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

Twenty years promising to do these
things and of course what has been
done, must be large. 1t was sc, 300, 900.
Well, now turn ON the other side.
The Republican party had control of
the lower house of Congress exactly
the same length Of time. The Demo-
Gratis reduced your burdens $780,
600, the Republicans 1852, 900, 900.
Now the Republican party saws what p
No use for this money coming into
the treasury, the tariff system will
meet all the wants of The Government.
The Republican party says, Repeal
the Revenue, and take the tax off to-
bacco." If the gentleman's party
had introduced a bill to take the
tax of, but they struck the tariff and
the Republican party are determined
not to have it interfered with.
The Republican Senate has now
got the matter under consideration
and my friend argues very truthfuny
that all you have got to do for the bill
is to get Grover to sign it. But old
Grover says "No sir, No sir, let those
people down in Forsyth pay the tax
on tobacco"
All right, well come on a little fur
Their.
| have shown you and wish you
to bear you in mind that so far as my
friends platform in Raleigh stands,
he is all right. But there in st. Louis
where they adopted platform and
where they nominated a candidate
that says he is absolutely opposed to
changing it, and more than this,
"when you talk about taking the tax
off of whiskey and tobacco, it is asking
for bread and giving the people a
stone" That is Mr.. Grover CIeye-
land.
Well, l have shown you what Gov
ernor Vance says and right here
have shown you where the Republi-
can party stands and again throw
down the gauntlet and ask my friend
what has he to show me where his
party has ever redeemed one single
pledge inside of four years.
How did that money get to Wash
ington? My friend says it is from
the tariff, deny it. 1t is impossible
to show how the people pay any tariff
on their shoes, on cotton, on even their
trace chains that my esteemed brother
always loves to talk about and I have
said they could not tell trace chain
from black snake in the road if they
were to see them both together.
/ Well, now how did this money get
up there It is there how did it get
there have the official figures
here that show that from the single
town of Durham stamps, mainly on
tobacco, to the amount of $25O,00O
have gone up to Washington city in
side of eight months of this present,
current year, $40, 900 month, $14OO
and something over day. Now
take the town of Henderson, the town
of Reidsville, the town of Raleigh,
and think of the amount of money
that is coming out of the people. the
people of North Carolina through
this system of internal revenue. There
is where your money has gone Here
the gentleman's party comes up and
have talked about passing the Mills
Bill and about the tariff and the tax
mainly on whiskey and tobacco is not
touched at all.
The Republican party says, ave
want to get rid of the whole thing,
and when you see the Republican act,
you will see it will be like I tell you;
the tax will be taken entirely off to-
bacco, whiskey will be reduced and
all the alcahol that is used in arts
will be taken off, made free, and that
will get rid pretty much of the whole
concern.
My friend Ransom, four years ago
went through the State of North Car
DINA, telling the people everywhere
that there was $40O,OOO,OOO of the
peoples money laid up in the treasury
and that this surplus was the cause of
the hard times in this country. I tell
you it scared my people SO that they
could not tell their own honses from a
stack of fodder. If that is so, they
said, this party ought to be turned out
of power, it is unworthy of trust on
the part of the people. Many Of you
took him at his word.
But few months after 1 called upon
Mr.. Manning to know how much mon
ey was in the treasury. This was Mr..
Manning's reply: $S,6OO.OOO. Then
saysI to myself, "Mr. Ransom you
ought not to make such false asser-
| tons.
Well, your money is up there. Now
what are the facts about it? / can
show you that the Republican party
made four deliberate efforts to get that
money out of the treasury. I have
asked my competitar half dozon
times times, allow do you propose to
get it out ?" He has never answered
yet. That money now 100000
is up yonde at the North in the
hands of banks up there, who are loan
ing it to the people and you can not
get either interest or the money itself,
sorely troubled as you are in your
daily needs.
Listen to me. When Mr.. John
Sherman WAS secretary of the treasury
he drew bill up which he introduced
into the United States Senate author
izing the secretary OF the treasury to
pay out this money just as fast as it
came in. Mr.. Arthur did it as long
as he was President.
Mr.. Cleveland was in the Execu-
tive chair eleven months before he put
out one cent OF the peoples money
and that money coming in at the rate
of 500 per minute, by which it has