The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-06


ex xrss m@ of : the bsns violent ipstifn:
tons alone. - The TO al tax you realized
rom thig assessment OF five cents on the hun
dred dollars, was little over sfSOe0 above the
actual aud ordinary expenses OF me ~, en-,
tire salary OF the executive and state ofncers,
our judicial expenses, and a score OF other
for. IL is an attempt TO deceive The pro-
Pile Long continued. who can saora AFFORD
10 reduce its taxation In such degree that there
shall be annually accumulated against the
people a great public debt. Our state taxes
Iimi. which economically administered will
meet our current expenses; they should not be
Ors should ons be Is eaH ss Pa fSe p0 Sssu a'
such policy as Is recommended
II the resolution adopted By the demo as%Ocrate
million OF dollars yearly to the State debt for
our children 10 pay. Can the people OF indiana
capital of the common ignorance upon ques-
ton like this at such an expense TO the State
The tax imposed by the republican party was
upon careful estimate OF the necessary expeo-
more than ADEQUATE 70 de hrs;, 80. them;
well understands IL is true economy TO levy such
a tax as viii meet tie ordinary expenses. 1t
our la e war when the expense. of our govern
ment are Increased by unusual expenses In such
times may De COCO p1eS nor nD oeT mar or
and borrow money, but IN times
OF ordinary prosperity among our people
expe lses OF our State government 10 pay, put
il to you whether It is not right that we
eaeS S! year a rather r than accumulate immen e
interest-bearing debt upon our people.
Another question of State. policy upon which
we are at issue with the democratic party, is
that that I propose . to say but Very
in our republican platform is this that each
ward or township in our cities OF counties shall
the right to SAY % o s n 10el be sed
in the township OF ward by retail. Gov Hend-
ricks, in his speech at the democratic conven-
ton, admitted that there were evils incident to
TRAFFIC OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR
which made it necessary that 1t
should be restrained by legislation
And the broad issue between our parties is this,
whether the people of given ward or township
or county shall be given the right TO speak upon
the question whether they will or not have liquor
sold In their midst AS repuoieans we TAKE the
OF the democracy that the people should have
the right TO determine this by a majority. L ask
you IL any man that mas the first in.
stincis OF republicanlsm or democracy
within him can find objection to the
TO elect or choose by a majority the men who
shall traffic In liquor or say whether liquor
shall be sold within their given precinct. The
opposition OF the democracy upon this ques-
ton involves The idea that a man who lives
down in Clinton or Boone county shall have an
lafayette in deciding whssher in
the first or second ward of Lafayette
liquor shall be sold at retail That is the idea
ture so that citizen of clinton county voting for
else an equal control over the question whether
liquor shall be sold in the First Ward at Lafay-
is not democracy. In old Kansas times
our democratic friends were tohd OF
kg Of se es Se9e ond of of fng e
public that the people of Kansas were intelli-
gent and virtu rus e-ough u settle the question
to note the shiftings OF the democracy
upon this question. When they thought
that popular sovereignty would make
advocated the doctrine, but now when
the exercise Of this power in the control of our
the sale OF Intoxicating liquors, these gentle
men put themselves against the proposition.
And Gov. Hendricks and those who support
his party with him take the position that
the people of a given ward or township are
not competent 10 speak upon this ques-
law involved in their platform. Governor
Hendricks asserts with about mach posi-
things with reference to the administration of
the pieseat law: one Is, that perhaps the
sibIy 1t would be well to increase the
license fee in case a license law is adopted,
in common with the people, in conserving the
peace of the community and quiet OF the neigh
borhOod.
This proposition for a great increase in the Ii
cense Jaw, over what il was by former laws, is
advocated by class OF men engaged in the
cense fees In the expecsauion that. HAVING this
license fee so high, will crowd out the
monopolize in their giided saloons the liquor
traffic of cur cities. Our view of the question Is
that il should not be the amount of money that a
oh
determine the question whether he should
sell liquor no, but IL should be the expression
same township or ward as to his fitness to under
take to conduct this business; whether IL may be
safely trusted in his hands.
THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA
seems to be that the amount of money a man
has who desires to engage in the business shall
determine the question whether he can conduct
the business. The republican idea is that ma
jority of the residents of a ward or township
shall determine this question for themselves. /
appeal to any man who will put aside any ques-
tfons oof personal interest which he may
latter proposition advocated by the re-
publican party is not most consonant with
Another question, my fellow citizens, upon
which we are widely at variance with
our democratic brethren land they are al
S shis Sc Question OF national finances. Now I
want TO say to you at the opening, that don't
profess TO understand this question. l know
there are good many men In Indiana vino pro-
fess to understand Ii from top TO bottom, and
to have looked IL thoroughly through. We
have had great deal of talk upon
this question of the national finances There
are only two three things L know about
it, that lie in the way of common observation,
and so doubtless have struck your minds as they
have my own. One of those things Is this, that
now we have the best currency this country ever
saw. Even Gov. Hendricks speaks OF IL as a
favorite currency. It finds favor not only
with the republicans who were the authors of
1t. but IL has forced its way into the re-
Iuctant favor of the democrats themselves.
This Is one of the things have learned about
our finances, that we have the best currency we
ever enjoyed. In this commercial panic which
brought such sudden distress upon the couatry
year ago, there was this noticeable feature con-
nected with il, men all over the country boarded
greenbacks. When was IT ever known before
In the history OF commercial panic that paper
money was boarded and hid away? L
remember, at the time OF the panic at Indian
laid by 500 in some responsible solvent banking