The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-19
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of free trade is slowly but steadily
growing in the land Usnry laws.
bounties and subsidies granted TO
. various trades, import duties upon
. the necessariee of life, all belong
to one false system They are a
mischieyous intermed6ling with
, the laws of commerce which re-
Icoils upon and defeats itself.
: Look at the one matter of revenue
tariffs, the enormous frontier, the
thousands of miles Of sea coast, to
guard against smugglers; the
mighty marble ustom-houses, the
fleets Of revenue cutters, the ar
mics Of thleying officials and tide
walters, and then ask the writings
of Horace Greeley or Henry c.
Cary why all these things are SO.
They tell US that the true and
Legitimate direct object of all this
4 is 20 prevent our people from buy
| ing cheaply the cloth, the iron-ware,
the various useful products of the
industry of all nations, and the
Interior object is to force, us to
purchase, at higher rates, similar
PARTICLES manufactured in America.
| In order to build up manufactures
in Massachusetts and PennsylVa-
mia, I'VE must pay the increased
cost of producing these articles on
four own son, together with such
fanciful additions as the cnpidity
of an organized home monopoly
may dictate. do not propose
here to recapitulate the splendid
concentrations of President Way
land. But I do hope that our PEG.
pie will calmly and thoughtfully
study this question and see wheth-
err we are not paying too much for
the honor and pleasure of keeping
Tom Murphy and Perry Fuller in
our custom houses, and for the
purpose of building up colossal
fortunes in Lowell and Pittsburg.
If the rate of taxation is main
tanned as at present, before fifteen
/ years pass our national debt will
be paid. An international parlia-
ment will have made an end of
war, and we shall no longer need
to eXpend q hundred millions q
year to maintain our army and
navy. The experiment of nation
al railroads and canals will have
been tried and abandoned. The
nation will need less revenue then
than now, and perhaps free trade
will prevail.
| And the great questions con-
nected with the labor reform must
also be met and settled. For ages
the struggle has been going on.
The French Commune, the trades
unions of England, the interna-
tional societies of Europe, our
lately organized oranges, are but
the concrete forms in which Is
expressed the longing and yearn-
ing of man for more perfect re-
alization of the good derived from
the fruits of his own toll. The
reformers have worked blindly;
they have Outlines wrestled in
darkness, not knowing what they
were aiming after; but the strug-
gle will go on till these questions
are settled for the best good of
humanity.
| And now 1 think that the mean
ing of my caption will be manifest.
With an international parliament
guiding the nations, universal
language, a universal system of
coins, weights and measures, war
at an end, trade free, the rights of
labor triumphant-what will the
world be but one Great Republic,
one band of brothers, one nation?
And what mighty triumphs over
evil, over the crude forces of ma
ture, may not our children expect
to witness in that day? ! firmly
believe that ignorance, crime, di-
sease, poverty, superstition, the
WEAKNESS and suffering of ill-paid
and ill-directed toll, are but the in
lcidents attendant upon an imper-
feet civilization. Great things are
at hand. The good time so long
in coming is near, is at the doors.
And as We survey this prospect,
let us remember the words of the
grand old prophecies. They come
sounding down to us out of the
darkness of the terrible past, tell
ing us that in future day the
crooked ways shall be made
straight, and the rough places be
made smooth; that men shall beat
their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning-hooks,
and shall not hunt nor destroy
any more in the Lords holy noun
tain. These prophecies are given
to us that we may believe them
and rejoice in them. They are
Gods truth.
And this tendency to blend the
warning tribes of men into one
grand brotherhood, one great re-
public, what is it but the working
out into ultimate form of the
, christianity of the New Tesla
ment? In so far as this work is
accomplished, the kingdoms of
this world will have become the
kingdoms of the Lord. The great
, republic will but be the ripest
fruit of the sermon on the. mount.
The stone cut out without hands
has grown into a great mountain,
, and is filing the whole earth. The
: words spoken by the Man of Sor-
rows on the shore of Galilee are
poisoning gloriously.
Fellow teachers, for this grand
consumnation we ought to labor
E and pray. If we SOW the waste
e places with the seeds of thought
), and beauty, if we engraft budding
) souls with the word OF truth, if we
S stand where the paths diverge, one
leading downward to the chambers
of the dead and the other leading
b upward to the pinnacles of Beulah
), and point faltering souls to the
!. ascending way, our lives are moi
o wasted; we shall honor our work
and bless humanity in ages yet tt
c be.
e STRAW CAPITALISTS AND EvAsIo,
OF TAxEs.-If the question could b.
N invest gated, the public would b.
e surprised at the number of straw
g men who are lending money, anG
!. thereby escaping taxation on tn
4 capital. The thing is done in thi
wise: Old Tcn-per-cent-a-montl