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Che B>ress nn£> Carolinian rHE A• 1 ' A I" 1 N -- * " Tkartdny by Tb« Hk-kory Print n* Coapany 1 E:.'4- ' V - ' KIP! 1- N A«tl IN Al • i 11 n•* 1 i - "i •*!'• 1 - • Or.- ■ ■ M .- . .} I UUJKILL. - Km-: •- Kn'» • ' " I: korr. S> ' 9m r n *• - r \ urns i AY .I'M M-I RJ, IH* liiislicc on Toljacco And ftran!\. That old fable about the law ver s bull and t he farmer s ox is repeated every day. When tlie Republican. Inter nal Revenue bull was rorinr the Democratic ox. every Democrat in North Carolina. fr »m t he greatest to the least, demanded that lie should be slaughtered, and liis blood sprinkled upon the altar of American libertv. TheDein i oeratic ox—the voters ol the count ry—wholiad been jrored and depleted almost beyond recovery, lent willing ears to promise of relief, and voted the bull over to the blood thirsty Democrats. But cir- cumstanees a Iter cases. When the lawyer learned it was his bull had gored the farmer's ox the case was en t t irely changed, and so, when t lie men who demanded the sacrifice of t h> Internal Reve nue bull had him turned over to them they, one after another cry out? flreat is the Internal Revenue, whence cometh our bread and but ler. The last, but not the least of these new converts to the gilded beauty of this golden bull is Mr. I\ 11. Busbee. Ile writes to the Landmark » from Raleigh to inform that paper and its readers that "almost nil of us have «lis cernnient enough to realize that tlie repeal of the excise laws is out of t lie quest ion. " " I >iscernment is a j;ood tiling, but it seems to be a blessiuir vouchsnfed only to those who look at the inter nal revenue system from the inside of itsoffices. Mr. Bus bee is I nited States district attornev. and from the true inwardness of that olfiee he "ivaliz» s" t he beaut ies t he re- of. and *• d i scer n s some things that are true and some that are not t rue. He savs the "advocates of a to la! repeal may be found in b>th part ies but l hey are in a helpless minority in the country at lame. While the Republicans held the of lici-s there was hardly a hem ocrat to be touml who was not for repeal, and there has bet-n n«> change from that posit ion except by t hose who now hold the offices. Since the llepfiblit-aus ha'vf been turned out they are almost unanimous tor repeal but the fellows who hold the I otiico and "realize the jjfoV= den beauties thereof, say we. the n-pcalers. are-ina hope- le>s >rity." We shall know of that in November. Mr. I'usbee says tin* **!te :>iil>l i« ;in dread >f its pr>hi ; on winjr will prevent it from favorinr the i*»*] ll ot tli** tax on whisky." Weare astOTli-hed at t his ijflK »I*l i 11'*♦*. I' roll ibitio ni> t s ;ir * about ;\> ■■,iilliilll»>us ji iV j'«-j>eal ;t> was Mr. 1 >usl»»•«' before lie *.!*>t in to ofiiee. If any time-past I'rohibitionist has _rot into H! i«• and '"discerns liis mistake, while he "realize.-, his money and his safety from the ••helplessminority lie is no longer a Prohibit ion isf in the true sense. Mr. Busbee also says "the desire anion*;* Democrats to make reductions in the tar iff will secure the tax on whis ky to be retained." If our memory serves us correctly • «■ one of thv' arguments and a very .strong one, used l>v,| Democratic speakers, Mr. Busbee among them, in favor of repeal was the eertaintv 1 * j that it would force a reduc tion of tariff duties to a rev • enue basis as demanded by; the Democratic platform. So long as 111 needs of the Treasury are supplied by in ternal taxation the protec tionists can afford to fight against a ''tariff for revenue only." Repeal the internal tax and the needs of the Treasury will compel a re duct ion of the tariff on t In* necessaries of life to a reve nue basis. "But, savs Mr. Busbee. much can be done to relieve us from the evils in separable from these laws. The tax on tobacco can be also entirely repealed." Why can this be repealed sooner than the whiskv tax? As *• many people use whisky as use tobacco, and poorer peo ple as a rule, and whv the difference? Has Mr. Busbee "discernment enough to re alize" that the tobacco tax makes but few cases in his court and consequently but few dollars in his pocket ? Perhaps! He says tobacco is as much a necessity as tea or cotVeeor suii'ar. No doubt about that. None of them are necessaries. Thousands of people live healthy and happy without usinir any of those articles and Mr. I»us bee. though raised "with a silver sjx)on in his mouth." miuiit yet be weaned from t hem without hurt. Hut read him on Brandv. He says: "Secondly, the tax on the fruit brandy can re duced. though not repealed. Thorough supervision will be necessary to prevent the fraudulent use of j;rain. Sirinuent and u>etul t ion upon T1 o 4 details will he independable. the time ot distillation limited to the last f>ur >r five m>nths >f the year, the capacity oi the .