Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-28

MAN, then Secretary of the Treasury, they
advance him As their second best candi-
date for the Presidency, and denOunce the
Democracy as unfriendly to silver. oh,
tor forty psrson power to sing thy praise,
Hypocrisy
About the one-cent postage dodge Sena
tor BECK says:
cater the Republican Committee on
Postoffices, in the Senate, haa ignored a
bill which l had introduced, for the reduc-
ton Of letter postage to one cent an ounce,
and reported as their method of increasing
postal facilities subsidy of 100000 to
companies Of the ROACH and Pacific Mail
order, they now clamor for a reduction of
letter postage to one cent. will at an
early day test their sincerity"
But this is only the overture. The cir
Gus begins in earnest when the keen-eyed
Kentuckian gets to work on the tariff
plank. Says he:
The Presidents message is our platform.
propose to stand or fall on the principles
he maintains The fiercest assaults made
on it by our opponents only strengthen 1t
when the people investigate the matter.
Radical greed for exhorbitant taxation on
imported goods in order to increase home
prices of domestic products, brought into
the Treasury vast sums of Money beyond
the needs Of the Government, until We are
compelled to buy not only all the bonds
now due, but to purchase at any premium
those not now paypble, in order to restore
the money wrOngfully extortsd from the
people to circulation, instead of locking it
up in the Treasury. Tne basis of bank
circulation was thus in large part destroy
ed and of course their circulation was
cOrrespondingly contracted. We resist
eel their taxation at every step, and
when we sought to reduce it in every
legitimate way, they banded together and
thwGrted our efforts; and now, when the
bankers they pandered to 80 long have be-
come powerless as political factors, in COM
parison with the organized and aggressive
power of the protected mOnopolists, they
charge US with favoring pet banks"
When they could no longer serve two mas
ttrs they denounced the weaker one, and
iawn at the ieet OF protected combinations,
who have, without right and against right,
been enriched By law from the peoples
labor. These msuraders are now organic
ing to retain their ill-gotten gains by pur-
chasing all that is purchasable and cor
rupting all that is cOrruptible in the land,
and through their hirelings are loudly and
boldly prOclaiming that their sole object is
to protect American labor against Euro
pead paupers."
The Presidents message needs only to
be read to refute all their sophistries and
false pretences. They offer free whisky
and tobacco rs an equivalent for the right |
to compel all the people to pay them
dou bic prices for their blankets, their |
clothing, and all the necessaries of life |
Internal revenue taxes are with them |
now specially odious war taxes, because |
about 1920, 900, 900 annually collected on
spirits and tobacco all goes into the Trea-
sury, less 3 per cent. cost of collection. |
and none of it goes into their pockets. 1t
about pays off the war pensions and the
interest on the war debt, leaving all the
revenue needed for the ordinary expenses
of the government to be provided for by
tariff taxation. We propose to maintain
a properly adjusted tariff tax which shall
do the least harm to domestic in
dustries, yet they have the impudencs to
denounce us as free traders, and to avow
that they demand the exclusion of ell
with home made pro-
ducts, which means the right to charge
this people whatever they please
for whatever they make, that the people
must have. TIE American people are not
iools. They know that no foreigner pays
dollar of our tariff taxation. The Presi-
lent very clearly shows that the American
not only pays every dollar of the
ariff tax imposed on goods imported, but
he pays price equal to the foreign price,
With the tariff tax added, on all similar
FOODS manufactured in this country; ard
y seyenejghtbs, on an average, of all such
Goods are made at home, and only one
ighth imported, the Government, which
objects only the tax On goods imported,
,ets but one-eighth of the tax, while Con-
,ress requires all American consumers to
'sy the other seven eighths to their pro-
eeted pets, many members of both houses
f Congress being among the bene6ciaries;
nd they periodically call that protecting
american industry.
The Treasury receives annually about ,
iS20, 900, 600 from tariff taxation. The
pets Of Congress, many of whom
re in both Houses, voting the money
nto their own pockets, are receiving
$50, 600, 900. This is exclusive of all
ounties on articles, on which there is
igh tariff tax, which home producers sell !
ere for less than the foreign price with Q
be tax added. In all that large class of I
roduets the tax is prohibitory. The g
gets no revenue. The home I
roducers, by trusts and combinations, Z
hitting production, forcing idleness or :
slf time work on their operatives and
laintainipg prices q fraction below the
reign price, with the tariff tax and the
rice added, pocket all that Congress au-
loriZss them to coerce the people to pay. ;
his is the system which the Republican i
lrty pledges itself to perpetuate, regard q
ss Of revenue, regardless of governmental L
seds, under the plausible, but false pre-
nse, that il is protecting American in 9
lstry and the wages of American labor d
8. =
The Constitution prohibits Congress Il
ON taxing exports. We export S715,- 81
70. 900 annually, nearly all of its agricul- d
raj products. 1t is sold in foreign un-
detected markets, in competition with all
asses of paupers, and our agricultural
oduets are so large that the surplus ex-
rted regulates the price of all sold at @
me. Day by day the operatives in W
establishments consume oil
8, as machinery is driving them out. to
he man produces more with the present O
sjority than ten could twenty years ago -
10 nine had to find work in other fields of
Dor. High priced production can't be =
tended, as the people of the United ne
ates alone can be compelled to pay ex- ~ ~