The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-06
NOE WHOLLY THE WEST AND THE
SOUTH.

personal contest, for if persons were
the consideration the eminent ability
and experience of Mr.. Randall would
have quite probably have given him
the place he has heretofore filled
with such eminent ability. Neither is
the election of Mr.. Carlisle abstractly
victory of the West and the South.
The influential and active elements of
the East have been selfish in the ex-
IRENE in their political purposes, and
have forced public men to submit to
demands, antagonistic to the best in
terests of the masses of those commu-
mites in which these undue influences
in favor of the smallest number are
exercised. The tendency of politics
in the East, therefore, is to misrepre-
sent the real popular sentiment, and
such is the influence of a class,
specially nourlshed and sustained
by the laws of the Uuion. that this
minority may dictate the expressed
opinions of nearly all politicians. The
disaffection among public men begins
far south and extends along the At
lantic seaboard. taking in the great
states of Pennsylvania and New
York, and spreading over New Eng
land. Delaware stands alone, IN all
that line, IN presenting unit vote
for the man representing popular de-
sire. In Pennsylvania and New York
the masses would vote against
protection, were they not related in
sense of slavery to the few.
These few dictate to the masses even
in matters of conscience, and their
will is obeyed even at the ballot box.
The masses of New York and of
Pennsylvania would be anti protec-
tionists were they left to act as con
science and as economy dictates. This
preference for Mr.. Carlisle is therefore
not victory purely for the
West and South; it is for
the masses of all sections and
of all states alike. The Democrats
who sustained him are simply the rep
resentatives of policy, which looks
towards the Embarrassment of the
great laboring and great consuming
masses of New England and the East
ern states as well as those of the West
and South. The representatives from
the West and the South were untram-
meled by influences, above referred to,
and hence they voted, practically as
unit, for grand governmental idea
that Of tariff for revenue only. They
gave expression to a grand principle
underlying true popular government,
that taxation should be equal and
exact, falling alike upon the rich and
the poor, a tax limited to purposes of
government not taxes imposed to
enrich classes, without these classes
contributing to the necessities of gov
eminent. The Democratic party, in
the late act of its representa-
tives at Washington, presents
more forcibly this issue to
the country, that taxes must be
guaged to suit the necessities of the
government, that money shall not be
wrung from the people for the in
crease of corporate and individual
wealth, while the people grow poorer,
1t declares tor constitutional tax;
nor does the government need sur
plus revenue, derived from taxation.
1t is evident, from the vast sums
boarded in the treasury, and from the
enormous amount used annually in
reducing the currency of the country,
that the people might be relieved
of most oppressive burdens imposed
on behalf of the government, to say
nothing of those burdens, ten times as
great imposed, in behalf of monopoly.
Taxes imposed, on the necessities of
life in the interest of protected
classes, should be wholly removed.
Home and farm utensils and imple-
ments should be cheaper; clothes
should be cheaper; food to sustain hui
man life should be cheaper-all
put within reach of the poor.
within reach of that home
labor which has been deluded
with the idea of its protection. The
plow and the hoe,and stoves and table
ware, should be sold for from one-third
to one-half less than now; the clothes
that protect us from the severity of
weather, and that make existence
comfortable, should be bought y
per cent cheaper; food should be be-
reft of that tax which adds nothing
to federal revenue, but which adds
twenty-fveper cent profit to theAmeri-
can manufacturers outlay. This
question of relief is so simple, that the
commonest mind while it runs may
read Understandings. A man pays
thirty dollars for suit of clothes,
which may be bought in England
for sixteen. There is not an article
upon the person of any man, woman or
child, or babe, in all this land, which
has not, in its purchase, been made to
contribute a tax for monopoly. The
hAAO0 oeSOhOo VI 1uOuOpO1y AdNO oOCll
trying to make it appear, that these
Democratic representatives at Wash
ington were ready to bow down to
the same influences that have for so
many years, under Republican mis-
rule, governed federal Legislation.
Thanks to the cause of honesty, and
of purity of government, they have
given the denial to these intimations.
In obedience to the wishes of the
people, they have once more moved
the grand old party to the front as
the agency of popular and, therefore,
of constitutional government. Let
Let us throw its unsullied banner to
the breeze, for victory stands ready to
perch upon it in 1884. It Is already.
in fact, the party of victory. 1t is not
victory for the West and the South,
but one for this entire Union.
THE SPEAKER.
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