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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

THE INTERNAL REVENUE TAX.-Mr.
Randall in his speech at Nashville, Dec.
Both, said: eve have had system of bur-
dens placed upon the people of the Unite
States that have become absolutely op-
pressive, and we are to-day made victims
OF the most excessive taxation known to
any civilized government. We have a
system which is inquisitorial-na may l
not say inhuman; surely can at least say
un-American. But the great body of the
American people, as always in the past
history of our country, have dete rmined
| that it shall 0e wiped out. allude to the
system of internal taxation. The amount
of taxation from that source aggregates
$3.50, 100000. This is just about the
amount Of money that there is no occasion
to collect at all. Now, this internal taxa
ton has been particularly oppressive upon
the people of the Southern States. When
the power of internal taxation came to be
discussed as one of the necessary powers
| to be given to the federal government in
the Constitution of the United States it
was only placed there after great doult t
and long discussion, and then it was incor-
porated or created with the distinct under
stan ling that it was only to be exercised in
times of great war necessity. 1t is given
as an excuse that these taxes have taken
away your necessity for higher rate of
tariff on imports. That l distinctly deny.
l say to-day that the revenues of this gov
eminent ought not to exceed two hundred
and fifty millions of money. l say that
there is no constitutional authority in the
instrument to take from the pockets of the
people one dollar in excess Of the amount
necessary to economically administer pub
| lie affairs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

ATTITUDE OF THE STATES ON THE
PROHIBITION QUESTION. The Philadel-
phia Press has been at the pains to gather
from official sources information as to the
action taken by the States of the Union in
regard to the restriction of the use, manu-
facture or sale of intoxicating liquors.
Five States have prohibitory laws-Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, and Kan
sas. Thirteen are without general laws
upon the subject. Massachusetts,, Con-
necticnt, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin
have tried prohibition, and finding it inef-
fective have had recourse to less drastic
measures Twenty States and Territories
deal with the liquor question by means of
q license or q local-option system. Local
option is the more popular system, RS it
comedies to communities the right 10 deal
with the question according to the indi-
| vidual convictions or needs. Rural neigh
| borhoods and fpopulous cities may have
different views and interests, and it is the
| merit Of the local-option method that it
| provides for this possible difference.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

BERKELEY & WALTERS.
funel9 'S3 stanton Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14
No federal nffica holder in VIRGINIA. M

No federal Office holder in Virginia, nor
in the entire South, who has taken an active
part in politics-and who of them has not :?
need lay the fattering JUNCTION to his soul
that there is any thing in President-elect
Cleveland's civil service letter that gives
him single pin upon which to hang hope
for the prolongation of his official term af-
ter the 4th of next March, and that, too,
though that term may have years 20 run
The President elect is real not a sham,
civil service reformer, aud as the civil SER
vice rules prohibit active interference in
politics Oh the part of federal office holders,
all the otf1ce-holders who have set those
rules at defiance will doubtless be removed
as soon as their successors can be determined
upon.-AleG. Gazette
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14
LERS AND
: CONSUMERS Of PAINTS!
So Hea,. Jae following for Yourself.


We have i.zw N stock the largest and best
stock OF PAINTS ever brought to this section,
manufactured by Lucas Co., the oldest paint
house in Philadelphia.
These Paints are guaranteed to give entire
satisfaction, and can be furnished In any tint
or shade desired ht prices to suit the times.
saving OF Is per cent. can be made by their use,
am they are always ready for immediate use,
presenting smooth, elastic. durable and CLOS
sy surface. 1t does not crack or become zoos
ened from the material upon which it is used.
Read the following guarantee
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March Goth, 1852.
Messrs. Berkeley d Co., Stdunton. Va
DEAR SJRS:-We have not as yet found IL
= necessary to issue printed guarantee for ouf
LIQUID Paints, regarding our position and rep
utation with the trade as sufficient assurance
that we would not place on the mark Ell an In
ferior article, particularly under our brand.
Wehowever will cheerfully follow the expedi-
ent W bich has been resorted to by manufactur-
ers to Introduce their goods by stating that We
will REFUND THE MONEY OR REPAIE1
any work with English lead and boiled oil we
believe Is orthodoxy on which our paint has
been used, that you feel well satisfied has
proved itself inferior. If further guarantees
are required you may give them on our au-
thority but we dc not think you will ever hear
of one authentic case of trouble arising through
the use of our paints.
Yours truly,
JNO. LUCAS & co.
These paints may be obtained by wholesale
BERKELEY & WALTERS.
iunol9 'S3 StauntOn Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

