Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-10-30

Bourbonism, intense and pure, forgetting
nothing, and learning nothing by the mar n Of
tim5. What you want is government able, not
only to protect you from foreign powers but also
to develop your resources, protect your INDUS
tries, improve your rivers and harbors, and In
supporting your schools, and, in cooperation
with the States to create and regulate those great
that tend. by absolute free trade between 50,00o,-
600 of people within the United States, to in
the American people. The constitution con crs |
upon the national government ample power OF |
taxation to collect revenue for all those purposes
without burdening the people Of the states with |
oppressive direct taxes. Congress can levy duties
on imported goods without oppression, even to a |
ence hes de eloped mode of levying excises on |
q number of articles yielding large revenue,
festrainiDg s their use csief Of these is the tax
on whisky, beer and tobaecoIa tax which IS
as beneficial IL restraining the use OF these
and relief from other taxes. This system of in
direct taxes can, if occasion demants, be ex-
enable the national government, without burden
to the States, to confer untold benefits upon the
stricted to all the States all
The POWERS TREY NOW POSSESS.
Under the constitution no State can levy duties
on imported goods, and thus this bountiul
source of revenue is cut OF from them In effect,
II not expressly, all States are prevented from
levying any form of excise taxes, or taxes on pro-
duction or consumption. Because the Imposition
of those taxes would tend to iniure the State that
levies them for the benefit of adjoining States
that do not. No tax can be levied by States upon
the production or panufscture of tobacco, be
ton and manufacture into other States
where the tax was not not levied: There i:
national authority, because the commerce
between the States is now so rapid and intimate
ing counties were to each other fifty years ago.
The states have Increased in saeh numbers dis
possibility of injury to any State BY national an.
thority is too remote to be feared. Therefore it
the % and She esrsoS Of
certain II is that now the interests of Virginia
ernment instead of weak one-should be in
favor of national authority rather than of local
agther.ty iargest possible development
of internal resources consistent with the revenue
OF the United States. So on the doctrine of the
PROTECTION OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY
which is now becoming a chief question OF Amer
lean politics. The Republican party plainly and
strongly announces its purpose to protect all
forms of American industry, not only of the
workshop, but of the farm, by levying duties
| foreign goods that can be manufactured or pro
duced in this country. The object of this policy
is that our people may be induced to manufacture
and industry. Weinsist that this policy strength.
ems our country makes it more Independent Of
foreign nations that the iaboring men employed
twelfths of all the surplus products of the farm.
| We also insist that this policy gives employment
| to capital enables manufacturers to pay more
| wages TO the workingmen employed, and protects
l them from sharp and undue competition with
| foreign labor, while home competition in time
| reduces to the consumer the price of the
MSTe ST ead ead To % vSoD we cSm S n5
sources of our country end the production of the
l raw materials of industry in our midst, giving
| in every Stats possessed Of tho treasures 9t iron
or coal or other minerals. In this respect alone,
the policy OF protection will in few years, dou-
BILE the value of the lands of Virginia, active
| and profitable employment to all the labOring
men in it, induce the reclamation of millions o.
| acres of land now exhausted by culture, set at
| work the enormous water power Of Virginia,
| cause to be established practicab to
your coal and iron the furnace, tn rolling mill,
| and the innumerable manufactures based upon
the proximity of iron and coal, wool and cotton.
KNOW IT Is DIFFICULT
| for Virginians to understand the marvellous
change that will be produced By the application
Of this policy Nothing is more difficult than to
old, With fresh soil and admirable climate, i g
harbors and charming social life, made up pict-
lied by the pen of Thackeray. and yet this other
| wise happy condition was affected by an institu-
your fore is, and kept you backward in progress
and wealth compared with the Northern States.
Now, events have chsnged all this. and you have
an opportunity to follow the example of Pennsvl-
vania and OHIO and other States that have diver
pes1 sRsf w Se Of Sn wh
to you than to any other State, and would
place you where you ought to be, almost in the
education, in diversity of pursuits and developed
resources. The Republican party believes in and
| acts upon the principles OF John Marshall. L
trusted with the powers of the national govern.
| ment they will be fairly exercised for the protec
ton of our industries, the development of our re-
| sources, the improvement of our commerce, the
regul alton of our railroads, and in every work O.
national policy which would seem to add to the
| industry and promote the enterprise and comfor
| of our people. What have you to hope for in thi
respect ON the Democratic party?
