Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-27
ALIEN PAUPER sERFS.
Four Millions Of Them Imported
Within Four Years.



present campaign, was as follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF PHE
thank you for the honor you
have done me through nominating me for the
second time as your candidate for Representa-
tive in Congress. deeply appreciate the honor
you have done me, and am sensible OF the
high compliment paid me IN beng nominated
unanimously and by reclamation. I accept the
nomination; and do so with the utmost conf
dence and enthusiasm, because never before
have we been more everlastingly in the right
upon the great questions OF the day than we
are at present We are confronted to-day by
an issue, in my Judgment, as it may be
decided by the people, for veal or woe,
to an incalculable extent. With an overflow
ing Treasury; with over 100000, 900 on
hand which we know not how to dispose,of; with
money enough now IN the Treasury to pay on the
bonds that will come due in 1891, we still
levying taxes on the people to an extent OF
from $4,000, 600 to S12o0O0,000 a year, more
than we can possibly use. Is not that au out
rage? Why, there is not country in the world
that would stand such a thing. There is no
tyrannized people upon this earth that would
submit to il, and yet that very thing are we
standing under in this country to-day. Why
has this policy of piling up money in the
Treasury been SO long pursued! 1t is because
the protected mohopollsts of the East have
had such control in Congress that they have
been powerful enough to thwart all attempts
to relieve the people. The Government of the
United States is not like an individual. When
an individual has surplus Of money, more
than he can use, he can invest 1t in some BUSH
ness; but with the Government, when it has a
surplus OF money, it can do nothing but pay OF
its debts and when all the debts of the Gov
eminent that are due are paid there is no
other way to get the money out OF the Treasury
except by.paying the obligations that are not
yet matured. This has been done. The fnan-
cial situation has been so critical that the Sec
n
money out among the people, has actually
gone into the market and bought bonds that
are not yet matured. But when the Govern
ment does that the price of the bonds advance.
Shall we continue to tax the people to buy
bonds at premium? The simple statement
of such proposition. it seems to me, is en-
ough to refute it. Something has got to be
done. We can not keep locking up money in
the Treasury and contracting the circulation
without causing, pretty soon, the most de-
pressed financial panic that we ever had.
What is the remedy? Reduce taxation. There
is no dispute about that proposition. But the
question is, how? We say, reduce taxation
where it is the most burdeasome; take it OF
the tariff The Republican party say: LET
the tariff alone; take it off the internal
revenue. take il OFF alcohol, take it Off cigars,
take it of whisky" Now, what have we dones
We have passed. the Mills bill in the House.
voted for it. II is not a perfecs measure by
any means. After the tariff has been
substantially untouched for twenty
five years it is not possible in one
session of Congress to pass a
perfect bill reducing the tariff; but we have
done the best we could. There are lots oil
things that ought to be in the bill that are not
but the Mills bill is one step in the right direc
ton. We have done something, at any rate.
What are they doing? They are criticising the
Mills bill. They are very much exercised about
wool going on tile free list. They want to pro
tect the lamb in that way. So does the wolf
The wool tariff has been the greatest decoy the
Eastern manufacturer ever had. 1t has beer
their trump card. BY it they have been en-
abled to fool the farmer for years, and it is nc
wonder now tina. they make great ado about
it. These iron and glass manufacturers are
greatly concerned. What about Not about
the iron and glass, but about the WOOL Oh, my
friends, this wool tariff has covered a multi
tude of sins. 1t never benefited the farmer
enough to talk about, and no one knows thi.
more than these Eastern manufacturers who
now pose as the farmers friends. Why, even
If the wool tariff aid benefit the farmer, the re
duction made in the Mills bill articles O.
wearing apparel alone would more than com
| pensate the farmer for putting wool on the free
I! list
few years ago we put hides on the fret
| list. Our Republican friends said there would
| not be beef creature in the United States IL
| five years What has been the result? The
| result has been>that the product of our leather
oO0. 900 in eight years, making better demand
| for our own hides and giving employment to
| thousands of more men, and the business o
1 raising cattle has never increased SO rapidly
/ They say now to put wool on the free list would
destroy the sheep. Why, seventy years ago
| before we had any tariff on wool at all, we ha(
| more sheep in proportion to our population
| than we have to-day. and wool sold for q high
| er price. We can not raise all the wool needed
| in the wooden manufactures in this country, be
| LODI }phf ~ IN M civ nS sni
or the climate. We must import wool, ant
| when you put o high tax on the importation OF
! wool you injure the manufacturing industries
| because about thirty three per cent. of tht
| wool consumed in this country is imported, ant
| when you injure the wooden manufacturers YOU
| injure the farmers customers. The woolel
| manufacturer is the man who buys the farm
| ers wool, and he must prosper, or the prict
| on wool will decline; that is just as Ger
tain as holy writ. The question is, shall W,
reduce the taxes on the necessaries, or shall
| we reduce them on the internal revenuef D,
you want to pay S. for = " blanket in orde
that you can buy whisky cents drink
Or do you want TO have cheap blankets, and lie
the price Of whisky remain where it Is? Their
con be but one answer to that question from
any impartial, candid man. There is not o civ
| ilized government on the face of this eartl
that does not tax spirits Outside OF thf
country there is no statesman who advocate
| such monstrous proposition as to tax clothe
and all nations, have recognized whisky as
most proper subject of high taxation, an d 1t i
| enough to astonish any man to hear the doc
trine OF free whisky propourded in this en-
nghtened age by the party who has claimed t,
be composed of Intelligent and educated men
| Why do they do it, Simply TO save the pro
tective monopolists from any reduction of til,
| tribute which the law compels the people t
| pay them During the war we used to have
tax on manufacturers which brought US IN 1856
| &12s, COO 900 of revenue. What was thatS !
tau on wealth. What has become of it. Abo
ished by Republican Congress. We use
to have tax on incomes. The tax made 400
0O persons who hac annual incomes OF owe
SIC 100000 year to pay revenues to the Govern
ment Of S72,000.Co year. They said that wa
an odious tax. What became OF its The Re
publican Congress abolished 1t. We had q ia
on the receipts OF railroad companies; take
l on express companies; taxes on tnsuranc
I companies; taxes on bank capital; taxes o
bank deposits; taxes on bank checks Wha
has become OF those taxess Gone. Stricke
from the statute books by Republican Cor
crosses years and years ago. And these take
were abolished at time when the debt of tn
Government was over 5000, O00, 00o and whe
we had to pay s14ao G000 year inherent.
the Government needed big revenue it neet
ed it then. II these taxes had been kept u
ten years they would have wiped out the pull
lie debt est rely. Why should the Republica
party abolish tax Of three per cent. on raj
road companies at time when the Cover
4 ment needed the money, and object now to n
duce tax OF two dollars on a poor man
| blanket at o time whom the Government don
| need the money at all! II the rich man is e,
| titled to have q three per cent. tax on income
abolished whom the Government was hard q
for money, why should not tho poe
| man have the tax Of eighty cents o
the WOODEN shirt reduced at q time when Ia
| Government Treasury is bursting with wealth
a Does Il not look as II these men weT
81 strnlning at . gnas when they had previousl