River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-20
RIVER FALLS WISCONSIN, SesDAv SEPTEMBER 20 1877
STRIKES, TRAMPS-THE CAUSE
AND REMEDY.

| vious communications IN your pape
quoted ancient and modern history t
show the effect of unjust laws on tax
alton on the poor. will refer to on
more authority where the question o
taxation and currency are combine d
and then give my views of what make
it more disastrous for us at this tim,
than ever before, and what change, i
any can save us from monarchy.
| In Benton's 'sThirty years In the Sen
ate, vol. LIST, pages 80 and S3, yol
| will find an extract from speecl
from Mr.. Clay and one from Mr. Web
ster. Mr.. Clay gives fair Statement
of our present troubles and distress
and gives as a remedy more protec
tive tariff. Mr.. Webster denies the
distress in some sections. He gives
as the reason England going towards
specie payment after twenty years OF
paper money and imitation, and ouI
banks expanding the currency and
bursting from England's contraction,
made the general crash. With this
history before us we should have
avoided our present trouble.
In connection with this subject we
can compare the craftsmanship of
these three great men correctly-Clay,
Webster and Calhoun. We can see in
craftsmanship that Mr.. Webster was
as far ahead of Clay as Mr.. Calhoun
..I,a &c 1, aal
lawyer Mr.. Webster was ahead of both
of the others.
The strikes, or fights that are going
on are caused by bad use of the cur
rency and taxation by set of gam
blers that do not use any money TO
employ labor. If they use money it is
to corrupt and make laws In their in
terest to rob the men that have real
property, and on that real property
hire currency to employ labor. The
laborer in most cases not understand
ing these things does not see the Arab
whose hand is against every man; he
is too far in the distance to be dis
covered. When the effect of this
Arabs pirate course gets the poor man
in distress he goes for his best friend
the holder of real property that, per-
haps, has mortgaged one-half of it to
the currency Arab to enable him to go
on in business by employing labor.
Now if you look at the teachings of
Webster and Calhoun where they eX-
plain the principles that control cur
rency and real property you can see
that if this Arab gets control of the
currency and control of the govern
men. and contracts the currency one
half he wipes out the half that was
mortgaged to him and takes the other
half to pay his debts, leaving the hold
er of real property without any
thing to employ labor with. Yet
many of taeso mcu that are being ru-
ined by these gamblers that have
control of the currency think them
their friends because they accommo-
date them with currency and will side
with them against the laborer.
There is another set of gamblers
who if they had control of the govern
ment, as the currency gamblers have,
could make it as disastrous to the
farmer and the laborer in his employ
as it is to the manufacturer and the
railroads and the men in their en-
pIoy. | mean the gamblers in wheat.
They raise no wheat; they employ no
men to raise wheat; they don't ham
die a bushel of wheat. Give them
the government to help them and
they would make il a very risky bust
ness to raise wheat. 1t would not do
to borrow money and employ labor
for this purpose.
The unjust tariff centered the cur
rency in New England. They were
told In the end that it would destroy
them. Their ayarice did not let them
heed it. Protective tariff is like whis-
key-good in some cases where there
is some arrangement in the system, but
never when the system is in healthy
state. Both will lead to disease that
will kill in the end. WhiSkey is good
TO mix with NORWOOD TO help sick
liz child; so can protection be mixed
with tax TO help an infant manufac-
tory. But if you continue the slim
ulus long enough the manufacturer will
see bloody strikes and the man will
see snakes. If these manufacturers
and railroad men had been statesmen
and financiers and stood by the farm
ers and laboreTs, instead OF the cur
rency Arab, and when the war was
over made the greenback legal ten
der for everything, and found out
how much per capita of currency we
had in circulation and kept it a that
rate by law, this bad state of Kings
would never have taken plaoe. We
as a nation do not need shrewd, cum
ming, money-making bankers of New
England to manage our treasury, but
need a statesman and tinancler.
Neither do we we need men in the
senate that were poor and had little
time i'm their youth to study states
manship and have spent all OF their
time studying up some new invention
in machinery TO make money. III they
get there and get control, they VIII
use tue same cunning and ingenuity
TO make money. In self defense we
must wipe out the ring banks and let
them use greenbacks for banking pur-
noses and as there will be about thir-
| tv or forty dollars of real property TO
one of circulation weneed no premium
| TO make it convertible for anything.
| This convertible machine is consrac-
| ton and expansion machine for the
Arab pirate; il will be more disaS-
grOus than anything yet IL auopIeu.
We must return slowly TO the hon.
est taxation as described by Black
stone. We are so feeble that a sud
den change for the better would be
dangerous. It would ruin all of our
weak merchants that are hiring any
portion of their capital. For instance,
matches. Here are one thousand-iive
cents worth; the government puts on
a two-cent stamp. BY the time they
get to the poor man the one thous
ana costs twenty-five cents. Here is
tax and profit of twenty cents OF
i've cents; and on whiskey there 1:
/ sixty cents on five cents. If the poor
man has a sick child he must let the
child 90 without light or medicine OF
starve the rest of the family. These
unjust laws have gone farther against
the poor of this nation than ever OF
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