Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-30
A MAN FROM MAINE
WHO TALKS HIGH TAXES TO A SMALL
AUDIENCE.
Bcussllss Address in ths Opera Hauss Last Night
Be Says 10 is Not Worried About
Tho Surplus.

VIZ So ~"
A fair sized audience Of Republicans
assembled in the opera house sst
night to hear Hon. G. II. Boutelie
discuss the issue1 Of the day. Mr..
Boutelle's coming wss hsralded with
fourth of trumpsts for he Is frem
ii Biaiue's own s'ate and to the minds
of the faithful, shines with portion Of the
splendor reflected sbaus the throne OF the
uncrowned king. Ifthere was auy IN
prejudiced seekers afiet the truth in the
few hundreds Who greeted the distin-
guished advocate of high taxss and low
wages, he scarcely could have been salts
fed. for truth was an article in which Mr..
Boutelle wasn't dealing last night. His
address was an undigaifed and silly rs-
hash of all the old and exploded
charges that have been > brought
against tie Dsmocrati, pesF, the
Democratic administrator anu
the trainers of Dsmcceatic reform meas
ures. Not once during the long and tire.
some two hours, in which be dragged out
''ths hard, dry see-saw of his bray" did
he refer to the QUESTION Of excessive taxa
ton, except to deny thst there was any
necessity for q reduction. The Senate
tariff bill, snd the utterarcss of his own
party platform pIocisiming the necessity
Of reducing taxation were alike ignored.
The finar cial aud economic evils incident
upon our present sy.tsm were not touched,
and if Mr.. Bontel!e or his psrsy has any
remedy f)r them, he stu liously RETAINED
from mentioning II.
Mr.. Ralph White head called tie meeting
to order, and nominated for Chairman that
eminent peddler Of bloody shirt chestnuts,
Mr.. A. w. Campbell. Mr.. Boutells was
introduced, and began hostiliiies immed-
lately. His first object of attack wss the
Ways and Means COmmittes Of the House,
which he characterized as sectioDa, in liz
formation. The great manufacturing
States of tae East and North had not been
represented on il. Mr.. Bou.elle grew very
pathetic on this point, lamenting the IN
Just Discrimination exercised by Speaker
Carlisle, as he termed it.
The very obvious answer to the learned
gentleman fears is that 1t is small mat
ter where ar y member ofany committee Of
the House comes from, so long as all ore
honorable and patriotic gsntlmen. IfrO
complaint can be Brought againt their work,
the country can well overlook tie misfor-
tune Of their birth in the excellence Of
their service.
Mr.. Boutelle then proceeded to show
that the p rosperity Of tlis country was
the direct result Of the protective tariff,
reading comparative figures Of the amount
of wages paid and the values of farm lands
in manufacturing and agricultural S'a'es.
The advantage remained with the manu-
featuring community. Here, be said. sra
the two great States of Ohio and Ken
lucky, separated only by the narrow b.
bon Of the Ohio river. One is q great pre-
lection State tie other is not. In Ohio
lands sell for S64 an acre on the average
in Kentucky they sell at $27. Several
other illustrations of the same tenor were
given.
Mr.. Boutelle seems to frgst that the
same protectiva tariff surrounds Ohio and
protects her industries from foreign COM
petition, surrounds and protec' Kentucky.
The law il for the whole country; bat il
don't work that way. The tsx that hs
built up thu prosperity of the manufacture
ing States, has acted to the same degree to
depress the agricultural States IT. results
are summed up in ons sentence: Western
mortgage in .New.England pockets, and
that is tie meaning Of Mr.. Boutell's figures
The speaker then amused himself and
his audience by some fairy stores, ebout
the progressive Republican party aud moss
back Democratic party, etc, etc. The
only charge sgsiust the Republican party,
he said. was that il had left a surplus IN
the nstional treasury. He for one wasn't
troubled about that surplus. 1t was q
small msttsr. Ths President could and
ought to expend it all in the purchase of
bonds. OF course Mr.. B,utelle stands
with hispsrty. The platform of the pirty,
adopted at Chicago, recognizes the exit
ence Of surplus, and pressiog dsna and
for the reiuc ion Of tsXstior, by favoiine
the abolition of the internal revenue;
yet Mr.. Boutel is not troubled about the
surplus.
The Senate of the United States is Re-
publican. In that Senste bill was in
troducei. 1t was framed by a Repubii-
can, aud introduced By Republican. 1t
recognized the existence of a tuvplus, and
was designed to do away with it. Yet Mr..
Boutelle and other Republican orators tell
the people of Wheeling they ere net both
cred about the surplus. Every President
and every SscretsIy of the Treasury for
the pes. ten years has urged the reduction
of taxation. The condition is wor to-
day than ever. Isn't it TINA that Mr..
Boutelle bsgan to be bothered about the
surplus.
Now as to the statement that the Presi-
dent could expend this surplus in the pur-
chase of bonds. If Mr.. Boutelle had read
Sundays papers he would have seen that
over $s7, 900, 600 had been 90 expended,
that the President had been compelled to
buy bonds to keep the c'uatry from a
financial crisis, and that On their purchase
over SIC, 000, 600 premium had bsen paid,
every dollar of which had gone into the
bondholders' pockets. Between the two
policies reducing taxation or raging out
taxes 10 enrich men already miliionaires,
Mr.. Boutelle favorj the latter.
The remainder Of Mr. Boutelle's address
was neither neE nor particularly effective,
and did not provoke much enthusiasm.
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