Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-08
REJOICING TANES.


to reduce taxation, if they consult the
welfare of the people, will remit the
tax ON necessities while maintaining the
tax on Iuxuries. They will first con-
slider the wants Of the people in moder-
ate circumstances, and then bestow
upon the rich such consideration as fair
dealing demands. Such has not been
the policy of the Republican majority
in Congress, nor of the Republican
marty as a whole, The Republican
party has pursued just the opposite
policy. And whether renting or
maintaining taxation has always con-
sidered the demands Of the rich first,
the monopolists, the grasping, mercen-
airy few, while disdainfully ignoring the
necessities Of the masses. The correct
ness of our declarations are established
beyond contradiction by arecentsPeech
delivered in Indiana by Senator HAIR
RIsOS, and which is reviewed at length
by the Indianapolis Sentinel The Re-
publicans in Congress propos-
ed to reduce the tax on
n otifiers, wholesale and retail
LIQUOR dealers, manufacturers and
dealers in tobacco and cigars, capital
and deposits of banks, bank checks,
patent medicines and matches. In the
entire list there is one article only that
can be regarded as q necessity, in which
the people can be considered as having
any interest whatever, and that IS
matches. Whisky, tobacco, cigars aid
malt LIQUORS are regarded as luxuries.
Bank capital, deposits, checks and
drafts, relate to the great money power
which can afford to pay some
thing for the support of the
Government. 1t is shown in Senator
HARRIsON's keynote statement that
the reduction proposed by the Republic
cans in Congress amounts to S23, 25S, $50
of which IS, SOB is credited to
matches, and Sl9,9SO,377 TO luxuries
and to money; money obtaining the
lions share, it being SIG, S92, $50. These
figures show conclusively to what ex-
tent the Republican party regards the
We fare of the people, and to what ex-
tel { il is owned and controlled by the
money power and moncpolists. The
fact is well understood by those
who have given the subject
any cons deration at all that the abrO-
CATION o. the taxes referred to would in
no wise result beneficially to the people
bosfftts n TAXATION would not lower the
rates of interest to borrowers; to take
the tax from distilled spirits and malt
liquors would not reduce the cost to
consumers, and the same is true Of to-
baeeo and cigars. Such legislation does
not consider the welfare of the people.
The people do not demand a reduction
of such taxation. The people never
petitioned Congress for it, and, even in
the case of matches, it is well under
stood that the manufacturers are indif-
ferent about the tax, and do not hesitate
10 say that if it is removed ne decline
in prices will follow. 1t will be
seen, therefore, that all the hue
and cry made by Senator HARRISON
about reducing internal revenue taxa
ton is, 50 far as the people are con-
cerned, hollow mOckery, mean duplic-
ity and arrant demagogism. But there
is another phase OF Senator HARRI-
SONS utteranee which ought to COM
mand attention. With the demand to
reduce internal revenue taxati on to the
amount stated, there was no provision
IN Ide To reduce the number of the in
teri al revenue force. The Republican
officials were to remain forever the
same. The expense of collecting the
revenue was not to be reduced Que dol
lar. The cost to the Government was
to be maintained whether the
revenue was 81, 100000 or $780,
100000, and this partisan trick
which Senator HARRISON favors was to
be praeticed for the partisan purpose of
enabling such civil service pirates as
JAY HUBBELL to raise political cOrrup-
ton funds with which to debauch the
ballet-bOx and perpetuate the rule of the
Republican party. There are but two
methods for raising revenue-the tariff
tax upon imports and the internal reve-
nue. tax. If revenue is reduced in one
direction it must be increased in anoth-
er direction. Hence, Senator HARRI-
SON advocates reducing the tax on bank
capital and bank deposits and bank
checks and increasing the tax on knit
wooden goOds-undershirts and drawers,
articles of prime necessity to the people.
Senator HARRISON would reduce the
tax on tobacco, cigars and quack meii-
eines and increase or maintain the tax
on wooden goods, trace chains, crockery
and every other article in daily demand
by the people. Such Is the policy of
the Republican party, and the Senator,
in his keynote, processes establishment
because the Democratic party does not
fall IN love with it and advocate its
adoption. The Democratic party de-
mands, if internal revenue taxation il
reduced or wiped out, that the army Of
internal revenue leeches shall be re-
duced; that il thall not remain intact
for corrupt partisan purposes; no. will
the Democratic party consent to remove
the tax upon luxuries that the tax upon
necessities may be maintained or in
creased.
1t is the duty of the tax payers of the
First Congressional District of West
Virginia to see to it that they are rep
resented in the next Congress by a man
who will use every effort in behalf of a
reduction of the tax on the necessities
of life, and thus relieve the masses of
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