The old Liberty Bell, it is expected, will
be shipped from Philadelphia to the New
Orleans Exposition on January Gath. The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will be
ton A special train will be furnished by
the company to carry the bell, and three
officers appointed by the mayor as custo-
dams, who will not leave it day or night
until the relic is returned 10 the city in
June, at the close OF the exposition. This
special train will be preceded by the pilot
engine to guard against collision. When
the bell leaves the city it viii be the second
time since it was originally received in
Philadelphia in 1852 In 1777, when it was
expected the British would capture the
city, the bell was removed to Bethlehem
for SAFE keeping. 1t was restored after the
evacuation.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

Those laDguid tiresome sensations, caus-
ing you to feel scarcely able to be on your
hat constant drain that is taking
ON your system all it's former elasticit, !:
oriving the bloom from your checks that
continual strain upon your vital forces rem
dering you irritable and fietful, can easily
be removed by the use of that marvellous
remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities and
distractions of your system, are relieved al
once while the special cause of periodical
pain are permanently removed. None re-
ceive so much benefit and none are so pro-
foundly grateful, and show such an inter
est in recl nmendrng Hop Bitters as women
A Postal Card Story.
/ was affected with kidney and urinary
Trouble
'For twelve years n'
After trying all the doctors and patent
medicines l could hear of, used two bot
ties of Hop
And am perfectly cured. I keep it
Gail the time p respectfully, B. F.
Booth, salisbury, Tenn.-May A, 1888.
BRADFORD, Pa, May s, 1876
It has cured me of several diseases, such
nervousness, sickness at the stomach,
monthly troubles, etc. l have not seen
sick day in year, since took Hop Bitters
All my neighbors use them.
Mrs. FANNIE GREEN.
$4,000 Lost.
ga tour to Europe that cost me So, 600,
''done me less good than one bottle of Hop
''Bitters; they all cured my wife of fifteen
"yeals' nervous weakness, sleeplessness,
"and dyspepsia.
R. NJ, Auburn, N. Y.
|,MINevILLE, o., May 1, 10.
I'VE been suffering ten years,
your Hop Bitters. and it done
bod than all the doctors.
Miss S. S. BOONE.
Baby Saved.
thankful to say that our nurs-
permanently cured of dan
ltracted constipation and IT.
bowels by the use of Hop
(pthef, whic1 at the same
fleet health and strength.
nts, Rochester,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14
The Markets..

The market reports alone of the SPECTATOR
are worth more than Its subscription price,
stock markets carrier, in the SPECTATOR, than
in any other paper of this city.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

