Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-27

tue titiLtH isHSt nave. Our iaflIl
 laid for monopoly. is a hardship on the babe unborn and the dead un-
 buried. for it taxes the swaddling clothes of the one and the shrond of
 the other; it reaches both the era de and the coffin. The Democratic
 party seeks to lift some of the taxes on what men consume and fix it on
 wealth, and it is a great pity that
 the Martin machine in Virginia was
 impotent to induce the legislature of that commonwealth to ratify the
 amendment authorizing an honest
 income tax.
 The most extraordinary phensae- ron presented to the human under standing in the entire history oi
 government among men is discov-
 cred in the 6--ma enacted in the southern states after the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and before the
 surrender of the Republican party
 when R. B. Hayes withdrew the reg
 Ular army from it's degrading and in- famous duty of serving as a police force in the seceding states. Not
 withstanding their armies were oy- erthrown, notwithstanding their homes were in ruins. notwithstanding alien vultures .gnawed and tore at | the south's very yitals, notwith- standing hostile and threatening bay
 onets were al every cross road, not
 withstanding hundreds of thousands
 Of the. south's best young blood em- 1 igrated to the north and to the west, notwithstanding hate ruled the council at Washington and op- pression percked on the flag wher- J ever it fiuttared to the southern -notwithstanding this and these and ali. the invincible Anglo Saxon of the south rose in his mai esty and seized on, regained and held eyery one of the eleven state 1 governments that had made the con | federacy and drove the vandal horde from place and power. When some
 Gibbon. or Hume. some Robertson or Macauley, in glowing periods, shall | fittingly tell that glorious story. it
 will be the lrandest political picture | ever disclosed to the human memory
 and the human imagination, and it
 will thrill the heart and nerve the arm of ,he freeman, wherever his ! lines be cast, of countless genera tions yet to be.
 And the south could have rid her people, and the northern people as well of the expressions of the tariff had her sons been true. Carpetbag- gery and all the fnnumerable knav- cries and numberless ignominies
 that were iu its train would yet be in the green tree, triumphant
 and flagitious. had there been at
 the south as many traitors then as
 there are protectionists now. If we
 labor under the expressions of Aid riehism, it is because it's miserable garbage is very enticing to certain southern palates. The south will rid herself and the country of monopoly taxes as soon as, and not before, the
 south rids herself of her proteSton- ists in the two houses in congress.
 It is preached that as long as the stealing is going on the south must have her share. That is precisely
 what Pennsylvania says, exactly what New England says. except that I Pennsylvania and New England do
 not play the hypocrite over it. They say to the south: Here is the steal
 ing going or. come and get your
 share. The stealing is unconilned,
 and it will ruin us the day it is
 made sectional"
 Now the south is a cotton plant CT, and Aldrich and Bailey, Daizell
 and Martin may lay their heads to- gether "tiIl they are blue, black and mulatto." as Bill Arp puts it, and
 they can purvey none Of their steal ! ing for the man growing cotton, who is a taxpayer, and not tax | cater. He is the one whose property | is stolen to make somebody else rich. Give him absolute free trade. i and require the wealth of the coun- ] tTy to support the government, ana your cotton planter will be the most | independent and the most prosper i pus farmer in the world. The old
 south. God bless her, know it. The
 new south is trying to forget it.
 Talk about raw materials. The
 manuacturer is not a consumer Of them. He merely uses them to fit | them for the consumer. who pays
 the tax, and consequently Mir. Bail
 ey's proposal to tax the manufae- turer on his raw material does not attain to the dignity of cunning subterfage. It is an insult to the | intelligence Of the cotton grower,
 who pays the tax on the raw ma
 terials the manufacturer iicks into
 shape for him.
 The wool growers had big pow
 WOW out west in February. They had
 a grand banquet, $25 cover, all
 paid for by poor devils who sleep
 under blankets taxed at more than | 100 per cent The wool spinners
 from New England were on hand,
 and the boss spoke 10 the million aire shepherds. and here is what he
 said. Never. never. never consent