The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-26


called to the fact that all the liberal.
untrammeled, unpurchasesble pa
pers outside the Republican party
have gone off after the STATEsMAN's
one idea. The New York World
and the Herald and the Sun, the
Chicago Times aud the st. Louis
Republican and the Kansas City
Times, the New Orleans ITn1es-Dena-
ocrat and Picdyune, and all the pa
pers of the south and west and the
soundest ones of the entire country,
and all in Texas excepting the
Express and Newcomb's Ltght, and
probably one or two others, are of
that same zone idea" and the coun-
try is being revolutionized upon it.
The fact is, the masses have been
oppressed by the monopolists until
it is impossible for them to longer
bear up under it, and they are going
to free themselves through the cleo
ton of Democrats to congress. In
the tenth district the issue is square,
ly made between monopoly and
anti-monopOly masses, Davis and
Jones working IN favor of the for
mer, while Judges Hancock and
Ireland are lsboring in the interest
of the latter. Mr.. Davis, backed by
MIR. Jones, would go to congress to
aid the monopolists to perpetuate
high taxes Mr.. Hancock, aided by
the state Democracy and its nom-
inees and the local Democratic
organizations and candidates, labors
to relieve the people of monopoly
and high taxes, Naturally all con-
sumers, and especially farmers and
all labOring people, are with the
latter in this effort for relief from a
great, ever-present evil. Mr.. Davis
would vote in congress, along with
his party, for mOnopolies and against
free ships, for heavy duty on wooden
goods, tor the highest protection on
all things-for the continued rule of
the barons. 1t is truthfully said that
the burdens of the farmer, and of
the laboring man, under this oppres-
sive taxation, are innumerable.
Every necessity is taxed shelter is
taxed, clothes are made to pay the
tribute to monopoly, and while raj
ment, food and shelter are made to
pay their proportion, the machinery
the farmer uses is taxed as well.
Nothing escapes the capaeious NAV
of monopoly. AS enumerated by
cotemporary, the farmer pays either
a direct or enhanced tax of 20 per
cent OH the lumber his house is built
of; tax of S5 per cent on the paint
it is painted with; of 80 per cent on
his window glass; of 35 per cent on
the nails; of So per cent ON the
screws; of 80 per cent on the door
locks; of from So to 40 per cent on
the hinges; of 35 per cent on the
wall paper; of from so to 70 per cent
on his carpet; of 40 per cent on his
crockery; of 3S per cent ON his iron
hollow ware; of IS per cent on his
cutlery; of 40 per cent on his glass
ware of from So to 40 per cent on
the linen he uses in the household:
of 81 per cent on the common CASTLE
soap he uses; 4S per cent on
the starch. When he goes into
his stable, barn or workshop,
he will find that he pays IS
per cent on the iron he uses So per
cent on the halter chains; As per
cent on the files and rssps he may
use; At per cent on the bucksaw
40 per cent on the cross-cut saw; IS
per cent on the hand-saw, and So per
cent Oh the sheet-iron he may re-
quire. On his medicine he pays 20
per cent; on the quinine pills he
swallows, 20 per cent: on the blue
pills 40 per cent, and 40 per cent on
any medicinal preparations. The
female portion of his house cannot
go into hysteria without paying a |
tax of 20 per cent on asafetida that |
may be required to quiet their excl
ted nerves. On his sugar he pays a
tax of at least 60 per cent. AS for
the clothing he and his family uses,
the tax enumerated separately shows |
that on his wool hat he pays from go |
to 80 per cent; ON his fur hat from As |
to 60 per cent ; on his suit of wooden |
clothes, some 55 per cent; on the |
leather for his boots and shoes, % |
per cent; on his hosiery, So per cent ;
on his wife's and daughters common |
alpaca dress he pays Is to 20 per |
cent, and on needles, So per cent.
The next congress will be Demo-
cratic and favorable to a reduction |
of taxation. Can the tenth congress |
sional district, or any other constit- |
uency of consumers, afford to be rep
resented by such a representative as
MIR. Davis, whose party affiliations,
and whose promises, made in this
canvass, bind him to sustain monop. /!
oily and its consequent evils? Every
consumer in the tenth district should ,
reprimand Mr.. Davis at the polls |
for his pledges made against pOpu-
lar relief.