Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-09-25
TRUTHS FOR THE PEOPLE.
A. Forcible Speech by Governor
HeRdri, ks at Toledo.

yesterday morning as tne guest OF
the Tri- State Fair Association. In
the afternoon he spoke on the Fair
grounds to a large audience estimated
at four or five thousand. His speech
on that occasion was entirely non.
political and a eulogiurl Of the i'm
portance OF the agricultural and me-
chanical arts, Of the improvements
Of the century in them in this coun-
try, and of those elements of citizen
snip which go to make up good gov.
ernment. In the evening he spoke
to Democratic mass meeting in tie
Fifth ward, to an audience OF fully
10000.
In the course of his remarks he
said Ought there to be change in
national affairs? or, in other words,
ought we, as a nation, to go on from
year to year, as We have been going
on in the past2 I submit to you that
there are certain changes we ought to
feel important and proper: First,
there should be reform IL the revenue
system. I shall not undertake to
discuss this at length. say there
ought to be a change, a modification
of the revenue system of the country.
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 demands Of the Gov.
ernment economically administered,
and he urged upon Congress that i'm
mediate reform in that important
particular should take place. He
told Congress that annually there
was being collected hundred mil
lions more from the pockets of the
people than fair and honest admin
istration Of the Government required
He told them that next year it would
be $I45,000,00O. At the next session
Of Congress, after the Republicans
had somewhat amended the revenue
laws, the secretary of the treasury
called the attention Of Congress
again to the subject Of revenue re
form. he said that under the law as
modified the excess collected from the
people would be $s5.00o,000. SS5,
100000 collected from the people OF
this country every year beyond the
demands of an economical admins
tra;ion of the Government. My fel-
low citizens, the candidate for Gov
srnor of the State Of Indiana in a
speech not liassssspu5iicsn H'ss% ssis5 y Hos
it candssto power found au empt
: treasury, but that it now has an ex
cess there of of$4OO,0Oo,OOO. This state
meEt is true, that when this speec
was made there was 100000, 900 ly
ing idle and unemployed in the treas
uy. At the eud of the year ibes
will be added to thatTIn the ne,
} vaults another $IoO.o0o,0OO, a nd
will stand at S5oO.oOO,OOO wrun
from the people beyond the demand
OF the Government. Have you stop
ped to think how much that is? L.
more than half the paper currency o
the United States, and when it come
to be $500.000.000, as it will at th,
close ofthe year, and before Congress
can act, if the population OF tn
country is properly estimated a
100000. there will be locked VI
in the treasury vaults ten dollars fc,
every man, woman and child in th,
country. What for?
The Democrats say in their plat
form at Chicago that the revenu
must be reduced to the requirement
of the Government economically ad
ministered. What do you say to that
my fellow citizens? Are you Demo
Gratis. are you Republicans, are yoy
Grapgers, or Independents? What
ever may be your party relations
what do you say to that proposition
Of the Chicago Convention that the
revenue shall be reduced to the needs
of the Government economically ad
ministered? [Applause. If you
do not like that don't vote with the
Democracy, for when the Democracy
comes into power / undertake to say
that the machinery will be turned
backward for while. Backward did
say? No, forward in favor of re.
fora, in favor Of reducing taxation
to the wants Of the Government eco.
nomically administered. What are
you going to collect any more for p
Voice: +" Stealing Have you stop
ped to think that the money which
is now locked up is a part of our Gu.
reucy, that it has an Office to perform.
and that if the Government does not
need it the people do? Applause ]
Whatever the Government does not
need belongs to the people. If you
owe it to the Government pay it. If
you don't owe it to the Government
for the purpose Of carrying on it's af-
fairs economically administered don't
pay it. just stop to think how much
$4oo,OOO,OoO or $5OO,OOO,OOo would
do for you and yours. I don't know
how mn h il Wouli do. T know that