The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-10-03
roR rms People.

IN order to determine Whlch poitsaV@s
party is the friend of the people. Mr.
He.. bricks in the course Of that speech |
asked IL there ought not to be q change
in National affairs; or in other words
ought We as Nation to go on from
year to year as we have been going on
in the past: l submit to you thtre are
certain changes that every man ought
to feel important and proper. First,
there should be reform in the revenue
system of the country. ! shall not nn-
dertake to discuss this at lepgth. | say
there ought to be change, modlhca-
ton of the revenue system of tho coun-
try. What did the President of the
United States say to Congress two years
ago? He said that the taxation of the
people was beyond the demand of
Government economically administered
and he urged upon Congress that im-
mediate reform in that important par
ticular ought to take place. He told
Congress that annually there was being
collected 800, 100000 from the pock-
cts of the people that 8 fair aud honest
ADMINISTRATION of the Government did
not require. He told them that the next
year it would be Sl45,000,000. At tho
next session of Congress, after the Re-
publicans had somewhat amended the
revenue laws, the Secretary of the
Treasury called the attention of congress
again to the subject of reyeouc reform.
He said that under the Law as modified
the excess collected from the people was
ss5, 100000.
Eighty-hve million dollars collected
. from the people of this country every
year beyond the demands of an econom-
ical administration of the Government
Ny fellow-citizens, the candidate foI
Governor of the State of Indiana in
: speech moi long since boasted Of tht
: fact that when the Rspublica party
: came into power it found an empty
Treasury, but that naw it has an excess
= in the Treasury of s400,000,0o0. Hi
!. statement may be true. When thi
;. speech was made there was 800, 900,
900 lying idle and unemployed in tn
e Treasury at the end of the year. Their
,f will be added to that in the new vault
another 800, 600, 900 and it will stan
5, $500, ,O00, 900 wrung from the peopl
=, beyond the demands of the Govern
men..
Have you stopped to think how niue
- that isl It is moro than one half th
paper currency of the United States
Go and when it comes to be $500, 900, ,00'
. as it will be at the close Of the year 90
" before CongIcss eau act, if the populs
tion Of the United States is propsrl
Is estimated at 50,000,000, then there
~ locked up in the Treasury and. the vaul
'' dug down beneath it,ss to SO for evei
u man, woman and child in tbe coantr
What foIl
ne I am arguing the question, oug
's there to be a changei The Democra
lei say in their platform at Chicago tb
ar revenue must be reduced to the requir
ments Of the Government economical
be administered. What do you say to th
ng my feIlow-citizensl Are you DemOcri
of Are you a Republican? Are you
iaI Granger or Independent Whatey
is may be your party relation, what
le- you say to that proposition of the ca
nd cago Convention, that revenue shall
to reduced to the needs OF the Governme
90, economically administered. (Applaas'
of If you do not like that don't vote vi
Id. the Democracy, for when the DsmccI
at cy comes into power, | undertake
3 say that the machinery will be turu
he for a while-backwar did sayl \
his forward in favor of reform, redusi
ST. taxation to the wants of the Cover
to ment economically a1min isterei Wh
We are you going to collect any more 70
he Voice, "Stealing") Have you ste
he ped to think thet the money, which
n now locked up, is a part OF cur cure
mt cy, and that it has an Office to perfor
he and that if the Government does
lp- need it the people do. (Applause) VIII
on ever the Government doesn't need /
gi- longs to the people. If you owe i.
the Government pay it. If you do
owe it to the Government for the pu
pose of carrying on its affairs econon
cally administered don't pay it,just st
- TO think how much that S400,000,0
or $500, 900, 900 would do for you a
yours. don't knoy how much
would do. | know that in Indiana, wi
soil of wonderful richness with ma
Of the institutions that make wealth
= the people, manufacturing eStablil
ments. know that there is many N
= that can MT find employment, there
81 many family that is hard pressed,
ol cause enterprise is stopped, becal
I'D there is unemployment for labor. Oug
, of that to be with $400, 100000 locked
,ral in the treasury The Democracy sa
,k. "Reduce taxation until the amount sh
be just what the Government needs