The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-01-07

our voters at one-fifth of our popu
lation, each voter holds retired from
his personal use pr.e ticaily contis-
Gated:
To meet the damands Of our tariff laws s., 1S3
For pensions as shown, 3I2 i
Total. s2,495 |
In round numbers $1,000 is the
amount which the average taxpayer |
has to retire from his personal use to
enable him to meet the annual de- |
mand of our pension and tariff laws.
He holds it, it is true, for it stands
IN his name and he has to pay State
and county or city taxes upon it, but
it is worse than confscated. He is
compelled to manage it, and all its
income goes to the public. Twenty
eight billion seven hundred and fifty
millions is the amount in effect con-
fscated to meet the tyrannous exac-
tions of our pension and tariff laws.
But the tariff is occult, so multi
form, so silentin it's operations, that
while it is sucking our blood to the
6eath we don't know how it does it
| hardly that it does it hardly that it
does it at all. If se saw it in it's ma
| ked hideousness we should be shock
ed at the exposure.
Chef among the sufferers of this
| enormous abuse of the taxing pow
| er is the farmer. He is compelled to
sell at the lowest and buy at the
! highest prices his property is visible
and tangible and can't hide from the
ass..,-,:i He is between the upper
and the neither milestone of plutocra-
cy and pauperism. No wonder if he
rises, even in blind frenzy against the
unseen forces that are crushing hope
from life and fortune. He is pecu-
liarly aud particularly the victim of
unWise laws. What the farmer needs
is not help nor bounties nor special
legislation in his behalf, but relief
from this crusading burden ounces
sary taxation.
He demands, at least ought to de-
Imand with an energy that will brook
no denial, relief from the crushing
burden of unnecessary taxation. He
refuses longer to be newer of wood
| and drawer of water to the law, who
| fa tten on his sweat and blood. He
declines longer to toll in summer
heat that lazy drones and filthy pau
pers NAV live on his labor and eat
out his subst 4nces.
Yes, the farmer has come. has
come to the front, and has come tC
stay. That his active and deternln
, ed participation in governmental
? matters will, in the long run, be sa
lutary and beneficial there is nc
: room to doubt. He is too strongly
Unidentified with the prosperity OF thu
country not to desire and seek it,
! good. Blinded and frenzied by evi
/ legislation, like all men he is likel'
to be led astray in his methods. Blu
: time at length sets all things in thei
b tr..e light. He will be a powerful
: and conservative factor in the poll
/ ties of the country. If he commit
e errors he will be ready to see then
i and correct them.
C "a fair field and no favors" is tn
J true ground for farmers to stand VI
u on. He must fight the high tarif
u the internal revenue, corrupt an
q wasteful pension legislation an
l1 wasteful public expenditure genera
Il lv. Low taxation, the essential col
dition of prosperity, must be his ba
D. tie cry. In the accomplishment
u, these patriotic objects, where wi
10 the farmer find an ally so stron!
a? so incorruptable, so dauntless an
le determined, as Grover Cleveland? [
y has been weighted and never four
re wanting. Not one of his illustriol
ne n,edecessors has left behind q clea
u er record. Despite hostile Senat
eu he left an immense surplus benin
ID; about 100000, 900, and constant
di appealed to the fact as an argume
| =
-f- Government, he maintained, had {
rs hand a corrupting surplus, and tt
as was the proof that the taxing pow
= had been tyrannically abused. L
oh Government had too much 1ncou
.pe the people from whom it had be
m rh wrongfully extorted, too little.
es, tillers of the soil, who have been
hu boring long and hard and yet ha
'ih scarcely been able to make q 1vll
per in many cases absolutely unat
Gus here is your friend a man whose VIC
ior has been pledged thousand tin
ny for reduction of taxation, and W
ar ar has never been found worse than
TN words. More than this and vas
or more; on great occasions, which
we premely tested moral courage. u
Ihe yer Cleveland throwing away an
ouo ton, true to the conviction and
're- plighted faith, has fortified his W.
'us; by his acts. This man, grand in
sen COLOSSAL strength, in his blunt hor
ney ty, in his inflexible justice, who is
NJ firm that it were as easy to turn
ouy sun from his course as him from
paths of duty, who is the most he
Jar ic figure that has appeared on
rice horizon OF American politics since
anu anu day Of Washington; this man,
anu positive, ,incorruptablem man, is rea
par if we say so, to serve us again
7ssI- President of the United States.
ket; time demand just such a man.
unu l very atmosphere is la len with
iHoo most dangerous heresies. Who
unr grapple them with suchlofty cour;
y = oi such philosophic composure.
;o . But we are told that his nom
al;a- ton is inexpedient; that his ut
onr ance on the silver question has a
1be ated from his support the great
for nv community. On this matt
o,,r wish to say that the free coinag
,,l,,s silver is OF costly less imports
: 70 than tariff reform, that before
that Democratic party disables itsel
ldus- committing iIseh W 4uee
s of secondary Importance, it o,
MN to reap the fruits of it's
= :, ,va 20 great victory, distinctly won
nor the tariff theory, which Mr.. G
I'M is land placed before the country,
! +ba with q tremendous Democratic
this jority in the House, despite hs
aside Senate which is sensibly weakf