The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-19

higher taxes is wrong, and to do it
would be rascally and infamous. But
it is all expenditure now and no cur
tailment. We verify believe that any
capable, faithful, resolute statesman Of
fair ability and experience without
detriment to the country could razee
expenditures 800. 0OO, 900 a year. We
put it small. 1t could be reduced to
$3.50, 000, 000, and then ave the b~urdentwo
or three times heavier according to
population than it was under Presi-
dent Buchanan, a real democrat, in
1860. But politicians ave ceased to
look to public economy. All they are
concerned in is expending the peoples
money and higher taxes to meet their
extravaganza and folly and madness.
1t is a great shame M a great slam
to the country, and yet the sovereign
people remain silent, engage in faction
al fights, and the robbery and waste
continue.
In three years and eight months I'M
der the only great CLEVELAND the
shortage is s1s6, 061, $50, a mere baga-
telle you see. Buchanan did not re-
quire much more than the actual deficit
to carry on the entire Operations of
the government for three years, when
the population was 81, 000, 900. The in
crease alone in the interest of the pub
lie debt under Cleveland is $11 1913, Ala.
ScrutiniZe the figures. When the
government had a great revenue of
s425, S6S, go. %, the expenditures outran
it by nearly so, 600, 900. Another year
the receipts were very great, amount
ing to the vast sum Of $461, TIC, 561.94.
And yet with that huge resource it
was hardly enough for extravaganza.
But the next year-ending 30th June
1894-the expenditures were $69, 500, 1908
above receipts. That meant bankrupt
cy, the fruit of incapacity. Buchanan
could carry on the government now at
not a greater expenditure than $780,
coo, 900 annually with a faithful, eco
monica congress to cooperate.
The next year came another deficit
of $42, S05, 223. IS. Is it a wonder that
with such outlay and income that the
government busted" and went to Dor
rowing by the hundred millions of
bankers? Cleveland borrowed 1862 ,315,-
400 to supplement his folly and infidel-
ity. For the asst fiscal year the old
bad game Of excess, of extravaganza, OF
oppression went on, and with the re-
suit Of another deficit Of over $25, 900, 900.
Is there betterment? Is the "pros-
perity" to the country promised by
d~emagogues in sight? Are the expen-
ditures still outstriding the revenues Of
the government? 1t is the same, old,
bad story of bad economy and finan-
ciering. For the first half Of the pres
ent fiscal year beginning with LIST
July 1896. the excess of expenditures
has ben nearly $3S, DOC, 900. For January
and February this yea the deficit is
over $40, 600, 900.
How does Mckinley propose to rem
edy the evil? A prudent man dealing
with his own private affairs would say
let us cut down all expenditures where
ever possible. But no such idea enters
into the brain of a politician. 1t is a
foregone conclusion with them that the
old, vile extravaganza and excess must
continue. So it is simply to make tax
es higher, increase thereby the bur-
dens of the tOilers and make prosper
ity possible by the artificial and vain
, way of greater taxation. So there is a
new tariff tax laid by the economic
charlatans and the to be rails
ed to meet extravagant and wasteful
n unwise expenditures must come
out of the pockets of a people already
bearing more than is tOlerable or right
or honest.
| The new plan under protectionist Nc
! Kinley Is to raise by the tariff tax syS-
+; tenn some SIS. OO0, 900 more from the peo-
pie. He and his remorseless robber
| gang propose to get nearly $22, 600, 900
by taxing the little sugar in every poor
! mans cup of coffee or tea. 1t is a mis-
| cradle system that allows indefinite ex-
! penditures and then to meet them to re-
sort to high robber taxation. No man
ever lived who could get our vote or
F, approval who favored such a rascally
| plan of raising the wind" There is a
! tax now on sugar, but the plan is to
| so increase it as to raise $22, 0O0, 900 ad-
| ditiOnal. Every time yOu sip your
breakfast drink you are paying a tax to
incompetence, stupidity and immor-
ality.