, 1888-09-13
Harrison as a Speaker

~eeA ASO% 90 q OPChACI.
Democratic newspapers haze been
ain'ost Unanimous in beseeching
General Harrison not to make DO
iItIcal speeches, those Journals ap,
pearlDg most solicitous for his repu
tatiOn as an orator and his chances
az Presidential candidate.
Their sympathy, If real, is decided
ly misplaced. It has become entirely
obvious that General Harrison is
complete master cf the. tFG sf eat re-
au!Sites to genuine oratory-having
something to say and knowing when
and how to say it. Unlike Mr.. Thur
man, he does not project a whole
text book on political economy at a
suffering audience, but contents him
self with comparatively few words.
but all to the point; and all
| weighted With sonctkiCg Lo SGT mis-
heaters TO thinking for themselves.
Take for example, his very brief
speech at Put-In-Bay. After refer
ring to the great difficulty ordinary
attendant upon the assembled of re-
venue under Rspuhlicsp Adp,inistra-
ton to cancel the public debt, and
Democrat financial dilemma of the
present time, lie. coptihded-
. Inlay quote Pisc The fact that not
withstanding this complaint OF ex-
cessive revenue, there are some who
suggest that they are not able ade-
quately to rouse popular Indignation
against excessive taxation because
they cannot disclose to the people
when or how they are paying taxes.
1t is taken, they say, as Indirectly
and so subtlg, that these, our plain
people, don't know that they are pay
ing them at ALL ...
Is not that q. last remark not only
absolutely tree, out delicately and
cieVerly framed, with sort of under
current of sarcasm which will make
it remembered by all who heard or
may read it? Is it not the Demo-
cratic euterr all over the Country
that the people are suffering from
e3cessise Federaf tas alton. And
ITet Democratic orators and Demo-
cratic newspapers are wholly at a
loss to make people believe the as
sertion. The best they have been
able to do thus far is to adopt MIR.
Cieveland's entirely ridiculous as
sertion that the duty on an Impor-
ted article is added to the normal
cost of q heme-ihade article OF the
same kind; and this, though it has
been disproved a thousand times,
they roll as sweet morsel under
their tongues;
| Let Us see how the Democratic
syllogism would run. People that
are excessively taxed by the, tariff
should adopt free trade; the Ameri-
can people are thus excessively tax
ed; therefore the American people
should adopt free trade" The syl.
logism is logica! in form, but npfor-
tunately for. the logicien the Ameri-
car fe5ple, collectively and individ-
ually, deny the major premise
and the unhappy syllogism maker
cannot convince them of its truth
and SO his argument goes to naught.
The old idea that taxation is les
galized ROBBERY. conceding that i'm
port duties are species of taxation,
is exploded. Modern social science
regards taxes Of all kinds, city, State
or Federal, as voluntary contribut-
ion by the people for their own good,
for the preservation Of society and
for mutual advantage, and this is
| tie only correct theory Of taxation
il country of representative gov
ernment. If, then, q citizen Of this
country cannot be persuaded or con
vinced that he pays taxes, he does
net esy them, for there is no such
thing as an unconcious voluntary
contribution.-lSdn Francisco Ciron
icle.
Blaine hes succeeded admirably in
d;awing the entire DeiiaosFatie lire. The
whole patty is trying to pincture his
solid tariff facta. Every statement he
makes throws the .Bemocra's into par
u6ysrns OF abuse. In the iiieautime Har-
ria6u marches steadily on to victory.
/ Washington Territory, 200 miles
wide and 400 miles long, is situated
in the most northwesterly corner of
!, the United States 1t contains TO-
600 square miles, of which 3,10O
miles are water Hnd $1,000 miles
lahd surface The Territory contains
twenty million acres of fine timber
on Puget Sound, and ten million
acres of prairie land east of the Cas-
cade range of mountains. The river