ments a.
can stand the test NO.
at least in the South. They ~
set of ravening wolves, intent %
prey and spoils. They have made on
work secondary to party work.
Look at Virginia where they have answer
ed the whip of the Boss and gone forth to
do his bidding. All over this State, from
one end to the other, they have preached
the gospel of hate, and lied about the true
people of Virginia. Not a mountain gorge
| that has not heard their malignant voices.
Postmasters and internal revenue pimps
and deputy marshals-the whole gang of
graceless scamps, have made trade OF
politics, aud have been utterly inscriptions
in their ways and methods. They have
banded the negroes together against the
whites; have. begotten bad feeling, and
fomented strife; and then have libeled and
illuminated the whites for asserting their
rights and defending their persons. These
are the rascals who, under Mr.. Cleveland
rule, will have to 'sgo' and go quickly and
fall deeply. An efficient, honest Repnbli-
can, who has attended faithfully to his Of
flee, we do not care to see removed; but OF
such there is not one in a hundred. What
we say Of Virginia will apply to every South
ern State, and very largely to the NORTH
Look at Washington where the grossest
partizanry has been carried on in the De-
partments not only in the contribution OF
money, but in the employees focking home
to do the dirty work of party, some of them
even acting as deputy marshals, with pistols
in hand!
Colonel Mcclure, Of the Philadelphia
Times, who has recently been to visit Mr.
Cleveland, says il an account of the inter-
view:
1T should be remembered also that this
practical civil service reform likely to be
inaugurated by President Cleveland gives
little promise to the bulk of the present
Federal officers. Cleveland's standard ap-
piled to them would dismiss ninety-nine of
every hundred of them, for they have, as
a rule, fagrantly offended every principle
of an honest civil service system
We are content with the outlining of his
views and policy touching the offices which
the incoming President has given. Of any
Republican who can stand the test, we are
willing to say, let him alone. But precious
few will be ae.s.e as by the skin Oh tt2 2.gl
teeth, to squeeze through and retain theil
places. Civil service reform is the very
thing that is needed to purify the Augear
stables
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14

$50 you are married." remarked Mrs.
Smith; "when do you receiver SO" re-
piled the newly-wedded one, shat will de-
pend upon our friends. We shall be ready
to receive as fast as the presents are sent
in
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14
Tbe &aasr.

An Independent Newspaper Of DEM
ocratic Principles, but not Controlled by
any Set of Politicians or Manipulators
Devoted to Collecting and Publishing all
the News Of the Day in the most Inter-
esting Shape and with the greatest pos
sible Promptness, Accuracy and Impair.
TALLY; and to the Promotion Of Demo-
cratic Ideas and Policy in the affairs Of
Government Society and Industry.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-14
Destroy that SIGN.

One may feel that he's getting old, but
he naturally dislikes that Anything about
his appearance should advise others of the
fact. Yet nothing does this SO effectually
as thin and falling hair. No woman wants
to marry man, and Business firms hest
.ste TO employ man, who shows this fatal
Parker's Hail Balsam is worth TO
gard, more than its weight il
9 it, and have plentiful and
had every trace of
ID spots covered
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12

ants and given him the means OF more
extensively enforcing the law than has
been done, he would have accomplished
a worthy and wonderful work. He did
all that any man could do with the
means at his command. We do not
think the interests of the law and of the
Administration could be better furthered
than by retaining Mr.. Dickson in office,
and we should be glad to see the Presi-
dent request the withdrawal of Mr..
Dickson's resignation and his continu-
ance in Office, and then have the
Attorney General furnish him with that
assistance that must be furnished if the
law is to be successfully vindicated. If
his resignation should be accepted and a
successor appointed, all well and good if
that successor be a superior man to Mr..
Dickson; but if his successor is not, then
"Oh! woe is me Athena" Mr. Dickson
is one of the very few Federal officials we
desire to see retained in office, and he
seems to have no political friends to per-
suade him to withhold his resignation.
1t is strange how the unworthy hang on.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
A RESIGNATION.

