Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-10-11

when he made pledge he meant all h
said, and would insist upon 1T by de
handing the reformation of the ia,
laws. Here they had found man will
an iron will, and one that would fulfil
everv oath made.
Upon Cleveland taking the Office the
people had given him, he was confront
ed with the fact that over one hundred
millions of dollars was being taker
from the people annually by an unjust
tax, and he remembered also that thi:
was government by the people, and
this unjust tax must be recti6ed, which
was unlawfully taken from the Ameri.
can citizens. 1t was conceded by both
parties that this question of surplus
must be settled, and mode adopted for
stopping it, and Cleveland's plan for
stopping it was the platform of the
democratic party adopted at St. Louis.
1t vas settled at st. Louis on the prin-
cipal Of taxation. Take from the citi-
zens just so much as is necessary to pay
the expenses of the government and no
more, and there is no authority to
change that, and no class has right to
change it. An idea that monopolists
must flourish has no root in the great
democratic party, and no republican if
he tell the truth will admit that we are
wrong in trying to reform the system
of taxation. You may call it by any
other name, but it is still taxation.
There are some who are foolish en-
ough to think that the consumer don t
pay the taxes, but the republican par
ty thought so until about the time the
republican national convention met at
Chicago.
He then referred to Grant message
to congress and read extracts from the
same, showing that Grants ideas on
the tariff were the same as Cleveland S
to-day.
To relieve the people Of unjust taxa
ton we propose to follow the rules of
political economy as laid down by all
and every country, and place on the
free list all those materials that enter
into the manufacture of our goods.
What advantage they say will this be?
1t would give our manufacturers the
privilege to 60 into any country and
bring back what they want to manu-
facture free of charge. 1t will stimu-
late our foreign commerce, and to-day
where you see no American ships they
would be there and in every port in the
world, building up great commercial
marine. As the manufacturer is en-
abled to buy less, so will he be enabled
to furnish at lower rate, and by the
reduction Of each particular article, we
all would be enabled to buy cheaper.
Cleveland having laid the basis of this
great policy, now then why not sustain
it. They will tell you of the great
bug bear English pauper labor and
''free trade but 1 tell you there is
nothing in it. He then read an ar
ticlc written Of Chauncy Depue,' while
"hobnobing'' with the English noble
men of Europe. He then said:
"My friends, England to-day has
her two great parties the same as
America, and Gladstone is with the
democratic party Of England, and there
fore friend of liberty. You don't
find relief in the American monopolists
or English noblemen, and if everything
were placed on the free list to-day, you
would find that when English labor met
his American cousin in the manufac-
ture of goods that he would be defeat
ed. Here in the agricultural states you
have two giant monopolies, which the
democratic party proposes to strike
down, 1.-THE lumber kings and salt lords
You have men in Congress who have
been legislating for these lumber kings
and salt lords, and if you people out
here, who are compelled to use salt
and lumber, and who have not single
sawlog here, are unwilling to pay this
unjust tax to these few fortunate
men, then reverse your ideas and send
a man to congress who will vote to
place these articles on the free list.
There are wool, coffee, tea, sugar,
lumber, salt and many more things, On
which We propose reduction Of tariff;
not as much as would like to see, how
ever. The republicans ought to have