Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-26


the reins of government, and has seen
those parties, one after the other sent to
obstruction in the whirlpools of error
and corruption, and which to-day, as
please God it will for centuries to come,
of country and beckons her
on and up to still greater power and
prosperity, that grand and glorious and
ever living party, proposes as its govern.
mental policy that the government shall
take from the pockets of its citizens by
way of taxation all that is needed for the
legitimate purposes OF the government
and no more; that all the balance OF
their earnings shall be theirs
to use for their own and their
families comfort and happiness to pro-
vide them with better food and more COM
Portable clothing, to bring within their
reach by cheapening the cost OF its ma
terial, home that shall be their own,
and around whese hearth the father may
see his little ones grow up to be free
men. In word, a policy that declares
that all his earnings less what is really
necessary he should contribute to the ex-
penses of maintaining the Government
Of his country, he shall be permitted to
keep and retain for his own benefit and
that of his family, and that in raising the
needed revenue for the support OF the
Government, taxes shall be mainly if not
exclusively levied upon articles of luxury
and not upon the necessaries of life. The
other great party of the country pro-
pounds different policy. 1t proclaims
in effect though not in words, that not
the sum required to support and run the
government shall be the measure of that
which the citizen must give up, but an
uncertain, unlimited ever increasing ex-
action which that party deems necessary
to-day, or will so deem tomorrow, or
next year, or in years to come, to build
| up and maintain a class
of rich men and add greatly to
their colossal fortunes, class the in
come of whose wealth means also the
continual accession to them of political
power, which will eventually place the
reins of the government in their hands
exclusively, and leave the masses of the
people, their helpless subjects, to groan
under wrongs greater than brought about
and justified the revolution by which the
fathers of our country secured their
and our independence and freedom.
THE REPUBLICAN POLICY.
do not now pretend as a matter of
course to state the Republican policy in
the terms in which their platform enum-
crates it, but rather to state the enviable
result which that policy must produce.
They say they advocate the American
policy of protection, that they desire to
promote the prosperity of the country by
fostering it's manufactures, it's infant
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that they seek the good of the masses by
raising or maintaining the wages Of
labor, even though they take back from
the laborer in the shape of taxes larger
sum, and that they cannot deny, than
would the policy advocated by us.
Now if they do. by taking 25 cents per
day out of the earnings of the toiler, in
crease his earnings so cents or $1.OO per
day without reducing the purchasing
capacity of those earnings then they are
right and their policy is the true one, or
even if their policy increases the earn
ings of the worker 25 or so per cent. and
reduces its purchasing power in a less
proportionate degree, still they are right
A contented, prosperous, well fed, we'll
clothed, well housed population of work
ers, constitutes the great, the true, the
only permanent foundation of a country's g
well doing. That which contributes to
their permanent prosperity, establishes
the prosperity of the country in which
they dwell. Build up all the colossal for
tunes you may, increase the number of
individuals who count their millions by
the 10, 20, or 100, as you may, the pros
porous, the happy, the to-be-desired
country is that wherein its toilers are
we'll fed, well clothed, and we'll housed,
and can spare from the necessity OF
labor hours enough for recreation and
mental improvement. The attainment
of this condition is the avowed object of
both parties. 1t is for you and each
of you to think and reflect which of these
two policies will bring about this univer-
sally admitted desired result. And in
accordance with the conclusion at which
you arrive, cast your vote for high or low
taxes, because these are the true means
by which these two parties claim to at
tain the same end. As q matter of
course, it is impossible that each should
be right, and at the inception the very
foundation of the argument is the propo-
sition of the Democratic party, viz: ave
will compel you to surrender from your
daily earnings the one or two cents
needed to sustain that Government
which, tor your own and the common
good, you are bound to sustain, and no
more. And we will protect you in the
enjoyment of the rest" While the Re-
publican party says to you: "We will
take from your daily wage the five cents
or the seven cents which we think you
ought to pay, regardless of whether the
Government needs it or not, to encourage
capitalists to embark their funds in pay
ing investments, and neither this five
cents or any other known sum shall be
the limit of our exactions, but from
year to year as the capitalist requires
further encouragement, as he, like the
Horse Leech's Daughter still cries give,
give. we shall hold ourselves at liberty to
take ten, fifteen, twenty cents, or any
other amount, which the to-be-protected
capitalists shall determine is necessary to
keep him encouraged"
The Republican policy is protect the
rich, and they in turn will protect the Ia
borer. The Democratic policy is protect
the laborer, and the rich will take care of
themselves. Taken nakedly in it's bare
enunciation, is there anyone within the
sound of my voice who would require
one moments thought to determine
which is the right, which is the wrong
policy? 1 think not.
A few weeks ago a protectionist friend
OF mine, with whom l had several desul-
tory discussions on this subject, wound
up our last discussion by saying: "Well,
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