People here have heard SO much about
designations which never reached their
destination, if such designations had any
other destination than private drawer.
that theywilld doubt the genuinenesso Of any.
A genuine resignation has gone to Wash
ington, and one of which we can honestly
and sincerely say that we wish it had
never been written, or if written had
never been sent. The resignation to
which we refer is that OF William III.
Dickson, United States Prosecuting
Attorney for Utah Territory. We
believe we-can say without fear of
contradiction that Utah never had so
competent a prosecuting officer as Mr..
Dickson, and the great cause of our regret
for his resignation is the fear that Utah
will not have so good a prosecuting officer
for long time. Mr.. Dickson has ALWAYS
been able, energetic, courteous and kind.
in Utah his duties have been arduous
and disagreeable, but he has always per-
formed them without fear and without
favor. Mr. Dickson is Republican and
all of his predecessors of which we
have any recollection have been Re-
publieans; but he alone. of them
all has been worthy of respect and con-
tidence. That is a broad and sweeping
statement, but we would not change the
dotting of an in it. Mr.. Dickson has
been greatly disliked by the majority of
the people of Utah, but he has been dis
liked because he was without fear and
without reproach. He prosecuted under
the laws as he found them, and has never
cried. aloud for legislation to aid his
ignorance, as others have done. His
superior worth has come from his charac-
ter and his knowledge of the law. So far
as the suppression of the practice of
polygamy and unlawful cohabitation
is concerned, he has done more than any
and all others. Had the Government
seen fit to furnish him with more assist
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
An Opinion on Bishop Sharp.

Bishop John Sharp is the sharpest
man in Utah, it must be confessed. Being
shrewd enough to see that Mormonism
has got to an end of its rope, he walks
into Court and pleads guilty, with a
supplement to the effect that he never
will sin against the law again The
Court, knowing as well as Sharp, the in
fuence of the latter among the lowly of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, let John off with a reprimand.
Now there is weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth among the high-priests
because of Sharp's backsliding. The day
is not far distant when these same unc-
tuous old polygamists will cry out for the
rocks and the mills to fall upon them, be-
cause they were such fools as to deride
the calculating John Sharp, Bishop, and
refused to follow his wise advise .-Sacra-
mento Record Uaion
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
TOMORROW.

Tomorrow, didst thou say?" "Aye,
tomorrow" Tomorrow night the City
Council meet, and it would be we'll for
the citizens and taxpayers to keep a
keen watch upon the proposed purchase
OF the hundred and twenty acres of land
upon which are situated the "Old Saw
Mill Water Power" the "Old Empire
Mill Water Power" the "New Marble
Works Water Power" and the large
gravel beds formerly used by the city for
street grading purposes. Let all the facts
in the case be remembered. That the
land really belongs to the Mormon
church, and that there is not
a man in the City Council
who could have been elected
to that body had it not been for the
sanction of that church. Let it also be
remembered that the water rights OF
which so much is made in the Mayors
communication are no doubt long since
forfeited by non-user; and let it also be
particularly remembered that the law pro-
vides way in which the city can acquire
any and all property it may need where
the city and the owner of such property
cannot agree on the price, and that way
is by petitioning the District Court
to appoint three appraisers to
value the land and then have it sold
under an order of condemnation. Let it
be remembered that the Mayor and City
Council ignored this method, and that
they appointed committee to investigate
the matter merely for FORMS sake and
after the price had been agreed upon. Let
it also be remembered that the price so
agreed upon is fifty thousand dollars, and
that the property sought to be purchased
is not worth to exceed tacenty-fce thousand
dollars, and that that is good big price.
Lit would be well to remember that fftu
thousand dollars is more than all the citv's
revenue arising from taxation amounts to
for a year. 1t would also be we'll to re-
member that affair OF the Salt Lake City
canal, and how it was made to drop forty
four feet to meet the old church canal
some seven or eight miles below this
city, that that worthless old thing might
be bought for forty thousand dollars,
and bought from the church, the same
church from which the City Council now
propose to purchase this two hundred
and twenty acres of land, upon which
naught grows but sage brush, sunfiowers.
and sleek Lizards. In thinking over
how economical the City Council are, and |
what a good bargain they are making
when they buy a piece of land that in
flush times is not worth to exceed twenty
live thousand dollars for fifty thousand
dollars, just think that the bringing of
the Salt Lake City canal forty-four feet
higher than when it strikes the city cost
seventy-five thousand dollars more than it
would had it been started from the
Jordan on a level to meet the old church
canal where it did. These things are
not for the purpose of creating
suspicion against the City Council,
heaven forbid! but merely that people
who pay taxes may feel consoled when
hey see those taxes diverted from the
physical improvement of our city to the
spiritual improvement of our city fathers.
You see, "there is nothing great on earth
'ut man, and there is nothing great in
nan but mind" and the city fathers
lave been told to mind.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
THE ROCK SPRINGS FIAsCO.

