The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-09-07


of tax on sugar should be modified by
the introduction of the pOlariscope test,
and that the tax on cotton ties used by
the cotton growers of the South to bale
their cotton should be enormously in
creased.
To this bill the Republicans adhered
with the utmost fidelity. They would
not permit its amendment. They said:
agree to this. or you shall have moth
ing" The Democrats offered effective
amendments. All were rejected. They
pointed out that the House bill relieved
the banks, the prOprietOrs Of patent
manufactured tobacco, but that it did
not relieve a single industry or reduce
to the people the price OF any article,
except, perhaps, matches. They pointed
out that the Committee amendments i'm
posed hardships greater than the relief
offered. 1t was all in vain. The Re-
publicans said: "Take this or take moth
ing;" to be sure, 1t Is stone when you
ask bread-tO be sure, it is bonus to
our pets when you ask relief to the peO-
ple-to be sure, it processes to reduce
internal taxes, while 1t is so arranged
that not single man Of the mighty
horde belonging to the Internal Reve-
nue. Department is dispensed with;
nevertheless, take this or take nothing.
Take this, and we will go before the
people with the boast that Republican
Congress has reduced taxation $25, 900, :
900. Reject this, and we win go before
the people with the charge that the
Democrats would do nothing in the way
Of tax reduction. And when, finally, by
the detection of their Readjuster ally
from Virginia, the reduction of tax on
the production Of tobacco was carried,
the Republicans were so disgusted that
they left the House without quorum,
and the Senate adjourned without action
on the bill.
And so this first session of Congress
under the Tegenerated and improved
Republican party-almost the longest
in our history incompetent,
useless, wasteful, extrayagant, doing
what it ought not to have done, leaving
undone what it ought to have done,
came to an end.
THE FOREIGN POLICY.
And while this miserable farce was
being played in Congress what was go
ing on at the other end of the avenue?
The State Department, abandoning
the action OF the earlier days of the Ad-
ministration, turning its back on the
Monroe doctrine as applied in its spirit
and essence to our changed continental
position, sat supinely by and saw one
American Republic press another Ameri-
can Republic to its extinction under the
leadership of British influence and Brit
ish commercial interests; saw Great
Britain prepare to maintain her almost
exclusive monopoly of commerce on
both coasts of the South American con-
tlnent. 1t Is not necessary that should
discuss the earlier policy of the Admin
iStratiOn or enter into the details of its
execution, or allude to the Landreau or
COchet claims or the episode of Ship
herd. do maintain that it is the part
of wisdom, of sound policy, now more
than ever, and exactly in the line of the
spirit of the Monroe hoctrine, to culti-
Vate friendly interest, kindly offices,
close commercial relations, peaceful in
teryentiOn, with all the countries of this
continent. They are our neighbOrs,
they are Republics, they should be our
friends and customers. l do commend
most earnestly the effort of the Admin.
1stratiOn to establish such relations with
Mexico.
OUTRAGES ON AMERICAN CITIZENS.
American citizens are to-day langu-
ishing in British prisons, neither tried
nor discharged, and when the reason is
demanded our Minister seems perfectly
content to be answered that no infOr-
nation beyond that contained in the
warrant Of arrest will be given to him,
to be we'll convinced that they are
worthless fellows anyhow, and are
treated about as they deserve. The teIe-
graph announced the other day that an
American, correspondent, was arrested
and imprisoned because he had written,
or would write, something distasteful
to the Government; and, being dis
charged, he was again arrested the next
day because he had kept bad company!
In Russia, American citizens are driven
from their residence, and their business
Is broken up, because they adhere to the
tenets Of the Jewish faith. In Mexico,
American citizens are maltreated and
denied the protection of the Govern
ment, because they have ignorantIy or
negligently failed in some matter of
petty police regulation. have said-I
repeated it-that the rights of American
citizens are most shamefully violated,
and held scandalOusly cheap.
TRIALS OF EMINENT REPUBLICANS.
And to complete the picture, midway
between the Capitol and the Department
Of State in the city of Washington the
Courts have been engaged for many
weeks in trying and convictin1 one
eminent Republican politician for the
assassination Of the President, and are
now engaged in trying for conspiracy
to defraud the Government in the Star
route cases one Republican ex-senator
who was lately eXtOlled as a most astute
and worthy political manager, and one
ex-Assistant Postmaster General, who
was lately called upon to be active and
vigilant ina collecting money in his De-
partment.
SECURING A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
beg pardon of Congress- have done
it injustice; it did more than have said.
In its interval of leisure it devoted itself
to turning out from their seats Demo-
Gratis who had been elected, and putting
in their places Republicans who had not
been elected; and to this work it stuck
right brayeIy until it had made the Re-
publican majority in the House of Rep
resentatives very secure.
POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS.
1t did more. In an outside sort of a
way it organized the Jay HubbelI Com
mittee and set it to work in squeezing
political assessments by voluntary con-
tributiOn" out Of the employees Of the
Government. 1t assessed 2 per cent. on
the salary. Of every man, woman and
child who could be found anywhere on
any payroll of the Government the
day laborers, the scrubbers, the washer
women, the pages, the women clerks, the
teachers in the Indian schools-on the
aged and infrm, on the sickly and weak,
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