Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-28
WESTERN CAMPAIGN.
Carlisle Begins His Work
i'm Indiana.
SOUND REVENUE DOCTRINE.
Don M. Dickinson Addresses the
Michiganders-Blaine Roasted
Alive.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
TERRE HAuTE, Ind, October 81
Speaker Carlisle opened the canvass in
Indiana tonight, speaking to an audience
of 1900 people. In beginning his ad
dress Mr. Carlisle said: Judging from
what | have seen, no more speech-mak
ing is necessary in Indiana. The
Democracy is ready for the fight anc
anxious only that it shall come off al
once. l am quite sure that the State
OF Indiana is just as certain to cast it;
vote for Cleveland and Thurman as the
State of Kentucky. (Applause.) Mr.
Clevelann needs no eulogy at my hands.
1t is safe enough to say that his admins
tration has been honest, conservative,
patriotic and constitutional in all its
methods.
Mr.. Carlisle here enumerated many OF
the predictions made four years ago in
the event of the election of Cleveland,
among others that rebel soldiers would
be pensioned. He said Not single one
Of these predictions have been verified.
No Confederate soldiers have asked for a
pension or will ever do SO.
In the course of his remarks about the
surplus, Mr.. Carlisle said: On to 1st day
os July, 1887, last, the matured obliga-
tions of the Government had been called
for the redempt on, and yet at the close
OF that month there remained in the
Treasury over and above the require
ments of the Government sur
plus fund amounting to $4,000, 900,
and that has been accumulating since at
the rate of nine or ten millions per
month, except so far as it has been
diminished by the purchase OF bonds at
an enormous premium; and the great
question to be decided by the American
people is whether or not the system of
taxes under which from nine to ten
million dollars per month is taken away
from trade to be piled up in the public
Treasury shall be continued. There are
two lawful ways to dispose of this money.
One is to use it to take up the outstand
ing unmatured bonds OF the Government,
by paying an enormous premium: the
other is to deposit certain parts of this
money from time to time in the National
banking associations of the country upon
the pledge of security required by law, so
that the people may have access
to it to use in their business.
The Treasury Department has resorted
to noth these methods, not because the
Secretary or Presidentis is in favor of pur-
chasing your bonds at premium as a
permanent policy, or because they are in
favor of making large deposits of public
funds in the National banks as a per-
manent policy; but simply because there
is absolutely no other way to prevent ac-
cumulating in the public treasury to the
great injury of all the interests of the
people in every part of the country.
The Democrats of the House of Repre-
sentatives, said the speaker, recognizing
the necessity for reduction of the taxes
in order to remove the burden from the
shoulders of the people and prevent the
accumulation of this dangerous surplus,
introduced the Mills bill. This, he said,
is not free trade measure. 1t is very
moderate measure of tax reduction. 1t
proposes to give you cheaper lumber,
cheaper clothing, cheaper agricultural
implements and many other things. 1t
proposes to reduce the tax upon manu-.
factured chewing and smoking tobacco,
not including cigars and cigarettes. l
do not believe in this as an
independent proposition, said the
speaker, but recognizing the fact
that all legislation is the necessary
result of concession and compromise, as
sented to this partial repeal of the inter-
nal revenue tax. In my judgement,
wien the taxes have been removed from
clothing and food, there will be time
enough to consider the question OF taking
the tax from cigars and whisky.
[Applausel.
Mr.. Carlisle said under the laws passed
by the Republican party there is an
average tax of $47. 10 on every 500 worth
of imported goods, and asked if such tax
was imposed by the State of Indiana on
taxable property for the purpose of rails
ing the enormous revenue necessary for
public purposes, how long the Repub-
licans or other Indianas would submit
to it. He argued at length to show that
the duties on imported goods which we're
added to the cost price made it possible; ;
but in most cases not necessary, for the
addition OF like amounts to domestic
goods, as, if the American producer
did not add to the price of his
article the amount of the duty upon
the imported article, the imported
article could not come into the market
and be sold. The Democratic party pro-
poses to make reasonable and moder-
ate reduction of these taxes and revise
these laws so that the Government shall
receive ample revenue for all public pur-
poses and the people be relieved from
unnecessary burdens.
The speaker spoke at some length re-
garding the Senate tariff bill, and in
reply to the statements OF Congressman
Mckinley. He closed by appealing to
the farmerf to assert their rights in the
matter of the tariff. which, he said, was
discrimination against them in favor OF
capital.
BLAINE ROASTED.