The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-04-29

Iy lhI lhn shortest mca uro Ot 01W
And .he heavy end VI tho gundn
THE MOST THAT CAN BE SAID
In behalf Of The bill as II now stands is
that II would reach reRl estate gI ecula.
tors and real estate held for speculative
purposes, This ls all right In theory,
6ut II the bill should pass IL would be
found 10 be failure I'm practice. The
* slocnlhtOrs viii beat the tax collector
every time, by some s,sem Of lngglery,
but w grdat agricultural inter SITS Of
the state which already bear the chief
burden OF taxation In one form and an
other, would be called upon IL carry the
bulk OF the additional load.
| ahall not ques lon Governor For
ak't'a . motives, and accept II az fact
that hls object Ia 10 Gqualzo the burdeD8
Of taxtliOn--a much needed reform
but do doubt the practicabillty OF hla
plan, Judging ltln the GIT OF the pend
Ing measures. The distribution and
equalization VIII bo apparent rather
than real
have heard scores OF wealthy and
leading Republicans d9n0uucng Gov
FDwkcrB special message, aud declar
Ing tlHl thn doctrines preached By him
were UutI.Republdan, and would d.
iupt tle party. The frank manner In
which hn dealt with lh5
WEALTHY TAX.EyADErs
Ia look Il upon az an ilsult TO the party,
nnd 10 resented accordingly They shake
their holll significantly, and sny that
the Governor viii Ind that he has
ettucE snug, Wy opl1n 10 that he will
discover thai fact himself af,er awhile
He has gone outside the traditions OF ha
party Ia hi3 message. 70 have been q
lfuo aud consistent Republican, no
ehould have proposed system for an
augmentation Of the tnX ruyeuuea with.
out I'M. sing any additional buEdans
upon thu already rich, Tho real eatato
bill alone would not have been 80 very
% i9c,iouablo, but when he la.d r. h .yy
hand upon the h0arda OF the uabnbs II
wa quite d lerent thing and radical.
ly uu Republican,
The Republican party o. MS country
and the nobilltyand arpt0cracy OF Eng.
lHNd ufo chips OF the s0mo block Thor
Thoughts ana their Interests Ure In C0m
mon, They both believe In the necessity
OF % ruling class Ia whose hands tho
bulk Of he aggregate wealth Of the
realm is O1ged, The Republican pry
has been built up IN this country pro.
clsely a9 The arl3t0cracy OF England has
been maintained-ihat H. by the
imposition OF enormous ana Oflen
unueCCo tx burdens, nearly
the whole OF wlich was drawn from the
lah0rug and productive classes, while
the fich ouj1y The immunity OF light
taxa,lon nud special privileges.
A MoNEYED ARlsToCRACY
The Federal party, the progenltOr Of
| tho Republican party, started out In the
beginning to build up a m0neyed arts.
i0oraCy aud model the Government up
on the EDgllah plan, and would have
succeeded but for Jefferson aud his com.
patricia, who succeeded In lmbulng The
Infant Commonwealth with the trae
spirit Of The Revolution that II was q
Government Of the whole people for tho
bench OF the whole people, and not FOR
o privileged CIasA, Fer some sixty
years the Federnl ldAa lived, but dld
prosper, but for The past twenty years II
has wapt over the country like an ogl
dCmic, leaving lls traces la crop OF
mllllonAlrea, u growing wilderness Of
pnupor9, strikes, lockoUto 0nd unequal
tax burdens,
The rich have been phen0manonly
prosperous under Republican Bystem Of
finance and taxation, but each year Andt
the great labOrrg masses deeper In the
mlre Of dependency until now even the
most conservative begin To apprehend
revolution In sOme form or other, II
has become ab urdly popular TO pour the
ylals Of tho public wrath upon the heads
OF the relgning nabObg, IN though their
taking on would help matters. You
might kill them all 10 day, and to.mor
row their successors would wear The
royal purple, just 90 Car succeeds
Car aud Kaiaer succeeds Kaiser, while
the system OF which they are the logical
product continues 10 exist. The States
OF the Union sink into iueignlncancG
compared wi h the corporate monopOllef
and the syndlcates Of allied capital ere.
ated and promoted by
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION,
Conceived and carried out for the pur.
pose Of engraftlng upon the Republic
the perniclous English dogma Of the
superiority OF wealth az q factor In the
affairs Of Government, which the party
Of Jeifer on checked upon the threshold
OF the century
There has always been but one broad
ard comprehensive Issue between The
Democracy and their opponents, under
whatever name they organ lzad, TO which
oil other Issues and questions have been
merely auxiliary. On tho Democratic
side II has been TO keep the wealth OF
the whole country ~ widely aud as
nearly distributed 40 possible, On the
other side II has been TO aggregate the