The murderers of the Chinese at Rock
Springs have not been indicted. The
TORN OF an investigation into the matter
by the grand jury has turned out mere
travesty upon justice and is fiasco. The
grand jury in their report said:
We have diligently inquired into the oc-
currence at Rock Springs, on the I'd day of
september, and though we have examined a
large number of witnesses, no one has been
able to testify to single criminal act COM
mltteo by any known person on that day.
Whatever crimes may have been committed
there, the perpetrators thereof have NOT
been disclosed by the evidence before us.
and therefore, while we deeply regret the
circumstances, we are wholly unable, ACTING
indictments. Il
1t is to be hoped that their diligence
has had no bad effect upon them and
that it may not predispose them to dvs-
pepsia.
Col. Bee, the Chinese Consul at San
Francisco, has been interviewed bv re-
porter of the AHa- California, and in the
course of his remarks, said:
To show you what sort Of a grand iurv
that must have been, l will simply state thai
L myself have nine affidayits of railroad
employees, merchants and superintendents of
the mime, who saw every house fired from
hrst to last. | told United States District
Attorney Campbell, who was specially denn-
tIzed by the Attorney General to investigate
the massacre, that if he would guarantees
proper protection would furnish him Chi
nese witnesses who could identify every
white engaged in the assault. he
said he would attend to the matter
and let me know. He then went off To
Evanston and have never seen or heard
from hlm since. There was no attempt ON
the part of the prosecuting officers to indict:
they did not want any indictments returned
thanks to the reign of terror. You must re,
member that these Chinese and white miners
have been working together for the last
eight years. and are trife more than fami
har with each others countenances. All the
white miners, as well as the Chinese, were
paid OFF by an American firm, and the head
OF that concern, as well as two or three
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
clerks, could have identified every one of the

clerks, could have identified every one of the
rioters.
From that statement it looks as though
the grand jury had not cared very greatly
to find out who massacred the Cinnamon
at Rock Springs. That was matter of
minor importance, and when it came to
such things as the relation of labor to
capital and what the railroad ought to do
and what it ought not, then the grand
jury were quite at home.
We have also inquired into the causes that
led to the outbreak at Rock Springs. While
we find no excuses for the crimes committed,
there appears to be no doubt of abuses exist
ing that should have been promptly adjusted
by the railroad company and its officers. If
this had been done, the fair name of our Ter
ritory would not have been stained by the
terrible events of the I'd of September last.
Gentlemen of the grand jury, don't get
excited about the "fair name of our Ter
ritory,'' so long as you cannot discover
any of those who have sought to tarnish it.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
Col. IngerSOll ON President Cleveland.

While IN Tennessee recently Col. Inger-
soil was asked by reporter of the Nash
vile Liberal what he thought of the ad-
ministration of President Cleveland. Col
Ingersoll replied: II know but very little
about it. l suppose that he is doing the
best he can. He appears to be carrying
out in good faith the principles laid down
in the platform on which he was elected
He is having a hard road to travel.
To satisfy an old Democrat and a
new Mugwump is difficult job. Cleve-
land appears to be the owner of himself
appears to be man of great firmness
and force of character The best thing
that l have heard about him is, that he
went fishing on Sunday. We have had
so much morality, dude department, and
hypocritical responsibility in public office,
that man with courage enough to enjoy
himself on Sunday is q refreshing and
healthy example. All things considered,
l do not see but that Cleveland is doing
well enough. The attitude of the Admin
istration towards the colored people is
manly and fair, so far as can see.''