The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-07-05
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Inc NepuoIlCan platform adopted
at Chicago last week, was drawn witt
the deliberate purpose to deceive. We
refer at this time to only one feature
the internal revenue feature. Ths
platform favors the repeal of the take:
on tobacco. This is either deliber
ate dishonesty, or it is a rebuke to the
Republican party in the lower House
Of Congress, and Mr.. Mckinley, who
presented the platform, is one of The
Republican leaders of the House
Talk is cheap; let us see how Repub.
llcan words tally with Republican ac-
tons. On the 3rd of March, 1887,
Mr.. Henderson, of North Carolina
moved the House for the passage oi
his resolution providing for the aboli-
ton of the tax on Leaf tobacco, and
tor notifications of the laws govern
ing the Utilization of whiskey and
brandy. The vote in favor Of the res
olution stood; Democrats, 131, Re
| publlcans, 8; against the resolution,
Democrats, S, Republican, Io7. That
looks like the Republicans want to re-
peal the tobacco taxes, doesent' it p
8 of them vote to repeal it. Again, in
the Mills bill now pending in the
House IS clause repeating the to-
bacco taxes, yet the solid Republican
party in the House, with about two
exceptions, is bending every energy to
defeat the Mills bill, and thus defer
the repeal of the tobacco taxes, and
one of the ablest and most effective
speeches made against this bill was the
speech of Mr.. Mckinley himself. He
writes fine platforms at Chicago, and
his associates applaud him, and he and
they then go back to Washington and
vote the other way. The platform
says further:
'sIf there shall still remain a larger
revenue than is requisite for the wants
of the government, we favor the entire
repeal of the internal taxes rather than
the surrender of any part of our pro-
tective SYSTEM"
To this there could he no more COM
plete rejoinder than that made by the
New York Herald, which says:
1.-The platform commits the Repub-
lican party fatty against all reform of
the tariff. 1t demands the repeal of
the tobacco and whiskey taxes if this
is necessary to abolish the surplus;
but it takes care in other sections
to declare for expenditures, for sub
sldeies, for pensions, for internal i'm
provements and other purposes on so
vast scale as to swallow up any pos
sible surplus and thus prevent any re-
form or decrease In taxation"
The Republican party is the system
attic and consistent defender of the
treasury surplus. Many of its repre-
sentatives in Congress have taken The
position in their speeches that sur
plus is blessing, and with this idea
and with their extravagant ideas about
pensions, subsidies, ETC., the time will
never come when in their view "there
shall still remain a larger revenue
than is requisite for the wants of the
government" This is a spring to
decoy woodcocks. 1t is bait thrown
out to the Southern States. 1t is not
intended to mean anything, and al
ready the Republican press of the
North is apologizing for it.
The action OF the Republicans on
the internal revenue question belle
their words. Only last week-to
make the proof more conclusive
When Messrs. Johnston and Cowles
sought to get an amendment tackled
Oh bv the House to the sundry civil
bill to stop frivolous prosecutions by
United States marshals and commis
sioners, the only opposition they en-
conn;ered in debate was from two
Republican members, and of the two
Republican members from our own
State, one (Nichols) voted squarely
against the amendmendment, while
the other (Brower) did not vote at all.
But coming back to the main point,
if the Republicans want to repeal the
tobacco tax, why did all of them IN
the House except 8 vote against Hen
derson's resolution to repeal 1t? Ii
it is said that they have experienced a
change OF heart since the Forty ninth
| CoBg-ess, we tfsn ask why are al o.
them except two now fighting the Mills
bill, which proposes to repeal 1t ?
| This platform pretension is fraudu
lents and hypocritical and will declYt
no one who has any sense.
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