Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-30
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la S of life and death. Of war
and 9th verse; to it that the 30 objects IN
followed be m ae f sor wooS neersy snes
fqem exhort aagning g words M that came
and franee l sasa ses
when he WORD pseply to Some propositio s,
that he accepted war with a light heart. Oh.
what a hooking sheer lay in those wordsl A
light heart accepting that which covered the
earth with the wounded and the dead. and
intiicted upon France an ignominy and degra-
dation that is enough to put the face of any
ent generation, tCheers.) Look, therefore,
| beg of you. There IS an old saying, written
long ago in tongue that is now called dead !:
Christ came on earth. 1t is wise to-day, and
sincerely and affectionately warn you, my
countrymen; oppose the beginning Of these
before you. tCheers9
Now as to the other power Of taxation.
None IS more far-reaehing. None of us pos
sesses dollar that can not, under the law, be
taken from us, if the public needs demand it.
Tnat is the condition of our citizenship; such
is the ultimate exercise OF this power: and yet
we know that it is within the command of the
voters OF this country TO restrain and punish
its unjust exercise. To-day L spoke of the
PROSTATE condition of our agricultural indus
tries. / pictured, not in extravagant Ian
Suage. the condition of our manu- Featuring
interests; the capital unemployed, the ma
chinery rusting and the people not having
bali to eat most of the time. ! said it
a wbw sbed susn af hE
millions of money be taken from the pockets
of the American people when there is no de-
use. applause) is It not monstronss Is It
not unjust? IL it not mad. and foolish, and
worse than senseess that these extraordinary
people of the country should be
kept up to such an extent. The Democratic
Sensible and worthy Republicans who say,
that these taxes
MUST BE REDUCED
and that there shall be no such thing as dol
lar drawn from the pockets of the people that
the Government does not need to carry on
its Just affairs. Cheers, What is the atti-
on this subject? He has not left us in doubt.
About four months ago. while he was on that
EXCURSION which he is 50 fond of going upon
laid down his views in a letter to the editor of
Philadelphia paper, in which he found a
somely with their own funds. daughter, He
generously and smagnanimously, and in a
thoroughly charitable statesmanlike PROPOSE
ton, propoSed not to lower one cent of the
tax, to gather it all in, and when he had
got, all he wanted to spend what he
would call the public in and hand
the balance back again to the people
who paid it. Laughter and applause Now,
suppose we had no Constitution and no ar
rangement OF public powers. suppose we
were not a people. a family of republics, q
States each State a straight column useful
and essential for the support OF the great roof
that covers us: suppose we had not been q
like to make us-frst a unit, and then he
would put that unit in his pocket Laughter
and applauseJ Why, gentlemen, there is no
absolute, in which such preposserous inhu-
man, absurd, uneconomical idea ever
se 70 Os aaae
away money from a man by taxation for
a purpose and hand it back to him
Inv SC hon h ,1y,f
mere economical statement under any form
of government, but when we come TO our
are the States to be degraded into mere
servile stipendiaries of q central power, with
neither will nor wit nor wisdom to arrange
their own burdens for their own local ex-
penses? tAppause1 Why, sir, the man who
conceived that thought, the man who wrote
the Constitntion or Il he had he didn't e care
one jot for it. 1T was wild, absurd. 1mprac-
ticable, ignorant proposition for any man to
So this power of taxation remains, aud
you see how the Republican candidate
would use it: There is .,, no time for for
existing unaer our
SYSTEM OF TARIFF DUTIES. zeeE
We ali know that the power to lay taxes upon
the Congress of the United States, and was
meant TO be used. or it would not have been
gwen. We know that couple with that power
there was express inhibition upon the Gov
eminent to lay any taxes whatever upon ex-
ports. The people who framed the Govern
ment designed one thing at least. and that is
that the right TO contract of the individual
should not be interfered with in any respect,
and that if in Illinois or in Delaware or Maine
a man should by his labor make anything
more useful than it was before-write his
book, make d piow do anything that was use
fui-the Government of the United States
should not by law, prevent that man from
selling his goods where he could get the most
for them. tApplauseo
1t was not so in our Government. I read
of LOT Il a N history
that il was not until 1873 that the maker OF q
piece of machinery in England had right to
export 1t. The scales had fallen from their
eyes then. and they were not making England
richer by preventing her people from ex-
ecmting the free right OF contract. 49,
had only created new market and large
one for English manufactures. That was the
result: but until 1o4} no man could export
from EEg and any manufactured machinery,
certainly not upon the continent. But our
fathers said-dis5inctly and there # stands
Il ely, OF Mr. Miller. who desires attacks upon
wooupuip ,Laughte NOT even they can pre-
vent anyone OF us from exporting freely. NowI
submit to you That the inan who wishes to ex
ecute that Constitution fairly will not do it in
such d manner that one part will Kill another
part: that one function should be exercised
so as to absolutely destroy other functions;
and so 1 take it that in laying these taxes on
imported merchandise it was never intended
that they should be lald to such prohiDitory
extent that a man shall no. exerc1seshls right
to export, and that the proceeds shall be alb
country. (Applause.1 It is not a rational III
and will be found in the end 30
be a fatal one, because there is just this sim
pie proposition. and we, us sensible and fair
men, should look it in the face: Invention Is
progressing gloriously: labor-savlng ma Ia
the work of forty hands. The power
Of production is amplified immensely.
Labor is coming in freely from other
lands, nearly three-quarter5 OF q million speO- 1
pie annually. Our population IS lncreas-
ing naturally. Skill is increasing ali the time.
We can not produce enough to supply loo,
600, 900 people-keep our factories our mines, 4
our FORCES, cur machine-ShopS, our railroads,
all our industries busy. and can supply loo,-
0uO,010 of human beings with that which we
p-0 WHERE Is OUR MARKET?
We have 100000. We control that market,
and when they are satisfied what becomes OF
Can the man who has spun his cloth. or made
his piece of machinery, or made both the
cloth and machinery out of the material. al,
ready taxej heavily-can he go abroad and
sell in competition with the man VINO mas
paid none of those taxes? Why. let your sta
not and tley can not They are seated up
in our own markets, and when our ooOJO,-
o4 are supplied me proauct cue ,n ndr c cnn
sumption shall have exhausted the supply
and then begin again. In the meanIlme,
where is labor! Looking at mans nature at
the character of the peop e, and the great
primeval decree that in the sweat Of our
brow we should earn our bread, what is tine the
tons of their industry and pursuits, anu en-
forced ldleness? Does not every man VINO
hears me know that steady wages long con-
tinued. are infinitely preferable to high
wages periodically arrested and stopped
applause idianess Is the mo5nef f q , nosn
employment or enjoyment, as It Is caHeG,
and, depend upon it, that. those laws which
a9n sound in seE sdona sheir
morality Applause.l Therefore. there
fore, there is in the prospect OF tae