The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-09-17

and above his debts. clear gain, profit al
the end of the year | want to know? i
man has an income of a thousand dol
lars over all his expenses [ don't think
that man is laboring man. That mar
lis generally man who is considered 9
man OF very fair means man of easy
circumstances, He is not poor man anc
ought not to complain if he has to pay 6
taxon his income. [ wish had severa
thousands of dollars 1 would pay the
tax all the time. The poor men pay
nothing but the rich do Each member
OF Congress pays tax on his salary
He receives $4,000 a year and pays $25C
out of it, and although no member OF
Congress ever gets away from Washing
ton with a dollar he has to pay that
Hence you find according to the theory
of the Re-. blican party the tax comes
out of the Office holders, the rich men
and such like, and not out of the pocket
of the mechanic, the laborer and the poor
man. The poor men of this country
pay no tax none; whatever.
| SUPPLY AND DEMAND
But as my attention has been called to
an item. | will mention it. The Demo
cratic party say we pay tax on coffee, on
sugar, on boots, on shoes-on everything
| They say we pay tariff on them
| Well, now [ will tell you how it is. If
this Democratic party would only exam
inc the statistics little closer, they
would see how it is with sugar and cof-
fee, or anything else the price IS either
| higher or lower according to the supply
and the demand coffee and sugar vas
| worth perhaps six or eight cents pound
| but when the supply is not sufficient for
| the demand then your coffee and sugar
| increase in price according to thedemand
And that is the condition to-day 1t is
| not the tax on coffee. There is no tax
| on coffee and sugar; there is duty and
and light one too, and that is all
And yet they talk about tax on coffee and
sugar, and On calicoes and prints, and on
evrything of this kind. The war made
cotton high. because cotton was not
produced In sufficient quantities to
supply the demand. Henceall fabrics
correspondingly high as the cotton
thing else. But now. mark you? Since
creased, you find that the supply
and the reduction in price has gone
gradually on. and cotton has decreased
In price, since the war according to the
supply, and so have fabrics manutactur-
ed from cotton.
THE TARIFF QUESTION
But, so far as tariff is concerned,
we the people of this country, as a mat
ter OF course, are not in favor of a very
extravegantly high protective taft
We cannot be. But we must derive a
revenue from some source to run the
government, and to pay our national
debt, and / say to you now, that the time
has never been, either under the Demo
cratic administration, Wing or Republican
but what there was tariff duty on arti-
Giles. Now we have reduced the tariff
on all articles. as far as we could, and
we have taken it off all the articles as far
as we could, just the same as VIC have
with taxes, and as we go on increasing In
wealth and population, and as we are
relieved from the burden OF this debt,
just SO fast the tariff will be reduced
correspondingly with the reduction
OF the taxes upon the people, and that
is the only way it can done. You cannot
do it any other way. Talk as much as
you have q mind to, YOU will have tar
if and will have taxes; no question
about that | say this, | think the tax
on whiskey, aud that is the tax that has
been complained of great deal APP.
plause and laughter it never effected
me very much because | don't use the
article. Applause. But don't blame
the Democratic party for being mad at
us for taxing the whiskey. [ know that
they complained at that tax very much,
1t is about the only tax that they recol-
lected. To satisfy them We did reduce it
to sixty cents gallon, and now they are
| mad about that We also reduced the
| tax on tobacco. [ think tobacco, whiskey,
gas and articles of that kind can pay the
whole revenues of this government in
combination with the tariff duties that
are i'm posed on foreign goods. Applause
That is my notion it, and that is
the theory of our party too We consid-
er whlskey and things of that sort luxur-
les, or at least many people do, and if
| they do, and then enjoy them, let them,
| pay for their Injuries. That is the only
reason why some people, and all the
Democracy are making a noise about
the high tax-because it strikes at an
article they use in great abundance
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM AND TAXA
| TION.
| Now suppose We examine the Demo-
cratic platform and contrast it with our
theory in reference to this question of
taxation. They say they are in favor of
equal taxation Of every species of proper
ty. Now that old gentleman that was
out there little while ago-a Democrat
1 want him to listen to me about dem
ocratie platform, and [ viii read it.
have given you our theory of platoon :;
now let us see, what their theory is.
| They say we are taxing the people to
death. they want to pay the debt, but
they say the Republicans are destroying
the country. The fourth resolution Of
their platform, adopted at New York, is
in the following language Equal tax
alton of every species of property accord
ing to its real value, including govern
mcnt bonds and other securities. The
Democratic are in favor of taxing every
species of property equally. Now, [ am
not infavor Of that Every species of
property what is that? 1t is the horse
it is the mule, it is the COW. ii Is your
house, it is your land, it is your bed, 1t is
| your bread, it Is your meat, your knives
and forks and dishes. They are all prop
erty. Every species of property they are
in favor of taxing equally, in order to
/ get chance to tax some fellows bond.
In other words, equal taxation means
they will tax milk the same as you tax
whiskey. Laughter. They will tax
sugar the same as you will tax tobacco
They will tax prayer meeting the same
as you do circus, | suppose Laugh
ter. That is equal taxation. Every
thing must be taxed. Equal taxtion is
now the Democratic theory How do