Nevada County picayune., 1889-09-04

signs of it's near approach are on all sides, and as plain to the thinking mind as the stars of clear night to the naked eye. The money power has crept into the ballot-boX, and it's leprous taint is rapidly spreading through every branch of the public service. An apple may look fair and enticing on its stem in the orchard, but if there is a canker worm at it's core it is only question of time when it will shrivel, wilt and fall to the ground in decay and rot tenncss. There is no outward change in the form and structure of our beautiful and glorious government as yet, but when the largest contrib utors to corruption funds get the highest official positions, when men advocate and urge the purchase of voters in "blocks of five," and lose
 
 no caste in the councils of their party; and when partisan reasons dictate dishonest rulings in the courts, you may be sure that a canker worm is at the core, and that the fruit brought forth by the wisdom and blood of your fathers is perish ing in your very sight.
 Money piled up mountain high in the hands of monopolies, corpora tions, trusts, and under the control of those who do not believe in the principles of self-government or the rule of the plain people is indeed at this crisis of American history the root of all evil, and it will destroy the American Republic from turret to foundation stone unless the. people in their might and power, while It is not yet too late, arise and take the satanic spirit of Plutocracy by the throat, strangle it to death, and de- liver the people from it's dangerous presence and accurscd power.
 The present high protective tariff is simply huge, complicated, far reaching, close-searching, insatiate, grasping and oppressive instrument tality of the plutocracy for the con- solidation of weath and the power of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many 1t vast ma chine, put in motion by unjust and dishonest laws, to take hard-earned money out of your pockets, and place it to the credit of those who toil not, neither do they spin, but who, in bank accounts and dazzling riches, outshine Solomon in his greatest glory. The war was the opportunity for the beginning of the money power, and the establishment of the present tariff was one of it's first movements. Under the plea of mil itary necessity the average duties on all goods. wares and merchandise 1 imported into this country for sale were more than doubled by the Mor- Till tariff, and you have had these in- creased rates to pay ever since. If any one should come into your midst saying that the importer or the mer- chant who sells to you, or any one else except yourselves pay the duty on the article you buy, don't fail to asylums in Indiana are about finished and that there is room in one of them for him, but none among an intelli- gent people. What marvellous feat in legislation it would be if we could make the citizens of foreign countries pay our taxes and furnish the re- sources necessary for the support of our government, On the contrary, the tariff of taxation by which the wants of mankind are levied on, and species of toll is taken on the things most vital to the existence of the human race. If there was no consumer for an article, that article would never be manufactured, inn ported nor sold. There would be no tax gathered in from that source, but if consumer comes forward the article is furnished with tax; in other words, the duty is charged in, and the consumer, of course, pays it. - Extract from Senator Norhees Speech at Bloomfield, H.
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