Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-07-23

ton of coast fOrtlf1catIOnS, Tor DeJCer
ordnance, for the payment of pen
sions to all needy soldiers or depend
ent widows and orphans, and then
states:
If there shall still remain q larger
reUenue than is required for the aodnts
of the government, aCe .faUor the entire
repeal of the internal q'e0enue, rather
than the Surrender Of any part Of oat,
protectiUe system, etc.
Two things are apparent from the
above quotation from the platform,
which we put in italics One, that the
party believes most thoroughly in
American protection, and the other,
that the time. is naturally remote
when the revenues, cut down by the
processes suggested in the platform,
will so exceed the expenses of gov
eminent as to require the repeal of
the whiskey tax. The party has new
er favored the entire repeal of this
tax and does not contemplate it at
present.
The national prohibition party,
however, demands the immediate re-
peal of this taxation, believing that
government sanctions the manufacture
of spirits, if they are taxed, and that
it is wrong to license or tax thing
OF a practice that in itself is wrong.
Many persons and several of the
great churches have declared against
the justice and the propriety of tax
ing liquors. So, ON the moral ques-
ton, there is great divergence of
opinion. The tax removed does not
make ''free'' whiskey, by any means.
Whiskey or alcoholic drinks, are sold
for certain fixed price by the glass,
whether they cost much or little, we
suppose. In old times it was four
pence ha'penny, at present dime;
so that reduced cost to the man who
buys by the barrel will not reduce the
price to the tippler. Nor would the
reduction of the cost of liquors annul
the law, license, prohibition or other
wise. The cry of a "free rum" plat
form is the cheapest buncombe we
ever saw used, and every candid man
who knows the history of the parties
will feel that if the democrats have
no better ammunition and argument
than that, they should at once close
shop and go out of business. Pots
might well call kettles black; rogues
might cry, "stop thief" loud and
long, and devils boast of piety with
propriety, long before the democrat
ic party with all it's faults before the
eyes of the world, and all its history
known could call the republican party
''free rum party" Eight years
ago, and four years ago, the national
democratic platform declared for "no
sumptuary laws-no laws to restrain
appetite or passion" This year the
party re-affirms its faith in the plat
form of 1884.
Brother democssaa.si 1Ab o16 can posi-
bly, find something & F'ch to make
an issue IN rnls but u VIM
most unfortunate spec ulation if you
undertake to make capita out of the
sfree rum" hullaban
The following from the republican
platform will show where that party
stands in regard to the revenues and
matters of temperance and morals:
We are uncompromisingly in favor
of the American system of protection
we protest against its destruction as
proposed by the president and his
party. They serve the interests of
Europe; we will support the interests
of America. The protective system
must be maintained. It's abandon
ment has always been followed by
general disaster to all interests ex-
cept those of the usurer and the sher-
| iff We denounce the Mills bill as
destructive to the general business,
the labor and the farming interests
of the country.
We condemn the proposition of
the democratic party to place wool
on the free list, and we insist that
the duties thereon shall be adjusted
and maintained so as to furnish full
and adequate protection to that in
dustry.
The republican party would effect
all needed reduction of the national
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
tobacco, which are an annoyance and
burden to agriculture, and the tax
upon spirits used in the arts and for
mechanical purposes, and by such
revision of the tariff laws as will tend
to check imports of such articles as
are produced by our people, the pro-
duction of which gives employment
to our labor and release from import
duties those articles of foreign pro-
duction Except luxuries) the like of
which cannot be produced at home.
If there shall still remain q larger
revenue than is requisite for the
wants of the government,we favor the
entire repeal Of internal taxes rather
than the surrender of any part of our
protective system, at the joint behest
of the whiskey ring and the agents of
foreign manufactures.
The political power of the Mormon
Church in the Territories as exercis-
ed in the past is a menace to free in
stitutions, danger no longer to be
suffered. Therefore we pledge the
republican party to appropriate legis-
lation asserting the sovereignty of
the nation in all Territories where the
same is questioned, and in further
ance of that end to place upon the
statute books legislation stringent
enough to divorce the political from
the ecclesiastical power, and thus
stamp out the attendant wickedness
a