Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25

the price is raised o.. gooos Drought from
| abroad by the tariff. it is raised on all goods
/ manufactured in this county that come in
! competition with the goods imported. So
abou: four or five times as much money is coll
| lected from the people in the increased price
| pail for sheir goods. and goes to q privileged
| class in the United States, and don't 60 into
| the treasury at all.
: lect surplus in the treasury of the United
| States. On the 31st Of August last the amount
of surplus in .he vaults of the treasury was one
| hundred and thirty million dollars. Owing
/ to payments out of the treasury since then, it
| has been sill. htly reduced. There was that
| immense INT in the vaults OF the treasury
| / suppose that amount is one hundred million
dollars Of your money. taken out of your
| pockets ana lying idle in the vaults of the
treasury OF the United States for which the
i Government has no use whatever. This is so
mu h money taken out of circulation: this is so
! much money the people could use in their busi-
ness and in supplying their wants, but there it
| lies useless.
Now. my friends, the Democratic party says
that ought not 10 be. The Democratic party
says its right enough to pay taxes 20 the Gov
eminent to the amount the Government needs
to carry on the affairs of the Government, but
IL is monstrous to tax the people to the amour t
of one hundred million dollars in order that
that amount of money may be taken from the
bus ness of the country and locked up in the
vaults of the treasury.
You see, my friends, am in a poor cond ton
for me to speak to you to-day, and it is about
time for me to stop. A voice: Go on."l
You're Democrat know. Now. my friends,
our opponents say this is for the benefit OF the
laboring man. this high tariff as though it
could possibly beneht the laboring man to tax
all he wears. to put tax on all his tools and
implements. and when he dies carry HIM in q
taxed coffin and bury him in a taxed grave.
No, it is simply an absurdlty, nothing more,
nothing less. The idea that nation can be
made rich by taxing the people far beyond the
requirements OF the Government; the idea that
man can be made rich by taxing him on all
the necessaries of life is an absurdity.
They say the Democrats propose to break
down the manufacturers of the country. We
mean no such thing. We mean to give the
manufac urers fair chance for an honest liy.
ing. and when we do that we do all that an
honest man can ask. They talk about US being
the enemy of the laboring man. OF what man.
ner of men is the Democratic party composed!
have belonged to it 'since was knee-high to
duck" as the saying goes. Laughter. I
have watched its course for years; have been
of it.; have worked with it, and zen it under
many different administrations and always
have seen that ninety nine one-hundredths of
the men that belong to the Democrrtic party
arc laborng men. IApplanse.l
Now. my friends, believe that, considering
the lnclemency of the weather, and considering
how many there are TO come after me, will,
after thanking you kindly for the attention
with which you have listened to me, ask
you 10 allow me to withdraw with this admoni.
ton: That upon your State may depend
whether we shall continue to have good,
honest Dem cratic Government in the United
States, whether we shall be opposed by
course and policy that robs the people for the
benefit of monopolsts and extortunsts. I
thank you for your attention, and now bid
you goodbye.
At the other stands Senator VOORHEES,
aud Assistant Postmaster-General Ste
venson were the principal speakers.
Judge Thurman left at six O'Clock for
Indianapolis, and spoke in Fort Wayne
on the afternoon of the 18th.