Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-04-20

STAU MTON. VA.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 20. 1883
The Democracy of America has one OBJ
iect in view, the lightest taxation of the
people and the appropriation Of It's results
to the support Of the government. There
are now one hundred and thirty millions
OF dollars, gathered by taxation from the
people, lying idle in the United States
Treasury. It is that much money taken
from the uses of trade. That amount OF
idle money will remain there year after
year, for the growth Of the country will far,
outstrip the little shipping of taxation
which was done by the last Congress-
With this immense balance to its credit
in bank, the business firm of the United
States is yet running a gigantic Internal
Revenue Department, employing a large
number of Office holders, who are engag-
Cd in piling up still higher in the vaults of
the firm, taxes unnecessarily wrung from
the people.
There are two ways Of staying this OPP
preasive and unealled-for taxation. One
is to abolish all tariff and resort to direct
taxation through the internal revenue. -
This scheme hasn It an advocate anywhere.
The other is to abolish the Internal Rev
enue tax and make tariff which will sup
port the government. This is the Demo-
cratic idea and would accomplish the most
excellent results in all directions. It would
lift from the shoulders of the people the
burden of supporting the regiments Of Of
fce-holders in that department; it would
require q tariff which would afford suhi-
Gent protection to American labor; it
would put the results Of that tariff into the
pockets Of the government instead Of che
owners of giant monopolies, andit would
do AWAY with the practice of collecting mil
lions of useless tax from the people and
letting those millions lie idle in the treas
ury. The American people said in No
vember last, and are still saying it,
that they will no longer carry both these
burdens, high protective tariff and In
ternal Revenue tax, on their shoulders at
the same time. They point to the idle
millions in the Treasury vaults as tie re-
suit of it. and declare that it shall be so
no longer. Told that the American man
ufacturers must have protection, they say
give them protection-give them the mil
lions for protection that are now gather
ed through the Internal Revenue, but az
for paying the way of the high protective
monopolist and the Internal Revenue
drones, both, they will have none of it,
This government must have a certain
amount of money for its support, and let
that be raised by a judicious tariff, by
which American labor may be protected
~ well as the government amply support.
ed. There will come day when the nation
al debt having been paid of there must be
free trade. and when America having be-
come the foremost manufacturing power
on the globe, will be clamorOus for free
trade with the nations of the world and be
urging them to adopt it. But that time Is
not now.
Speaking for the present time the Demo
cracy demand that there shall be applied
to the situation the common sense reasons
that affect the individual pocket. IT just
so many hundreds millions are required fer
carrying on the government, fix on tar
if that will protect American manufac-
lures, and withiit raise the hundreds of
millions wanted.
This should be the platform Of the De-
mocracy in its National Convention of
1884, where the man is to be nominated
who can give the platform effect. But any
attempted legislation for 1t before
there is Democratic President would lie
the worst of folly-the worst because there
can be- no hope, until vetoing Republican
President gives way to Democrat. of
effecting the deliverance of the people
from the Internal Revenue tax.
If the Lynchburg Democratic State
Convention proposes to outline the views
Of the Virginia democracy on national
questions, and it is pretty hard for Vir-
ginian when he gets ''in convention as
sembled" to keep his hands off of them.
it can't do better than to say something
like the above.
Another lynching has occurred in Vir-
ginia and under circumstances that move