Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-02

''The Denver Republican of Jan. 10,
1891, says editorially: alt is silly for
members of the State Senate to affect
surprise or Indignation over the fact
that many laws enacted during the regu-
lar session of the Ninth General Assem-
blv were willfully changed in the
process of enrolment. That form of
knavery has been practieed for years in
the Colorado Legislature, and Senators
and Representatives have always winked
at it if they have not actually prompted
it. Senators who denounced it on Sat
urdav must have known what was going
on last winter or else they must have
been as blind as bats. SO long as our
Legislature continue to make the COM
mitteeships at their disposal the plumber
of men and women of known bad char
acter, for personal or political reasons,
they must expect that the laws they
pass will be tempered with if any rogue
has sufficient financial interest In the
matter to pay for the dirty work.
"And tins is what happened in Con-
gress 10 1873.
"The more recent history of our Con-
gress in connection with the open and
ilagrant venality of members OF the
sugar trust, by which these men made
twenty-five millions of dollars in sixty
DAYS. is fresh in the minds of all here
present, and. with other things, has
served to deaden aud shock the public
conscience. (Applause.)"
We have given thus at length these
remarks concerning the subject of bri-
berry, to impress upon the voters of tins
country the lesson, that things which
ought not to be done are constantly be-
ing done in Congress AS elsewhere be-
cause of the persuasive influence of
bride. 1t is an object lesson
that all may well study and whose
significance should sink deep in
the remembrance of every American
voter. We have now the evidence why
the income and other "ObnOXious' taxes
were the first of the war taxes to be re-
pealed by Congress. 1t has always been
an enigma to the plain people of this
country why every war tax that fell di-
rectly upon wealth was very soon re-
pealed by Congress, which was suppOs-
ed to be looking after the welfare of the
nation. and the great and almost whole
burden of the war debt left to be paid from
taxes upon the necessarie> of life, with
the result that it is mostly paid by the
poorer classes Of the people. rhi, is an
enigma no longer. The cause of it is
most evident aud every time can be
found at the same spot. Wealth at diff
fereut points i, willing TO raise "a corrup-
ton fund to secure relief from the pay
ment OF taxes, and apparently there are
always those in our legislative assent
blies ready to do the work wanted for
the bride money. II explains. too, why
great corporations are constantly favor
ed at the expense of the government, and
of the people, including the men who
are in their employ For cousidera-
ton these things are done. Right is
misplaced with wrong, and the fair day
of peace overcast with the lowering
clouds of disaster.
perhaps no one has described the eff
fects of the bill demonetizing silver more
wildly than Secretary Carlisle before he
became member of Mr. Cleveland,
cabinet Mr.. Carlisle said:
II know that the worlds stock of the
precious metals is H0Re IN l0rge. and / Sr'
no reaSOH IL upprehead that ,cW cccr bc
come so. Mankind will be fortunate. in
deed, if the annual production of golo
and silver coin shall keep pace with tho
annual increase of population, commerce
and industry. According to my views 81
the subject, the conspiracy which seem,
to have been formed here and in Europe
to destroy by legislation and otherwise
from three.sevenths to One-half Of the
metallic money of the world is the mos
gigantic crime of this or any other age
The cOnsummatiOn OF such scheme
would ultimately entail more misery upon
the human race Than all the ,r0rS, peStiieHce
and fUmiAeS that eJeF occurred in the his
tory u the ,corld. The absolute and IN
Simultaneous destruction of half the en-
tire movable property of the world, in
GLIDING houses, ships, railroads and al
other appliances for carrying on com
merce. while it would be felt more sens
. IDLY at the moment, would not produc,
anything like the prolonged distress ant
DISCRIMINATION of society that must in
evitably result from the permanent an
{ initiation of one-half II metallic none,
of the world"
TO be Continued.