Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-03-12
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tional hate.

lApplause on the democratic side.
Mr.. Henderson.-Amen to that.
Brother Wilson. l want that acted
upon by your friends.
Mr.. Wilson.-We do act upon it. We
try to act upon it. Henceforth, he con-
tinued, for the people of the country
there was one identity of feeling, of
interest, of fortune, one common career
Of success or disaster. Henceforth, be-
tween the people of the North and the
people of the South there was no rival
ry, but generous emulation as TO which
could contribute more completely to the
glory and greatness of the country, and
which should most worthily assist in
maintaining the stability of our insttu-
tions and transmitting the freedom and
liberty which they enjoyed. But the
keynote of the speech of the gentleman
from Iowa (Mr. Henderson, was con-
tained in his advice to the committee on
ways and means to go slow in reducing
taxes. 1t was the motto of the old party
which Jagged superhuous on the stage
"to 60 slow in reducing taxation"
What did it boot that the spectre OF
want had taken a seat at the fireside of
hundreds of thousands of the loiling
men of this country, who ask not for
charity or aims, but for the privilege of
doing an honest days labor for an hon.
est days pay? The republican party
said "go slow in the reduction of taxes"
Resistance to excessive taxes had been
the growth Of free governments. Out
of that struggle had been evolved the
free institutions we now enjoy. The
danger of those institutions existed in
the fact that the taxes were insidious,
Indirect and hidden There was no hut
in all this country so primitive that
from il contributory rivulet did not
flow into the great stream which brought
$500 .000, 900 in taxes into the federal
treasury. If there could be presented
TO the laboring men of the country-to
those men who were to-day organizing
into associations, conscious of a great
work to be- perfOrmcd-ii there could be-
presented 10 each and every one of those
men'a plain statement of the taxes eX-
acted from him, we would see a change
in the tone of tie discussion In this
House aand change of the method of
dealing with pubic moneys. whether
the gentleman from Iowa OF any other
man would dare TO ring over his assem-
bly, the command, 90 Sow in the rednc-
lion of taxes. He would rather say, 90
SLOW in the expenditure Of taXts. The
,lay was coming when the last citadel Of
he republican party Che citadel at The
other end of the capitol, where, lie
feared, corporate Influence and tie
power of wealth were stronger thar the
voice of the people, would pass away
from it, and it would sink into the grave
OF dead and buried parties. The moss
would grow over it's tombstone and his
friend from Iowa would come like "Old
MOrtali.ysto remove the moss and TO
renew -tLe inscriptions. And the in
scEjption which lie would take the most
trouble in renewing WAS the one which
asserted truth, and which no man
would controvert-that in all its history
the old party always went slow in the
reduction Of taxes.
Mr.. Wilson'S speech was listened TO
with great attention by both sides OF
the house, and he WAS frequently inter
rupted with the applause of his party
colleagues.
Mr.. Watson warmly defended Com
missioner Black from Mr.. Henderson's
recent attack, and showed that he was
the first commissioner to recommend
the repeal of the limitation. He then
| showed how the pension office was made
n political machine by Commissioner
Dudley during the campaign of 1884.
Mr.. Hammond said the spirit of Mr..
Henderson's speech touching the South,
not only in manner, but in cold printed
words, carried with IL the condemnation
of the argument, and needed no more
reply than when he consigned the Con-
federates 10 hell and then intensified
hell by promise to go there with them.
rApplauss and laughrer.l