Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-30

I'd nv table IN tne itst IOur years ucb oho
| has come from farmer asking reduction
| of the tariff on wool or any other article.
Here IL is again:
"Tbanks. gentlemen. Restrain your SYM
natby: bestow il where IL will be more up
nronriate and better appreciated"
He even denies US the privilege of SYM
pathizing with tho Kansas farmer.
Hear him again:
"Tbe farmers of my district believe that
under our system they are getting good
market for their products which fully COM
pensates them for every extra cent thcy
may possibly have to pay for their lum-
ber."
THE FARMER BURNING MS CORN.
II seems to me this will be at this time
very interesting reading for the kansas
corn. hurner.n as he sits by his corn fire.
hone he will not refuse us the right 20 SYM
nathize with him. for do from the bottom
of INV heart, But should think he would
wonder where those compromising markets
are when he cannot sell his corn at 10 cents
per hushel. The gentleman can no longer
say the farmers are not complaining; they
are not prosperous and happy az they de-
serve 10 be. They are waking mp TO reali-
zaton of their condition and to the tricks
that have been played on them.
LOWER TAXES
I hope their representatives, will wake mp
also. If they do not intend to champion
tbe cause ofthe Kansas farmers az we'll az
the rest of the farmers in this country. My
platform Isl Lower taxes for the farmer.
More money for his use, both greenback
and silver. and cheaper money 10 pay ms
debts with; and graduated income tax
so'that the rich of the country who have
been the beneficiaries OF go much OF the
legislation of Congress shall bear some OF
4 a m
under system OF Federal taxation where
the rich get the benefits and the poor pay
the taxes.
Mr.. Struble having obtained the floor
and spoken in opposition to the suggestion
that tax on incomes and on whiskey and
tobacco should be levied 10 pay pensions
and denounced them as odlous taxes
INcoME-TAx.
Mr.. Allen, of Mississippi, said regret,
Mr.. Chairman, that the gentleman from
Iowa Mr.. Struble) should be of the opin-
ion that the income-tax is odious. 1t may
be odious to the gentleman from Iowa Mr.
Strublel, but it is not odious TO others, 1t
il not odlous to me. These pensions are to
be paid. Nv friend from Indiana (Mr.
Cheadle) told us to-day of the enormous
interest paid on the public debt since the
war. q debt incurred when the soldiers
were out fighting. / say, sir, 1t IS time the
incomes Of those gentlemen who reaped
such fortunes IN speculation should be
used TO repay some of the expenses OF the
war. Applause ..
The gentleman may say that the income
tax is odicus. | know IL is odlOus TO you
and your party. But | say in behalf of
those agricuturists who | stand here to
talk for to-day 1t is not Odious TO them.
They think il is time the wealth of the
country was bearing some part OF the bur
den of taxation. Applause
OPPOSING TRIBUTE TO TIE RICH.
Iwarn gentlemen on this floor that the
people will not pay tribute to the rich
always without exacting something in re-
turn. | commend to you the great speech
of Senator Voorhees, made in the Senate
day or two ago in the interest OF the
farmer. 1 may print it, or part OF 1t, IN
my remarks laughter and applauseI, tor ne
eaid it almost as well as / could myself.
[Laushter.l
No. Mr.. Chairman. | do not know but
what the whiskey. and tobacco, and income,
taxes should bear some part of the bur
dens of this Government and let some re-
lief be Afforded TO the agricultural and
laboring people of the country who are
bearing the most of them now.
Gentlemen arise here and denounce the
tax on incomes as odlOus. | am sorry II ls
so odious, but it ought not to be. 1t ls
not odious to me; l do not mind it.
lLaughter.l II is not odous to the peo-
pie clamoring for some relief from the bur-
dens imposed upon them. l for one, sir,
would be willing to see the expenditures OF
this Government drawn from the incomes.
The trouble with the gentlemen and the
trouble with the party they represent is that
they represent the incomes and they do not
represent the honest toilers of the country.
[Applause.l
Here the hammer fell