The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-10-04
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ana called on General Harrison this
afternoon. Between 600 and so
Tippecanoe, visitors were among
this number. The Generals voice
was unusually clear. In his speech
Of response, those who have heard
his hundred speeches say that In
point Of interest none surpassed To-
days effort He reverted to the
surplus question at some length, and
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen, My Ohio and Wy
Indiana r. icnds-Again about this
platform there are gathered repre-
sentatives from these two great
states. Your coming Is an express
ion Of common interest, a recOgui-
ton Of the.fact that there is a citi-
zenship that IL wider than the lines
Of any states (cheers) that over and
above that Just pride in your com
munities which you cherish jealous
ly, there b. q fuller pride In the one
flag, TO which we all give our al
legiance and In the one constitution,
which binds the people Of these
states together, indissOlubly in the
government, strong enough to pro-
tect lie humblest citizen whoever he
may be. Prolonged cheers
Your state institutions are based
like those Of the nation. upon the
great principles Of human liberty
and equality, and are eOnsecrated
to the promotion Of social order and
popular education. But above all
this, restingOnl like foundations,i the
strong arch Of the union that binds
Us together as n nation. ! on are elti-
zens o. the United States, and as
such have common interests that
suggest this meeting. ICheers.l
cannot speak separately to the
various organizations represented
here. There IL a broad sense in
which you are one. But / cannot
omit 10 pay a hearty tribute to those
venerable men who are gathered
about me to-day. / value this
tribute from them more than words
eau tell. can not without in
delicac Y, speak OF that campaign Ia
which they brought the enthusiasm
Of their earlier life, and to which
their memories now turn with 50
much interest. II they have brought
on with them i'm life TO this moment
and have transferred to me some
won from them, then I will find in
their kindness a new stimulus to
duty. Applause and cries "we
have, we have In looking over
the other day a publication Of the
campaign of 1910, ] fell upon a card
signed by fifteen Democrats OF
Orange, y. J. giving their reasons
for leaving the Democrat party. IL
has occurred to me that it might be
interesting to some of these old
gentlemen. Cries OF 1--WE want 10
near II" and Tread it'll It was as
follows:
1--WE might give many reasons for
this change i'm our political opinions.
The following, however, we deem
sufficient. We do not believe a
national debt is a national blessing.
Laughter and applause
We do not believe the price of
labor I'm this free country should be
reduced to the standard prices by
despOts In foreign countries. APP
plause.
We do not believe in lighting aud
being unrepresented i'm the councils
Of the country. a cry; That's IL"
We do not believe in an exclusive
hard money currency, and more
than this we believe in hard bread
or no bread. We do not believe IL
was the design OF the trainers Of the
constitution that the president
should occupy his time, during his
first term, in electiOneering for his
reelection q second term Loud
laughter and applause.
I IL Al artIr a d is
tOrical curiosity, aud to refresh
your recOllectiOns as to some Of the
issues Of that campaign. II IL has
any application to our modern poll
ties / will leave you To make it,.
Loud laughter and applause
| have recently been talking and
have one thing further to say about
the surplus. Cries Of good good, .
aud chats what we want TO hear
about There is a very proper use,
I think, that can be made Of more
than $4,000, 900 Of it. During the
civil war our custom receipts and
our receipts from internal taxes,
which last has brought under tribute
almost every pursuit in life, were
Inadequate to the great drain upon
our treasury caused by the civil war.
Our congress, exercising one Of the
powers Of the constitution, levied a
direct tax upon the states; Ohio
paid her part OF Il, Indiana paid
hers, aud so did the other loyal
states. The southern states were in
the rebellion aud did not pay theirs.
Now we have come to time when
the government has surplus money,
and the proposition was made in
congress TO return this tax TO the
states that had paid il. Applause.
The state of Indiana would have re-
ceived 81 ,0O0,OO, which now would
have been great relief to our tax
payers i'm the present depleted con-
ditiOn OF our treasury. Cheers.
do not recall the exact amount
Ohio would have received, but il
WAS much larger. II anyone asks
why pay this tax, this illustration
will be a sufficient answer: Sup
pose five men are associated in
business corporation, the corpora
ton suffers losses and it, capital is
impaired. An assessment becomes
necessary aud three members pay
their assessment while two do not.
The corporation IL again prosperous
and there is a surplus money in the
treasury. What shall be done with
il? Manifestly justice requires that
the two delinquents should pay up,
or that there should be returned to
the other three the assessment. levied
upon them. Great Cheering
A bill providing for the repay
ment Of the tax was killed i'm the
house Of representatives, not by
voting it down, but by filibustering,
a majority Of the house being in
favor Of its passage. and those who
defeated the bill, by those revolu-
tionery tactics were largely from
states that had not paid the tax.
TCheers.l I mention these facts TO
show that 50, 900, 900 OF the surplus
now lying in the banks where IL
draws no interest, might very
righteOusly be used so as to greatly
tighten real burdens of taxation
resting on people, burdens that the
people know Ia be taxes without
any argument frem our statesmen.
{ Laughter and applause.
l am a lover Of silence laughterl
aud vet when such assemblies as
these greet me with kind earnest
faces, and their kinder words, do
not know how can do less than
TO say a few words upon some Of
these great public questions. have
spoken frankly and fearlessly my
convictions upon these questions,
rcheers and cries Of Good, good, ~
and now unappalled by the imnensi-
ty Of this audience, | will complete
the accustomed programme and
take by the hand such Of you as de-