The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-28
SPEAKER CARLISLE.
lie Holds Forth at Terre
Haute, Ind.
THE GREAT TARIFF QUESTION
he Payers . Reduction In the
Tariff, and Explains the
Reason Why.

y Carlisle opened his canvass in Indiana
tonight, speaking to an audience OF
5000 people. In beginning his address
Mr.. Carlisle said: Judging from what
1 have seen no more speech-making is
necessary in Indiana. The Democracy
is ready for the fight and anxious only
that it shall come of at lonce' l am
quite sure the State of Indiana is just
as certain to cast its vote for Cleveland
and Thurman as the State of Ken
lucky. (Applause.) Cleveland needs no
eulogistIc mention at my hands. 1t is
enough to say his administration has
been honest, conservative, patriotic
and constitutional in all its methods.
Mr.. Carlisle here enumerated the
PREDICTIONS MADE FOUR YEARS AGO,
in the event of the election of Cleve-
land among others, that the rebel
soldiers would be pensioned. He said
not a single one of these predictions
have been verified. No confederate
soldiers have ever asked for pensions,
or will ever do so. In the course of
his remarks about the surplus, Mr..
Carlisle said: ION the 1st. day of
July. 1887, the last obligations of the
government had been called for re-
denption. At the close of that month
THERE REMAINED IN THE TREASURY,
over and above the requirements of
government, surplus fund amount
ing to $40, 900, 900, and that has been
accommodating since at the rate of
-,
so far as it has been diminished by
Purchasing bonds at an enormous
premium, and the great question to be
decided by the American people is
whether or not the system of taxes
under which from nine to ten million
per month is taken away from trade to
be piled up in the public treasury shall
be continued. There are two lawful
ways to dispose of this money. One is
to use it to take up
OUTSTANDING UNMATURED BONDS
of government, paying an enormous
premium; the other is to deposit Ger
tain parts of this money from time to
time in the national banking associa-
tons in the country, upon pledge of
security required by law, so the people
may have access to it to use in their
business. The Treasury Department
has resorted to both these methods, not
because the Secretary or President is in
favor of purchasing your BONDS at
premium as permanent policy or be-
cause they are in favor of making large
deposits of public funds in national
banks as permanent policy, but sim
ply because there is absolutely no other
lawful way to prevent its accumulation
in the public treasury to the great in
jury of all the interests of the people in
every part of the country. The Demo
Gratis of the House of Representatives,
said the speaker, recognized the neces-
Sity of
REDUCTION OF TAXATION,
in order to remove the burden
fire. the shoulders of the PEG.
pie and prevent the accumu-
lation of this dangerous surplus, and
therefore introduced the Mills bill.
This, he said, is not free trade meas
ure. 1t is very moderate measure of
tax reduction. 1t proposes to give
you cheaper lumber, cheaper clothing,
cheaper agricultural implements and
N any other things. It proposes to re-
duce the tax upon the manufactured
chewing and smoking tobacco, not in
Guiding cigars and cigarettes. l don't
believe in this as an independent pfopo.
sition, said the speaker, but recognizing
the fact that all legislation is necessar-
lily the result OF a concession and COM
promise, assented to this partial repeal
of the internal revenue tax. In my
judgment, when the tax has been
REMOVED FROM CLOTHING AND FOOD,
it will be time enough to consider the
and whisky. (Applause). Mr.. Carlisle
said under the laws passed by the Re-
publican Party, there is an average tax
of $47.10 on every hundred dollars
worth of imported goods, and asked if
such tax was imposed by the State of
Indiana on taxable property for the
purpose of raising an enormous revenue
unnecessary for any public purpose how
long the Republicans or others in
Indiana would submit to it. He argued
at length to show that such duties on
imported goods, which were added to
the cost price, made it not only possible
in most cases. but necessary for addi-
tons of q like amount to domestic
goods, and if the American producer
did not add to the price of his article
the amount of the duty upon the i'm
ported article, the imported article
could not come into the market and be
sold The Democratic Party proposes
to make
A REASONABLE AND MODERATE REDUCTION
of these taxes and revise these laws so
that the government shall receive ample
revenue for all public purposes and the
people be relieved from unnecessary
burdens. The speaker spoke at some
length regarding the Senate tariff bill,
and in reply to the statements OF Con-
gressmen Mckinley. He closed by ap-
pealing to the farmers to assert their
rights in the matter of the tariff, which
he said was a discrimination against
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