The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-07-29

he then introduced Congressman
Mills as the orator of the day.
Mr.. Mills, after few Introductory
remarks describing the resources of
the state of Missouri, said: with
all these surroundings We ought te
find the noblest and most intellectual
men in the world. And We have
them. We ought also to find the
noblest, most beautiful and cultivated
ladies in the land. And we have
them. (Applause.)
Many of you despite the advantages
with which you are surrounded are
not even able to pay expenses. When
] was a boy, the farmer was the
moneyed man of the land. He had
money to lend, and many tiller OF
the soil made clear a profit of 81 600
year on his farm, but he don'tdo il
now. You raise more cora now than
You did then. What is the cause of
this transformation
The speaker attribIted the change
ofaffairs ofproducers was the high tar Fl
laws which have robbed the people to
build up Jay Goulds, Vanderbilts OF
Carnegies. twenty-five thousand
men own one-half of the total
wealth of the country.
A democrat does rot believe you
eau make man rich by taxing HIM.
As Mr.. Lincoln once said you can
fool a part of the people most of the
time YOU can fool half of the people
once in while but you cannot fool
all the people all the time. Now the
republicans who helped to pas the
Mckinley bill in the house don't be-
lieve this doctrine of Mr.. Lincoln's.
They think that they have fooled the
people so long with the bugaboo of
protection that they can make them
swallow anything that is labeled "pro-
lection. )"
We are taxed! taxed! taxed
What for? Why, to protect the in
FAINT industries in Pennsylvania and
They can make rails in
Pennsylvania as cheap as in
England, or Germany. Why put a
tax of IL per cent ON imported steel
rails Simply to protect the Carne-
gies of America. You may say that
interests the railroad man and makes
no difference to you. Don't be fooled
in this matter. Republicans liked to
be fooled in that way, but no democrat
must be fooled that way. The
fact is the railroad man shifts this lax
from his own shoulders to those of
the men who ride and ship freight,
and following the process of shifting.
from shoulder to shoulder, it finally
rests upon the farmer and the pro-
ducer-they have to pay this tax.
The republican party has stopped
talking about infant industries-now
they are solicitous about the wage
workers.
In illustrating how the tariff on pig
ron protected the poor man by rob-
Ding him and by making the manu-
a millionaire he referred to
Carnegie by saying that prince had re-
Gently boug hit castle in Scotland.
And when this rich man gets tired he |
yoes over to Scotland, rides in a tally
40, hires some one to blow trumpet
or him, and he goes forth, in heath,
vale and dell, singing:
If body meet body,
Going through the rye,
II body robs body,
Need body cry.
Prices have been going down since
1881. Wrecks and bankruptcy |
stare us in the face ON every hand.
Why are these prices going down?
European powers have taken hand
n the protection business. They
nave put tax on American wheat,
-four and pork, and even
now the countries of Europe are seri-
,usly proposing to prohibit the impor-
alton of all classes of American goods,
f the Mckinley bill becomes a law.
IF that is done you will have the fine
lome market these republican fellows
nave been preaching about so long.
The republican orators told you
rom every stump last year that they
we're in favor of the free coinage of
liver. But they fooled you. They
Introduced bill, but what did they
10 with it? Why they referred it
Jack to committee (of their own
,arty) which was opposed to free
coinage. You cannot trust the re-
publican party to make reforms of
my kind. |
Mr.. Mills asked Do you want a
'eturn of good times; do you want to
,njoy the same prosperity that this