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The Weekly Recorder. FCBMSHKD IVKBT WKDSKDAT. " K. C. M SET. Eel I tar Prwaw-leter, 4. A. BOBIXSOX. AMMtvlat Editor. rue oFiCMcumov : Cat Year.in AdTance, $1 oO Mx Months. " 75 State vs. Federal Taxes. For the Bupport of the State got ernment proper, counting in every thing, the people of North Carolina pay a tax of about 40 cents a head. For the support of town, county and State administrations, all put to gether, they pay but little more than $1 a head. The cost of the United States government last year was not far from 100,000,000 a sum so big that one can only get an idea of it by reflecting that it is four times the value of all the land in North Carolina: that if in silver dollars there would be enough to lay five rows of them around the whole State, and if in paper dollars, enough to cover its entire surface; that it is over $6 taken from the comforts or necessities of every man, woman and child, white and black, in the United States. North Carolina's share of this tax is, at $3 a head, over f 10,- 000,000. The home governments dispense justice, support the public charities, make the public improvements, ed ucate our children, protect us in oar labor bv day and while we sleep by night; in short, do for us all that men institute governments to do, and cost us one dollar a head. The United States government collects from us 6 a head, or over f 10,000 000 in all, and comes in direct con tact with us or our interest only in the ugly shape of internal revenue tax collectors. To no man, woman or child, white or black, in North Carolina is there, ordinarily, any direct return for this enormous taxation, save only to the Federal office-holders. The home governments take the comparatively small sums required for their administration by direct taxes, taxing each man according to the value of his property, imposing the puuuc burden in exact propor tion to the share each individual re ceives of public protection. The enormous taxes collected by the United States government are in direct and paid by consumers, who pay not according to the benefits they receive from the government, but according to the products they consume in living or in making a living. The millionaire, if he con same no more than the day laborer. will bear no Larger share of the pub lic burden. But as men feel direct taif more severely, that is to say, know when they pay them,and how m uch, Colonel Dockery and his party think to persuade them that the dol lar they pay the State government is a bur-fen and the six dollars they r t . .. pay i a reuerai government a bless ing. Exactly! Bat we can't see it The surplos revenue in the Feder al treasury at Washington this year, it is believed, will amount to not far from$150J0,000,or about equal to f 2.50 for each man, woman and child in the Un tod States. North Carolina's proportion is $4,250,000. It dsno arguentto prove that North Carolina will gain more by the reduction of taxation than by any di wet appropriation f or improve ncnts that w within the range of probability. lUluce the taxation, wasteful expenditure, and put an end to this unrmmtary accumula tion in the public troaoury of the millions raised by obliging the peo ple to imj higher prkes for every article they consume in living and for every article they um in making a living. A Democratic Congrww would stop the waste aud re luce the taxes, but we Lave not a Democratic Federal Senate. The Boose of itep. resenUtites only u Democratic. It is simple itupoanible, upon any ground, to defend the collection ut such a fast sum of money f r m the fieople of the country. Exjierieiiw has shown, and Las shown for a long time, that the taxes were largely in excess of the real wants of the gov ernment, but still the government goes on collecting them in a reckless disregard of the necessities of the people. Two facts, then, are cer tain : 1st. The money is there; and 2d. there is no nse for it Are the people willing to keep in power a party that thus reckless 1 " si w . gnnas xrom ineir nam earnings such vast sums of money P We think not Let North Carolina, then, see to it that her full duty is done towards securing the success of the only party that will bring the Federal government to the same strict econ omy the State government uses. liut tninK tor a moment what a vast sum $150,000,000 is. If it were in silver it would require 12,000 horses and mules and wagons to haul it to Raleigh, twice, as many as there are in all the country, and after it got there no building could be found to hold it Why, there would be enough of it, and mora than enough, to lay a double row of silver dollars along every railroad in the State; enough to lay a double row of them all around the State: being much more than enough to buy every foot of land in North Carolina at its assessed valuation. Think of it, North Carolina .tax payers! A surplus revenue is a public nui sance. It gives to the government a dangerous control over the mon eytary affairs of the country, and a control almost certain to he used for the promotion of party purposes. It takes productive capital from the hands of the owners, and vests it in hands where there is every tempta tion to use it uselessly if not vic iously. The world has never known a government so pure that it would not become corrupt if a surplus rev enue were permanently placed at its disposal. Let North Carolina, then, see to it that her full duty is done towards securing the success of the only party that favors the destruction of a surplus by reduction of taxation. AcoKKSSPOaDE3T of the News- Observer tells us that John Nichols and T. K. Purnell opened their can vass in Alamance county, at Lea's Store, in Pleasant Grove township, on Monday. Hie correspondent goes on to say: "This is a Republican township and after beating the bushes and covering all the