The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-04
MOUNT AIRY. NJ. Feb. 8. 1885.

MOUNT AIRY, Nj, Feb. 8, 1885.
The Duty on Tobacco must be Remooed.- -
Through false pretenses on the part of
our dudes in Congress, outrageous taxa
ton has been imposed upon tobacco and
the people have stood it manfully indeed,
or rather, like SO many cattle. Tobacco
is luxury. So is bread and meat; and
it is just as fair to tax one as the other.
The poor men of the country fought the
rebellion to its final termination, and it
must be said, to the disgrace of Congress,
they have SO far paid the expenses of the
war. The soldiers were paid in script
worth 30 cents to the dollar; the bankers
in gold worth $500 in script, and to cap
the climax, Congress placed heavy and
outrageous tax upon tobacco, thereby
shifting the burden of government and
the war debt upon the poor. The duty
en- whiskey amounts to nothing Whiskey
is vicious and costs more than it comes to.
But tobacco is vegetable plant, molten
sive and harmless, is one of the best dis
infectants known to science, gentle
stimulator, soothing to the nerves and
sand to a poor man on his up grade
through life, and may be classed with tea
and coffee, and Notwithstanding many an
ignoramus believes the devil sowed the
seed, yet no viciousness from it doth pro-
coed. Still ii is taxed outrageously, while
oysters on salad, quail on toast, sealskin
sacques, broad-cloth coats, Rochefort
cheese, alligator boots, croquetts, royal
satin stockings, lobster salad, midnight
revelry, exercises, and debauchery, are
put down as necessaries and go scott free
oh, shades of Christopher Columbus and
the great Clayton-Bu treaty ! is it
any wonder that the people are becoming
jealous and that Congress is busy making
laws prohibiting the manufacture of
dynamite cartridges, designed for con-
gressional elevators. Statisticians may
figure up the millions wasted annually
for tobacco and point to the thousands of
new-made graves, its victims who used
the darned stuff about eighty years and
then gave up the ghost, yet we will con-
tinue to smoke aud chew, just like our
daddies used to do.
We used to place implicit confidence
In history; no matter how tough the story,
we shut our eyes and swallowed it whole,
like dose of pills. But since reading
the different histories of the late war, we
are inclined to believe the most of it to
be simply has story.
Generals Grant, Sherman, Admiral
Porter, and many others, have turned
Memorists of the late war, and to judge
from their scribblings, they did it all.
Did Jonah really swallow the Whale
We shoald like to hear from the frank
and file.' What were they doing all
those many long days while the Generals
were slaying the multitudea
Misplaced Confidence. -Mr. BENZ. Abbott
went to Lambertville one day last week
ioi iodu VI Cohi anu having outlo Coh-
tidence IN his team, left them standing in
the yard unhitched. While he went in the
Office to warm, coal train passed and
the team got out in hurry and came
near taking the Office with them. Re-
sult-the horses were but little injured
but the wagon was pretty badly
wrenched.
Mr.. VIM. F. Holcombe has rousing
porker, which will weigh anywhere from
six hundred to a ton. He is sight
worth seeing. Abundance free.
The Hunterdon Democrat recently
published a long list of Delawarians who
voted for Gen. jackson and Grover Cleve-
land. The list seems to have been made
at random, for we learn, without any
particular inquiry, that a number of
those named have been dead several
years and also that several of the num-
Der did not vote either for Jackson or
Cleveland.
Now that the trade dollar is safe and
snug in the Golfers of the money sharks
at IS cents. Congress is shaping things
for its redemption. CAPT. JACK.