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WILKES BOROUGH, N. C„ THURSDAY
—Capt. Cooper, of DeUaplane,
is sick.
—Sheriff McEwen is back
from Raleigh.
—Dr. Turner is. coming home
‘this week. .
—Read Tinney A argument
Stanley expects to leave
r Chilic'otbe, tod
yPLogan Price's
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Methodist,—Rev. C. W. Goodwin,—
Sunday in each month at
and at night.
MAGISTRATES.
erson. B. F. carter and w. F. Alexander.
Trap Hill—'3—Wesley Joines, David
MCcann, A. c. Bryant.
walnut Grove—5—F. h. Alexander, n. c-
spicer, r. Miles, w. M. Absher, Felix Brew
er.
nock creek—4—L. n. parks, J. w. relts,
spencer Blackburn, John w. Emerson.
Mulberry—4—Daniel M. wall, w. P. Ab-
shier, A. wiles, A. c. nancy
noddies River—4—J. A.
crysel, .r
Frays, J. n. Mcxeil, u. c. pennell.
union—4—B. F. whittington, T. b.
Whittington, A. A. whittington, D.
sheppard.
nail, w. M. Le
shears.
Beshears, John Bc-
Elk—1 1 —Thomas u. west.
nearer creek—1-—John A. Foster
waiker, sam’l Harris, T. L. Barlow.
Revis, T. J. Gilreath, L. c. Jennings, R. M.
staley, w. n. nubbard.
Brushy Mountain—3—E. b. nendren,
J. A. Lowe, Harald Hays.
Lovelace
Wright.
E. v. Anderson.
Transow, c.
sumers—4—D. c. jurvis, E. m. relts, w.
A. southers, Alfred warren,
New castle—4—J. c. Armstrong, E. M.
lendrix.
UARY, 26,1888.
little, son of
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LuONABD.
REVENUE REPEAL.
ByR. Z. Linuey.
Ma. Editor:—At the be
was over. A system of internal [ administration.
revenue as then, .was in 18C>1,-a ! that if Mr. Cm
Avar
lug- of this new year Jet me son
necessity.’ I have seenihad been directi
where that 27 articles were ■ mont of Mr. Gla
urge you to Continue the wart then taxed, the product of indi-
you have begun upon the devil: vidual enterprise. This destruc-
and the internal revenue sys-ltivo system then, as now, had;
tern as the most dreaded ene- [ paralyzed the arm of individual 1
mien oftouU^ and liberty. There; enterprise, and the results were fbc ills grown)
no' compromise with ibest described by that peerless ! taxes of 18GS.
In fact, I have, some-; whig: orator, Mr. Clay. Presi-
thoughi the cause of; dent xluhroe was, perhaps, bet-
out of 1
eithe
time:
Iri'tli .lioili in Christianity and ; ter grounded in the principles
poh les would pwspei' more if I of republicanism than any pres
lew '.yore' said against his sir- ident this republic has ever had.
u ma;
and more against Hg had little or no rank in the
this pestilential weapon for e vil
he uses. Do away with the in
ternal revenue system, and the
Blends of truth everywhere*
will have acquired a victory
over which angels would smile.
There is an organized body of
clansmen, calling themselves
democrats, who for twenty
the enemies of this system, n^w
fur til first time in the history
of parties in. this country bold-
army.. Had therefore been.him
self, governed much, and it wa s
one of; Harrington's axioms of
libertju that “those who gov
ern must in turn bo govern
ed,’ 5 Besides, he had read law
yuth that apostle of liberty,
Thomas Jefferson. We can
therefore look to no authors in
this young republic’s history
with as much hope of getting
the truth as applied to patriot
ism, as President Monroe. Such
patriot statesman once dis-
med the diseased condition
the young republic and pre-
ssr Destruct? \:
c 'cy.of the! \
, From that j
.e truth.
wonder how they
Th.
scribed a remedy for all the ill
. Olay had so truthfully
itched. Let bis first message
the-reined .
appearing
i satisfactory manner that
. revenue arising from im-
nd tonnage
without
cl of internal taxes, is suf-
hcieut to meet the demands of
the govel-mn
it economical!
I consider it m
serail
lion now, no candid man will
deny, indeed no active demo ¬
duty to recommend to congress
their repeal. These taxes were
imposed when the demand was
imperious.” So with the pres
ent. The tax on 200 articles im
posed in I860 were a Avar neces
sity, ju ;t as the tax on 27 ar
ticles were imposed as a war
necessity in 1812. They are for
warand only way. They should
disappear with the confederate
gray and federal blue. They are
associated with the demands of
A C. crat in North Caroline can deni
. herte, blood, and discord. Mor
it without finding himself con-p-oe looked upon them as th
orders for the saleof Organs g' on£e(£ vrith the teachings of rnthat wounded our:
and Pianos None need appr man y ^“S years of his past life. I in peace, and at once drew out
»xceirt those who can give 'a Any further acting with thacithis offending and destructive
good"" recommendation’ and | P ai;t y jv 4510 democratic voter: age sy and destroyed it, only
bond Address [ V^ 0 bates this devilishjsystem] to be again restored to lifetem-
j’ g LEONARD | woifid bo self destruction. If I porarily as he no doubt thought
Statesville N. C. I ^® has' become a convert to to answer war demands, The
[the system,—h democratic heat [ result was indeed a happy one.
