Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-11-03
OPPRESSIVE TAXATION.
Extract from Speech OF Hon. Frank
EIurd Of Ohio, al Louisville.


You are living to-day under a higher
rate Of taxation than this country ever
knew before From 1861 to 1865, when
the war WIS on, and when this country
was supporting an army Of a qunarter Of
a million. which had to be armed and fed
and clothed and maintained in the field,
your rate Of taxation was not as high az
il is to-day; and yet the Republican party
told you in every convention that ever
assembled. from 1865 until now. that as
soon as the war was over they meant to
reduce the rates of taxation and get back
10 peace basis | ask you, gentlemen,
whether they have ever fulfilled that
promise and kept that pledge. This very
night, as | stand before you. you are the
victims of higher rate Of taxation than
you we're from 1861 TO 1865, when quar-
ter of a million men were consumers who
are now producers. That the Republican
party has failed TO fulfil its pledge no
body is amazed, because no sensible per-
son expected it when they promised it,
and when they met at the Chicago con-
ventioA the other day. for the first time
they tore of the mask and threw it away,
and told you in :heir platform they did
not mean TO reduce your burdens or
Tighten or lessen taxation, and that they
never meant il in the past, when they
promised it,
You have upon your tax list 4Oll arti-
Giles. There are those in this world who
believe that Great Britain during the
thousands of years Of its existence has
learned some lessons. God knows ! am
not lis defender, il has many defects which
] strongly oppose and especially its pol
icy towards the people of Ireland. but in
matters commercial she has learned
something and Great Britain bears upon
her tariff list to-day only thirteen articles.
There is not a product of human industry
that cannot he carried into the English
countrie.-ani her possessions are SO
vas. that IL is said that the sun never sets
IN them -frae OF duty except thirteen,
and vet anr blacklist carries j.0ll articles.
II carries everything known among men.
There is not an article you wear, or use.
or consume. that is not upon that tariff
list on which YOU pay your taxes. from
the swadding cluihes in which the new
born infant IS welcomed into this world,
down to the shrowd and coffin into which
old age totters 10 moulder in its mother
earth; nothing that you eat or wear, or
use that IS mt upon that blacklist upon
which there is an average rate of forty
seven PCT eent ietIs 80 .aH ~
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cheat the tariff laws of this country by
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been observed and the open grave has
received that casket. the tariff man Steps
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