Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-03-09

revenue, and many ways are sug-
gested of spending that revenue
when raised. Arrears of pensions .
call forsone hundred millions i'm
mediately, and many hundreds of
millions in the near future. We
are also much alarmed about tho
defenseless condition of our cost,
which requires at once to be forti-
fed in the cornpletest manner and I
VIC need a new navy above all
things. Hero may hundreds of
millions can be sunk very comfort
! ably. With all due respect to ev-
erybody, venture to say that this
newborn zeal for the public safety
simply covers the desire to contin-
ne this tariff which public opinion
rs SO loudly cendemning, or to in
crease it. If they were in earnest
to raise revenue, they would agree
to lower 1t. 1t is apparent to all
that by lndicious reductions revenue
could be raised sufficient for all
proper purposes, and to permit the
wiping away of the internal-revc-
nue. system at the same time, con-
summation devou:ly to be wished,
Heaven knows. In addition to it's
being the most annoying and vexa-
tious system the American people
ever groaned under, 1t has at the
same time been executed, at least
in the South, with few honorable
exceptions, With more of harshness
and official insolence than freemen
can well endure. Its officers
agents, and spies, from the com
missioner down, constitute the
chief organization and active work
ing force Of the Republican party
in the Southern States, and they
have not scrupled to pervert their
official powers and the laws to the
basest party purposes when oeca-
sion demanded. 1t would be doing
! decency and good government a
service to blot out the whole Con-
cern, beginning at Jerusalem. Let
us tax spirits and tobacco in some
: other way.
e The public debt, too, must be
:! paid and while the Senator from
e Vermont does not want it paid too
suddenly, he yet wants enough Of
y taxation left ''to show that our debt
: paying policy is dcep-rooted and
:, una!terab!e." In the light of recent
: events, admit that some assurance
It of that sort is necessity.
: I will gladly aid him in raising
g this reyenue by lowering the tariff
b to a constitutional point, and thu,
;, giving the whole world an assur-
n ance that our "debt-paying policy
o is deep-rooted and nnaltcra5lc.
: 1t all comes to this, that states
IS men, instead of looking anxiously
e for the least burkensome taxation
r, to meet the economical needs o
the government, are astute to dis
'r cover some new means Of spending
70 money IN order to get the ''protec-
= ton" of increased taxation. Tk'
= question is not how shall we rai.'
'e money to support the government
ee but how shall we raise more take
= to enrich the manufacturers. Tn
manufacturers are at the bottom @
Id this whole movement No longe
ot able to resist the clamor against tn
of absurdities and iniquities Of tarit
SO levied for war purposes, they seel
ir to resist the curtailment Of thos
10 enormous profits as long as posi-
BILE. A commission gives them tw
nd years at loast. should vote agalni
e, it if for no other reason than tn
1t impudence of the protectionists
D whose behalf it is offered. The
r openly avow their purpose and de
OF sire to withdraw their interests frol
ot the control of the national Lcgis
it laturc, on the ground that Cou
SO gressmcn cannot understand thes
IN questions, or, if they understan
v them, they are not to be truets
of with interests so delicate as their
he y
an 1t will be noticed that all of the
nd are unwilling to be tried, as 8
ets other classes OF society are, by tt
legislative branch of the govern
Of ment-and insist on having tt
ny plunder they are to levy on tt
his people measured by thenselve
j. How that commission is TO
,el. formed it may be we'll enough II
cir Senators on this side of the chan
rid Der to know, and the lnformatit
Dor is furnished by yet another orat
ats, of that grand conclave of pamper'
in public paupers. "Thus," said /
n ssfor instance, agriculture, minin
ley ships and commerce, iron and ste
re- wool and woo!cn goods, co.to
SO, silk, and other textiles, glass, po
ter terry, &c, drugs and chemicals, &
nsr might each clam seat" That
IL to say, agriculture, which repr
use sents only about forty tlillions
tor people, and three-fourths of
Ia. Il