Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-15

dnction Ia an average hasn,aS :, ~
cent No vested interest \ : stiii re,nst, -
dustry Injured and ffscEe M. ,ecognIzin
tax OF 81 per cent. Our fsrhs9. - ~ -
the sole object of goyernaens co. 80 10
actment Of just laws, intended gfsiN IA 4
free government where eCasaaity sfso 49,
the rule Of conduct In business, in res 4
and in all our associations. Where fsa.
equality in that law that gives Andrew Czs.
neg1e one million and one-half dollars as his
profits IN single industry for a single var,
! while private soldiery. armed hirelIngs, guard
the Edward Thompson steel works., while
| American citizens are on strike fer living
1 wages. in revolt against corporate upeedSi'
About one hundred million dollars ara
! taken from the channels of trade and remain
! idle In the treasury vaults, and yet the Iowa
farmer is compelled to pay from two, tosthree
i dollars tariff tax per thousaed upon. the two,
million feet OF white pine lumber that annu-
ally goes TO improve the Iowa farms, mort
gagged as they are in turn 70 the very men.
| who have grown rich by the extortion.
The Mills bill makes lumber duty free,
strikes of thu 20 per cent tax, while upon
manufactures of wool, wood and iron and
upon cabinet and hou ehold furniture, the re-
/ duction is but per cent. This provision
/ protects the wood worker and the
changes made tend TO make it
impossible for Russell A. Alger
| TO contribute one hundred thousand dollars
/ 10 republican campaign fund. Copper ore
now has a 20 per cent tariff levy. The Mills
bills makes the raw material duty free, re-
| tains the tax upon the manufactures of cop
\ per where the labor is a large part of the cost
OF the product, and reduces only per cent
! tax on the manufactures of brass. All this
! 70 protect labor actually engaged in manu-
featuring enterprises, lessening the cost of
| production, and yet we are called free ira
/ ders. Free lumber, free wool, free salt, free
| copper. with a reduction on the necessaries
of life. those are some of the provisions of
the Mills hill nd all &c Tfaaa
per cent average tariff tax remains, tax
that until now no republican dared defend.
Fouryears ago the republican party pledged
itself TO correct the inequalities of the tariff
and reduce the surplus The tariff commits
sion OF 1851, appointed by the republicans,
held II sessions ia different parts of the
country and by unanimous report recon-
mended general reduction of from 20 to 25
per cent while Grant. Garfield. Arthur. Sher-
man, Gresham. McCullOch, Folger Allison
kasson and Grimes all advocated tariff law
that enable the home manufacturers to fairly
compete with the foreign article. but not a
law that would enacle him 10 drive out the
foreign product. create a monopoly and reg
ulate the price as he saw fit.
The system of war tariff taxation is ON trial
in this campaign. Sen. Morrill, in 1854 apollo
gized for its birth. Allison in 1870 demanded
twenty per cent. reduction. Henry Wilson
demanded free raw materials that entered
into manufacturing, Garfield was for the pro-
spoke of ''labor starving sullen cities, reso-
lutely determined to overthrow the system
under which the rich are growing richer and
the poor poorer, system giving 20 Wander
bilt wealth beyond the dreams of averice and
condems the poor TO poverty which has no
refuge from starvation but the prison and
the grave"
The extraordinary demands of civil war
called for the imposition of a tax that is made
the test of party fealty in a time of profound
peace. The wages of our workmen do not
depend upon the tariff, but upon supply and
demand and the circumstances, situation and
resources of the country. Out upon the
coward hearts and timid souls of those who
pretend TO fear the competition of nations
that are beggars in comparison with this re-
public OF untold and undeveloped resources,
brave and ingenious people, and a demo-
cratic political faith which IL followed leads
TO prosperity and happiness.
The republicans. In this connection, claim
60 be the exclusive and particular friends Of
the laborert of the nation. As a substitute
for unnecessary taxation, the party of Thurs
ton and Estee. LOBBYIST and liquor dealer ten
def the laborers untaxed whisky and tobacco
in the interests of the home as against the
saloon. iApplause.l
Having had control of the government for
ever twenty years they have allowed the
wharves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore TO be flooded with pauper
Italians, and the mines of Pennsylvania and
Ohio TO be overrun with pauper Poles and
pauper Hungarians. and have made IL possible
for the pauperized hories OF Central Europe
To threaten and attack the whole fabric OF
our social order by means of the bomb and
poisoned dagger-by those who would right
their wrongs by the red hand of murder and
the blasting, flaming torch of the incendiary.
Considering this dare they, the advocates OF
this system, talk OF competition with the
pauper labor of Europe when their candidate
for president dozen times expressed de-
sire to bring upon us the scourge of Chinese.
worse than pauper labor, to give foothold
here to the product of that monument of pro-
lection, China, In the persons of Chinese
coolies with their lcprosy aud immoralties?
[Chc,ra
The democratic party overthrow the feder-
alists because of the knownofhing. alien and
seditiOn laws of l7gS. We have always been
ready to receive the oppressed and unfortu-
nate, who voluntarily come here, but in the
name OF American citizenship, in the interest
of those whose hopes are TO become citizens,
protest against the admission of the Chin
ese coolie and vicious serf of middle Europe,
who rides over the Pennsylvania railroads as
the contract slave of the protected coal bar
on and who is only identified by the "brass
tag on his trousers"
Corporations possessing large powers
granted by a generous people. enriched by
tariff laws enacted in season of trucking
and log-rollinp legislation for the special pur-
characteristics incident TO moneyed and
usurping aristocraces under the name of
trusts resort to the ways OF the highwayman
and for speculative purposes limit the output
and enhance the cost of the necessaries OF
life.
This, indeed, Is a serious condition and q
theme for the thoughtful, who are patriotic
and whose action is not coerced by the lash
of party whip or the fear of smaller divi-
bends on trust certificates.
True 1t is that in a republic every moment
Is revolutionary and every hour crisis, and
that the tribunes of the people should be inn
bued with an unselfsh devotion to country,
and q caution that ndver sleeps. In this war
against civil despotism democracy is aggres-
siye. II viii make the life of the republican
party a standing Indictment so long us 1t inn
poses unnecessary taxation, stands sponsor
for trusts and combines, and favors free
whisky at the expense of cheap necessaries.
IL Will summon 70 its aid the patriotic brain
and siuew of the land coming forth from
every factory, field aud workshop in the re-
spectacle Rarb of honest labor
Where will the people turn for relief
What party will afford them relief Gentle
men, when tho republican leader states that
the citizens OF the republic, possessing civil
liberty and political power, shall not as of
right condemn and extirpate this suhterfugo