LAGGARD ALL THE WAY,
before the war and since the war, having no af
| irmative principles; unable, now that it is il
the common good; playing with civil service
law to which its leaders are almost unltedly op
| posed; tinkering with our currency by demone
| tiZing minor silver coins, and paying off the non
interest bearing instead Of the interest-6earinl
debt; at upon the tariff, with Cariise, Tucker
Morrison and Hurd pulling one way, and Ran
dali and others the other; protesting to be for
| tariff for revenue, and proT oslng horizontal re
duetion of protective duties. 1t proposes nothing
: it does nothing, and is nothing except an incum
| brance on the national life of our country. VIII.
| should Virginians cling to this party, that ap
| peals to nothing but the names of its ancestors
| 1t has not the clear perception of Thomas Jeffer
| son or the strong will of Andrew Jackson t
guide it, distinguished of late only by its crime
2 against the elective franchise, and, it appear
, | to me, living only upon the memories Of tn
civil war, reviving in its parades and cavalcade
snd marches rel the events Of lS62 while chargin I gin
! lence of the Democratic party in 1884. Surel
? | such party cannot meet the wants and expecta
{ text was this party brought into power? The
said the Republican party had been in power fo
| twenty-four years, and had been guilty of
f FRAUDS AND POPULATIONS.
I: | They wanted to count the money and examin
: and every dollar was found to be on hand, eve
9 to the last CENT. They have examined the book
with the aid of experts in Office and out of Office
e | and among the multitude of public officers, the
y have not pointed out a single defaulter, rasca
i amy any Das other Country They talked ab91
d fraud and yet ths official statements show d
= tinctly that there has been less percentage
= = fraud or defalcation than in any Democratic &C
|; | publican administrations have been almost frt
q | from al fraud defalcatiOn. They said the
Tasesfs thew have turned out? Where are iheS
u | Have ther names been written or printed in Il
y papers of Virginia! When they found no rasca
| tisans," men who voted the Republican ticke
= | and the chief quarrel between the members
the party is tt at they have not turned these 20
le fensive partisans'' out more rapidly. Instead
g turning out rascsls they have put in rascals. NJ
n | Cleveland, often no doubt misled and deceive
II has appointed more penitentiary and jail bir
"a | in his eight months than were appoi ted in 4
70 whole twenty four years of Republican admin
II tration. Y ou have doubt read in the pape
/ repeatedly of appointments made and atterwa
l, recalled because il found that the appointe
le had been in the penitentiary or were indicted,
" ought to be indicted, for erimi ual offenses Ih
said that we had s ascpmTl. a lar large surplus
~ was boarded in order to make hard times; IN
Is was the cry Of Mr.. Hendricks, Vice President
~
le of this surplus? Has any portion of it been a
A. Piled to the payment of the public debt! IN
ID flour for every man, woman and child in t
oa United States. Have any, Of you received 20
= And adopted by the Republican party during t
twenty four years OF its power do they take lss
" | upon? None whatever
10 THEY DARE NOT CONTEST
n with US on any question of the past. What h
this party done since S i cane II into power Wh
l he to add
n prices? Have they adopted any reform? On
tn other hand, every measure has tended to hard
es the times, to reduce wages and prices. For yea
in it has been the policy of all parties to build
," our merchant marine as well as our navy. OF
ce devoted his whole life to this policy. He was
or plain, unlettered Irishman of great energy a
IL iished the greatest ship-yard in America, and o
lie OF the greatest in the world-John Roach.
chant ese IN and several ships for ho SoreI
bt ment under contracts let TO the lowest bdd
to quibbles and pretexts, that have since be
g, | Abandoned he was driven into banbrupt'
n | failed and assigned, discharged 2500 men, a
is then the essels we're placed in the hands of ma
ed officials to be completed on the same plans
ment of the administration. Again, Congr
had appropriated by the consent of both hous
nd $4,000 70 pay for carrying the foreign mails,
rst which 100000 was TO be paid to American sh
sr- owners upon contracts prescribed by the la
lal The Postmaster-General disregarded this Ia
Ii | and adopted a policy which excluded Americ
gh vessels and transferred the carrying of our m
he | almost exclusively to foreign vessels. Instead
or | pursuing the policy of the Republican party
alf steadily paying installments of interest bear
of debt from the surplus revenues they abb
or | doned that policy, aud recently have appl
til the surplus revenue to the extent of Sl3,Ot
in 90 to paying of the non -interest- bearing de
of | of the government, the gold and silver cert
G. | Gates, thus contracting the currency at a per
nit | of the year when increase was demanded
,al moving the crops. Through Mr.. Jordan,
en- | Treasurer of the United States, the admlnlst
ar ton adopted the favorite policy of Samuel
lv- Tilden of single gold standard of money, q
/ wit