The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-27
would have the privilege of speaking
and were likeWise disappOinted.
MILLS INDIANA.

The Hsthsz Of Rsvanns Reduction Addresses the
Democrats at Richmond, Indiana.
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 2O.-The DEM
onstration here to-day on the occasion
Of the appearance OF Hon. Roger @.
Mills. the democratic leader OF the
house Of representatives was abundant
y gratifying to the local democracy.
Judge Abbott presided at the meeting
and after songs from glee club he in
troduced the speaker of the day. Mr..
Mills ON rising was greeted with a
rigging round of cheers and at once
Logan his speech. He quoted at the
beginning from Mr.. Blaine'S New York
speech that capital was able TO take
care of itself. that the QueS-
ton in this campaign was
one of labor, labor from the skin to
the core and from the core back to the
skin again. Mr.. Mills sad he would
accept that definition and that he pro-
posed to show that the democratic
the true friend of labor and of the
laboring man. A proposition which
evoked the first outburst of applause.
By way of proof he cited the enormous
taxation imposed by the republican
party during and after the war, until
the income began to be beyond the
Deeds Of the government. He then
called attention to the fact that when
the republicans began to reduce the
burden they did not begin to take
the taxes off the poor but d.
rectly off the rich. The income
| tax, for instance, which was one af-
| fecting baJ few people of the country,
| and they all well to do, was among the
first removed by the republican party
| in its haste to favor the rich, while pro-
| Tossing to be the friend of the telling
MASSES. In the same line was their
| treatment of the tax on railroads and
were ali relieved of taxation, as he
sarcastically said, because the repub-
lican party was so deeply concerned
| for the welfare of the laboring people.
On the other hand, the democrats pro-
| posed to remove the tax from the cloth
| ing of the poor, from the nipple
ments of labor wherewith laborers
earn their subsistence, and
| from other articles which went
TO make up the enormous taxa
tion of labor to gather an unnecessary
surplus. This effort met uniform OPP
position from the republicans and yet
MIR. Blaine would have the people be-
| lieve that this is a campaign in Which
the question is one of labor and that
| the republicans are the only tr1endS of
laboreTs. In was indeed a question: of
labor, but the true friends of labcI
were found in the democratic party and
IN disparity.
Mt. Mills was emphatic in his de
claring that the democrats did not pro-
pose to give the nation the tree whisky
that it was understood that if an at
tempt was made to remove the tax
on whisky the democrats wer'
ready to fight it out on thai
line if it took ali summer and fall
Continuing his proof of the proposition
with which he began, Mr.. Mills denied
that the democrats favored free trade
and quoted the very small reduction o
the tariff as proposed by the Mills bill
Why, said he, we prVHsose to reduce tn
tariff from A per cent to 424 per cent
that is no more free trade than was tn
reform made by hard drinker tOta
abstinence when he reduced hi
drains from fOrty-seven day to forty
two and half.
Mr.. Mills went on with different al
ticleS enumerated in his bill on whic
there was reduction of the tariff. t
{ show how in each case the protection
2 which the republicans insisted on di
l not protect the workmen and that i
: every case the benefit of the prOtectio
l went to the manufacturer--the master
and not the man.