Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-30

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and multiplication. If it is true that
taxation can make man rich, then le
the poor 60 to the assessor instead of tt
the bank. Do you know that il
the $1,000 600 excess taxation were
equally pro rated among the States, Cal.
ifornia's share would be $500, 900 a
year. Suppose that your party in Cali
fornia held all the State offices and col
iected from you one and one-half mil
lions year more than the State govern
ment needed, what would you do ? Would
you stand like patient OK and let your
party prosecute such an outrage
No! You would chafe your bits
till the day of election came SO
that you could go to the polls and vote
your party out Of power. If taxation
makes a man rich let us take all our
tramps out of Jail and our paupers out Of
! the poorhouse and then tax them until
they become bloated bondholders. Sup
! pose my friend MIR. Bryson were assessed
three times more than he should be,
would he go to the Assessor and pat him
on the back and extend his thanks. No he
would so after him with clinched fist and
say, When you run again for Office l
will work my legs off clear to my collar
button to keep you out Now 1 am here
to ask you why, inasmuch as you would
resent a million and half State imposi-
| ton, you should enter no protest with
the same spirit when $60,O0O,OO0 q year
is being poured into the Federal treasury
already overfull. am here to ask you
why and tell you why you don't.
AS I have said, your party
and mine made the same high
promises, but until last December neither
party lifted hand to execute such
avowels. On the second Tuesday of De-
cember, though, the President of the
United States (applause) in clarion tones
summoned the men of the United States
to redeem the promises that had been
made. His message electrified not only
this country but it rang across the water
and thrilled the toilers there in the
streets, who as they passed to
wipe the sweat from their faces
exclaimed ooh how Providence has
smiled on the great Republic. We be-
long to a country of which we are the
foundation that ends in throne, and
our rulers are constantly devising plans
to raise more money, and here is this
great Republic that says it can do with
less revenue.
Is crystallization of your platform of
1884. 1t is declaration of the policy
your party said it would carry out ii it
got into power, but which
now offers you free whisky
and tobacco, and refuses to abate
a cent on necessaries. The whisky and
tobacco tax is a voluntary one and no
man need pay it, so it can never become
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on the necessaries OF life is an involun-
tary one and is burdensome, excessive,
unjust and unlawful, and follows every
American citizen from the cradle to the
grave. To illustrate: The boy in the
cradle is wrapped in swaddling clothes
on which a duty has been paid, and
even to the pillow on which his head rests
paid taxes; as a hoy at school, the
blackens his fingers have paid taxes;
trenches, the tools of his trade have
linen and the house over his head all
have paid taxes. By and by in comes
the doctor, and the sick man receives
drugs on which duty has been paid
from glass that has paid taxes, and
wipes his mouth with napkin that has
paid taxes. Then stalks the dread
visitor, and the undertaken is
sent for and brings a coffin that
has paid taxes, and a hearse that has
paid taxes backs up as the driver pulls
the reins on bits which have paid taxes.
At the church the preacher in black
suit that has paid taxes goes up
the pulpit steps, every step of which has
paid tax, and wipes his eyes on spec
tacles that have been taxed-the Mills
bill, by the way, makes spectacles and
eyeglasses free and that is good
for us old people Qaughter)-and the
preacher puts on the glasses on which he
pays taxes. The undertaken then calls
| up the friends of the deceased as they
take their last look at him through a
pane of glass that has paid duty, and the
coffin lid is screwed down with screws
that have paid duty, and later the man is
lowered down to his last sweet sleep in
grave at last.
THE MILLS BILL.
want you, my friends, to get the Mills
bill, Grants tariff measure, Arthur's de-
cree and your platform of 1884. and see
how truly the Mills bill upholds the
canons laid down by your acknowledged
leaders. In the Mills bill we make wool
free and among other things we abate
the tax on sugar; for, though your lead
ers say we do not, this is untrue, for the
second largest reduction is made on it.
Your chieftains say that if we have free
! wool the American sheep will refuse
to grow under free fleece and that we
shall have no more wool except what We
| import. 1t is fault in a country like
this of ours that where we spend many
millions of dollars to support our school
}houses there should be such
Ignorance, and far worse is it
THAT men should appeal to such
/ ignorance. Come what may, victory
or defeat l shall ever thank God that my
party had at its head man like Grover
Cleveland (applause) who had such con-
fdence in the intelligence, courage and
patriotism of his countrymen that in this
campaign he made an appeal to their
intelligence rather than to their ignor-
ance or fears.
THE WOOL QUESTION.
Now as regards the wool question.
Wool is one Of the greatest staples of the
world, and its price is regulated by the
supply and demand and production and
consumption. The tariff does not add a
penny to its price and l will prove it. l
have here the official returns of the wool
prices and tariffs for the last Al years.
Colonel Irish then read the following