Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-10-25
to congress and asked for more protec.
ton and got it.
THE MKINLEY RlLL.

to congress and asked for more protet
ton and got it.
THE M'KlNLEY HlLL,
Now comes the Mckinley bill whic
has been described as the abomination q
desolation. This keeps out grca
amount ofioreign products and we hav
to rely on the domestic products.
want to examine the effect of thi
bill on the people. We have been tolt
for years that the only thing necessar,
for the people to do to get rich is to ta'
themselves, and if we are not as rich a,
we deserve to be it is because we are moi
taxed enough. If any man believes that
he can be made richer by taxation lc,
him get into bushcl basket and try tc
lift himself over tcn-foot fence.
lfprotcction taxes everybody, it does
no good, but if it taxes only d few
it is robbery, and is unjust. If Jack
and Bill play seven-up, and Jack wins
five dollars, Bill is poorer II each wins
an equal amount, neither is any richer
Say ten men form town on the bank ot
a river, and rule things themselves They
are OF all vocations, he shoemaker
asks to have protection on goods com.
ing from across the river. 1t is done and
the rest of the men follow. Their requests
are all granted. and all grow rich. At
last the old farmer comes in and says he
has had to pa" more for all the goods he
has had to buy, but has to sell all his
products at the same price as heretofore
He is told that he will he given the same
advantages; that his products will he
taxed the same. But the fun of the thing
is that none of the farmers products
come across the river. We are exporters
of products and not importers. There
is a large surplus every year aud no tax
is needed. Out of $40 millions dollars
worth of goods exported last year, 600
millions were products of agriculture.
The prices were fixed abroad and had to
conform to the free trade prices of other
countries.
| THE FARMER LOSES EVERY TIME.
II a man takes his wheat to England
and exchanges it tor goods, he has To pay
duty on the goods he brings back. The
farmer does not want To take goods in
exchange and cannot get gold. He has
to sacrifice his wheat and comes back to
buy his necessities here. When the man
ufacturcr here buys products, he gets
them cheap because OF the great surplus
and the farmer loses.
The legislation OF the country has dis
criminatcd against the farmer charge
that there has not for thirty years hlcn a
law passed for the farmers; that all
financial laws have been dictated by Wall
street and the commercial lawSby manu-.
iacturers. have never seen Il law MIRO
duced opposing the lnborinr classes but
that n delegation was there urging ilS
passage. | have never seen u farmer
there. They have asked nothing, and
they have got ii. AM glad to see them
waking up now.
WILL HELP THE FARMERS.
Farmers. want you to fight your enc
mics who have passed these laws, and
will help you. You advocate nothing
that is not democratic. Do not fight
anyone but your enemies. The LAWYERS,
merchants, doctors aud schoulmastcrs
are not your enemies. The people who
have made these laws and have made the
few rich are yonr enemies.
REPUBLICAN INJUSTICE.
In 1883 the republican party. seeing
the danger OF their defeat. tried the tat
out of the manufacturers and with the
millions thus obtained carried on a most
corrupt campaign. They gained the
presidency and the house and already
had the senate. They admitted states
into the Union. The apportionment of
the United States gives representation
to every $4,000 voters. aud the three
states of Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada
have but lS5, 1000 voters. yet they have
six senator's and three representatives.
Idaho disiranchiscd Mormons, VINO were
mostly democrats, and Wyoming, where
they were republicans not only gave
them the right to vote, but
gave their wives the right also.
When saw what had been done aud
thought what u time the devil would
have with the men who did ii, voted to
put birthstone on the free list II we car.
~ the house and presidency in 1892, as
have no doubt we will do, we can not
repeal those laws, but we can keep them
from passing any more of them.
When congress met the republicans had
only three majority aud two of these
were republicans from North Carolina.
say, do not let il occur again. II you
had done your duty there would have
been one majority for the democrats.
You fought over small matters and
would not look up to the greater mat
tcrs. The enemy took the advantage OF
you.
THE FORCE NIL ~ nE PASSED.
When the house met they refused to
adopt rules and made the will OF the
speaker law. They unscatcd democrats
until they had majority Of thirty. In
that way they went to work. They
passed the Conger lard BILL helping Chi.
cago packers and hurting cotton grow
crs; the Mckinley bill, which deals n
deadly blow tn farmers; the force bill, by
which they take from the state powers
the right Of managing their elections and
give them over to United States officials.
authorizing If necessary the calling out
of the army with bayOncts to help. The
certificates of election are made out and
signed by the supervisors. They destroy
the substance of the constitution. My
opinion of what it is intended to do is
that an extra session of congress will be
called and this bill forced through"
In conclusion, Senator Vance said that
he would like to talk more but was ia.
tigucd. He said that any one could go
into any store in this city and see the ci.
fccts of the Mckinley bill in the difference
in prices. He said that he had observed
that the greater the cost oi goods, the
lower the tariff ON them. He gave a
number If examples OF this in the high
taxation of ncccssarcs and the low tax
alton of luxurics. lie spoke of the re.
publican party as the born slave of the
capitalists Of the country. He said he
was the friend of the alliance men and
advocated harmony between them and