People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07
PEOPLES PARTY GEORGIA. FRIDAY JULY 1898

kicks to silver.
This is no mere defamation. I
is the literal fact. For both Mr.. Car
Isle and Mr.. Cleveland announce tha
the true way to maintain silver or
equality with gold Is to pay out golc
IN preference to silver. The true way
to prevent discrimination, is to dis
eliminate the orthodox way to KEEP
silver up, is to fling it down and sit
on it.
The Judas kiss never had a more
elaborate ceremonial and more stu.
pendous success than it is now show
ing in all the phases of this financial
question.
Let US hope that these coming
events threw none of their baleful
shadows upon JefferSon's declining
years.
Let us believe that no such night
mares disturbed the night of his old
age, and that he died in The conviction
that whenever a citizen claimed to
be Jeffersonian Democrat, he would
have some slight regard for Jeffer-
sons principles.
JEFFERSON OPPOSED THE TARIFF.
At the same time that Hamilton
brought forward his plans Of Fund
ing and National Banks, he formu-
lated his Protective System.
His Report on Manufactures is the
foundation stone upon which or Tar
ltf rests.
Mr.. Jefferson protested against it,
contending that there was no warrant
whatever in the Constitution for u.s.
ing the taxing power to foster any
special branch of Industry.
He opposed it at time when it's
proportions, compared to its present
colossal magnitude, were utterly in
significant.
Hamilton only demanded that a
few leading articles should be put
upon the dutiable list: nor did his
widest conception take in the posi-
bility that Custom Houses would be
erected anywhere except upon the
coasts.
Surely he never imagined that his
8 per cent rate of duty would swell
until upon some articles Of PRIME
necessity it would reach the shame
less extortion of more than 100 per
cent. Surely his dreams were never
haunted by the thought that selfish
Manufacturers would walk inso-
lently into the room of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, at the
Capitol, and absolutely dictate the
amount of Protection" they de-
manded.
Bold as Hamilton was, much as he
loved wealthy class, strongly as he
believed in favored industries, he
was yet an honest man and patriot,
and he would have shrunk with hor-
ror from the prostitution of his ideas
Of craftsmanship to the sordid pur-
poses of the privileged, who seek to
plumber th1 unprotected. =
CUSTOM HOUSES RUN MAD.
Even Hamilton would have been
shocked at the waste of public mon
ey in the erection of Custom houses
at interior towns, hundreds, and
even thousands of miles from the
coasts and the filing of them with
useless employees, whose only duties
consist in "drawing their salaries
and their BREATH
Scores Of sports of Entry" have
been established off the sea- coast.
They are run at yearly expense of
millions of dollars, to say nothing of
the enormous sums of money which
have been spert in building the Gus
tom Houses.
Every dollar of that money is ab-
solutely thrown away. The duties
which are collected at the interior
ports, would have been collected on
the coast at noadditional cost to the
Government. The establishment of
the interior stations accompishes
only two purposes: they give that
particular city, handsome building
at the public expense, and they fur
nish shady places for importunate
Sfice seekers.
This particul$ branch Of the Tar
if question. has been so completely
overlooked, thatperhaps you will al
low me to give gu few samples Of
the ludlcrous aa preposterous and
outrageous systm.
In the State { Virginia the Gus
toms Duties Amounted in 1890 to
$4,000. How much do you sup
pose it cost to elect it?
Thirty tnousan Dollars!
Attic town oAlexandria, dried |
up interior villaq, they have a Gus
tom House QUIT which costs the
taxpayers 1920 per year.
How much duE do they collect?
One hundred ad twenty-five dol
lars!
At CherrystonI Virginia, the Gus
tom House outf costs the people
1880 per year.
How much dut do they collect?
Nor ONE CEN!
What on earthhose office holders
do to keep up the self esteem. God.
in His majestic wdom only knows!
II Vast ViroiH the An+ira Cus-