The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-01

rid. great Robbcr Tariff, the wonder OF
the age and the most desp cable. gil
gantic of all piratical inventions. No
relief can be expected fl on either un-
der Roosevelt and the great money
owned Congress. The cry is that 1t is
q necessity, a privilege and u right to
unity business and form great selfish
combinations. 1t is said that trade de-
mands and requires trusts Exorbi-
lance in prices IS the cry of the money
kings, and all for their own benefit
and to rob the people-the burden
bearers of our country. The trusts
have long oppressed the people and
,ung from them money that was
needed by them. They have been
rlucked and oppressed without limita-
ton. and all for the benefit of about
one hundredth part of the whole popu-
latjon. The country has been sorely
wronged and no hope of reliee is in
V ew, or probable. Professor ]. b.
Clark, of Columbia University. wrote 4
month or two ago paper for a
Northern monthly en- the Trust
Problem and from what he said J
copy one passage. The New York
Nation says:
prof. Clark's positive counsel is to
avoid quixotic efforts at fTrust-smash-
urcn the points where the unfair OK
actions of these combinations are
brought to bear. such as d;scrinina-
toms tavoring the big shipper in rail-
road rates, cutthroat conn etiton
against the independent dealers in
given localities or in given classes of
goods, and factors agreements re
susing to supply the local dealer with
q given rrust-made article unless he
binds himself not to buy similar az:
ticle from the independent mahufac-
tGrer. With proper safeguards at
these points, it is reasonably main
tanned that independent competition
would meet the trust as a much lower
level of prices to the consumer than
under present conditions. and to Sc
cure just this result must be the aim
OF any really practicable measures OF
relief
i am reminded of the high taxes in
the first thirty years of the Nineteenth
century in Great BritailI--t,W OPP
preSsive and grievous they We're ro
garded by those who bore the
unreasonable burdens. When J used
to read the fun and wit and wisdom
of Sydney Smith a half century ago.
and saw how the inimitable wit and
satirist the laughing. rubicund, jovia)
English parson shook his sides, and
even made sport of the huge burdens.
which the English Tory Government
had heaped upon its people. in the way
of heinous and oppressive taxes, little
thought that l would live to see these
outrageS repeated III our own land.
and that the PEOPLE III the South woIlI
lie accursed with a similar burden and
indeed be under q far greater aft1ictiou.
carrying a. load far beyond any pon-
derous and uprighteous flrders that
we're ever, borne or felt by John Full
Eut so it is. With all OF the scoufages
and unbearable afflictious and oppres-
sions the British people the middle
and working classes-liave had visited
upon them all through the centuries.
they never knew anything like a gil
gantic, constituencies American trust,
made all nc Werful by the most arbi-
trary, grinding tariff that was ever
imposed upon the children OF men.
The witty, incorrigible Church OF Eng
land parson thought that in his tay
tho British people were paying the
penalty which inevitably results from
being too fond of glory" He
thought the Americans were TO much
inclined that way then and would of
necessity have to pay the piper for
their dance Even a half century
later or more, the Americans up
= ORTIZ arc still bent or ey"ess OF
glory" and Roosevelt and his Don
heavily bent upon conquest and cen
1llcts with other peoples, and ali for
the bubble glory" II is certain. rs
TO taxes. that every citizen should pc"
promptly his taxes and exert himself
SO to advance the condition of the en-
tire people that the unreasonable mi
cliitous. unbearable burdens may be
IL possible. speedily lightened and
lifted All good faithful, hon
a;fiy yri1I 40
their taxes, and thus by example and
effort seek to tote their end of the
Log If Americans will cultivate the
cheerful, inyincibla spirit of the Eng
lish humorist and laugh whilst they.
daily strive and toll instead o. nlopinS
like the owl AMI whining like Il
whipped dog, we shall all be wiser, hap
pier, more contpnted, and more re-
solved to stamp out SO soon as possible
the immeasurable, unnecessary, infa-
nous high tar If taxes. aid the curse
that follows imme jiately from the ex-
istence of the high tariffs children
the bitter, insatiate, Robber Trusts /
reproduce part of an amusing pas
sage from Rev. Sydney Smith WORKS
hoping it may amuse my readers.
If it does not contribute towards pay
ing their taxes. The extract is long
but it is too clever to be apologized
for:
John Bull can inform Jonathan
what are inevitable consequences OF
being too fond of glory: Taxes! taXeA
upon every article which enters into
the mouth. or covers the back, or is
placed under the foot; taxes upon
everything which is pleasant to see.
hear, feel. smell. or taste: taxes upon
warmth, light, and locomotion; taxes
on everything on earth. and the waters
under the earth: on everything that
comes from abroad. or Is grown al
home: taxes on the raw material,
taxes on every fresh value that is add
ed to it by the industry of man; taxes
on the sauce which pampers mans
appetite and the drug that restores
him TO health: on the ermine which
decorates the judge, and the rope
which hangs the criminal: on the poor
mans salt. and the rich mans spice:
ON the brass nails of the coffin. and the
ribbons of the bride; at bed or board,
couchant or levant. we must pay.
The school-boy whips his taxed top:
the beardless youth manages his taxed
horse, with a taxed bride. on a taxed
road: and the dying Englishman.
pouring his medicine. which has paid
seven per cent. into d spoon that has