The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-16
DRJ BBING THE CYNiC.
uR lCNBIRN MORE THAN \
NArCH FOR SPITFlitE INGALLS,.
senator |. @.,ti> Santoniy Siander> the
south .,ad All Decent Men, and Is
PROPERTY Rebuked.

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south a.a All Decent Mcn, and is
PROPERTY itebuhed.
L his come TO be unbear&hie. i is q
burden Eater than vas caused by the
devastation of battle Since the war the
nth has, in lis dire poverty, uncomplain
Llv paid high taxes to pension Federal
soldiers. Gen. Bradley Johnson says that
whea sc reckon the amount pad by the
~,ush IN pensions $500, ,o00, 900 since 1865
and take into account the fact that the
estimated loss Of property to the South BY
tha Mar was six billions Of dollars consist
ing of vreckage Of every kind it must b.
conceded that no such tribute has ever
been czacted by j oonquerer except ii one
or two notable instances.
In 1897 the South paid for pensions Of
Federal soldiers SEQ, III ,042. 90. In that
year Moth Carolina paid S2.015,6 %. 90
or Sl.9o per capita. By reference to the
Auditors Report for the fiscal year ending
November 30th, 1887, we find that the
expenditures tor the ordinary expenses of
government IN North Carolina amounted
10 S656. $50 So Il cost the taxpayers of
North Carolina more than three times as
much TO pay pensions TO Federal soldiers
as TO pay the expenses Of our State Gov
ernment. They say the South is poor.
Ii IS true, but with this heavy taxation
for pensions and the other burdens Of Fed
ertl taxation. the wonder is that the south
Is not entirely borne under by its great
We ght OF taxation. The North does, it IS
true, pay as much tax fer pensions pro
portionately as the South, but all the
money is returned to the North. None
or next to none-of it comes South. In
1887 there were raid IN North Carolina in
pensions for those who served III the Nexi-
can and other wars less than thirty thou
sand dollars. We We're taxed upwards of
two million dollars for pensions.
These are facts that are indisputable
Staggering under this burden, the South
has not been heard to complain. 1t has
taken this as it has been compelled to take
orher bad medicine as one Of the newt
to.e results of the war, believing that this
t,xaton would decrease every year This
vas a natural expectation Many of the
Federal soldiers who needed pensions
i've years az nave oeen = - '-4ei
fathers. and ''are not. Bat, though
dead. their pensions, like John Brown, ;
oodS 'pp4ien'iS ate su'o = :"
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enough 'ho .77li'''o
amount paid for pensions, and senator
luSdis' 'he ieauei u 'l'' pa '''' 'A''''
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u every nl''h' no" e'ei III ~
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s4iinnar7s cIoi1d
And not excite our special wonder:
Our southern Senators have been silent
twenty years. Upon the proposition o.
senator PLUMB to increase the alreadI
large amount given IN pensions, longer
silence could not be expected. Justice tC
tax-burdened constituency demanded
that Southern Senators protest against al
Increase of the already too large tax fol
soldiers. Senator Vest, speaking for hi
own and every other Southern State, made
on nn.nsverahIa arou,nent against a fur
tiiel iiIoi 0'eo-
10 TINS argument Senator lnsails, resi
dent pro TEN of the Senate, leaving tn
chain. replied. His speech is the rectifiet
oraa af ,.,I II ;s tho acme of hate
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rhetoric ia the che"poo'-
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