Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-10-18

second ringing Of the FIRST bell.
Mr.. Compton told two AMUSING
anecdotes and proceeded TO discus,
the policy of the great opposing
parties.
What Is the policy Of the Demo.
cratic party? What is the pol cy Of
the Republican party These are the
two vital questions. MAINTAIN that
for the general welfare. good and hsp-
piness Of the whole people the Demo-
cratic policy is lest. The charge that
our patty is for Free Trade is absurd
Because, if We had free irais We
would not collect enough money to
run the government and no one will
accuse us of seeking to stop its wheels
or to embalrass it. We desire to re-
duee the revenue so az to raise suffi
clent money to support a government
economically administered and to K, en-
in the pockets CT the people money
whic1 is now unjustly and unneces-
sarily taken from them.
The Mills bill makes the rate Of
taxation 5 cents less than at present
reducing it from At to 40 per cent
To say that this is Free Trade is an
assertion that no man who values his
reputation for sanity will make. 1t
no more makes the Democratic party
free trade party than reducing the
number of his daily glasses OF grog
from AZ to ~ made the old topper 1.
teetotaler. Who accuse Democrats Of
being Free Traders? Why, Republi-
Can orators, papers and politicians.
What has been the record OF these
men. | assert that the republican
party, Judged by its record, is as much
OF free trade party as the Demo-
cratic. There is not now aud has not
been Tor the past twenty years a prom.
inent republican in the country, who
has lot advocated reduction of the
tariff. Every Republican President
from Grant down to the last one have
recommended it 10 their messages.
Morton voted for free salt. Harrison
voted IN the Senate for a reduction.
Blaine said that the Tariff on the
necessaries Of life should be reduced ;
on whiskey and the Injuries retained.
A Republican Commission recommend
ed reduction of % per cent. And
yet this is the party that accuses us
OF being Free Traders because we pro-
pose to reduce the tariff 5 cents.
have here the proof of each assertion
that l have made and il anyone de
mands it will give it. There were nc
demands].
Even republicans confess that the
surplus revenue in the United States
Treasury should be reduced. How Dc
they propose that the reduction should
be made ? Why, by taking off Iuterna
Revenue taxes. BY taking the tax Of
Of whiskies, Oleomarga rine, &c. anC
letting It stay on the necessaries o
life. And ia the very face OF theil
platform these, same republicans hav,
introduced tariff bill in the Senate
Mr.. Compton compared the tw,
bills. Showed that the republican
was IL the interest Of the rich Mother
Manufacturer and that the demoorati
was the one that would benefit Tia
latoring men and the consumer, an,
continued:
Republicans have not reduced tn
tariff on salt-an absolute necessity t
all animal life-on lumber, on tin, tw
other necessaries, on wool-a necessit,
to every man no matter how poor b
may be.
Let Us examine how consistent tn
conduct of our republican friends ha
been, and how they have maintaine,
their oft repeated boast that theirs
par ercellence, the party OF the poo
man.
Once before the necessity for re
duction OF the revenue was upon tn
country, and they had then the oppor
tunity to prove their boast. Why,
they we've such friends of labor di,
they not, in 1888 when the Tart
Commission recommended reduc,io,
OF 3 per cent. along the line, reduc,
taxation that bore upon the poor an,
laboriug man. What they did j,
History. Did they reduce the tarif
on the uecessaries Of life-ou thing,
that you and l and every man la. t.
buy. No. The first tax they took Of
was the income tax-the most last tax
ever laId-paid by thosa bavire