Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-23
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The Republicans, with Their Millionaire
Candidates for the Presidency and Their
Trucking to Wealth, Essentially the
Party for MOnopolists.
"The four most prominent Republican
candidates for the Presidency are $4,000. 600
Blaine, s5,OD.Ooo Sherman, 5000 600 Alger,
and 10000, 900 Stanford
Nothing could give a clearer insight into
the methods and controlling motives of the
Republican party than its subservience to
wealth. 1t has fostered and protected the
monopolies which dominate it to-day. and
has thereby driven from its ranks every in
dependent element that gave it character
ana strength before the people. 1t is this
clement OF monopoly, says the Albany Argus.
that announces through the Republican
party the strange doctrine: Taxation is
protection alike to the wage-earner and
wage-payer." It is this element that has so
often bafhed the efforts of the Democrats to
relevc the taxpayers of unnecessary taxa
ton. The "bar'f' is an Indispensable acces-
aory to every one seeking political prefer
ment In the Republican party. Without it
ability, fidelity and experience are naught
with 1t every Office Is open to the ambition
OF candidate. 1t ruled the party when
the Pacific railroad steals were triumphantly
carried through Congress and the Credit
Mobller stifled the conscicnces of Senators
and Representatives 1t exhibited its power
IN Republican councils when the star route
frauds hourished, and when the land grab
bers We're permitted to appropriate as much
of the public domain as they wished
The American people, after their expert
ence OF popular Government under Demo
cratic auspices, are not yet prepared to in
trust their welfare again to plutocracy,
which regards wealth above all else in Sc
Loot 4t,.a;,. L., M.
publican candidates for the Presidency
acquired their millions while in Congress-.
Both were comparatively poor men when
they went to Washington. They certainly
did not make their millions by economizing
the meager salaries they received in Con-
gress. There was another eminent Repub-
Ilcan who also served long time-some
twenty years--in Congress, and was the
acknowledged leader of his party during a
considerable part of that time Yet he left
Washington as poor as when he entered it.
But Roscoe Conl1ling's methods were not
those OF MeSsrs. Blaine and Sherman, and
hence he was never able to gain admission
into the charmed circle Of plutocracy He
would not oppose the reduction of taxes
upon the neccssaries Of life, lest some trust
should be thereby hindered from preying
on the people. When party has surren-
that it would look with favor upon a tariff
reform bill, designed mainly for the benefit
of the working classes. Mr.. Mcmillan, of
Tennessee, in his admirable address, on
Tuesday, thus voiced the sentiments of the
Democratic party on this question:
There is another fault to be found with
the present tariff law which we have
striven TO remedy by the bill which we pre-
sent for your adoption. In almost every sched-
ule of the present law it will be observed
that the coarser the goods and the more
likely they are to be worn or used by those
III the humber walks OF life the higher the
rate OF duty fixed upon them; and the con-
verse, of course, follows that the more
ldxuriant the article the lower the rate of
duty. We have attempted In the tariff
which we present for your adoption to so
frame 1t that the tax would bear most
heavily upon lnXuries and those things
without which the people can live rather
than upon the necessaries of life. Hence,
we have reduced the tariff on the metal
schedule, but have not lowered it on jewel
ry; we have reduced it on woollen goods,
and have not lowered it on silks. and we
have reduced it on sugar and taken il off of
salt, but have not made one farthing of re-
duction on liquors, wines, etc"
The millionaire candidates for the Re-
publican nomination are, of course, bitterly
opposed to any change by which the rich
would have to share equitably the burden
of taxation with the poor Their party,
which has so long protected the monopolies
created by it, can not afford to desert them
now. But the American people will cor
daily indorse the sentiments expressed by
Mr.. Mcmillan They want the taxes to
bear more heavily on the luxuries than on
the necessaries Of life, even if the mill
ionairc candidates suffer in consequence