The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-08
1nE PRESENT CRISIS.
A Demonstration of the Iniquity Of u
uecessarv Taxation.

| Demonstration OF the lniquity OF In
necessary Taxation.
II the American people are disposed
to heed and profit by an object LESSOR
one is now before them.
Unnecessary taxation, says the Dem
ocratic platform, 'is unjust taxation. u
Unnecessary taxation, furthermore, is
the parent of troop of ills which can
not fail to affect the people most inju-
riously.
Unnecessary taxation has drawn from
the channels of trade, commerce and in.
dustry so many millions of dollars that
in some quarters even legitimate bust
ness is seriously crippled Unnecessary
taxation has caused tho Secretary of the
Treasury to ''set up shop" in Wall
street. where he seeks by questionable
methods to relieve the pressure, to
check the mighty flow of money toward
the Treasury and to tide ever tho dan
gers that threaten.
Unnecessary taxation maintained in
the interest of monopolies and other
tartff-buttressed interests Is fsspotisibl bic
for Mr.. Windows policy of buying
bonds not yet due at enormous pro,
miums and OF paying millions 81 dol
lars OF interest money that has not yet
been earned. These bonds are largely
held by the trusts and the com binasiona
Among the sellers of bonds ale the Van
derbilts and Standard Oil. What pri.
waite citizen burdened with mortgage
pays 1t off at the rate of $l.25 on tho
dollar or prepays interest?
Unnecessary taxation Is responsible
for these outrages, and would have been
responsible fer widespread ruin but for
the fact that profligate Congress has
set itself to the task .; squandering
these taxes as fast as they accumulata
Confronted by such 4 er'eis, the Re-
publican party has hot in its member
snip q single man who is capable of
suggesting an honest and an adequate
remedy. The Reeds and McKinleSs
can propose nothing bat there taxes,
and they are about .o be levied. MIR.
Blaine and che poor polls that parrot
has foolish utterances can suggest
nothing but reciprocity with few
South American States, Meantime the
golden stream, representing the CENTS:
Gated earnings and the waited estates
of free-born Americans, pours into the
Treasury almost million and half a
day OF it, there to be used to buy off
hondhoiders, to pay interest not yet
due AMI to corrupt the poor with inex-
cu;a5le pensions,
Is not that an object 1essone Whose
interest Is it that taxes shall be mains
tanned at this ruinous 6gures Is it the
interest OF the farmer, the ttiechanic,
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 Wall
street have the United States Govern
ment in tow. The taxes wrung from
the people to protect monopolies are ut
their disposal. They have only to cali
and their cry is heard Who hears the
plant of the farmer and the laborer?
On the heels of this demonstration of
'uo inquiry VI unnecessary laSdGlOn we
are to have a new tariff tax that will
search out every consumer in the land
and lay its mandate of plumber upon
him. If any one has escaped hereto
fore none shall now 90 free. All that
is worn, all that is eaten, all that is
nsed, the medicines Of the sick, the
tools of trade, tho shelter from the
storm, the dish in which poverty cooks
its scanty meal, tho fuel, the bed, even
the starry flag whose glory has at
length been tarnished by injustice
hereafter every thing will pay tribute
to error and greed,
We have reached tho parting Of the
roads, Monopoly and privilege will
not willingly turn back For the first
time IN our history they demand as
their right that which for years has
been obtained only by treachery and
indirection. Will the people concede
their claim and take the known eenss-
quences?-Chicago Herald.