The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-11-01
THE INTERNAL REVENUE
LET FAIR MINDED VOTERS READ
AND PONDER.
The Record Speaks and gives the Lie to
Republican Pretensions.

The Record Speaks and gives the Lie to
Republican Pretensions.
Harrison, in the Senate, voted
against the repeal of the TOBACCO
TAx.-Congressional Record, volume
XIV. Page 2376.
He voted against reducing the To
BcACo TAX from II to 8 cts. per pound.
Congressional Record, vol XIV.
Page 1916.
He voted against reducing TAX ON
BRANDY from 80 to so cents.-Con-
gressional Record, vol. XIX. Page
279S.
On February 16, 1883, he voted
i againstSenator Browns (Democrat)
amendment to repeal brandy and
whisky tax.-CongressionA Record,
vol. XIV. Page 1887.
A vote for Harrison ratifes ana
approves these votes.
The Republican party repealed that
| portion of the inrernal revenue laws
that collected annually seventy mil
| lions of dollars from the incomes OF
rich bondholders.
They relieved the rich iron manu-
facturers of Pennsylvania from all
| special taxation.
They relieved all bank checks.
The Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives has passed the Mills bill.
1T removes the tobacco tax.
Sec. 20. 1t provides that Judges
may, in their discretion, put small
fine on offenders against the revente
laws, instead of sending them to
prison.
Sec. 80. Forbids the issuing of war
rants for arrest by S. Commission
ers unless sworn out on personal
knowledge, not on information and
belief, and forbids payment of fees to
deputy marshalls, district attorneys,
and U. S. Commissioners except upon
conviction by a jury.
Sec. 81. Forbids carrying men out
of their counties to be tried on war
rants.
Sec. %. Gives the commissioners
of internal revenue power to remit
fines and penalties.
Sec. "a. reduces the penalty on dis
tillers for neglect to make returns
from 100 per cent. to 25 per cent.
Sec. SO. Permits all small distillers
using less than % bushels OF corn per
day, and all brandy distillers to give
in their taxes, and pay the tax on
oath without the necessity of store
keepers and guagers. In other words
it trusts the taxpayer as the State OF
North Ca DINA does.
Sec. 3S. Forbids the cutting up OF
stills.
Sec. 40. Repeats all licence laws for
dealers in spirits and tobacco, and
allows free trade in both.
Now, turn to the Republican Senate
bill, and the reports of the Republi-
can Senate Committee, signed by Re
publicans alone.
This bill is now pending in the Sen
ate with Vance and Ransom oppos-
ing it.
Read-read, for yourselves, take
no mans word-but read pages 40
Al, 40, 43, A, 45 and 46, and you
will see for yourselves that the Re
publican Senate approves every one
of the above named measures except
the repeal of the tobacco tax, which
the Democratic House forced them tic
adopt.
Not only this, but turn to the
record of last Congress, date March
Sd, 1887, and you will find that Rep.
resentative John S. Henderson, Of
North Carolina, called up his bill-a
separate bill with no tariff in it-con.
tanning all these provisions of the
Mills bill, and but eight Republicans
voted for it.
hO iooOAO 10 ohSbi Ply OuCkoS
are not the words; not the promises
but THE ACTS of the two parties.
Your vote on next Tuesday, i
Republican, says to the Republicans
| you are right, and it will be SO un
derstood by them.
Your vote for Clelvland, for Fowle
| for Morehead and the whole Demo
cratic ticket says to the Congress o
the United States, PASS THE MILLS
BILL. Let it become the law.
It's final triumph saves six hundred
thousand dollars year paid into
the Winston Revenue office alone. I
saves more than one million to tn,
people of the district.
Can a friend of the people hesitate
To hesitate is to fail, to fail nov
means years more of oppression
years of scarcity of money, year
of hard times, years of misrule
years of triumphant hate.
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