Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-05-03


ers and bond holders, and not for
the general welfare. Such acts as
above enumerated have created in
the last fourteen years .fUe hundred
millionaires. Class laws and great
millionaires have been the downfall
of all republics, and it is said history
repeats itself.
The diffusion of the opportunities
and advantages of education among
the masses by increased taxation,
compulsory laws, and more execu-
tive authority are the crying needs
of our school code. The law, with
these slight amendments,i if enforced
according to the spirit and letter of
the law, would effect grand results;
it would enable the children of our
SONS to pay the debt entailed from a
generation that will soon pass
away. 1t will enable our grand
children by skilled labor and brain
development TO utilize the fabulous
dormant wealth of one of the poor
ers States in all the thirty-eight-
for State without honor or credit
is poor indeed.
This great paramount and long
neglected interest is arousing the
masses to action everywhere on
both hemispheres. The French
chambers in the Christmas holidays
of 1882, voted 40 millions of pounds
for educational purposes, and il is
said that during the spring and
summer months of last year 10000
school houses were erected in
France. Just the other day the
greatest deliberative body of men
on terra firma voted on Blair's Ed
ucatfonal Bill, SO for education, IL
for illiteracy, out of rs senators.
Oh, for the spirit of 76-paired, or
asleep, or silent, and astraddle of
the fence. / don't propose to be
wiser than Harris or Beck, and
likely Vance, who voted against
this bill. If the Democratic House
defeats Blair's Educational bill,
and if the Democracy in their Chi
cago platform endorse their action
9th of July, 1884, and adopt the free
trade idea for revenue only of 1880,
divided democracy will suffer de-
feat in 1884, most devoutly to be
wished by Republicans. We need
change of administration if only
to review the balance sheet of taxes
paid into, and disbursements paid
out of, the National treasury during
reign of Republican rule for the last
"a years. More than ten thousand
millions of internal taxes and inn
port duties have been collected from
the toiling millions, and as much
more has been garnered from the
consumers of American manufac-
tured goods and wares by exclusive
war tariff duties, and robbing the
treasury of revenue and filling
the vaults of corporate millionaires.
A change of civil service reform is
needed, the old war tariff needs
revision. But we must let on the
breaks easy, my lord. II we abolish
internal revenue laws it is the in
struction of Pennsylvania to 60 for
Randall and abolition of internal
taxes. If her go delegates go for
revenue only what will become of
the bonds? Why perpetuate them
the bankers don't care if you do.
1t is an English idea, a National
blessing; one-sixteenth of the En-
glish population till the soil; the
rest are absorbed in manufacturing
industries, or commercial carriers
upon the high seas. Four billions
of National debt owned by her
liege lord, manor born, and our
American syndicate are adopting
English ideas. On the virgin soil
of country yet in embryo of devel-
opment, tariff for revenue only is
an English diplomacy any simple
ton knows, if he can reason from
cause and effect, that if we adopt
free trade sentiments and recind in
ternal taxes you will bankrupt the
treasury, and funded interest on the
bonds will perpetuate National
banks, and National banks own
National bonds and twenty-five
hundred bankers will control the
finance, regulate prices by initiation
or contraction of the value of cur
rency. The word only simply
means spoaation. 1t was used in
1880 in the interest of class corpora |
lions. Senator VOORHEES, in his great |
Exposition speech at Atlanta, Ga,
quoted Andrew Jackson's letter TO |
Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia,
In 1873, saying, "Our manufactur- |
ing industries need the fostering |
care of the general government,
that they were the handmade of |
agriculture" He also in that great |
effort to develop Southern interest
said "that foolish adverb only lost
Hancock's election" The bosses,
like the leaves of the Upas tree
poisoned the minds of 5000 opera
tives in Indiana, telling them that |
a reduction of duties would reduce |
wages, and the boys on account of
the "bread question:" voted for
Garfield. Starvation will make a
man drink his own blood. Like a
green bay tree, our infant industries
are springing up all over the South
and West, and they need the foster
ing care of the general Government.
We need three hundred millions of
revenue annually for incidental ex-
penses We need Incidental protec-
ton; this problem can only be
solved by wise craftsmanship. May