The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-18

StASiA idCt UT tuunESelncnL IN EreenOachSs pay
able in coin; and you know that the effect of
that was to send them up 80 or 30 per
cent cent IN value and you know
that now they are worth 2S
those who originally purchased them of 81 per
cent. You know that, and yet the theory of the
republican candidate for the Presidency is that
your money should be taken from your pockets
without necessity, these bonds not being due
until 1891, and poured out with these immense
premiums into the pockets of the bondholders
OF the country. lApplause.l
NOT PLAYING THE pEMAGoGuE.
am not going to play the demagogue. am
not going to say word against the men who
hold these bonds between them and the hard
working people of this country, am ON the side
OF the people Applause, during
which Judge Thurman produced
his bandana, which was greeted
with renewed outburst.l When take il out
there is a shout and then the republican pa
pers say, The old fellow is at u trick; he is
playing actor; it is u money trick of his to pull
out his bandsna." Well it is not 80;
that Is all ! am going to say about II
now The republican party had admitted that
this surplus had been an abuse. Its United
States senators have admitted It, for they have
brought in bill which they say will reduce the
annual income of the United States at oIt
S15,oOO,o0o Observe, however these grave and
reverend signors, the republican senators, do
to reduce it by buying bonds
They know very well that II the government
Ntic W aIlHplilto lLs purpose 20 40 no, tue pre-
MUM on per cent. bonds would go up
right away to so or even 20 per cent. pre-
MUM. ApplaHse.l If indeed, there could
be found anybody holaing auy considerable
amount of them who would sell to the govern.
ment at ALL Now they say, as the democrats
say, let us reduce the income OF the govern
ment.
DIFFERENCE IN METHODS.
But there is a striking difference in the
methods We propose to reduce income by re-
ducing the tax on the necessaries of life. Zap
plause. They propose TO increase the tax on
the necessaries of life and reduce the
and whisky to great extent,
and one necessary of life-sugar We say give
the laboring men of this country cheap cloth
ing. cheap tools and cheap lumber with which
TO build their houses and shops. Tho Repub-
lican party says no, increase the duties as their
bill proposes on clothes that the poor man
and his wife aud children wear, on
his implements of industry, on his lumber, or to
make but trifiing reduction on that and
thereby make the burden of taxation fall prin-
cipally upon him A voice: II say, no."] And
say no. 1t is hard enough that taxes have to
be collected by means of tariff, for we do
not intend TO abolish all the custom houses
and all tariff duties. We know it is a very easy
way TO collect taxes and that it has been fol-
lowed so long, and SO many Industries have
grown up, that it would be not only bad policy
but injustice to abolish it at once.
NOT FREE TRADERS.
We know that, and, therefore, when
they say are free traders they make
an accusation against us that has no founda-
tion in fact [applausel. In fact we do not shut
our eyes to the fact that the mode of collecting
the revenue by the tariff is oppressive to the
poor people of the land. When taxes are col
lected for your county of Allen, or for
your municipality Of Fort Wayne,
it is levied upon your property.
You know exactly what you have TO list and
give to the assessor. and exactly the amount OF
taxes you have to pay; but when the tax comes
in this insidious shape of tariff duty, how
do you pay for itS No man comes
TO you clothed in authority from the
United States asking for a tax list. or
demanding so much money. Not one of you
has tax receipts from collector of customs un-
less he happens TO have imported goods into the
United States. You do not pay it in the in
creased price that you give for everything
aha' matituds n1s aia of 'Gy other ana tbinSs 1Ss
that have not paid a duty, but the price OF
which has been raised by the domestic producer
as he has been enabled to do it by reason of the
duty paid upon the imported article. Ap-
plause.l
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.
The importer brings his goods here for sale.
% Sir' or you so %sS or pay may fsH 6e lS6 S5
per cent on those goods before you can sell
| here He pays the tax; he sells to the mer-
chant, and of course puts on the tax in the
price he charges the merchant, for otherwise
he could not carry on business as an importer a
single uay. Inc merchant dJ New YORK
sells it TO the retail dealer at Fort
Wayne and the price is still in it,
and the duty and profit Of the importer
and of the wholesale merchant in New York
and of the retail dealers here is in it, There is
the original price, the tax and three profits in IL
before it gees upon your back. Applause. |
You don't see it, my friends, but you feel it,
There cannot be 10000 600 or $500, 900, 900
taken from the people of the United States in
that way and three or four times that much
| taken from them for the benefit Of
the protected manufacturers without their
feeling it, It is just as certain as death. 1t Is
not a tax on property but it is tax upon con
sumption. Therefore IL IL that poor man may
chance to pay for more than the richest man in
the land. fApplause. You take good honest
democrat who has fulfilled the command of the
scripture and taken unto him a good wife,
and has family, OF children,
for them the commodies that they must have
in order to live. The tax that he pays may be
four times as much as that OF the crusty rich
old bachelor who is worth millions OF dollars,
and is no use To society or anybody. [Great
applause Such system as this cannot pos
sibly prevail unless there Is some humbugging
of the people. The republican speakers seem
to me this year to be more audacious and dar-
ing In their representations than ever before,
fore just as far as human audacity could go.
Applause.
Mr.. Thurman dwelt at some length upon
the charge that the democrats are free
traders, refuting 1t with homely illustra-
tions which caught the fancy Of his hearers
aud gained him abundant applause, and
when he had concluded his speech the judge
was greeted with long continued cheers.