Telegram-herald., 1888-10-31
AFREE WHISKY PARTY
DEMOCRATIC sczsns SHOWN Up
6sssrsI Basisr Explains the Effect of ths
nllzs Bil % the Lissao oassSis2 "a
VEL a. Tpsa ths Workiag-
mas Intsfssts

al.1's Intsfssfs
Ia bis address a. Detroit Monday night, |
General 3. F Butler saoss as io4oss ia
rsfefsrce % The eject ol tbs policies VI the
Iwo great psrliss ~ the liqaoF question:
Ihe nsxl great tang On 0us i-saa Is 10 ia
tozleaInx liQuors. Tie DemocI4ls szy that
the Rse4oilczas are fer frss hguor, aad tie
Republicans 60 Lot exactly z03s Shat 70
ssy ia return. f5r lheY have never fs41 the
Mllls bail dos GAly u tals lntsliigsnt
aadlsnes kn0s ia. TIE Allis slli. which
have Ia Guy pocket. taxes or more tsK %
WHISKY than ss aayshisE gh4ttneEe Is IA
the senate OiIf Perhaps ! ara uct snacly i
accnEAse--Eorse than hat. How msns Of /
yOa know nov maBy Of YOU have oesA
told by tas blatant tenpsrance men Who 1
have beel arouud aDd SnO do not know 4
anything OF what they are talking about, /
except mat the Lord sill DO something Tor /
Them. Tor they wou't work laughter how |
many OF them have tod YOU this great fact |
thai ! am telling you tonight tastthe Nils |
bill ropeals every license Of every retail |
nquor seller ia the United States How |
many Of you knew Il oefOrel on have !
heard people taking here hy TIE week. !
have come mere 10 tell you f1cs Put that
down 60 that there may De no mistake. /
have got the Mills Dill Ia my hands. / viii
try and give you The page. Ia the llisoiil.
on the sixteenth page, they ask oi the Secie-
tary Of the Treasury 10 give them report
OF how much 1t would take OF the revenue
II they repeal the retail license for liquor
and beer Of the United States, and he re-
ported 10 Special taxes, retail liquor deal
ers, fiscal year 1881 81. 0o7. .20e. Special
taxes, retailers in malt liquors. Sl1T, As"
Now, then, that Is what they reported.
l will hand you this book. and there
is not man OF you who can
find where that amount was taken
OF in the Mills bill, but yet Il is taken OF.
Being AL Old lawyer and accustomed a little
10 read laws, | have read the Mills bill.
lApplause. You will find in section 40 OF
the Mills bill that all clauses Of section
3244 of the Revised Statutes ard all laws
amendetory thereof ana ali other laws
hich impose any special taxes upon man
uiactured stills. retail dealers in liquors
and retail dealers in malt liquors are hereby
repealed. How many Of you know what
the statute section 3244 of the Revised
Statutes is aud. my temperance friends. did
YOU ever look 10 see what that meant?
That statute is the statute that provides for
taxes on retail dealers in liquors and on
stills aud beer and malt LIQUORS. and the
amount last year that was paid for that
which is repealed is 81 50 .2oo, as L read
you, and you will find that repealed IN the
on page 5S.
Let us see what the Republicans did with
the liquor question that they are to be
bounded for by third party called Prohi
bitiOnists. Prohibition is an excellent
thing If we could only do 1t. | am for pro-
hibuon, but | am not tor prohibition as a
political measure. The Republicans took
of about five millions from liquor. What
did they take il OIL of? They said that when
lion - IN a
art and manufactures the duty shall be
given up. Applause. Here, my temper
ance friend who has been abusing the Re-
publican party done like them very well
myself-on that question you are all wrong.
Why don't you like il? You say, free
whisky the Republicans want. Not Mt all.
They say when you don't drink whisky,
but put II int arts and into man ufactures.
such as paint. dye stuffs to preserve all sorts
OF things that require alcohol to preserve
them, when you DO that with the Whisky ii
shall 20 free. The Democrat say that every
man wko now pays S25 for the privilege of
selling liquor poison to his neighbors shall
have the S25 taken of. A oplause There
it is 10 plain language. Well. now. what
was it done for. They ssy they wanted to
diminish the revenue. Re it so. If it was
merely done to diminish the revenue.
let US pay it over, this tax of the retail
dealer, let Us pay il over 10 the widows. st
sl2 month, and 1t will pay 3,OSS widows
years pension a. $l2 month and save
President Cleveland great deal of trouble
writing vetoes. Tremendous cheers
iSuppose some poor widow gets 1t who ought
not TO have It, Is 1t not great deal better
that she should get the money and keep II
away from the corner grocery near her
house by making the man that carries on
the grocery pay licsnse2 Is not that the
best? One way is the Republican way. one
way is the Democratic way. Applause.
j udge ye, my friends, upon this matter.
We'll. let US 20 little further. will tell
vou where the other difference comes. We
want tc reduce the revenae, take off the
taxes, that We agreed upon. There Is more
Rspuolicanism ia that reduction thsn there
is of Democracy. The tariff is too high. |
fought 1t when was iD Congress. tried TO
get il down, bat could not do IL because /
was = Greenbscker. Let Us see what we
want to reduce-how? So as not to iniure
the laOOrlnE msn. so es not to hurt him.
l''Hearl' Hear and applause.l Every
body SAYS that. The Democrats say that.
They say their way IS the BEST the Repub-
licaDs say their way is the best. Let Us
examine the two ways fairly.
The way to reduce the tariff must be to
take OF toe tax. If you want 10 favor the
laborinz man in taking os taxes take it off
that into which bis labor does not go.
lGreat spplsuse1 Is not that righ;? Or
into which the east amount of his labor
goes. That is what we want 70 do. Is
there snv body who will say thar that is
| not the right way TO do i2 Nobody.
Now here is the trouble sith your
| Democrst tariff. Il takes the tar of
/ those things that the lab0rer makes by
labor alone. Let me 90 over this
| carefully. Let me go over this thing. De-
! cause / have stood By the side of the labor
| ing man IN my town for - odd wears I
know what the lsboringmen want and thsv
know what they want sui | am going
home 70 tell them the same thing am tell
| ing y0u tonight, next Monday, although
| there - no need Of my being there. Nv
Proposition is TO taxs OF the tar. where
We wsnt to redEce the revenue from that
witch the lsooysr puts As iittle labor into az
/ possible. Ibs Democrats On the o her hand.
I IN this Nils Sligo over is carefully and
I Tou viil fnd that I am riEbf-take it OF
those articles where the iabOring msn
makes al the value Let us take Il right
home. Whst is the vaiDs Of lumber as a
mercantile article. until it = cBt down and
sawed OF split or manufactured into some
| f1rm7 Nothing What pats II into that
/ form7 labor What kind Of labor A.
most wholly the labor of msn By BE hand.
s'ded in some degree ~ machinery TheverT
great percentages Il tie value thai goes into
thar Ian BE-. sxcert a. it stands in toe tree
where IL has DO vsiue, until "a = ~roushf
Z out = iabCr Very vsli. then. The Demo-
I crsts take The tar Of lanber in every form.
/ Way DO TREY strike AZ this Industry Be
cs1ss their English f1encs rignt over ~
river have = great deal Of lumhe-. You
/ vi Tad England IN tbs bill rhersvsr von
/ COX a. il. # you wi4l only scTstca into it =
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