Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-03-09
equal to the 5000 people repre-
sented by pottery, or glass, or silk
What could be fairer than thai?

equal to the 5000 people repre-
sented by pottery, or glass, or silk !
What could be fairer than tha.s
;
Nothing is to be made free that
the poor use. Salt, almost rs nee
essary as air, is still to continue
taxed at Sc per cent. /; kerosene
oil, drugs ard medicines at about
tile same. On that free list should
love much to see something that
favored the poor. Diamons, Jew
elry, and prscions stones OF all |
kinds are virtually upon it, being
only 10 per cent, while mother of
pearl is free, cocoanut is free, olives,
paln-leaf fans, diamonds, uncut,
fruit plants, tropical and semi
tropical, fashion plates, fur skins,
ice, Jet, ivory, vermicelli. sandal
wood, raw silk. tea, and tin are all
free, and more Of like nature is to
be added; bnt nothing tor the
poor nothing for the great mass
of laborers, men, women and chill
dren, whose daily toll supports
} their owu ard the nations life.
They now throng the lobbies Of
this Congress and importune its
; committees From the
ordinary mendicant feeding upon
the pubic purse, they have advanc
} ed to the dignity OF begging on
horseback, as in South America.
Like the beggar in Gil Bias, too,
they have infused something of a
threat into their mcndicancy, sera-
rating it ty the smallest degree
from highway robbery. Where are
J dheir victims, the farmers, planters, ),
, laborers in every department, and
the great mass of consumers gener-
ally, constituting ninc-tenths Of
: the people of the United States
Who is to look after their interests!
What commission OF experts will
determine all questions affecting
them Who will speak word in
: behalf of the public Treasurer
: Shall those who are plnndered lie
still and submit while those who
plunder them labor with perfect
u organization and ample means
c Verify it would seem SO, from al
that appears here.
n There is indeed single ray o
, sunshine amid all this darkness
# The cries of the poor have founo
:. some hearing, and at last the tende
= sympathics Of the Treasury Depart.
- ment of the government have gen
- - erously agreed that the tax on banl
- checks and matches may be re.nov
- ed! This will carry joy to tn
! hearts of all the poor-who hav,
- - money laid up in bank-to hote
1" proprietors and saloon keepers, bu
: to the poor farmer who keeps hi
y little hoard in stocking, and cover
mp his fire at night, it will sugges
= 95 per cent on blankets and Sc pc
" cent. on salt.
of Yes, there is still another rift !
the cloud. The tax on patent no:
~ trcns, they tell MS. may be reno,
: ed. Joy to the world! Bull
- Cough Syrup and Railways Read
~ " Relief are to be free. Let tn
20 - earth rejoice Laughter. I'll
I. poor are to have Wlster's Balsa'
90 of Wild Cherry and Hostetter
ne Bitters at untaxsd prime cost. Ii
OF the multitude of the isles clap the
er hands, for Summons Liver Regul
he tor and ST. Jacobs Oil are to cor
iii 10 us guileless OF excise abomins
ek tions! CONTINUED laughter.]
no Mr.. President, the man Of lea
81 observation can see that in tt
"o great struggle for wealth amor
is' the family of civilized nations Il
he true strength of our country lies
IN its agriculture. n \ We ha,
ey sloping toward the Atlantic and tt
Ie- Gulf 100000 square miles of su
pm kissed lands better adapted to tt
is growth of cotton, rice, sugar al
u tobacco than any other In Christie
ese dom while for whea: and corn, Al
md all that feeds and sustains amin
ted life, we have more than 2,COO,o'
irs. square miles of fair, fat plains, al
rolling prairie, such as nowhere .el
EN- in the shaping of this planet ene
all ged from the plimeval seas for t
tbe happiness of our race. Here
~ this Western world is new Egvl
the watered by new Nile, magniti
the a hundred fold in extent, and 81
20 rifed still more by the splend
i. and humanity OF its mission in t
~. ~ household Of civilization. Seve
~ ~. eighths of our foreign trade it 6
n ;nn ready furnishes, under every c
~" ~. cumstonce of repression and di
10, To-, enlargement inflicted upon.it by
req blind and selfish policy. The hu
he' CRY and overcrc wded populate
"g' beyond the seas hold out til
eel, hands to our stores of plenty
on, though they were indeed ange
OF TODD and the very corn of hcav'
xc., All this wealth, capable of indie
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