Don’t be surprised if yo u [ and bluster for these fifteen
receive a statement of your in y earg pas ^ was a false alarm,
debtedness to Staley & J® nes ij then and only then can it be
for they havenow out-standing [ 10gical for « myself) the sys .
bills to the amount of 13,000. j frien(:1 , t0 glay myself
They must and wM collect. | Por oa ^ j ^ prefer t0
—The Blair Bill ought to be-, oppose this systemof collecting
con ver 5
Stephens says Monroe’s admin-
good feel:
Such was hr
popularity that at his soo jud c-
lection, he carried every state of
the Union, a thing
now 1 bo-
come a law.
vantages of
It brin gs the ad- revenue.
schooling withill
It may not be entire-
y barren of good results to con-
fore or since,except with Wash
ington. And he was perhaps
the reach of every child in N. C.
Every freeman who is loyal to
his homo will, we trust, vote
against the congressman who
votes against his child.
trust the position of President ever have been elected to
son of the North St:
office can read it without cue
sin’, except my friend Hemp
Bingham, and he rubs his eye -
and wants to see Locke Mo-
Oatilde whenever he is pressed
on it. Yes, this message doo:
indeed propose a remedy. In
stead of pulling this thorn out
of the whole body politic and
casting it into .unquenchable
file, he strikes this irritating,
offending agency on the head
in despotism’s work shop. “It
need hardly be stated,” says the
President, ••that while the pres- |
e nt situation demands a reme
dy we can only be saved from !
a like predicament in the future
by the removal of the cause.”
The president here alludes to
tariff not as a source of evil
all, but the means of supply!
the federal treasury during j
whole of his second term wf o
lice, the best this coum
ever known.
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ministration desires to r
uate this iniquitous tax,been
immediately after speaking of r
the tariff ano attributing the (
distressed condition of the coun
try to that as the cause, bepre
cood.i to ffiqios^tsft.^
taxes. There appears to be ho!
just of complaint of this taxa- 1
tion by the consumers e those 1 '
thus appears that for tin
grooving or
of t
an
Monroe administ
tive remedy.; to ¬
■d
o W-
ing out of the war tax of L. G , j
President Cleveland adminis-
tered just the opposite remedy; i
to wit, their perpetuation. Mon-!
roe was illogical enough to sup-i
pose,that tile removal of a cause
would destroy its evils. Presi
dent Cleveland’s philosophy;
proceeds upon the idea, I sup
pose that “the hair of the deg:
is good for his bite.” Mr. Editor,
can such non sense be crammed.;
down the throats of good men
any longer? The consumers of
the articles taxed and their in
terests seem to be first in the
sympathies of our president
“this modern God of the
clouds.” 1 have been simple
enough to think that the toiling
hundreds of thousands of hus
bands and wives and their chil
dren who in the heat of a
summer’s day in southland
make themselves, with ever re-|
turning season, beasts of bur-'
den to bear water to the tobac-'
co plant; and who, clad in rai-
meat the President’s dog would
the only President who conk n0 p s i eep on; wage an ete
Monroe after the war of 1815, [third th
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with that of President Cleve-1 Such was the course of legist. .
land’s after the war of 1801. At [ tion given this country by the i re£ - ” - ’ 1 - burden-
the beginning ot Munroe s act-, old republican party, under: p 110wn to be forced tosell rabac-i
Monroe. Monroe recognized the [ io,thu ; raised, at four cents peril)
custom dues as the legitimate; ■worth eight, besides the taxes.
source to draw revenues for the [ Under this monopoly of trade ga g|j
wants of the federal govern-1 ™ the purchase of tobacco the; «g A
, . ° !outgrowth oi the revenue sys- W
ment in times or peace. Howthose who purchase asl ™
stands this thing we now have dealers in tobacco make often
called Cleveland democracy, I as much as the producer real-!
i ministration, Mr. Clay spake as
—Following the footsteps of p o y ows . “In casting our eyes
a Shoe: On last Monday our
worthy Brother, of the
around us the most prominent
circumstance which fixes
our
Chronicle, and our loquacious a ff en fj on and challenges our
and clever young townsman A.: d es .(. re g re f ; j s the general
Wellborn mounted on E. 1 d j s t resg which pervades the
Wellborn’s old ox made a tour
around the Public Square. We
know the ox was ashamed.
Moo! Moo!l Moo!!!
should be so called; for no izes for his whole crop.
whole country. It is forced up- or should be so called; for no | lzes ^or n^ wnoie crop, laey ;
on us by numerous facts—by! officer has ever been idolized in ' § e ^ jT^; the producer gets poor
the alarming diminution of the this country but Cleveland, i whiskey and tobacco ar(
circulating medium—by the nu-1 They sometimes speak of Cleve- j foreigners. The Prcsi
.eni
We would like to know why merous bankruptcies—by the|land as a kind of God of [ sympathies were proba 1 :
it is that the fames of such Universal complaint of the want [the clouds, you see. •tesephus | exited of
E M Abshe- of employment—by the raven- tells iJs of Annubis, a heathen “^autacturei wane
men । . Carlisle read to ms tarn
Alfred Elledge, John Davidses 1, [ »u pursmtafter public stations: God'oi the clouds worshiped in I speaoh and ; whan he oame to
R. P. Laxton, D.M.HaU, W. L. 1 as a means of subsistence. It the temple of Isis. He turned spsa k of the internal taxes, he
Brewer and’ others we couldT 8 like & e atmosphere around libertine, however, and thetem-■ forgot his own, toiling, tax
mention have been marked off- us-none can escape it-all must: ple was burned. This idolized
list of Wilkes Coun- ! inhale it!” How much like the I party leader in his last message 1 co n.mm is . cto.c. oa
Ilie Juiy list, or wvou 1 . . . , see, do not complain 1 a opinion
ty, and some, other we could! Present condition of our coun- makes rather a dark picture of : of the p resideat ,
mention nave had their names [ try, Mr. Editor, is that drawn the situation, much indeed like. (Continued next week for
retained.
I by Mr. Clay, The war of 181SI that of Mr. Clay in Monroe’s i want of space.)
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