The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-14

Col. Hooker has declared more than
once during his canvass that he fayors
the repeal of the internalrevenue taxes,
on the ground that the money received
by the Government from this source is
not needed and should be left in the
pockets of the people.
The estimated surplus collected by the
| Government. from all sources annually,
is ss5, 600, 900, and the internal tax-the
tax on whisky and tobacco = yields
SIP, 900, so that if you repeal the
internal tax, there will be a deficit of
S27, 000,0 900 annually, instead of sur
plus of sS5, 100000 1t must be plain,
therefore, to any one who can add and
subtract, that the Government cannot
afford to repeal the internal tax on
whisky and tobacco, which Col. Hooker
| favoTs.
Mr. Randall, Col Hooker's leader on
all questions affecting the tariff, knew as
Col. Hooker does not, hat the necessi-
ties of the Government would not per-
NIT repeal of the entire internal tax
50 he has confined the repeal in his tariff
bill to the tax on tobacco, yielding 26,-
900 900 or S28, 900, 600 annually: and not
S4O. OOO, 900, as Col. Hooker has stated.
But if the revenue derived from in
ternaI taxes-the tax on whisky and
tobacco-did not exceed the annual
surplus, and it was perfectly manifest
chat the financial system of the country
would not be crippled by its total repeal,
what would be the proper course accord
ing TO Democratic principle to pursue7
Mr.. Randall and Col. Hooker would
answer, 'Repeal the internal tax and let
protective custom duties on clothing,
rood and the tools of laborers remain III
force: :" but the Democratic party would
answer, "Reduce the custom duties on
The necessaries of life, to a revenue
point, anu retain the tax on whisky ana
tobacco"
Col. Hooker's advocacy OF the repeal
Of the whisky and tobacco tax is super
serviceable so far as the people OF Mis-
sissippi are concerned. Neither the
dealers nor the consumers have asked
for its repeal. The tax is not oppressive
NOT Crushing" as Mr.. Morrison says,
while "the war taxes that were put on
the tariff or the custom duties, aside
from that upon tea and coffee, substan-
TALLY remain still crushing to-day"
Everybody knows that Mr.. Randall
favors the repeal of internal taxes, be
cause such course necessitates pre-
Lective tariff. Col. Hooker like Mr..
Randall favors their repeal, because, he
says, it will leave $112,000,000 in the
pockets of the people, which the govern
ment does not need Has it never oc-
CURED to Col. Hooker that it would be
of greater benefit to the people of Mis-
sissippi, to leave in their pockets the
money exacted from them by a tariff
framed in the interest of monopolies
Who is it in Mississippi that prefers a
protective tariff on necessaries to an in
ternal tax on whisky and tobacco?
The tax on whisky and tobacco surely
is not crushing" to the women and
children of the lane, for they use neither;
and it is not crushing to the men for
they can abstain from the use of both );
but the duty laid on articles of food,
clothing and the implements of the
aborer aud the mechanic, necessarily
affect every man, woman and child in
the State. 1t must be apparent then
that the burden of the whisky and
tobacco tax is light as compared with
that imposed by the odious monopoly
fostering tariff, which the Democrats
have declared they will revise in the
interest of the people, but which Col.
! Hooker declares shall not be revised,
when he advocates repeal of the inter
nal taxes.