The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-03-22
A Illuminating sight.

What is that sight? Yesterday after
noon fully two hundred Republicans
roamed up and down Market street
from below Third street to the Court
House, the corridors OF which were at
one time filled with taxpayers hunt
ing for the tax collectors. Tho great
majority Of them left their shops and
labor at the loss of half day to pay
the taxes they owed the County Of
New Castle. They were not yagabonds.
not rioters. nor drunkards, but our
solid, substantial laboring class OF
4 people. men who worked in the ma
chine shops, the rolling mills the
1orges and foundrles, men who work
Cd at the carpenters. benches, in brick
yards, in morocco factories, in woollen
factories and all otker factories. They
were what Democrats in stump
speeches call the bone and slnew of
the nation, when they are Democrats,
but negroes" buns, tramps, rioters,
thieves and disorderly gangs il they
were Republicans.
nobody denies that, but they were citi-
& zcns and entitled to the rights of citi-
zens; their characters were white, all
were citizens and wanted TO pay their
taxes that they might be clothed with
the right to enjoy the privileges OF
citizenship. These men molested no.
body, they were orderly and respect
full but most undoubtedly felt unklnd
70 the tax collectors who had refused
to meet them and accept their taxes
according to their promises. Nobody
could blame these men for being an.
cry. The disappointment and hu-
utilization OF the occasion were more
than an American citizen could endure
without the keenest feelings OF resent.
ment The American citizen who
would not feel indignant under such
treatment Is not worthy OF tho name
Where were tho tax collectors! They
q Id their confederatos only know.
Shut up some place away from the
wrath OF people they had incensed
and lnsulted.
Their excuses are known, they are
fimey and foolish and secuted at by
every honest man. They say they
met on Thursday last to receive taxes,
and they were oyerrun by mob.
False sentiment. Even after only
grinding out eighteen receipta an
hour the crowd In waiting was pa
hent, orderly and respectful. They
were willing TO put up with dilly.dal-
{ lying for the sake of getting their
taxes paid some time. When Collec-
tor Finck shut up his books at four
o'clock in the faces OF hundred wait
4 ing taxpayers, and paid bull y ut tho
door commenced to kick and strike
=. those in waiting TO get them out, it.
A was only then that resentment came
with the scene that followed. The
crowd was not mob not composed
of rioters, they were man, tnx- paying
citizens demanding their rights, want.
ing to pay their taxes
$bey say the collectors seal wa
stolen and they cannot issue receipts
without one. False In spirit, false in
principle The seal could lie produced
Instantly il there were an honest de-
sire to receive taxes, The seal was cot
taken by Republicans, they had n1th
ing to gain ~ taking it, Such llimay
excuses deceive nobody, The actions
Of the collectors arc we'll understood
Tho orders for such aetion=came from
Dover to John I Dicheg, and fr5m
Diekey to George j. Finck-these lie.
publican taxes must net be collected
Democracy must win and il rnu VIII
by cheating Republicans ont Of ruyir g
their taxes now ard subsequent
sheating them out Of tLCir votes
Our system of government rasts OF
nothing so much az Oh clgiBMti,,
and good faith. The HcN lolu
Tribune, referring to the larceny Of
the state Of New York by Pen 1Iil
talks In this strain. zone party az,
then the other is necessarily in contro
Of the electoral machinery So 500.
as 1t has become maniles 4 that tlt
machinery cannot be trusted, that ii i.
AtaDlb " iAdhc lilO ttHElibils itbl A'at
the people have male OF them bu
whatever its interest and adyautagt
sequlre and that the eoGrts lave 10
the authority to compel wicked MOI
In control OF that machinery to do u
tina law directs then tho time ha.
slearly come for popular prls Of ven
geance that are short, swift 6ud com
plete."
At the risk Of being deHomIHatal al
tncltor of riots We VIII say that "
heartily endorse tie lfibunos sentl
ment. The robbery Of delaware il
. board OF tax collector and assessof
Is no less criminal thau tle robbery q
New York State y Ben HIT a.,
Ills canvassing board and 'An sam
punishment should 10 mcted o4J I
ehieyes.
DEMooRA1fc papers SIN insist tl6
Abe disturbance in the tax Office .
Thursday was mob law violence.
so, why is ii that nobody has teen a