The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-20
CARLISLE.
The Great Kentuckian Renomi-
nayed by Acclamatlon and
Amid Great Enthusiasm.
His Speech-A Mastery Argu-
meut-Tar1ff Reform Favors
an Increase of Wages.

The crowd was far beyond the limits of
accommodation. Although there was 10
shadow of doubt as to the action of the
convention, Mark Gray placed John G.
Carlisle in nomination, and he was chosen
with great enthusiasm. When Mr.. Car
Isle appeared there was an outburst of
applause lasting several minutes.
The speaker said, after gracefully
| ton:
"The great question before this country
is tine question of federal taxation. 1t
makes but little difference whether l am
elected to congress or not; but it is of
Overwhelming Importance to the people
that the next house of representatives
should be democratic, applause and that
the next president should be a democrat
also. Applause Two political parties
have nominated their candidates and made
a formal declaration of their principles,
and you will be called upon next Novem-
Der to decide between them. The repub-
lican party has chosen for its standard
bearers Mr.. Harrison, a respectable lawyer
of Indianapolis, for president, and, for
vice president, Levi P. Morton, a very
rich banker in Wall street. The demo
cratic party has selected a true and tried
man, the incompatible president who now
| fills the chair-the man who has brought
about the administration of the laws.
Applause. With him they have
associated Mr.. Thurman cheers I,
who, for many long years, has
been the best and truest representative of
our western democracy. But it is not,
gentlemen, my purpose to make a speech.
l want to call your attention though, to
the overwhelming importance of the de-
ciSion of the people, and congratulate
you on the fact that at last, latter many long
years of struggle, we have got this ques-
tion fairly and squarely before theipeople.
Cheers. 1t is declared in the democratic
platform that necessary taxation is Unjust
taxation, and by that declaration the
democratic party will stand or fall III this
contest. When President Cleveland was
lnaugurated he found in the statute
books laws passed by republican con-
gress, under which there was being an
nually collected from the people nearly
S1O0,000,000 in excess of the actual
necessities of the government. He found
large surplus accumulated in the vaults
of the treasury and that all the public
debt in the control of the
government, except about $196,O0O,OOO
of per celt bonds had been paid.
What was to be done? Year after year
some of US have struggled with the house
| of representatives to secure reduction of
this enormous burden on the people, and
have predicted that the time would surely
come when this money would accumulate
in the public treasury to such an extent as
TO paralyze all the business enterprises of
the country, and bring ruin and disaster
upon our industries and all engaged in
them. We were not responsible for the
existence of the laws, but we felt, as
representatives of the American
people, that the responsibility rested upon
us, in some measure at least, to see if it
could not be remedied. We failed. The
secretary of the treasury told me before l
left Washington that the surplus revenue
collected during the first fifteen days of
the present month over and above the ex-
penses of the government was SILL
000,0 900. At the rate &c S7"0 0C 1--ery
day and right the money OF the people,
which they need in their business, is be-
ing poured into the public treasury,
where it is not needed. To relieve
| the treasury from this enormous amount
and to prevent disasters to the business
of the country, the administration is com
PEELED to purchase the outstanding in
debtedness of the government at an enor-
nous premium. Within the last few
months millions of dollars of these bonds
have been bought at premium; on per
cents, of some % to % cents on the dollar,
and on 4 per cents, st 6, and s cents.
| So that the bondholder is, by reason of
| the unfortunate situation in which the
revenue laws have been left, taking from
| the people millions and millions of dollars
| in excess of the amount which his obi
CATION calls for, ard our friend Mr..
Harrison, in his letter of acceptance, says
this process should go on aid the money
should continue to be paid to the bond
! holders. Now, the great question you are
to decide is whether this system of taxa
ton should be continued, or whether the
country will return to the methods of taxa
I
the first time in the history of this country
the republican party has substantially de
clared in its platform in favor of reduc-
ing the revenue by increasing taxes. 1t
declares it necessary to reduce the revenue
| By checking imports of such articles as
can be made here, and if that is not
sufficient, it will repeal the whole internal
revenue tax on whisky rather than disturb
any part of the protective system. This
proposition is put forth upon the idea
that the people of this country can be
benefited Individually and collectively by
| imposing taxes upon themselves. 1t might
as well be said that man can make him
self rich by picking his own pocket"
Speaking of this system of taxation as
the parent of trusts and combinations to
control products and prices, to which Mr..
Blaine has given his endorsement, at least
and has said that they are private affairs
in which neither the president or anybody
else has any particular right to interfere,
Mr.. Carlisle said:
why, my friends, larceny is q private
affair-a very private affair-and yet it is
not supposed improper to interfere with
| it by law. The highwayman who
meets you in the public road
and demands your money or your
life is engaged in the transaction
OF private enterprise; but still the law
takes cagnizance of his act and Furnishes