The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-09-07

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led by the general government upon
every article of commerce that comes
into the United States and that is In
tended for sale within her borders,
and which incidentally raises the price
and therefore becomes a tax or a bur-
den upon every article of domestic
manufacture of like nature with those
which pay the tariff tax.
THE PEOPLES MONEY LOCKED UP.
"Now we have at this moment, &C.
cording to the last advices have seen.
$115,000,0 900, called surplus revenue
that is taxes collected from the people
beyond the necessities of the govern
ment.
"Those dollars-$115, ZOO, ,OOO-are
lying perfectly idle in the vault of the
Treasury of the United States, Of no
service to any human being, drawing
no Interest, earning no profit, but TAX
en- from the pockets of the people
where they properly belong, and
where, if they were not found, thous-
ands and tens of thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of the people of the
United States would put them to good
use and improve their condition and
prosperity.
"Now, the Democratic party says
that this is wrong condition of af-
fairs; that that money ought not to be
like the talents of the man we are told
OF in the Scriptures, buried in the
ground; that this is very poor use to
make of the money of the people. and
therefore the Democratic party says
that this surplus revenue, which is pro-
duced in the main by these tariff taxes,
ought to be reduced and that the taxes
should be reduced SO that this surplus
will not continue 10 accumulate. ZAP.
plause) Our opponents, on the other
hand, say it IL better to let the surplus
accumulate; it is better to take the
money from the pockets of the people;
it is better to pile it up in the vaults Of
the Treasury Department.; although il
does no good whatsoever and is q great
harm, 1t is better to do that than to
touch the tariff laws of the United
States. We say, on the contrary, to
relieve an overtaxed people is to re-
duce the taxes; we say that the way to
treat a people honestly, fairly and WISE
ly is to take no more taxes out of their
pockets than the government actually
needs for It's expenditures. (Applause.
'rhe issue, then, is fairly made up
between high taxation on the one hand
and reasonable taxation on the other.
1t is between taking the money of the
people out OF their own control, out of
their own pockets and burying it in
the cellar of the Treasury Department;
or it is between leaving the money
where it belongs, in the pockets of the
people, to be used by them as their
wants require and as their intelligence
and honesty direct"
Here gentleman on the platform
raised an umbrella to keep the sun
from the speakers face, but was unable
to do so. Judge Thurman noticed it
and said: "WelI, never mind; the sun
never hurt a Democrat, anyway.
daughter and applause.)
"Now, my friends, in the long politi-
tical life that / have led have heard
great many false pretences preached
to the people, great many intended
to deceive and delude them, but in all
my life / have never witnessed such
audacity as have noticed this year on
the advocates Of high protective tar
iff-never before. And there seems
to be singular disregard of the truth
that has suddenly afflicted them. do
not intend to call people hard names.
l have all my life tried to keep a civil
tongue in my head, and I mean to
keep 1t as long as live, ,lbut do say
that some people sometimes seem to
lose their senses go that they cannot
see the truth, and often, unfortunately,
cannot speak it. (Applause,)
"Now Just think of it for one mo-
meut. We are told that high tariff
makes the country richer, as if it were
possible to make country richer by
oppressively taxing the people. ZAP.
plause.) Amt that new way to make
man richi To run your hand into
his pocket and take out what you find
there and that without any lust reason
whatsoever for 80 doing? Isn't that 6
singular way to make anybody rich
(Applause.) And yet that is precisely
the plan that these people tell us is the
plan to adopt to enrich this country
that this country is to be made wealth,
by means of high taxation. Again
they have the audacity to say that thi
tariff tax is not paid by the consumer
of the article which is taxed. Why
if the consumers of these taxed article
DO not pay the tax I would like t,
know who does7 Do these protection
ist orators pay iti Who pays it if tn
people who consume the article that
taxed, do not pay iti No one can AMI
wer that question to the sstisfaetio
-"
HIGH TARIFF sCooPERs AT WORK.
Judge Thurman was Interrupted q
this point by the handing up of o not
, and said: Gentlemen, / am sfrai
there is some high protectionists in thi
audience, for note is sent up to rea
as follows; "A lady has just had be
pocket picked and she thinks it is thes
: high tariff scoopers'-I believe it is, c
some word. l hope that high tari
fellow who has taken the lady's moi
ey will be caught and made to refun
! before he leaves Port Huron. (Gres
, laup hter and cheering.)
snow, my friends, if you will rehe.
: for moment you will see that it
I necessarily the case that the tart
taxes are paid by the consumers of ii