Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-11-28
Republican Inconsistency.

republican Inconsistency.
Our brethren of the Republican
press have had much to say in regard
to the deficit in the revenues arising
under the new tariff; but they have
not been fair enough to remind their
readers that the bill as passed by
Congress provided ample revenue,
and that the deficit is caused by the
action of divided Supreme Court
in knocking out the income tax pro-
visions of the tariff law, under which
fully $50, 10000 a year would have
been realized. Now comes the in
consistency. Whilst raisinga mighty
clamor about the deficit in the ma
tional revenues, arising under q
Democratic law, they are as dumb as
oysters as to the failure, if not the
willful refusal, of their own party in
the Legislature Of this State to APP
propriate sufficient money to run the
various departments of the State
government. Why do our Repub-
lican brethren fail to tell their read
ers that the public printer, Mr.. Dom
nally, is now asking to he relieved
from his contract simply because the
appropriation made for the public
printing is already exhausted, and
he can get nothing for the work his
contract requires OF him? Why do
they fail to remind their readers that
in face Of the plain recommends
tiops of the Auditor and Treasurer
that the sum of $500, 900 year would
be necessary to meet the criminal
charges OF the State, their party in
the Legislature would appropriate
but $4,000. that this appropriation
is already nearly exhausted and that
after January there will probably
not be dollar in the treasury which
can be used to meet these charges
for the remaining months of the
year? Why, too, do they fail to tell
their readers that their party in the
Legislature would appropriate but
$4,000 to meet the expenses of luna
tics in Jail when the Auditor had
shown them that fully IS, 500 would
be necessary for this purpose? Tote
fair, brethren, you cannot deceive
the people by suppressing the facts
THE MONEY QUESTION -. Secre-
tary Carlisle's recent speech on the
money question, before the New
York Chamber of Commerce, has
given an unusual stimulus to the dis
cussion of this question among the
members Of the new House of Rep.
resentatives now assemblingat Wash
lngton. Mr.. Carlisle strongly in
sists upon the prompt retirement of
the S346, 100000 of outstanding
greenback notes, declaring that they
are standing menace to the main
tenance of the gold reserve. In our
opinion Congress will never consent
to such violent contraction of the
currency as the retirement of these
notes will mean until some plan is
devised by which their place will be
supplied. Opinions on the money
question are so radically at variance
that we doubt much if anything will
be done or seriously attempted by
the incoming Congress.
Politics, too, will have much to do
with any measure proposed. Candi-
dates for the Presidency, both in and
out of Congress, will be maneuver-
ing tor position and disposed to do
nothing which may possibly injure
their chances, and the Republicans,
thinking that they have a cinch on
the Presidency next year, will proba-
bly, content themselves with the eX-
listing status.