The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-10-02

as the republican platIorm assures
the country it is, what need Of
standing army in the South?
His answer to this interrogatory
was that the sue cess Of RECONSTRUCT
ton was assured in the re-admission
of eight Of the recently seeded
states. The standing army in the
south was justified on the ground Of
it's necessity in keeping those states
in loyal line,-i. C. voting with the
republican party.
End, With two-thirds of both
houses of Congress, why did not the
republican party commence to prac-
ticc economy in 1865, instead of
waiting to promise it in it's platform
of 1868?
To this interrogatory the Hon.
gentleman did not even deign
reference.
Sd. You accuse Andrew johnson
Of shameful corruptions' in your
platform Of 1868. Why did not
your party use its two-thirds of
Congress to defeat and prevent such
shameful corrupticns?"
To this interrogatory he never
condescended to reply, though every
expenditure is in an appropriation
bill passed by Congress; and the
thefts and robberies in the revenue,
are by men whom the President, by
act of Congress, is powerless to
remove.
4th. As the republican party in.
sists on giving the ballot to the
southern negro, do you endorse the
view of the N. Y. Tribune, that
'we cannot give the ignorant mill
ions of freedmen in the rebel states
the ballot, and at the same time re-
fuse it to the educated thousands in
tho northl'
To this question he frankly avow-
cd himself in favor of negro suffrage
north and south, and by the same
means if necessary, i. c., Congress
ional Intervention. He proposed
however that the legislature of Iowa
enact statute making it a penal
offence for any democrat to marry a
negro wsnch. This as special pro-
lection to democrats. It looks how
ever judging from his record, as
given by his own party in 1866; his
wife, and the courts of Des Moines,
beca use of his adultery with that
class Of degraded beings in Wash
ington, that he would have the Pc
nal statute more for his own base
purposes than for the good of any
one else.
5th. If you mean impartial suf-
fragc, why does your platform ad
vocatc one suffrage SOUTH. and an
other for the north ?
His reply to this was, that it be-
cane necessary to enforce the rule
in one section to maintain the popu-
lar ascendsncy at the ballot-b box,
while in the other, where they
thought the popular majority with
their party it might be left with the
people thereby admitting virtually
that the cost of the army used to
maintain and enforce this rule in
the south, legitimatcly chargable
to tho ost DEMONSTRATION.
9th, Ifyour party mean equal
rights, why does it give gold to non.
taxpayins capital and greenba cks
to oyer-taxed labor?
Without giving reason for
exempting capital from taxation,
he asserted that labor paid no taxes
for Federal purposes, directly
or indirectly, affirming that no
farmer or laborer could show a tax
receipt for any federal tax.
In political economy it is con-
ceded principle tAat the consumer
pays the tax on taxed articles
whether his name appears on the
income list or not, charged with
federal taxes. And the merchant
that returns the income tax, has
collected it from those who trade
with him, instead Of paying from his
own pocket charging the tax with
the price of the goods, to the farmer,
mechanic, or laborer. Neither the
merchant or banker pays any in.
come tax that they do not draw d.
rectly from one of these classes Of
labor. The subjoincd table shows
how this fact is, better than it can
otherwise be illustrated.
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