The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-20

the tax off of tobacco and whiskey
That is in a Democratic newspaper,
the Nescs. Observer. There is where
they stand to day. Now I ask you
what promise have they ever kept !?
What pledge have you that they are
going to do anything? They have
been in power four years have they
relieved you in any one of your trou
bles? Was there ever labor going
through the country in search of work
as there is now?
There is not 81, 900 worth of i'm
ported goods used in a year in Forsyth
county these things that you do use
could be bought just as cheap here as
in old England. 1t is the north, the
rich people of the north that buy silks
[ and satins that pay the bulk of the
tariff tax on these articles and my op-
ponent comes here talking about a
pair of shoes coming across the Vir-
ginia line and costing 80 cents on the
dollar. Why, you can buy shoes here
just as cheap as you can in England
under this glorious Henry Clay doc
trine.
My friend sometimes twits me with
being a member of Farmers Alliance,
but am proud of it, for think it is
the next best thing to the Christian
religion itself. What says the Presi-
dent of the Farmers State Alliance
"Let us become great manufacturing
State. Those who may lvie to see it
will have home market, have a di-
versi6ed agriculture diversified in
dustry is what we want. Manufacture
here is what we need. Do not even
send your cotton, if you make it, to be
shipped up north, keep it here, let
your own laborers be employed upon
Now I have shown you where Mr..
Cleveland stands as late as the 9Th
day of this month.
There is my glorious old friend Zeb.
He made pledge in Congress. June,
1888. What says Zeb? "The good
people whom represent care little OF
nothing Ooh, Lordy, Zeb, 1 thought
better of YOU for the tax on spirits
and tobacco they will cheerfully pay
it and more" Hello! Hello! Zeb
where are you. Now he has his red
legged grasshopper in there; Cleveland
taking snuff, old Zeb doing the sneez.
ing. "The people whom I represent
care little or nothing for the tax on
spirits and tobacco, they will cheer
fully pay it and more"
Well now about how much money
do you send out of North Carolina ey-
cry year for tax on spirits and tobac
bacco. Well in the years 1870 and
1871 voted in Congress to repeal this
whole concern. [ was ahead of the
Republican party, / was 40 miles
ahead. Qaughter) of the Democratic
party. I want these things taken of
and when the Democratic party has
been pledging and promising to dc
this thing and has not done it and then
like my friend Fowle come up and tell
you what they are going to do, then !
say to my friend Fowle, that is too
thin. (Laughter.) What have you
done? What inducement have you
to offer for the people of Forsyth
county to put you back into power
again. We are burdened by this tax.
say to you, the only way to obtain
relief is to put Gen. Ben. Harrison in
the Chair and the Republican party in
power.
Now let US run in the other branch.
What says the State Platform which
convened in Raleigh and nominated
me. As a means Of preventing any
further accumulation we demand the
repeal of the internal revenue system
of taxation and the passage of the
Blair Educational Bill as the best
method of public education and to
distribute the accumulated surplus in
the treasury. When the Republican
party went to Chicago to nominate
Ben Harrison they meant business
and they did it.
Listen here. Democratic National
Platform. "While carefully guard
ing the interests of the taxpayers and
conforming strictly to the principles
of justice and equality, it has paid out
more for pensions and bounties to the
soldiers and sailors of the Republic
than was ever paid before during an
equal period" 1t has paid out more
for pensions than was ever paid out
before during an equal period. We
remember who it is in striking back
handed lick at the Republican party
struck himself right in the forehead.
Uaughter.)
Now what does the Republican par
tv saw will read listen here lam
a better reader than my friend, I can
emphasize better. He jumps over
places that are hard. I stand there
and scramble through.
The Republican party would effect
all needed reduction of the national
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
tobocco which are an annoyance and
burden to agriculture and the tax
upon spirits used in the arts and for
mechanical purposes. IF there shall
still remain a larger revenue than is
requisite for the wants of the Govern
ment, we favor the entire repeal of in.
ternal taxes, rather than the surrender
of any part of our protective system at
the joint behest OF the -whiskey trust
and the agents of foreign manufact.
ure."
That is the Republican platform on
which Gen. Ben Harrison was nomi-
mated and says he indorses every sim
gle plank in it. Now it is for you to
say which can relieve your wants the
quickest, my friends party which has
gone back ON all its promises or mine!