The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-12
THE GREAT REPUBLICAN SHAM
If the poet had sung
"Ghis world is all f1eeting sAam
For mans delusion given"

If the poet had sung
s.rhis world is sill a fleeting sham,
For mans delusion given"
he would have expressed the sober,
sad eyed truth. There are shams
that hurt nobody, and then there are
shams that are simply amazing for
their diabolical wickedness.
An example Of the first is the Sol
onic school teacher who inficts on his
suffering fellow man list Of the one
hundred best books, when perhaps he
has not read more than ten. Never
theless he presents his little list with
an air of having all their contents at
his tongues end. Then there are
shams of all sorts, sizes, degrees and
sexes. Shams in the bar, the pulpit,
the pres shams (horrible y in that
world of feminine beauty that dazzles
the masculine eye, and shams in more
places than the all the historians, BIZ
ographers and dictionary-makers
have ever mentioned.
But worst of all is the political
sham, a party shamming principles
it doesn't believe in, painting its own
sepulehre white and beautiful. while
within testers the corruption ofbroken
pledges and party lies. Such is the
position Of the Repul lican party in
North Carolina today on the internal
revenue. Without an exception, the
Republican press of North Carolina
are railing ut the internal feTenue
and cursing the Democrats for its
continuance A pretty spectacle
surely The ass has hid himself 81
| the skin of lion aa,l his rear d ter
ribie, hut within is the poor, conteRpt-
ible aas, and his ears are plsisly WISH
bic The Republicans mother, having
brought forth offspring and autured
ii with tender care has now turned up
| on it and curses it because other peo-
pie see that it is hateful and black.
Along in the sixties she thong BIT it
fair and altogether lovely but nov.
phew! It's image, that of it's own
dam, is altogether odious. To dis
pense with the figure, let "a come
down to facts. The Republican party
abuses the Democratic for 4 coHiinu
ance of the Internal Revenue MONS
frosty and promises fit once gets ia
power it will abolish the entire system
at once. who established the Istern-
al Revenue, The Republican party
did it during the war and continued
it after long disastrous Struggle had
made us helpless people, for the pur
posa Of repayIny tho money they Dor
rowed to fight US with, and to pension
Yankee soldiers whose bayonets were
turned against Southern breasts and
whose legs and backs received a dose
Of Southern lead.
Who kept up the tax durin. the
administration Of Grant. Hayes, Gar
field, and Arthur! The Republican
party, for the purpose Of wasting the
money in election frauds and squand-
ering it in shameful jobs. This is al
the work of that same party which
smilingly comes before the people of
North Carolina to-day and heaps
maledictions upon the Democratic
party on account Of the Internal Rev.
enue! What are these promises
worth ! Not the slightest mote that
floats in the sunshine. They are false,
hollow and deceptive.
Now turn to our first page and
read the record of the Democracy Of
North Carolina, not only while it was
out, but since it went in. The same
principle. it adopted years age it
clings to to-day and the same policy
it pursued then it will follow now. 1t
opposes the Internal Revenue sys-
tenn.
VIII the people be deceived
by the Republican party. this travesty
Oh political honesty, this sham above
all other shamst We believe not.
Then let the thousands Of voters, who
see and understand its hypocrisy and
false pretence arise in their might,
tear off the mask from this great, high
Muck Muck Sham and show it in
its true colsrs Let them resolve in
this campaign year to bury its coffin,
30 fair outside. yet so Rotten. within, SO
deep that its resurrection will be
hopeless beyond question.