Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-16
OTHER POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEw YORK, November 15.-Governor- -elec
Butler, of Massachusetts,, arrived in thu
city yesterday, and is now staying at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. To a reporter who
interviewed him regarding the recent cleo
tions and the startling results thereof Gen.
Butler said:
"The widespread dissatisfaction Of the
! people with the Administration OF the
Federal Government is the cause, else the
uprising would not have been so unani-
nous. There can have been but one thing
done by the General Government to pro-
duce the general effect, and that is the ex.
travagance in expenditures and the. enor-
nous burden of taxation. The collection
of over 81 ,250, 900 for
Every working Day In the Year
makes a drain upon the resources of the
country which no other people would have
endured as we have endured il for the past
few years. Nor could this country have
borne it but for our enormsus agricultural
resources. These taxes fall upon the mid.
die and working classes, who are the lar.
gest consumers of everything, except the
Injuries, on which tariff revenue is COL
lected. They have borne this burden
without complaining because they sup
posed il was the necessary consequence of
the war and of the necessity of paving the
national debt, But when they were
awakened by the passage Of the River and
Harbor bill for the expenditure of SlS,-
10000, passed over the veto of the Presi-
dent, they saw there must be
some Other Cause Than PubIie Nece,-
sity
for such vast appropriation of public
money, and they naturally attributed this
to the desire of those who passed it to
have funds put into their districts to carry
the pending elections, and they were en-
couraged in this belief by the Presidents
words in his veto. The more the bill gave
the more votes 1t got, and when the peo-
pie learned, in addition to this piece of ex-
travsgance, that there would be surplus
OF $lOO,OOO,OO in the Treasury, they be-
came satisfied that such an amount of tax
alton should no longer be borne. They
also heard declared in Congress by MEM
bers OF both parties and contradicted, that
the tariff which raised the greater part of
this revenue needed revision, yet they saw
no steps taken to reviveit."
WAS not the Tariff Commission
Created for This Very Purpose."
True, tariff commission was provided
to report its conclusions at the next session
of Congress. Everybody would see that IL
a Congress which sat nine months could do
substantially nothing but pass appropria-
tion bills-unless the Chinese and Mormon
bills 60 for something-that in a session of
three months. with the holidays out, it
would OF necessity do nothing else and
therefore that it was the intention Of the
party leaders to throw over all considera-
tion attached upon the incoming Congress.
Hence the people learned that tha nnr""-a
"What can the Democrats do to be sue.
cessful in the next Presidential eiectionY'
s.Carry Out the Principles OF Jefferson
and Jackson:
enact, whenever they have an opportunity,
a iudicious tariff; bring down every kind OF
taxation to the lowest possible point con,
sistent with defraying the most economical
expenditure OF the public money; take IN
hand the monopolies which are raising the
price of provisions and the necessaries OF
fife; leave all local questions OF govern
ment to the several States, and show, by
their moderation, economy and statesman
ship, that they are fitted to govern, and the
people will give their government long
series Of years as they gave it to their
fathers"
"Would you advise the Democrats in the
present congress 10 Vote lot sweeping WY
at this session all the internal revenue
taxesY
Il would advise their taking them
All Away From the Producers,
because do not think they ever ought to
have been levied in that way; but very
much doubt whether they ought to be
taken away so suddenly upon spirits and
tobacco, because have ascertained that all
civilized countries have found it con-
yenient and necessary to raise quite large
proportion of their revenue from that
source, and 1t would seem to ME not wise
to put ourselves in opposition 10 the polit'
icai economy of the civilized world with
out more study than can be given To the
question in sixty days. Besides, when ths
whisky and tobacco tax is 10 be taken of,
fbe tariff must be revised 10 meet any
deficiency and to be so adjusted ~ 10 be;
come permanent rsle for the business OF
the country"