Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — Abolish the Internal Revenue System. [ARTICLE]

Abolish the Internal Revenue System.

I favor, openly and boldly, the entire abolition of the cumbrous, corrupt and spying system of the internal revenue. It is not necessary to say that ifs officers are corrupt; it is the system. Its Officers pursue the voter into his cigar and tobacco shops and into stills, breweries and factories with th ream, and it has itsarmy of 5,000. Worse than the janizary or the ' mameluke, it undertakes by its occult machinery to intimidate and defraud. Away with it! Every speck of it on our body politic is a cancer. lam willing to meet this issue at the polls, and woe be to that member who upholds it to overfill our treasury, that the greedy may riot in the people’s hardearned means collected by its officials. Indeed, it seems a part of the • plan adopted by the dominant party to allow no reduction. The surplus is to bo piled up year after year, and this is the issue we are to meet.— Speech of the Hon. S. S. Cox on the Tariff