The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-25
AN OBJECT LESSON.

The veteran DR.. GEORGE l.. MILLER, for
so many years the talented editor of the
Omaha Herald, has been out of the news
paper business for long time, but he has
not lost his shrewdness nor has he forgot
ten how to turn a point cleverly. He is
also as true to the interests of his party
and the people as when he was doing yeo-
man service with his pen for the cause of
Democracy and the overtaxe1 masses The
other day DR.. MILLER walked into the
World Herald office with two cards of pearl
buttons in his hand, fresh from the dry
goods house where he had obtained them
Said the doctor: Here is an illustration
OF the working of the MCKINLEY bill, and
1t is one that is enough to excite the indig-
nation of any disinterested citizen. Here
are two kids OF buttons. One kind is the
poor mans buttons; they sell now for five
cents dozen. The other kind is the rich
mans buttons; they now sell for fifteen
cents dozen. The poor mans wife buys
the cheaper kind and sews them on the
clothes which the children wear The
children of the rich man have the more
expensive kind. Now, what do you sup
pose the MCKINLEY bill does q"
perhaps it raises the tariff on both
kinds" suggested the editor.
mo, sir; it does not,n replied the doctor
with warmth. sit does not impose a cent
of duty on the button of the rich, but it
puts on duty of $50 per cent, on the but
ton of the poor. l can't use language too
severe to denounce such a proceeding, it is
dangerous. 1t will double the cost of but
tons, which poor people must buy and use
Just think of it. Could anything be more
contrary to justice or reason! This is only
one instance among thousand others like
1t in the MCKINLEY bill. [ only speak of it
now because happened to be in the dry
goods store this morning when the matter
was brought to my attention"
The MCKINLEY bill with which the con-
ference committees of the two houses are
now wrestling may be followed from first
to last, and it will expose just such discrim-
nations as DR.. MILLER pointed out in the
matter of buttons. The duties on articles
which the poor must use are uniformly in
creased, while the tax on those things
which go into the economy of the rich
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The burden is put upon the poor and taken
from the rich, which is the underlying SEN
timent in all Republican legislation. The
Republican is the rich mans party and is
true to its master and his interest. never
failing to stand by him.
The infamy of this bill becomes more
pronounced when it is known that there
is no real need in the government for the
money which the bill proposes to extort
from the people. Under the CLEvELASD
administration the functions of the govern.
ment were discharged with degree of
thoroughress never before witnessed in
this generation, and yet there was accumu-
lated in the treasury vast surplus of
money for which no legitimate use could be
found. 1t was so great that at times it
formed disturbing element in the finances
of the country Notwithstanding the
demonstrated fact that the revenue of the
government is largely in excess of the
legitimate requirements, it is proposed TO
further Cypress the tax burdened poor.
The people will come to their senses one of
these election days.