The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05


that threw aMay mo peoples money
As II It grew - leaves and not BY the
sweat OF the face. The democratic
tariff was a non-producer OF revenue
and so bonds had to be sold and the
public debt had been increased, with
interest, some $500. OO0. 900. Let the rabid
republicans only get in and they you'd
construct a tariff that might rob to
desperation, but it would fill the
treasury and run up enormously the
to meet the unwise, reck-
less expenditures Of the unbalanced
congress. That was the talk on hust-
ings and in newspapers. Behold the
result. The new robber, called after
Digley, the incompetent, vas passed
on oath July. The actual government
deficit from st August to 18th Sep
TENDER, is $6,116,S5s. For 1896, same
time, it was SO. 1887. For 1895, ditto.
1926, 9O9. Behold. we repeat, the result
of republican robbery. Another case
Of great cry and little wool. The ar
rant humbugs. The most incapable
and rascally of commercial and tax
robbers. Here is what the fellow Ding
ley the stupid, said in the house on oath
last March as may be found in the Con
gressional Record of that date:
"Our problem is TO provide adequate
revenue from duties on imports to
carry on the government"
If that really was the problem Of the
gang" they failed to solve it. They
have plunged into the deadliest sea of
incompetency and betrayal that ever
wrecked a party and oppressed a great
country with a great population. Ding
ley said the problem-"our problem"
was to keep the government Out OF
debt and to provide the revenue by
imports" That was a false scheme
on it's face as we'll as lamentable fail
ure. 1t was soon found while the un-
scientific, stupid bill was under consid-
Grafton in the congress-, that a protec-
ton scheme of robbery would not pro-
duce the needed revenue, and the tink-
ers at once changed their plan and
increased their internal tax to help
splice out the lame-duck performance
of the revenue producer" And that
| is Dingleyism and republicanism in it's
! final manifestation. That old parry
| once had many men Of remarkable
abilities but they are all dead or
! grown senile or are shelved I'm the
| archives Of gravity"
The deficit in forty-two days was
| nearly four times what it was for the
same days in 1895. 1t is clear that
| whatever the defects, and they were
many of the hybrid democratic Billy
Wilson law, hat the McKinley-Ding-
Iey-Reed law for the sole benefit of
manufacturers is a much more defec-
tive law and should be squelched in
~stanter.
The dangers lurking in the Dingley-
Reed scheme, under the general boss
ing of faithful Mckinley, the small,
were not unseen. There were republi-
cans who had understanding and per-
ception enough to see ahead and to
know that a protection tariff bill would
prove a very dead failure as
a revenue producer. Senator Aid
rich, all the way from Rhode
Island, much given to protec-
ton, making it's rich by taxing other
people for it's benefit, had a fore
boding of failure. On 26th May as the
Congressional Record shows, the tariff
coacher for h Senate said in his place
this:
1.-The adoption of a revenue bill which
should fail in it's purpose, which should
create an additional deficiency in the
immediate future, which would require
a further issue Of bonds to meet cur
rent expenditures, would certainly be
fatal to the hopes Of future success OF
any political party responsible for such
legislation"
And now we see how the bill that
was passed completely failed Of its
end. It is a disgrace to intelligence
and a law of oppression upon the peo-
pie. If Senator Aldrich is a true
prophet there is a great storm brewing
for him and his co-partners in wrong
doing and robbery. If the people dc
not drive their oppressors from the
control of the government with many
scourings they will deserve to suffer
and groan under the heavy burdens
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