Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-08-26

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governor in Ohio who was very plain
spoken man and who spoke what ne
thought with something singular force,
and used speech that might shock tender
persons, but which nevertheless conveyed
weight. / speak of Gov. Allen-and
speaking of this thing of having an over
flowing and redundant treasury, that
grand old man said in his magnif-
cent way ''Why you might az
well undertake to keep a powder
house in hell as to have an honest govern
ment with q surplus in the treasury.
[Laugbter and applause, That was the
truth very forcibly expressed, and now /
can appeal to you Just TO look at what con-
gress is about, and see whether or not this
is the truth.
Now, the issue is fairly made up. The
Democrats say reduce the taxes. They
are to high. These taxes that are paid in
siduously drawn from the pockets Of the
people by means of o thigh protective
tariff ought to be reduced. ssy
insiduously, because my friends.
when the tax gather Of Illinois comes
around and takes list of your property
and puts down the amount of taxes that
you are to pay, You know exactly what
You have to pay and upon what you have
10 pay it. Not go with these tariff
taxes. The man who imports goods
into the United States pays the tariff taxes
before he can take his goods out of the
custom house. Of course he adds that tax
to what he paid for the goods, otherwise
be would be dead failure, and he would
break up in a week, yes in q day, in
an hour. So when you buy a
roll of cloth, for suit of clothes you pay
in the price that you give it, the tax paid
by the importer that same tax with the
merchants profit, paid by the Wholesale
merchant, that same tax with the retailers
profit paid by the retail merchant, and
the whole thing in the end comes
OUT OF YOUR POCKET.
Why, you take some old bachelor who is
worth o million, and who is of no use to
himself or anybody else, Laughter who
does not fulfill the Scriptures at all and
take wife. You take such an old fellow
as that, who does not buy in the whole
course of year as much clothing as q
poor man, not worth $500, is compelled to
buy every year to clothe himself, his wife
and his little ones, and yet that million
aire pays less taxes by far than that poor
laboring man, whose whole fortune is in
his hands.
Now my friends, would like to speak
to you and especially in this audience 80
largely made up of workingmen, l would
like to speak to you longer than / have
done. Who are the friends, pray, of the
workingmen, the Democrats? That is the
fact-and to say that the Democratic
party is not the friend Of
the lsboripg man, is to say
that the Democratic party are set OF
idiots and are not entitled to vote at all.
I Applause. But they are entitled to
vote; they have voted great deal in this
country. Laughter. They kept for
thirty, or forty, or fifty years this country
under Democratic rule, aud it
dourished as no country did be-
fore. They intend to keep it under
Democratic rule for a while longer. APP
plause II has done 30 well during the
last three years and half, that they in
tend to repeat the experiment and make
Grover Cleveland once more President OF
the United States, Applause and cheers,
and Thurman Vice President. Well,
l don't know, that depends on your vote.
We hope go.
Now, my friends, am going to stop.
[0h no. Yes, am, am a very civil
man. pride myself upon that-a Just
man to, and owe it to that grand man
who il your candidate for Governor of the
State, to make way and let him be heard
for the remainder. Judge Thurman re-
tired amid volleys of cheers and applause.