The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-20

600 surplus in the treasury of the
United States 1t ought not to be
there. How did it come there? It
came there by this Republican tax be-
ing too high. $135, O,O0O-do you
know how much that is? Let me'tell
You: If you had here to-day all of
this surplus in silver and you had
wagons to haul it away it would take
80 wagons loaded to the extent of
1000 lbs. to the wagon to carry away
81 100000, and y u have $135, 100000
You would have 1876 patches of wagons
| carrying the silver which came unnec-
| essarily from your taxes and was put
into the treasury of the United States.
L say that is wrong. | will tell YOU
! what my doctrine is: The lowest pos
sible tax consistent with paving the
running expenses of the U. S. govern
ment and the very highest personal
liberty to every American citizen.
The Republican doctrine is, "Let
US tax more than is necessary in order
to protect American industry" Now
what do we mean by protecting Amer
lean industry. Let us hear what the
Supreme Court of the United States
says: Whenever government lev
les tax more than it knows to be
necessary to defray the current expen-
ses OF the government and levies it for
the purpose of protecting a man or set
Of men that to that extent it is rob-
berry, pure and simple" Is it not my
friends? Is it right to tax me in or
der to support you? "Oh, but" you
say, there is no such contingency as
this; the manufacturer is as good as
the farmer, because the manufacturers
are our brothers" But my friends
the point that l make is this 1t is an
outrage to tax one man in order that
another man may get rich. There is
no right in it. Why should you tax
one rather than the other? Why not
tax the manufacturer for the purpose
of making the farmer rich =? Then is
1t not equally wrong to tax the farmer.
"Oh, but" say they that tax the far
mer, "the hands that are employed by
the manufacturerer will get higher
wages" Now my countrymen ycu all
know that that is not so.
Suppose here is man with $4,000
and here is nan worth So They
both go to the store aud the man
worth SO says, Mr., l want plug of
tobacco" The merchant shows him
the tobacco and the so man says,
"what is it worth p The merchant
says 20 cts. The man takes out his
20 cts. and pays it. The man worth
$4,000 says: 81 want plug of that
tobacco" The merchant lays it down.
"What do you ask me for it?" $50 cts. "
"Why do you ask me so cts for it,
when you only charged that other
man 20 cts?' Because you are rich.
er than that other man. The man
worth $4,000 would say: "Before
would pay you 80 cts. for that plug OF
tobacco | would see you into the Md
die of (thinking of the worst place he
could possibly thi TX of the Republi-
can party p daughter and cheering
Do you not know that is exactly what
he would say2
My countrymen, one man is not 90.
ing to ray any more for an article
, than the other does and the nerchan,
, that depends upon that policy would
be bankrupt in less than two weeks.
Well now they say it will enable the
manufacturer to pay better wages
Will he do it? That man that owned
, $4,000 could have paid more Tor the
plug of tobacco, but he is not going to
do it, is he Any man that tells me
/ that the manufacturer, because of pro
lection, is going to pay mere money tt
: his workmen, | am disposed to ask
that person to look me straight in the
r eve and 10 say: "Do you see any
l thing green therel' No sir, the man
l ufacturer is going to pay exactly wha
: labor is worth in his community. HI
7 is going to put the surplus in his owl
l pocket
There Is Carnegie the great irou
? man Of Pennsylvania. He has latel,
i been over in Scotland and for the las
a month he, with coach and four ha
Y been driving Mr.. Blaine through tn
e wilds of Scotland, and what did Car
e negie do? Do you know what his in
e come is? "Oh, yes some of you viii
a say, 81 suppose it gives him abou
e $4,000 year" 1t amounts to lit
!, tie more than s5OO,O00 a year! $500
e a day Carnegie gets from his stee
e works in Pennsylvania. Last mont
a this man who is getting 100000
Y year actually issued an order to hi
y workmen that their wages would b
u reduced and when they rel elled, clos
e ed the doors and said there would b
b no more work done there for the pres
n ent.
The man that talks about keepin
| up the protective tariff in order t
K benefit the laboring man is the enem
a and not the friend of the laborin
n man.
[ We say the best way to help the ID
y boring man is to enable him to liv
le more cheaply.
if ''But" says Col. Dockery, "Yo
if get things cheaper now than ever b,
t, fore" Yes but tell him, the troub
es we have is that money is so scarce.
le | do not care how cheap a thing i
es IF corn were selling at Is cents ba
u rel and you did not have any none
to you would not be able to buy a pee
5, of nubbins. (Laughter.)
x IF you want to succeed in tn
country, 1 tell you my friends, yo
s. must tear that tariff down. What
it it? 1t amounts to 473 per cent upo
s. the articles that you wear. | will nj
a stop to-day to prove that because yc
[e wear American goods you are not e1
as empt fl ON this tariff, because ever
ly sensible man knows that when yc
is keep foreign goods out, you have pl