Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-25
1aE PRESENT CRISIS.
A Demonstration of the Iniquity OF I'm
necessary Taxation.

| AeCcsSaFy 1aXatIOn'
If the American people are disposed
to heed and profit by an object lessor
one is now before them.
unnecessary taxation, says the DEM
ocratlc platform, lis uni Just taxation"
Unnecessary taxation, furthermore, is
the parent of a 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 the 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 over the dan
gers that threaten.
Unnecessary taxation maintained in
the interest of monopolies and other
tariffbuttressed 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-
Yate citizen burdened with mortgage
pays it off at the rate of 25 on the
dollar or prepays interest?
Unnecessary taxation is responsible
for these outrages, and would have been
responsible for widespread ruin but for
the fact that profigate Congress has
set itself to the task of squandering
these taxes as fast as they accumulate.
Confronted by such a crisis, the Re-
publican party has not in its me m ber
ship a single man who is capable of
suggesting an honest and an adequate
remedy. The Reeds and McKinleys
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 suggest
nothing but reciprocity with few
South American States. Meantime the
golden stream, representing the contis-
Gated earnings and the wasted estates
of freeborn Americans, pourS into the
Treasury almost million and a half q
day of it, there to be used to buy off
bondhoiders, to pay interest not yet
ouo anu W corrupt Iue poor Win 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 Wall
street have the United States Govern
ment in tow. The taxes wrung from
the people to protect monopolies are at
their disposal. They have only to call
and their cry is heard. Who hears the
plant of the farmer and the laborer?
On the heels of this demons tration of
the iniquity Of unnecessary taxation we
are to have a new tariff tax that will
search out every consumer in the land
and lay it's mandate of plumber upon
him. If any one has escaped hereto
fore none shall now go free. ALI that
is worn, all that is eaten, all that is
used, the medicines of the sick, the
tools of trade, the shelter from the
storm, the dish in which poverty cooks
its scanty meal, the 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 the 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 conse-
quences?-Chicago Herald.