The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-09-04


garchy devouring the taxes of the
people and paying none itself, The
income tax was therefore thrown
oyerboard and all the holders of
orpulent income from the divi-
dends of banks and other powerful
corporations We're that much richer
and you We're that much poorer
Bonds and coupons, bank stocks
and railroad profits, insurance com
lpanies. together with every other
great money gathering corporation
in the United States were made ex-
empt from the tax-gatherer's de-.
mands, while the tax on, your shirt
and on yonr wife's calico dress and
flannel petticoat remained the same,
or was increased. Salaried govern
ment officials, receiving from 5000
to $4,000 years including the
President, were released from the
income tax, while yon were released
from nothing at all, and were re-
auired to pay everything. The
heavy bank accounts of spectators,
brokers. incorporated manufactures,
and greedy, grasping syndicates,
were made sacred from any contri-
buttons to the payment of govern
ment expenses, while there was no
remission of tariff taxation on the
farmers horse shoes, his trace chains,
his wagon tires, his farming imple-
ments, nor on his wearing apparel
and outfit for housekeeping. But
the reduction of taxes for the benefit
of the wealthy and favored classes
did not stop even at this point.
Every vestige of the once wide
spread process of internal revenue
taxation on specified articles and
occupations has long since disap-
peared, and nothing now remains of
that system except the levy on dis
titled spirits, fermented liquors, to-
bacco and eleomargarine.
mo longer a government tax
falls on brokers; billiard rooms,
steam boats, banks and bankers,
ships, railroads, telegraph compa-
nies theatres, operas, circnscs and
museums, lotteries and lottery
dealers, bank deposits, gift enter
priscs, diamonds and plate of solid
gold and silver on tables of luxury
and self-indulgence. The trickling
streams of national revenue once
flowing from these and other numer-
Gus similar sources are now all dried
up, and the farmer, the mechanic
and the wage-worker must meet the
demands of the government with
out their aid. In the recent great
tariff debate in the house of Repre-
I.sentatives the leaders of the Repub-
lican party boasted that since the
war they had abolished taxes to the
amount of s36O,OOO,OOO; but not
one dollar did they show had been
removed from the necessaries of
life. They simply boasted of their
crime against labor, and gloried in
their shame.
"Areduction of taxation, however,
on the prime necessaries of life need
never be expected at the hands of
the Republican party. It's leaders
are compelled to obey the robber
barons who plumber the homes, the
farms and the workshops of the peo-
pie, and arc thus enabled to contrib
ute literally of their ili-gotten
wealth to the corruption of the ball
lot-box and the success of the Re
publican party. During the last
session of Congress bill for the
revision of the tariff was urged upon
the country by the leaders of that
party, and the duties were increased
in every schedule it contained, and
especially on all wooden goods, iron
and steel.
aThe dispatches from England
tell us that a bill introduced in par
lament to give the prince of Wales
about two hundred thousand dollars
to enable him to properly dover his
daughter about to be married, has
created marked opposition. That is
mere trife compared to the
largess, the subsidies, the donations
and the stupendous tributes now
paid by you. and the other laboring
people of the United States, to the
huge, bloated parasites which our
vicious system of tariff has fastened
on you, on your wives, on your chill
dren, on your man servant, and
your maid servant, on your OK, on
your ass, and on everything that is
within your gates. There is man
by the name of Carnegie, and with
him / might name perhaps a