Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-28
The Coming Campaign.


The mission of the National Demo
cracy is to secure wise and economical
administration of national affairs, with
out favor or Partially for particular
classes or interests. Its aims in its
legislation to treat all citizens alike, and
to distribute among them the burdens of
government support without regard to
the accidents of wealth or poverty.
Glass legislation of all kinds it abhors
as destructive of the democratic equality
sought to be secured by the Constitution.
All revenues and expenditures, therefore,
beyond the actual and prospective wants
of the country are extrsvagances
without warrant in the provisions for the
general welfare. Whenever the income
Of the United States shall exceed liberal
expenditure, the citizens are taxed be-
yond the intention of our constitutional
national organization, and reductions of
taxes become imperative duties. At
present the surplus of revenue over ex-
penses, stated at about $3.50. 900, 600 per
annum, or So head more than is needed,
is by the legislation of the Republican
party collected from every man, woman
and child in the United States, without
regard to color or previous condition.
Now, my worthy reader, whatever
your business, trade or occupation, is
this right? Could not you, my hard la
boring friend, who painfully earns your
rs cents to 81 25 per day, apply this So
better to the comfort Of your family than
to hoard it up in the United States
Treasury for an irresponsible Congress
to spend-perhaps in a corrupt manner
l say irresponsible Congress, for though
Representatives may be held to &C.
count by their constituents, the body
they compose cannot be. The
Republicans know this, and act upon it
in their internal revenue and tariff meas
ures, which the Democrats are trying to
check. Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens
stated the other day in the House of
Representatives the Democratic princi-
pies in these matters, and though they
were defeated by the Republican party
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will be brought up again.
To revive them and finally triumph in
reducing our taxes is the mission of
Democrats, and we wish for success in
the next Congress, and now is the time
to lay the foundation for it by selecting
able business men to represent us in
Congress. 1t makes no difference from
what county the right man comes. The
time has gone by when small vanities,
local or personal, might be gratifed
without much danger, as our interests of
all kinds were not great. But the war
has changed all this. We are now en-
gagged in a free fight with the world,
and must hold our own, or go under.
The commercial value of Savannah
annually may be stated at $780,.
900, 900, and of our other sea
ports at $40,C00,000 mole. Our in
dustries are more varied than twenty
years ago, and need fostering. The rep
resentation of the First District has be-
come, in the language of the day, ga
big thing" and we need big brains,
trained for its duties. and qualified to
support and advance Democratic princi-
Piles ia the great national arena of politi.
cal contests. The past, with its dead
issues, must be forgotten, and our Rep
resentatives grapple with the present, to
mould the future for the general
welfare. There is no longer
slavery or cession to excite angry and
useless discussion. Our business now is
of the counting room. the railway office,
mills and farms, and the close calcula-
ton of dollars and cents has endorsed
stump oratory. Every mans mission in
Georgia now is to work; and that his
work may be remunerative it must be
properly encouraged by the National
Legislature in all such matters as have
been confided to its care by the Con
stitution. Sectionalism cannot exist
for us any longer, but the
most broadhesrted nationality must
direct our plans. By our
steamship lines and railroads we
court the commerce of the country and
of the world. without regard to North,
South, East or West. Anything, there
fore, like sectional feeling would be out
of place. Our social relations, in a man
ner, take color from our business engage
ments, and common sense says they
must both run together if we would be
prosperous and influential. Hence the
necessity for careful selections in our ma
tional officials of all classes and grades
that our Democracy may IN fact, for the
good of us all, be intelligent and con-
ciliatOry.
DEMOCRAT OF THE OLD SCHOOL.