-tills graded to the probable soutvc >l' supply, and numer ous other saferuard> provid ed." Was there ever as much ottieial stylishness expressed I. j in such asmall space? "Not j repealed. because it makes f-nsf.s in court. ** Thorough ' . supervision " will make more 1 . cases in court. '"Stringent ami useful legislation."" to further encroach upon tin* liberties of ;in ahead v op- Dressed.- lonir-sufTering but 1 , restive people. The tax on brandy is now lowerthan oil whisky, aml the --fraudulent um' of grain is charged. Reduce the tax on brandy to ten cents as some advo cate ami there will be very little whisky made. It will all be brandy, and Mr. Bus bees court will be crowded with business. Brandy is no i ' more a necessity than wliis-J ky. It does as much evil as ' whisky. quantity for quanti ty, and if relieved of tax, will be manufactured from the cereals which now produce whisky. The" last of Mr. Busbee's proposition we shall notice, is put Tinted States Com missioners, and deputy mar shals, upon salaries. By this plan an honest officer ! who renders faithful service to the government gets no j more than the indolent, half-1 criminal, who winks at the j violation of tlielaw, stays at home and draws the salary. The laborer is wort hv of his hire, and we oppose any law that makes no difference be-j tween an honest man and a 1 rogue. In conclusion, we repeat i we want no half work in the repealing of these abomina ble excise la ws. Mr. Busbee's , plan would decrease the rev enues. but leave all the odi ous parts of the system in full force. Cut off a few I j . . I thorns that pierce a few large manufacturers and the chances for the entire repeal are made less. We want no i compromises, but a clear sweep. Soiih of Temperance. • It is always pleasant to note the growth of temper ance sentiment and the in crease in numbers of organi zations which promote that growth. Ash evil le Division S. of T. has been greatly re- 1 vived and from the best ma .terial in the citv. During the past quarter they have initiated 1 7 new members and have 10 other applica tions. while only one had been expelled. The officers for this quarter are: ,J. B. Lindsey. W. 1\; Miss Maggie Owens. W. A.: J. ll.'Lindsey. C. S.; S. W. Bridgwater. Treas.: G. It. Bengali. U.S.: Miss Kate Lindsey. A. B. S.; •I. N. D. Cam]>bell. * hap.: . L. Lindsey. Con.: Miss Sadie Bowles. A. '.: T. I». -lust iee, •I. S.: Ldward Gates. O. S. , The Division meets regularly ■ every Tuesday night. Secretary Lamar it. -;gned hi place in the Cabinet on the 7th in stant, and the President accepted it the same day in terms of tenderness and gratitude. l»ut>lic Education. The W adesboro Intelligen cer has an article abusing , and denouncing the public schools ol North (aty>lina.j; It goes for Maj. Finger be- ; cause he said that 1 cents was not enough for public school purposes, and says , that the present tax is just : 1 cents too much. The Intelligencer—a misnomer— shows its love for education and intelligence by saying: J The money had better be ; burned to ashes. We would rather burn a £."> bill than to pay £2.20 towards the sup port of the public schools. | No greater affliction was ever , visited upon the people of the South. * * # If God intend ed that free schools should he, it was written on t he tab lets of stone which were bro- j ken in Sinai's Mount, and the lines were never retraced. If the selfish politician, the I craven demagogue, could be elected to stay at home, there ( might be some hope of relief, for, if the voice of three fourths of the taxpayers of North Carolina were express ed to-dav, and heeded, the' ii j I i infamous svstem would be %/ j abolished instantly. The good book sa vs "answer a fool according to I his folly." Jn obedience to that injunction it may be i well to devote a few lines to the so-called Intelligencer. There are a few men—thank ; God they are few—in North Carolina who are so intense ly selfish and narrow minded that they would rejoice to see the few only enjoy the benefits of education ard in telligence. They oppose pub . lie schools from no principle. ! —they do so merely because, of their own innate inherent selfishness. If they possess ed the souls of men they would not so earnestly fa vor depriving the whit* children of North Carolina of the lit tle advantages they now have of securing the barest rudiments of an education. The Hcrpent of tlie Htlll. 