Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-11
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An Intelligencer reporter had a talk

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with Major Warner, at Concordia,
Tuesday. The Major did not think he
deserved to be called a bitter partizan,
and quoted all extract from this paper
of last week ranking him as such. His
I speech in the afternoon was remarka-
bly, free from abuse of democrats, but
he saw the reporter with book and pen
Gil and had been warned. While he did
not use the word Bourbon once, yet he
claimed thatthe country was prosperous
because of the good management of the
republican party, when everybody
knows that its prosperity is in spite OF
the bad management of that party.
He claimed that the republican party
was SO pure that it buried Folger under
a majority of 10000 because he got
his nomination unfairly; yet he never
thought to say a word about putting
credit-mobilier and s%tar-route thieves
into public Office. He claimed that the
democrats made many promises, only
to break them, and said we were prom
ised, when democrats came into
power, that our children would be
better looking; and that there would
be no measles in the country. He
went on to tell the cost ofcollecting the
taxes, and brought the figures from So
on the $1,000 under the democratic
management, to one-tenth of a cent on
a $1,000 under republic nh management,
and said there was a great cry about
"turning the rascals ont" and thought
the cry was because they did not steal
enough. Yet he forgot to touch OH the
whisky ring steal, the navy steal, and
the freedmans' bureau steal, and dozens
of others of like proportions. He said
81 in the United States would buy
mo&e goods for the poor mans table
than the same would buy in England,
| and that if the tariff were taken off our
workingmen would be forced to COM
pete with pauper labor. And he for
got to tell how it happened that our
big wages and low prices of living
failed to bring the pauper to our shores.
Major Warner is put forward by his
party as a brilliant orator; but if his eff
fort at ConcOrdia vas a sample of his
e%loquence and logic, we beg leave to
suggest that they are easily pleased in
that respect. But it was about as good
a speech as we have heard lately from
any representative of that party.
State taxes are raised by assessing
property, thereby making the rich pay
their full share, while the federal taxes
are raised by tariff duties, which levy a
pro rata tax on all who buy clothing,
food, SC. Thus the poor man is forced
to pay out of his small earnings as
much as the rich mar out of his album.
dance. Now, the republican party has
been collecting of the poor mans
tax than is necessary to pay the expen-
ses of the government, and Blaine is
the man to propose to divide this sur.
plus among the States, thus relieving
the rich from their tax by collecting it
from the poor. If enough could be thus
collected by the tariff or poor man.
tax, the surplus would be sufficient to
pay the State taxes entirely. Then the
rich wouldbe exempt entirely from pay
ing taxes OH theirproperty. Yet, in the
face of all this, Blaine and the republic
can party have the audacity to tell the
poor laboring maj that they are his
friends, and try to deceive him into be-
lleving that the more he pays of the
rich mems taxes the better it is for him