The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24


Tennessee; Gould, with his
500 OOO, 900; Sage, with bis s5O, OOO, OOO,
and 100 others, not necessary to name,
with yearly incomes of 81 000,O 900
each, are but a few Of the many ex-
amples of how the labor of the many
has been ground in the dust by the
class legislation of the Republican
party in the interest Of their favored
monopolists.
Claiming to be the friend OF the
poor man, they lay high tarifftax on
the necessaries Of life and low one
on the luxuries used only by the
rich.
They tax the silk goods of the rich
only so per cent, while the wooden
blanket is made to pay from 80 to 100
per cent; places and guitars pay 25
per cent, while cotton cards and
curry combs are taxed As per cent. 80
per cent. pays the tax on fine fur
robes, while wooden shswls are as.
sessed go to 80 per cent. They let of
statuary and diamonds at 10 per cent,
and make 1t up on pocket knives at
30 per cent. The prop and pet of
their party, grown rich under
its fostering csre for the few,
can drink and grow merry"
on champagne taxed only AZ per
cent, while the man who labors for
him at pit;ance day must pay las
per ceut. on the castor oil that he
gives to his sick child. They delight
in this claim that they are the poor
mans friend, and they are clearly de-
termined to make their claim perpet-
ual by keeping him always poor. Ia
their national platform of 1884 they
declared that they would correct the:e
inequalities in the tariff tax, but when
bill wss offered in the last Congress
by a Democrat for that purpose, true
to their instincts of expressing the
poor in the interest of the rich, they
forso. their pledges, betrayed the PEG.
pie, and refused 10 grant the relief
they had promised.
To catch the Irish vote they de-
clared in their platform FIR heme rule
for Ireland, and established the sim
certify Of the declaration by advocst.
ing Capitalization from every stump
in the State. Garry the centralizing
theories of Col. A. A. Taylor to their
legitimate conclusion, and the reIult
would be that the administration of
the affairs of Tennessee would be TAX
en- out Of the hands of its people and
placed under the contIol of the Ma
tionsl Government, just as Iralaud to-
day is under the control of the British
Parliament. Do the people wish
to manage their own affairs, or
would they prefer to follow the
lead CT Col. A. A. Taylor and turn
over the control of our domestic ins.i-
tutions to the tender mereies of New
England fansticism?
Pretended advocates Of honest cleo
lions, they have regularly resOrted to
every species of fraud known to the
calendar of crime in order to main.
tain their hold on power by defeat
ing, il ne cessa.y, Ike will CT the people
at the polls.
By scratch of the pan of our so.
called Gov. Brownlow, whole coun-
ties We disfranchised; by the edict
Of rump Legisla ure the people of
whole States were deprived OF their
citizenship. By the order of briga-
der general, legislatures legally
elected and constituted were dis
solved, and in many cases the places
OF the members 1ere filed with
usurping criminals. They degraded
eur army by using 1t to drive legal
voters from the polls, and with their
deputy marshals, armed with bull
deg pistols, appointed in many in.
stances because they were experienced
in crime, they over awed the people
on election day and made elections
by the ballot a mockery.
By threats to some that their p n
sims would be stopped If they voted
the Democratic ticket, and by prom
Uses to others that theirs would be al
lowed if they voted the Republican
ticket, they, as shown by indisputable
proof. Systematically made the PEN
sion Office in distributing the bounty
of the nation to disabled soldiers ssIist
in the dirty work of debauchinS the
ballot box.
AS a crowning infamy TO these gross
outrages on the elective franchise,
they overturned the will of the people,
and by fraud, corruption and threat
ened force psrpetrsted the crime of
the ages in the inauguration of Ruth
erford B. Hsyes as President, knowing
that Samuel j. Tilden had been duly
and legally elected, and then, with a
shamelessness that passes belief. they
rewarded ninety-six Of the partici.
pants in the crime with high and re.
spopsible Offices, at an aggregate aunu'
81 salary of $242,l70, or 1868, $50 for
their full term of four years.
Deceitfully assuming to be the spe-
cial advocates of purity and economy
in the management of public affairs,
they lowered the standard of official
character by the appointment of I'M
worthy political tools to high offices,
and by their extravaganza in
the use Of pubic money,
they taught their unworthy
agents and officers to be careless,
wasteful and dishonest in handling
the public funds. Under this loose
rule a reign of fraud and corruption
was inaugurated on every hand; cul-
minating in the organization of rings
for pillage and plumber in nearly every
branch Of the government.
The history OF the Credit Mobileir
frauds, the Boss Shepherd Ting frauds,
the Degolvar pavement frauds, the
safe burglary frauds, the whisky ring
frauds, the Belknap frauds, the Robe.
son naval frauds, the medical naval
frauds, the Indian Bureau frauds, the
star route frauds, and the frauds COM
mitted in the farcial trial OF the star
route thieves, has been so often writ
ten that the only repetition it needs is
to say that millions ON millions of the
nations money, wrnng from the tax
payers by the most oppressive taxation
ever imposed on a free people were
stolen from the Treasury by the die
honest public servants placed in high
positions by this "God and morality
party"
The Republican officials having con-
troll of the government became trus-
tees, charged with the duty of guard
ing aud protecting the rights of the
people in the public lands, but instead