magLanlmeas gov
power to control the price of oar labor, cot
ton aud other crops; and through the hateful
Internal revenue lava that All our country
with spies and informsrs 10 harAss and eat
out the substance Of the people. And be-
sides all this, taxes on treights to pay Inter
est on bonds 10 wAtsred railroad stocks; taIeI
to pay interest on state deblI; taxes 10 pay
interest on municipal debts, beneath the nc
cumulaled burdens of all Of
winch our lAboring aud pro-
ducins millions are sinking deeper and
deeper in poverty every day, We daily wit
ness some Of our neighbors and fellows
falling beneath the accumulated burdens
their homes sold for taIes or for mortgages
and they turned out TO be "hswers Of wood
and drawers Of water" and the balance of
us, like sheep in the shambles, awaiting UNI
resistingly for our own fall and sacrifice. If
We turn our eyes towards our towns and
cities but little investigation will show us
ring" OF non-producers, living fat and sleek
on the deprecated prices of labor and its
productions, and having little money and
the monopoly Of trade" wheel within a
wheel with few worthy exceptions lend
their aid in supporting tho present evils by
supporting one or tho other of the old par
ties that maintain them, and join their voices
with the bankers and bsndholders in cursing
and rdiculing the Gresnback party. Mean
while the representative leaders of both par
ties, pandering TO the .behests of shylocks,
are bitterly contending as to which shall DO
placed in office, receive the emou-
ments and have the power of levying and
collecting this immense load OF taxation
with the perquisitss and stealings; and
neither party proposing to strike one link
from the chain Of taxation that binds u, in
slavery to the exempted privileged classes,
but both parties, hiding the true issues, by
stirring up and keeping alive the hates and
prejudces ola past age. | ask again what
matters 1t to the great body of taxpayers
whether Hancock and English, or Garfield
and Arthur are elected' So far As this great
vital question of taxation 10 concerned defy
any living man to show any difference.
Both parties are playing the "open and shut
game upon the people of "heads win, and
tails you loose"
And now that new party has arisen on
deavoring by facts, reason and fair argument
to show the people the true situation, and
just, legal and constitutional
measures to enable them TO cast of this inn
mense burden Of taxation, the leaders of both
parties, backed by the money and influence
OF the bankers and bondholders and
exempted classes, turn upon us with
the fury of hyenss, proving upon
dead carcass, and denounce us.ss lunntic,, |
repudiators, communists, socialists, etc. This
is but repetition of hiitory-a repetition of
the cry OF the priests OF Ephesus to drown
the voice of Saint Paul when he preached
the truth to them, and like as they raised the
cry of great is Dians of the Explosions" to |
dro m the voice of Saint Paul; so these Demo- |
crs'ic and Republican leaders, to drown G |
voices and hide the truths, taught by Green
hackers, raise this cry. And, alas, even the |
Dallas HERALD, with all its liberalitv and |
honesty, joins the cry so for as to declare that
we have started out on false premise,
hSllucinaton an ignis fatuus," and essays
to dispute tho best established truth in the |
domain OF science, fact and reason, that "all |
money is the creation of law" o, Temporal, |
0, mores Thine for truth and Justice.
b. j. CHAMBERS.
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