1 The poem under this head in an other column is from Harper s Week ly. It is aptly illustrated on the same page by a still and a worm, from which has come a serpent of untold length, and wound itself around and around the living and dying forms of a woman and her three babes. Jhe son. apparently six or eight years old. lies stretched out at full length ui)on the ground, with two coils of the deadly -erpent around hi* ch* -t and neck, while a daughter, who looks to t>€» live years o. 1, is on her knees. aUo encircled by two oils of, the serpent, and clinging and reach ing up to her mother, who hold* her infant in her left arm, while she rc olute.v giips tha serpents neck in her right han 1 at full arm * length above her hc-ii-l. at which the f in» • t"!jgue point* fr"iti open n. uth and poi-onous fang.-. The drawing is hv -Je>-;e Shej'her 1, uu 1 * forc.b.e illustration of the most destructive trafHc ever tolerate 1 by any people. The picture i» ma le complete by a 1 . 7 shabby hut i:. the back grouL 1. on which you read " Livross, an 1 that ; explains the whole sceLe. Conjf regional. SENATE.— In the Senate to da% Mr. l'iatt presented a number of peti tions in favor of in the District of Columbia, and urgod the importance of notion 0:1 the sub jeot. Mr. Blair then called up the Edu cation bill h> the regular order. ami Mr. Reagan being recognized. pro re. Jed to oppose the In.! Southern States were not in need of fedeial aid for school purposes. Ihe 1 • \as school fund this vear «a- > *.l'' Mr. Blair read letters from educa tional authorities in that State com plaining ol the lack of school funds, and urging the passage of the bin- Mr. Plumb offered an amendment providing that the money shall be distributed among the several states and territories in proportion to their population according to the 1880 census. Among the bills introduced were the following : By Mt. A ance, appro priating .*lO.OOO for a monument to be erected in North Carolina to the memory of Gen. \N illiam Lee David son, who was killed at Cowan s lord in the Revolutionary war. HOUSE. —Speaker Carlisle to-day announced to the House the follow ing committees : Mills, of Texas, is chairman of the committee 011 Ways and Means, Ran dall 011 Appropriations, Culbertson on the Judiciary, Bland on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and Blancli ard on Rivers and Harbors. Iho North Carolina members are on committees a» follows: Henderson 011 the Judicial*} and Pensions, Row laud on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, Election of President and Vice-Pres ident, Nichols on Mines and Mining, and Labor, Cowles on Patents and Expenditures in the Post-Office De partment, and the Department of Justice, Latham 011 Land Claims and District of Columbia, Simmon? on Claims and Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Brower on Claims and Expenditures in the State Department, and McClauimy on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. By Mr. Anderson, of Kansas', crea ting the postal telegraph of the Uni ted States. By Mr. Rowland, of N. C, to repeal the tax on tobacco. [ Similar bills were introduced by Messer. Johnston and Henderson, of N. C., Bogue, of Pensylvania, Houk, of Tenn., and others. ] Don't let that cold of voirs rtirt on. You think it is a \ig\t thing. But it may run into catarrh. Or into pneu monia. Or consumption. Catarrh is? disgusting. Pneumo nia is dangerous. Consumption is death itself. '1 he breathing apparatus must be kept healthy and clear of all obstruc tions and offensive matter. Ctiier wise th"r»* is trouble ahead. All the diseases of these* parts, head, nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs, can be delightfully and entirely cured by the use of Bos chee s German Syrup, if you don't know thi 1 already, thousands and thousands of jieople can tell you. I hey have be**n cured Ky it, and " know how it j., themselves." Mottle only 7 Ft cents, A>k rny druggi-t. Robert. -on of Mr J. O. .Moore, of Bethany townnhip. went out hunting and failing to find any gain*, ded. on his return tup, not to go hoiie without hearing the report of his fjun. accordingly blazed away at a stump, and the gun. one of these single-barrel yt metal affairs, with two or time charges i M lt burM. ar. 1 blew one of Lis han Is all to 1 State,wll* L iri Ilcauiiful Women are m.ele |,al!id an 1 un..ttra* vive hr t ■■■ - pnal irrtg iritiea wh ; . (i \ )v I'w' • - 1 »• ••••*• »'-r- option" will • infailib y cur**. '1 hou-and.« of te , tim ■ma.-. By dru;rgi«,t.
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