Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-31
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
Extract From the Campaign Address of
 pr c. Art Ward. =

Dr c. Art Ward.
 And now fellow citizens, what about this tariff question which the republicans please to term the issue of the present campaign There is, after about three and a half years of democratic administration, surplus in the treasury of more than one million of dollars and it is constantly in creasing. This amount Is just so much above the actual needs of government for current expenses and the sinking fund re- quired by law for the final payment of the national debt This sum has accumulated from taxes levied upon the people by re- publican legislation. In other words you have been taxed enough to run the govern ment, and besides, that lay away this amount in the vaults of the treasury at Washington and elsewhere. There is no way provided by law in which this money can be made to pay interest an invest ment stop interest on the public debt. There it lays, gentlemen, an expense to the government, an expense to you, to be taken care of, counted and guarded from stealthy thieves and avariciOus republ- cans. Republicans desire to continue the taxes which have resulted in this accumu- 1 lation democrats desire to reduce these taxes to the actual needs of the govern ment. Republicans want the surplus in creased; democrats want it lawfully dimin- 1 1 We desire the taxes reduced because they are excessive and because the excess de- rived from them does not pay anything to | the government or to you, but rather creates an additional bill | for you to pay for the needless care of it. Gan you tell me how much bet 3. ter off you would be by burying ten thou sand dollars in a hole in the ground and leaving it there for ten years. Perhaps some of you are stockholders in a bank. How would it suit you to have your directors elect president and appoint q cashier on large saleries, employ tellers and clerks to receive deposits, pay interest on them, take caro of the money, be re sponsible for its keeping and never discount a note or make a loan, but bury in the bank vaults the capital and the deposits: Can you tell me how much dividend your stock would pay semi annually :! How would you enjoy it after few years to find your investment gone and the deposits too and an assessment levied against you with which to pay depositors? Laboring men of America, do you want to be taxed outside and inside on what you wear from the top of your head to the sole of your foot, and for what you eat from a barrel of flour to a nutmeg, for the purpose of laying up in the vaults of the nation money for which it has no legitimate use: All the treasures you wish to dispose in that kind of way, you better lay them up for yourselves in heaven, ''where moth doth not corrupt, and thieves do not steal"
 Republicans inform you that the objec of this tax is protection. That is the os- tensible object, that is according to appear ances. But is there not an ulterior motive -a motive behind all this Do not thes, willy politicians hope to get their hands or that surplus Do they not hope to become the wtll-paid president, the fat-salerieC cashier, and the dude teller of the bank 3 Do they not hope to return and eat thu fatted calf They are as hungry as eve , was the prodigal son, having spent thei substance while in office and power il
 riotous living, and having lived four lon! years on corn-cobs in Europe.
 But tell you beware of these protective tariff, trust politicians they are slince, , and slippery as els, and as venOmOus asolC reptiles silently coiled beneath the lon! waving grass at the roadside ready tc F spring upon and pierce the unwary pas , sers by with their deadly poisonous fangs 4 So you gee, fellow-citizens that appear F ances are against them. They cry protec 3 tion to Am ercan labor, but it means in . crease of the capitalists pile! They cry pro lection to American workingmen, but i means augment the mOnOponStS power l They cry protection, but it means cOntinu trusts-wheat trusts, flour trusts, suga r trusts, iron trusts, steel trusts, oil trusts trust the republicans, trust the devil
 Blaine himself loudly proclaims that thes matters do not enter into politics or con cern office holders. 1 tell you, gentlemen beware of a system that taxes man to pro tect him, that steals his purse for his good that kills a man to save his life, that live and thieves on the hard earned wages o the honest sons of toll ! Beware of thai
 system as you would of a thief ill the dark or a red handed assassin at midnight
 Beware, say; beware of
 That greedy vampire which from Freedom
 tomb
 Comes forth, with all the mimicry of bloom Upon its lifeless cheek, and sucks, an'
 draws
 A peoples blood, to feed it's putrid veins
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