The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-03-14
As Seen From a Temperance
Standpoint.

fbefe = 70 itosIh- Tia. u1asf Il TIE r.
isesn seaslcrs ia congTsss -nize the
ssaa.i-es- x TIE uoisex o. rrpealins the
Federal direct tzxes. rset and br1zch,
one and ell As aessoders Of sbe policy
q Protection they knor that an agzres-
sive var azzinsr The direct taxes uoaId
be the nast eIsectlal method q fshfin-
the gradzsi adszncas q the Free Traders
toward the disinte-rz-isn AMI destruction
q the Afaeriean system As Ya1tisans
they kno~ that TIE infeFslsl taxes a-e
very o,li0zs % the >oath and that the
Southern states IN which the Creates
progress : making in the development Of
protected industries are nov. f1r the ars.
tine. ready for beginning political rev
olzrion asAins; Democracy, provided the
RePaoiicHn party mites With is sezlwar-
Proseesioaisn Il Al open hostility 70 The
di7ect szxes
Tie trou5.e vith = gzeas many R=pab-
lezn Con.ressnen uh0 =ee the Socthern
sifuat;on \ il :. and who uosld fssI iz-
eliled % resoFt 70 extreme n.easarss- =
thai they have = va-ue n0iiau that tie
tezsperaace seaaaleaf q ibe coaafry :
more or les opposed 70 the reVesl q The
uhiskey lax Tbs d great mistake.
There i 40 more earnest suI aggressive
Temperance or-anizafiou ihaa fhe Wom-
ems Christian Temuerancs Tnion. zhich
i especially alive and -aeees-fsl in the
south and Ehich for wears ilsss b.-ea c,n-
demuing the uhisk > tax and urang -
total repeal By ~ class q Soatheru
men i tbe zhissey tax - earnestly
flushf a. l,r iiia-e Eho have a-en dzhf-
inz the battles q Probabilities. snsies tae
i1-zsl option Avs
The-e S0atiiern teuFerance ulen shoE
b- uniupelcialle an,i anansEcr.hle sia-
tis.ics that from $50. ubeu the shissey
tax Nas - cents a gallon. % issd. when
the tax rs - cents a gallon the increase
of the annual prosiuciion II uhiskey has
1,een remarkable. Il ls7l- ziih fax u
- cests. the produef5on E4s 6zelIlsi
gallon In lsS.s. with tax Ct - gen1s.
the pr0duction vas = SO - galions-
In Is6s. when the tax Eas only - cents
a gallon, the proluction vas only 1879
e54 gallons.
b; this i not the only resalt An
abie and earnest Prohibitioais;. writing
70 tbs. Atlanta fdnsilssa. ur-ss thai fae
Whiskey tax has been s-ill more lsrnaia-
be A. an obstacle % the Temperance
movement II has handel says he.
and unified the lt7uor frstle throuzh-
ont the United S-a,es L has extended
IL arte-iss frosa Maine 70 Tex4s ald Cal-
isorui4- Wh5 ever bszri u = ii.3r..sr deal
ers' aszociation before the cisii Ear2 The
internal revenGe system = the f5Enia-
ti5a stone upon whirh rests The Wh1is
associaiei power of l;qHor inde7 u tn
do--sries and barroons Of the oiden time
have groTn into the e,azzHt. aliunng -
Ioous of the present. Legislatures and
Congress have gone down 10 their bellies
before this eiznt and hambiy promised
70 10 A-A- lataa--l-- IL tt'--- - E--AAta-
prohibition IN Maine Or Kansas. and The
dominant party l. pHt upon notice thas
NeW York- Indiana and ether doubtful
states wil Re Turned over % the Demo
erats- Note upon a F'roh.oitory smend-
meat IN Texas o. Teanessee. and the
Democrats are tod thar The dcuhtf1i
states shah be gwen % TIE ReFubiiesns.
state >overei-aty snieF tbs Internal rev
enEe system 4 impossioie7
Il NAY b added that the Whisky
Riag'- q the >o1ih J. fie Hios; psEeriai
d al political aeeneies IN That res8n-
the nsost desperats and liferal supporter
Of Free Trale politicians and newspapers
and Of all forms q political BourboEisrn.
= long q the Whiskey tax remains this
compact and ably managed political po~
er f5r evil, and for eviI only. Uili te the
curse of state snd National p5litics--
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