The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-08-23
Western Taxation-The Campaign in
Minnesota.

Judge Flandrau, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in Minnesota, has taken
the stump in that State for National free
ON and equal taxation. At mass meet
ing in st. Paul, on the 9th, effective
speeches were made by Judge Flandrau
and General German, from which We ex
tract:
FROM GEN GoRMAN's SPEECH.
!" Where do your taxes go? 1t requires
$4,000, 900 annually to support the army
in the south. The income tax of the whole
state of Minnesota would support it about
four hours. daughter and applause We
ought not to squander the public money in
this way. We ought to be engaged in shut
ting up every hole and leak In the treasury.
lCheers.) Who is to do this? Will the
Republican party do it? (Cries of no, no)
The people of the south are kept down by
bayonets, placed there by the federal gov
ernmcnt. (Cries of that's So Bayonets
are good things in their proper place, but
very bad things when used for such an un-
just and outrageous purpose as this. LAD.
plause.) Look at Kentucky and Tennessee.
CIhree cheers were here called for, for Ken
lucky, which were given with great en-
ergy.) For a long time she was held sub
Ject to the power OF the bayonet, but the
moment they were removed, and the free
dom OF speech substituted for that of law
less and domineering power, the democrats
carried the state by $4,000 majority. Zap
plause.) Not only have the Republicans
deprived you of your market, but they
have robbed you of your money. Suppose
you desire to borrow money here, you will
have to pay from 16 to Is per cent. In
Boston or New York the rate OF interest is
from to- per cent What is the reason
you have to pay from Is to Is per cent
here? 1t is because New England furnish
es the brains for us. They cheated US in
regard to the apportionment of the nation
al bank capital, and got nearly all of it
themselves Why was this? Because out
here we had niger on the brain and
wool in our eyes, and do not attend to
business, but allow the east to cheat U.S.
(Applause.) Another reason why we pay
such large interest is because the man we
borrow of is compelled to pay an interest
to the east for the very money he lends us.
The banks in the west are without sufficient
capital to do the business of the peo-
pie, and the latter are consequently COM
PEELED to pay tribute to the east on account
of Republican misrule.
"There is no chance to hope that we can
seek for any redress in that party. The
whole tendency of their operations is to
make it's rule perpetual. Does any man
suppose that if they make fraudulent con-
situations for the southern States, and get
them back into the Union, that such state
of things would last? That it would stand
and be basis of government? No, the
Il I,t
of existence.
"While our members of Congress are
neglecting our interests the east is absorb
ing everything. The reason why they get
these advantages is that they are eternally
harping upon the south, and reconstruc-
ton. They don't give our members time
to think Of anything else, and the differ
ence they put in their pockets. 1t reminds
Broadway, New York. While you are
looking through them, and getting a good
look at some celestial body hundred mil
lion miles away, along comes somebody and
picks your pocket. Laughter. That is
looking at things away down south, while
they are fleeing US of our material inter-
ests and filling their own pockets" APP
plause.
FROM JUDGE FLANDRAU' S SPEECH.
sour public debt is nearly three thous-
and million dollars. The bond debt about
two thousand five hundred millions, and
upwards. We collect from the people five
hundred and eighty million dollars per an
mum, which is largely more in proportion
to taxable wealth and population than the
English, French, Russian, Prussian or Aus
trian monarchies pay. We exempt the
rich bond holders from two thousand FIVE
hundred million dollars taxable basis, thus
throwing this amount on the poorer and
less fortunate citizens Is this just? Is
this equal taxation? Is this not legisating
for the rich 1T the expense Of the poor?-
Who enacted and defends this wrong? The
radical republican party? Who den0unces
and opposes this great wrong on the poor !?
The democratic party. Can you help your
selves any longer by keeping this radical
republican party in power? Will you con-
sent to pay more than q just share OF the
taxes in order to keep the republicans IN
Office, or will you vote for your material IN
terests and change your rulers until you
get change of policy? You must answer
this by your vote this fall If | own one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in U. ).
bonds, you people have to pay that much
more taxes, because the republican party
say I am exempt from tax on this wealth.
If this one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars was in lands, goods, cattle, horses,
hogs or merchandise | would have to pay
about five hundred dollars tax on it.
But this is not ali. You pay taxes on all
you and your family wear to the rich lords
of the manufacturing establishment of New
England to keep them quiet, and to make
them leaders of the republican party. You
must change this. You pay more taxes to
keep up the so-calIed freedmen's bureau in
the original slave states, with its thousands
of office holders, dependents and employ
ees, spread over every county in the ten or
eleven states Of the south, and to feed and
cloth the negro. and educate him to vote
with the radical republican party. Who
opposes it? Who wants to take this bur-
den off your shoulders? The democratic
party.
This bureau is a feed trough for ten
thousand radical republican Office holders
to eat from, and you find and pay for the
bread. But you are taxed to keep up a
standing army in the south, to rule the
people and train up the negroes to vote the
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