The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-11-27
THE PRESENT CRISIS.


ADsmenstrstion Of the Iniquity OF IN
necessary TaxAtion.
II the American people are disposed
TO heed and profit by an object lesson
one is now before them.
Unnecessary taxation, says the DEM
ocr4tic platform, lis unjust taxation.
Unnecessary taxation, furthermore, Is
the parent Of troop OF fills which can
not fail to affect the people most inju-
riously.
Unnecessary taxation has. drawn from
the channels Of trade. commerce and in.
dustry 30 many millions OF dollars that
in some quarters even legitimate bust.
ness is seriously crippled. Unnecessary
taxation has caused the Secretary Of the
Treasury to ''set up shop" in Wall
street. where he seeks by question able
methods to relieve the pressure, tc
check the mighty flow of money to ward
the Treasury and to tide over the dan,
gers that threaten.
taxation maintained IL
the interest Of monopolies and other
tariff-buttressed interests is responsible
for Mr.. WINDOWS policy of buying
bonds not yet due at enormous pre-
miums and Of paying millions Of dol
lars Of interest money that has not yet
been earned. These bonds are largely
held by the trusts and the com binations
Among the sellers of bonds are the Van
derbilts and Standard Oil What pri
vate citizen burdened with a mortgage
pays it off at the rate of 81. Is ON thf
dol1 mr. rr prara nc n taractC
Unnecessary taxation is responsible
for these outrages, and would have been
responsible for widespread ruin but fol-
the fact that profigate Congress ha.
set itself to the task Of squanderine
these taxes as fast as they accumulate.
Confronted by such. a crisis, the Re
publican party has not in its member
ship single man who is capable o.
suggesting an honest and an adequate
remedy. The Reeds and Mckinley.
can propose nothing but mere taxes
and they are about to be levied. Mr.
Blaine and the poor polls that parrot
his foolish utterances can sugges
nothing but reciprocity with a. few
South American States. Meantime the
golden stream, representing the confis
Gated earnings and the wasted estates
of free-born Americans, pours into the
Treasury almost million and half 9
day of it. there to be used to buy of
bondholders, to pay interest not yet
due and to corrupt the poor with mex
cusable pensions.
Is not that an object lesson? Whose
interest is it that taxes shall be main
tanned at this ruinous figure? Is it the
interest of the farmer, the mechanic
the laborer or the clerk? Or is it the
interest of the men who have monopo
lies to protect, bonds to sell and in
terest-to be prepaid?
The usurers and wild-catters in Wal
street have the United States Govern
ment in tow. The taxes wrung from
the people to protect monopolies are al
their disposal They have only to cal
and their cry Is heard. Who hears the
plant Of the farmer and the laborer?
On the heels of this demonstration O.
the iniquity Of unnecessary taxation We
are to have a new tariff tax that viii
search out every consumer in the LAND
and lay its mandate of plumber upor
him. II any one has escaped hereto
fore none shall now go free. All tina
is worn,- all that is eaten, all that !!
used, the medicines of the sick, the
tools of trade, the shelter from the
storm, the dish in which poverty cook
its scanty meal, the fuel the bed, ever
the starry flag whose glory has a
length been furnished by injustice
hereafter every thing will pay tribute
to error and greed.
/ We have reached the parting of the
roads. Monopoly and privilege will
not willingly turn back. For the frs
time in our history they demand al
their right that which for years hal
been obtained only by treachery ant
! indirection. VIII the people conceds
their claim and take the known conse
quences?-Chicago Herald.