public places with hand-bills they were greeted by six negroes, four white Republicans and two Democrats;the last two being there for the purpose of asking a division of time in the speaking. Johnny and Tommy looked sick and when they hear from Alamance in November next Johnny will be past recovery. They drove off to their next appointment with out speuing at aiu ine six ne groes and four whites went away disappointed, and the two Democrats followed the footstep of Johnny and Tommy very much amused at the air of disappointment manifest- ted by the two distinguished and magnetic Republicans." At last the Senate substitute for the House tariff bill has been pot into shape sufficiently to be reported to the finance committee, but the Re publican Senators are still to fear ful of the effect of their measure that they are taking extraordinary pains to let no one see it It is said that Senator Beck, who is off at a safe distance, has been allowed to have a copy, as he is to have the privilege of presenting a minority report, but with this exception the awful secret is still locked np. As the bill is not expected to pass, there need be no particular haste to learn iU provisions. It is imortant only as an indication of the revised Republican police on the tariff. WLatever its details, it will neces sarily put the Senate at issue with the platform and the candidates, but there re so many contradictions in this campaign that a few more will maks no great difference. Joitxxr NicHou-very beguiling, About this time comes 'round smil- ; If.uVd full of laughter Its votes he is after: To Congress ht wishes to go fwter than hoppin' To see him frown, And take him down, Jut ask Lira how he treated L C. VanNoppen. WTrr i en m flwKD in Texas and other portious of the Southwest ter rdrized by highwaymen and train robbers is a few more women like Mrs. Lixzie Hays, of Baundero couuty, Texas. Mrs. Hays not only knows how to shoot, but dares to shoot A masked highwayman pre sented Himself at her -house one morning recently, when she told him to leave or she would kill him. He didn't believe she meant business until she had snapped her irun at him. He then tried to kill her, but in the battle which ensued her tardy needle gun was induced to go off with such good effect that the rob ber went off, too, with a bullet in his thievish body. Mrs. Hays' bullet was like the gun from which it was fired, a little slow in getting in its work, but by the time the robber had ridden twenty miles it finished him and saved the hangman a job. Thk Third Partyites seem to be dividing among themselves as to whether Prohibition or Woman Suf frage is the "dominant issue in na tionai politics. Their party plat form says Prohibition is, and so says General Fisk in his letter of ac ceptance; but Prof. Samuel Dickie, Chairman of the National Commit tee of the Prohibition Party, thinks mere is a greater evil to overcome than the liquor traffic namely, the subjection of women. Mr. Dickie speaks out thusly : "I am profound ly convinced that for women to be unrepresented in the Government at this late day in the nineteenth century is a relic of savagery re maining to us from the age of phy sical force more barbarous and more harmful than the liquor traffic!" A pretty "kettle of fish" they are preparing. f- IT .t m iua. uAKKisojf a iaea oi ais- posing of the surplus is that "it should be nsed in the purchase o bonds." That is good financial wis dom. A Republican adminstration funded the bulk of the debt in bends that are not now redeemable am! that can only be bought now at a premium approaching thirty per cent and the people are now to be taxed a hundred and thirty dollars to pay each hundred dollars of 'debt. No doubt it would be better to spend the surplus in this way than to give it away or than to keep it locked up, but it would be better still not to collect any surplus. Ax alarming feature of indiscrimi nate immigration is the arrival of twenty-four Swedish maidens in this country, under contract to marry The question naturally arises, that if laborers under contract are not to be permitted to land here, are mai dens nnder matrimonial contract to be allowed to slip in. As the Louis ville Courier-Journal says, are not our own maidens, not to mention our widows, to be protected from this foreign competition? How are we to AmericaaTze our foreigners if they do not marry American wives? Thebe was frost in many parts of Alabama Monday night, and the temperature at Montgomery was 54. It is hoped that this coot spell will extend into Florida and check the yellow fever scourge. At Jackson ville the weather is clear and cool, Thirty new cases were reported there yesterasy morning Aootnaal re ports of deaths. The scare and panicky feeling at Memphis has given way to a more rational view There is still much suffering and want and our people should not re lax their efforts to render assistance am a . UKZfxSBoBo is agiow witn en thusiasm Unlay. The occasion is the Fireman's Tournament. A large crowd is in attendance and from all wc can learn tbey are having a grand time. It will last to-day and to morrow. We wish Greensboro the greatest success and most abundant joy; and then we invite her to our Exposition. M.J. W. A. Hiarvi is now Con nected with the editorial staff of our esteemed contemporary, the Wil mington Messenger. We welcome him back to North Carolina journal ism. Mj. llearne is a deep thinker. sound reasoner and an ornate writer and whatever his pen touches gleams with mature judgment The Messenger is fortunate. M Y WORD 13 OUT. All persons emlebte-l to me either by note or account are notified to bring me either wood or monev or bom or tncy will find the sheriff and bis posse after them I mem busi ncss. M. A. Anoier, sep25 d3t w3w. TUB 8TAK. 1 OUAT NATIONAL MMOCIATtO XtwaFAMB. 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