The Forrest City times., 1888-08-04
POLITICAL TOPICS.
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Fools Paradise.
 He present. gosefament was founded on A natfed of unjust taxation. When the lea was uppeu into Boston harbor it was a notice to
 ',snt tnat he had gone too far. He was gu oiu ,ia'hioned German, who believed his edoJees were his children. His ministers
 pleht tax them grleyously, but their love for u,,h as Father ought 10 endure through if all Thus when George Washington. John Adar,s and Thomas Jefferson had arrapged .leiI own plan Of state, and one of inc great s ulo nau set out for London to pay the re. spects CT the United States Co the court of st Sssuhes, We find the king deeply disIressed tnat ne must give an audience Co ohe of the bsS gu. sni1Ien @ Nhow christening providence ancient way. '"e soO" MAny years later we read Sydney smith,s uIeoourse on the Arcadian simplicity Of this same government Such cheapness of inc .,gr,hg ,gIg eiass he could scarcely conceive ei neI nei president he says, receives only to,OoO English. There is no court at all { frecisely. The American government at that Iaue, n was run at the least possible expense me cost to the inhabitant for comfortA in when he did not directly participate was small beyond comparison with the cost in the ,l sest nnguoms of the world. It Is true th,aats no aristocrat of the old countries eouId toIers ste the seventies of republican existence. out arstocrats were not wanted. Thomas Jenerson rode to the white house horsebark ana scraped the mud of his own boots-ap sct that would have shocked the Arthur cab met of 1881 into an immediate crisis.
 The nation spread out Into that vast free world which Thomas Jefferson gave to nos,sr. ty The tax levy gradually rose to The aWiui sum Of s50, ,0J0 000 ten times what the good fathers would have had II. But with ui. uiuehaInpled prosperity we had not failed 10 attract Inc attention of other peoples. The
 i.S m struggling for freedom. had com. lnltted all tyrannies in her name. The scfibes oi Great Britain had endured a journey m tne salt seas 'e make sport Of US His Royal hlghness, the Prince of Wales, had deiened lo Vlsit what we then already called the Great Republic. The war came on. The nation gave a conyulsIve effort To escaDe the anarchy which feil on medieval France we signed all mems mortgages The levy that had been ten times as large as the fathers had prescribed was now made one hundred times as large. In one year We raised S5l9GO0,0O0 by taxation and spent Sl, 2g9, oO0, 0e0, the war being over. This was op Federal not local account.
 Twenty years have passed since the post- martial years Of 1865 and 1866 But in those twenty years the whole popul ation seems to have adopted the most vicious political erop omy ever taught on earth. The nation that once taxed the least now taxes the most Tn obtain S2O0, 000, 900 of dut!es. it allows small Classes oi men to collect not less than s.. coo. OOO, OOO or subsidies. With tbeso subsidies and the monopoles rendered possible under the protection system, private scbemes of taxation nave been set up until bankers ledger would not hold the various taxes public and private, which every wage-earner must meet The fury with which taxes were paid when the Union was at stake has heen bred In the blood of the present gensratibn me war -edrner has encouraged the Spartan -Prrit He is taxed s633 of Federal levy for each of bis family where as Thomas Jefferson taxed him S2 per capita The State, county, cltr school, and rsfks each levy tax. Licenses ana Inspections add to the burden And, such is the general temper any band of pri. vate spectators can obtain public or quasi governmental franchises, and levy what they please, which will be eageraly paid. In ad- dltion to these grievous wrongs associations of dealers have carte blanche in custom to meet and devise means of private robbery Thus the coal dealers are able, at last to charge S for coal that once sold for s4 and there does not rise up one man in a million to tip the tea into the harbor, as a orayer generation once rlsked their lives to do.
 The wage-earner will pay all leyles made upon him by public or private corporations When hls wages will not meet these leyles he has but one remedy. He will strike We may thus Dehoid Americans forced to this ignoble end; Coal dealers may hire a hun dred men as ralroaders. The men strike and are out month winning a raise of dollar a month for six months. Each man burns six tons of coal. The employers raise the price dollar a ton. The men pay the increased prlce cheerfully. What have the mep to show save their ''vctoryn for the time they lost. What is their victoryl The right to pay the coal men the gains of the strike.
 Such is the situation. The people of America, founding their government on re- sistance to taxation, have become the worst taxed nation on earth. Here all people give notice that they intend to rob all others, and all robbers are welcome to rob. The result is the dogma that a tax is a blessing. No or dinary wsge-earner has enough laid by to bury his dead. If he had, the coal ring, the sugar ring, the pension ring, the oil ring and 1000 other rings would 'reyise their schedules n-C Chicago Herald