Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-04-18
Alex ANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL IS.

THE LONDON Financial NeacS, OF ApFii
9th. to hand, concludes long article on tne
ATTEMPTED reputation of Virginis's puoiic
debt. and the injurious moral and material
sf.ct thereof upon the people ofthe State
as follows
"Ue feel it therefore our duty to warn
cur readers who are contemplating invest
mruts in the United States to give Virginia
8 wide berth, and place their money IN 9TH
q, ousrte1s. where the advocacy of honesty
and fair dealing is not held to be the worst
nossible recommendation and the dlstin'
cujshinC mark Of bad citizen
This is very severe; but it will appear less
ca 70 those who will put themselves in the
place of the English holders of Virginia
honds The latter bought their bonds, re-
living upor, the faith of Safe whose honor
Of that time was untarpished and whose
credit was unlimited. 10 consequence Of
the war with which they had nothing to do,
aud into which Virginia went OF her own
acto:d. they willingly surrendered one
,hi;a Of their bonds; but they refuse
to surrender q third OF the remain
der and to submit to reduction
of The interest on what would be left 10 one
half tee promised rate. Who, with justice,
can blame them for contending Tor their
rights, especially as they have in their pos
session the indisputabls proofs of their claim,
to which are attached coupons bearing on
their face Virginia's solemn promise that
they shall be received in payment OF all
debts due her? There never was more Tia
grant attempt at reputation, and 1t Ia only
natural that the intended victims should de-
nouuce and resist the Effort to rob them. e.
necially as they are sustained by decision
of this o. s. Supreme Court.
MIR. MILLS, in his speech on the tariff bill
in the U. S. House of Representatives yes
terday, said:
"The great increase Of duties made during
the war had been at the time they were
made stated to be only temporary. Yet
quarter OF century later these duties were
higher than they were during the war. and
thew now averaged 47.l0 per cent on i'm.
norts The income tax had been imposed
to meet war expenses. 1t was gone. 1t
was tax on wealth. and S12 600 600 annual
ly realized from that source was swept away.
But the war tax on clothing. On food, on
implements of labor, remained, anu inc WAT
wasstil being prosecuted against the people,
a fiscal war, exhaueting in its demands, and
every effort to remove or lower thaI 'aAa-
ton had been resisted and defeated
Nobody else could have condensed more
truth in fewer words. There is no lairer
principle in government than that those
whose property is protected by government
should nav for such protection therefore
there can be no farer tax than an income
tax. Such a tax is collected only from those
who can we'll afford TO pay it, and to become
subject to which is the object Of every man
in the country And get that tax, paid only
by the rich, has been removed, while that
ON the articles which poor men, and their
wives and children, have to consume, in Or
der to live, is retained by !he existing tariff
THE GRAND JURY of the District of Colum-
bia Yesterday indicted for mans'aughtertwo
men for killing their victims by driving
horses against and over them. so Tar, 90
good. Now let the iuli extent OF the ID" pe
inflicted upon the offenders. The effect
thereof will be beneficial moi only in Wash
ington, but throughout the entire country.
It has reached such pass now that many peo'
plerding or driving horses have become pos
sessed of the idea that pedestrians have 70
rights which they are bound to respect.
Such an incorrect and injurious idea should
be eliminated from their minds as soon as
possible, and the most expeditions and efiec-
tual means TO accomplish that desired object
will be to have it generally published that
the indicted men have been punished Sc
verey Dangerous diseases require heroic
treatment.
Mr. CoNKLING was not entirely great /;
but that he was very able man no one who