The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-11
TIE WAR ON THE FARMERS.
CALL FOR TAXATION AND RESTRAINT.
Prevent Surplus Farm Products Is the Re-
publican Doctrine and Farmers Taxed
Until Two Million Bread-Winners
Are Driven on Their Land.s
we have Zee trade among ourselves through.

We have free trade among ourselves through.
ont thirty-eight states and the territories, and
among sixty millions of people. Absolute free
dom OF exchange within our own borders and
among our own citizens is the Law of the repub-
llc. Reasonable taxation and restraint upon
those without IS the dictate OF enlightened pa
trlotsm and the doctrine of the republican
party VILLAIN Mckinley, OF Ohio.
Mr. Mckinley is the republican cham
pion In congress of protection, and these
words are taken from his chapter in de-
tense OF protection in the official History
OF the Republican Party" used in the last
campaign.
What does the republican farmer with
common sense think of this doctrine of
the republican party if he interprets it to
mean that our congress can impose "rea-
sonable taxation and restraint upon" the
people OF foreign nations and that this
reasonable taxation" can be collected
from the people OF foreign countries by
American tax collectors? Is this doc
trine of the republican party true?
If the congress of the United States can
''leyy and collect taxes from the people
OF Great Britain, France, Germany, and
other countries, it should levy none upon
the per cent. of the world who comprise
its own citizens. Its treasury should over
flow from reasonable taxation upon those
without" Yet We hear no complaint
from foreign countries concerning any tax
levied by congress upon the 81 per cent.
OF mankind outside our boundaries, or any
portion of them "Those without" the
laws, except to laugh at our folly in sup
posing we can tax any one but our own
citizens, and to deplore our short-sighted-
less in refusing to sell at profit to our
selves what they want to buy. From what
foreign countries did we receive the sur
plus piled up in our treasury before Tan
ner began shoveling it out?
If this doctrine of the republican party"
were true, then it would be also true that
any foreign government could impose
reasonable taxation" upon u.s. The tariff
is not patented. 1t was not invented by
the republican party. Foreign countries
have had it from time immemorial, and If
by means of it they could tax the people
of the United States they certainly would
If not all, at least the majority OF them
would. What countries collect 'reasona-
BILE taxation" from the American people,
and what countries refrain from levying
this reasonable taxation" upon US? ii
this doctrine of the republican party" is
| true, it is important that we should know
to what countries we pay tribute as well
as what countries pay tribute to US, and
the exact amount for each. SO that we may
! know where we stand.
ave pay England over $500, 000, 000taxes
| yearly" shouts a 'backwOods republican
| editor, before Mr.. McKinlev's broad hand
| can cover his mouth. British free trade
cannot possibly impose reasonable taxa
| ton" upon the people of other countries,
| for that would destroy Mr. McKinley's
! theory that this imposition upon and col
lection of reasonable taxation" from
/ ''those without" can only be done by a
/ high protective tariff.
! That the government of no country can,
without force, compel the remainder OF
! the world to submit to reasonable or
unreasonable taxation is in accordance
with common observation and experience.
! Unless it were true there would be an end
at once of all government. Each govern
ment would, in self-defense, try to tax the
| others out of existence. Not only the
right but the power OF any government to
! tax stops at the boundary line. Not only
the right but the power is limited TO the
taxation of its own people. BY injuring
! its own people it can make part OF the IN
] Jury fall upon the people OF other COun-
/ tries. China, by forbidding its people to
! sell us tea can make us go without it. The
| United States, by forbidding the raising of
! cotton or corn, can make the people OF
other countries uncomfortable for a while
| But there this power ends, and every ex-
ercise of this power is evil, and only evil
! to all concerned.
1t is beyond the power of congress to
! frame anv law that will impose upon any
person outside of the United States tax
! of | cent, and this doctrine of the repub-
lican party" does not refer to any person
! who is bodily outside their boundaries.
| The taxation and restraint" is to be i'm
posed upon citizens who have forfeited
| their rights who have been "bribed by
foreign gold to betray their country
upon those without" any rights in the
! country.
Every tax, every restraint, every burden
! imposed by congress must be borne eXclu-
! sively by the people of the United States.
| Mr. McKinley's words do not deny this
He does not wish to contrOvert it. He
wishes to be understood by the ignorant
and careless voter as talking of foreign
! ers," but he wishes the protected mill
owners to know that he is talking of those
| American ClLlLCHS WHO, ny pIouuClug q
surplus of no value until exchanged for
foreign products, enter into competition
with the mill-owners in supplying the
people of the United States with the goods
they require.
BY those without" he does not mean
the people of foreign countries-although
he frames his words to make the rabble
imagine so. BY ''those without" he does
mean the ,S97, 4S5 American farmers who
sell their products to foreigners and re-
ceive foreign pay for their labor.
1t is reasonable taxation and restraint
upon" the American farmer solely, which
lis the dictate of enlightened patriotism
and the doctrine of the republican party"
No one else is meant by either Mr.. Nc
| Kinley or any other republican editor,
speaker or writer when referriug to chose
without"
This this is the real meaning of his care
fully chosen words no one can doubt who
will read them again. He divides the peo-
pie OF the United States into two classes:
! "a Those who exchange within our own
borders with absolute freedom. ~ Those
who exchange without our borders and
are to be punished. So long as the Amer
lean citizen trades and exchanges within
our own borders. with other citizens also
within our own borders, he is entitled to
credit and even honor. But the American
citizen who attempts to trade or exchange
with any one beyond our borders becomes