Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-03
PAID BY THE NORTH.
soul ERIN STATES DON'T HELP
tIpAy pe"ssR11
It II shown In tho senate That They
Haven't Contributed u Dollar for This
Purpose-A Tale Of Extortion~ Pointed
Parallels.

During the recent debate on the pom
sion appropriation, which finally passed
the House OF Representatives to the
amount of &l5l. % 1900 for the coming
fiscal year, many Southern members
again reiterated a favorits assertion Of
Southern newspapers. that it is wrong
to make the So 18th help pay these PEN
sions when the South gets nothing in
return. Me edith, OF Virginia, who
said that no gloriei in the fact that
there we're no patriots in hi" section
during the war, fer instance. said in
his speech protesting against the pend
ing pension appropriation bill that his
STATE hal paid three times "a ! mu,h
pensions a Vermont, and, he added,
I'VE get no benefit"
But the assertion is simply false.
The Southern States get much IN re
from the Federal Treasury in various
ways than they pay into it. Colon i
Hepburn, OF Iowa. replying t, the
&c ltleman from Virginia, had the
tgures ready to prove the falsity OF
these Southern claims. In regard TO
the assertion that the South helped to
pay the pensions, Mr.. Hepburn said:
Tire late Confederate States cont-ib'
uted not one dollar to the payment OF
pensions and he proved his state
ment. or the Sl5D.0p,OW internal
revenue tax s." he said, the South
pays less than S",ooo,N !: of the Sl7I,-
20 90 customs receipts, the South
rays but 100000 and OF the miscel-
laneors receipts less than 5000 o.
Putting those thres items tog Their it
appears that the total paid into the
Federal Treasury by the South Is only
about $500, 600.
Bot what does it get back? The
statesman from Virginia says that the
S nth has no benefit But it got last
deficits in postal receipts, $1,000. 0O0;
in pensions to Mexican 6A8rUnion vet
@ ans and their families, ss,0,0,Ogl,
That alreasy makeselo NJ, oW for taae
ST, 100, WD psil ia. But the Southern
States get much more than that. 1t is
a notorious fact, for instance, that of
the river and harbor bills the South
ern States always get the lions share.
1t is not incorrect to say that the
South, fer every dollar which it pays
into the Federal tr> a3ury. takes out
two.
Still they arc not satisfied down
there. They van protection for
everything they raise and produce, for
the tobacco Of Virginia, the rico of
South Carolina, the sugArof Louisiana,
the oranges and lemons of Florida, the
cotton which all Of them raise. And
more than that they want Congress to
allow them about 800, W0.C0J of var
claims which have been filed in Wash
ingt2n. These claims can never be
allowed as long as there is q bar On the
Federal statate, in the form of Il pro-
vision requiring claimants to prove
loyalty to tie Government during the
IA aad so long Us such II large share
OF the national revenues goes for the
payment Of pensions as row But the
S~outherners arc constantly scheming
to remove the OBJ tacles in the way OF
the allowance Of these claims: they
have made several attempts to do SO
aud they may succeed yet.
But there is no truth in the South
cfn claim that the South has to pay
without any returns. IL is the North
that pays. But it is remarkable, on
the other hand, that the disposal OF all
the money rail- ed in tho North is left
to the States that are the recipients of
public bounty. For it is the South that
rules in Washington to-day.