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and retail dealers in leaf tobacco, be
and are hereby repealed"
THAT Ia the Dannnnratio relief

! nat Is the Democratic relief.
And now, farmers, with your crops
of tobacco upon which you are depend
ing for so much, tell me, if you can,
that If you wanted the tax removed
| from your tobacco crop, tell me what
language you could use that would be
stronger than that which was used in
the 25th section of the Mills bill. If
you were to write until tomorrow for
the purpose Of relieving the tobacco
that you are cultivating from all tax
of every kind, you could not pen
words that are stronger than those
used in the 25th section of the Mills
bill, and l turn to my distinguished
opponent, and l say to him, that if he
should try TO frame an act that was to
bring relief to the farmer, to the man
who is raising tobacco, that would re-
lieve that tobacco crop from every
tax of every description that he, e,en
with all his ability, cannot frame
sentence that will more completely
relieve the tobacco farmer of all tax,
than this section.
A Democratic majority has passed
the bill. A Democratic President,
Grover Cleveland, stands ready in
Washington, with his pen in hand, to
sign it. Why, then, is it not a law
to day? The reason is, the Republi
cans have a majority in the Senate of
the United States, and they are there
to-day, opposing the Mills bill. If the
Republicans would pass it tomorrow,
it would become law, and every
man that cultivates tobacco in the
county of Forsyth would be relieved
from every tax upon the leaf tobacco
that grows upon his field.
Do you call that flower, or do you
call that fruit say that it is fruit.
Here you are: is it not like the case
of the pear or apple /?
Here the Democratic party comes
with bill for the repeal of the tax
upon the manufacture of tobacco, and
presents it to its Republican friends
in the Senate, and says, "give your
assent to this and they say 'no, no,
no, you Democrats promised to repeal
the tobacco tax, and you have not
done it." Laughter and applause.
Now, my friends, is this just?
/ ask you, good, honest Republi-
cans / ask you, honest men in the
Republican party, that when you go
fIome tonight, and have around
: you your wife and little children, and
take your old Bible and YOU will read
a chapter, and then knee. down and
return thanks to God, ask you if it
is not unjust, and [ ask you If it is
not wrong to GO and put the Demo
cratic party, now doiug its duty, away,
the Democratic President standing
ready to sign this bill, and the only
obstructionein the way Republican
Senate.
But how about brandy, and how
about whiskey?
I deem, my friends, that brandy
and whiskey ought pot to be taxed
under the view that take of the Fed
eral Constitution. | do not believe
in these war taxes in a time of peace
But what has the Democratic party
done ?What was it Zeb Vance said in
his complaint against the grasshopper
Did he not say these red-legged reve-
nue. officers would ride up the side ot
, a hill, snuff the mountain air, and
then if they thought they detected
t anything like the smell of brandy il
, the air they would inquire who lived
on the banks of the branch that trick
led past, and they would find tha
Mr. Smith lived there, and they
' would go to Raleigh and swear tina
, Mr.. John Smith was distilling unlaw
fully on that branch. Laughter.
Was not that what Zeb Vance con
t demns?
/ But what does the Democratic par
t ty say about it? It says that as ia
s as brandy is concerned, let man pa,
the brandy tax and no red-legge'
: grasshopper of revenue officer shall
/ dare cross his threshold, that from
that time he is free from all supervis
{ ion. Then. too, it says that if maj
d wants to distill whiskey, if he will ge
/. him whiskey still, he is put upon tn
e same footing with the brandy distill
!. er and that all he has to do is to pa
It the tax. tax that we tried to reduc
e from 80 to so cents. Is not that som
e relief? And not only that in thi
v same Mills bill it is declared that "n
/ revenue officer shall make oath upo
" information or belief that any citize
q of North Carolina has violated tn
3 internal revenue laws but that b
n must make oath of his own know
a edge that the law has been violated
d and violated by one particular ma
'. before any warrant shall be issue
le for his arrest.
d I ask you, my friends, it that is nc
:. for your relief? And what is the in
p Justice that we complain of? 1t
y this, that man in Forsyth count
v would be arrested by O. S. Comml
sioner, that he would be carried
e. Raleigh and there required to be ez
20 amined before Commissioner, ava
). from his friends and away from b
10 bondsmen That is not Democrat
). policy. This Mills bill says that eve
ts where man has offended against
,e revenue law, even where the revenu
officer can make oath against hin
Va not upon information or belief, b,
st from personal knowledge, even the
he shall not be arrested and taken
ne Raleigh or Charlotte, but the Office
+. who tries the case primarily sha
u. come to his own county, and there
3 shal. be trieo and there it shall be d.
az ternIined whether he is guilty or nc
m A voice, That's right" My cou
q. trymen, I feel that while we have n
IA been able here in North Carolina
IN effect an entire repeal of these law
,le yet if our Republican friends wou