The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-10-07

Oh aCcOuHL Vi IutSc ulStluCtLoHo'
My fellow -citizens, speaking of Ne
gro Suffrage, this subject has been so
often gone over that it is useless to
90 over it again. I have no desire to
impose upon that race of people any
hardships that could possibly avoid.
[ must, nevertheless, say that this
blessed country of ours was peopled
by race that is altogether different in
from them. 1t is our
old family coming from the middle of
Europe and the northern islands. of
Europe who are one race--one people
in all that makes it essential. We
are the people, without boasting at
all, through whom all improvements,
all important advances in science have
been made in the civilized world and
so long as God permits me to breathe
l never will consent to the govern
ment of these people by negroes or
Pig Tails! [applause.l And while
God permits me to breathe, L never
will foster policy that puts money
into ships and sends them into China
to import into this country the cheap
labor of an inferior race to compete
with and degrade that invincible,
courageous race to which 1 belong
Applause But, my fellow-citizens,
unless you stop this business of let
ting money eat up the country, you
are going to be crowded out by the
Negro on one side and the Pig Tails
on the other [laughter.l You are
coming to the point where, when you
go to the polls to vote, you can stand
there against man who will come
with his Negroes and Pig Tails, and
give 100 votes to your one. Let US go
a step farther. '''. E.'4-,
There is no question that 80 much
concerns the American people as the
question of characterization and
public debt. There ls nothing that
comes right home to the toiling mans
interest like this. But distinguished
members of Congress are around
here telling us we pay no taxes none
but the rich pay them. If the poor
people of this country have any inter-
est in the country, let them look and
see who it is that pays the debt and
say how it shall be paid. My fellow
citizens, there is not man among yon
who labors but Iabors two days in the
ski am drawing that very mode
rate in fact-to pay taxes. Ia voice,
"That is so."1 1 do not care how
poor you are, provided you are not
that sort of a fellow who can live
without eating, who can live without
wearing any clothing, without smek-
ing little, or chewing or drinking a
little. TLaughter.l If you get d man
of that sort, he is fellow outside OF
any remarks that am making.
But, again, the debt is, we. are told
and am not going to split hairs
about it-S2, 2,5OO,OOO,OOO. Two thou.
sand millions is interest bearing, the
interest being payable in coin. The
Government raises every year-I am
not going to split hairs about this, Ell
ther; 1 will take it as they say-foul
hundred millions of dollars. 1t raj.
ses much more than that am stat.
ing simply as they state it. Well
never since the original creation could
four hundred million dollars be got
out of nothing. We must assume
that that amount comes out of the Ia
Dor products of the country annually
"a pretty snug little sum, when we
reflect that this is only for running
the Federal machine. Remember thai
we have State government, with ar
enormous taxation, and city govern
ments to run, and schools to support
and all the minor and subordinate or.
CARNATIONS. When you come to pile
that all up, and see the aggregate tai
put upon the American people-ths
amount exacted by tax gatherers, yor
would find it would fall very little
short of thousand million dollars
That is considerable sum to take out
Of the American people in the course
os year. '-t. 81"
WHO PAYS THE TAXES?
But now to come back to Fedora
affairs. How is this money raised
By taxes in one form and another
The tax on imports constitutes ont
portion taxes internal constitutes the
orher portion. Let us look and see
who pays tehse taxes. Let us see
whether any man who eats anything,
drinks anything, is not participant
in the payment of this tax. l do no
say to you that the poor pay all ths
taxes, and when I speak of the poor, ]
speak of that class of people that arr
under, the necessity of laboring il
some way for their living. would
only exclude the capitalists, who hays
naught to do but let their capital carr
for them. Let us SEQ who pays ,thil
tax. The rich say they pay it only
Now as to the foreign taxi mean th'
tax levied on imports. Fifty million
is levied upon tea, coffee and sugar il
some form or other. Now 1 am pref
ty moderate in saying 1 think .ther,
must be a hundred who have famiIie
to consume tea, coffee and suga
where there is one who is q mere cap
italist, called rich men, who have NJ
occasion to do anything, but let theil
capital earn for them. Now, my
friends, you go and buy pound o
tea, any one of you. 1t has come t.
beaone of the necessaries of life. Nov
| you buy a pound of tea and see wheth
or you pay any tax or not. What i
the tax upon that pound of tea? 1 d.
, not recollect exactly, but it is som
where about sixty per cent. 1t, tn
tea, would cost dollar q pound with
out it, it would cost dollar and sixt'
/ cents with it. If it would cost fift,