The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-26
THE PRESENT CRISIS.
: D.n.on.tr..loa OF the InIquity Of o.

a Demonstration OF the InIquity OF Ua-
necessary Taxation.
If the American people are disposed
to heed and profit by an object lesson
one is now before them.
UNNECESSARY taxation. says the DEM
6cratic platform, lis unjust taxation"
Unnecessary taxation. furthermore, Is
the parent of troop of ills which can
Hot 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 BUSH
fiess 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 coward
the Treasury and to tide over the dam
gers that threaten.
Unnecessary taxation maintained in
the interest of monopolies and other
tariff-buttressed 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-
vate citizen burdened with mortgage
pays it of at the rate of 81 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 profiigate Congress has
set itself to the task of squandering
these taxes as fast as they accumulate
Confronted by such crisis, the Re-
publican party has not in its member
ship 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. MIR.
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 confis-
Gated earnings and the wasted estates
of free-born Americans, pours into the
Treasury almost million and half a
| day of it. there to be used to buy of
bOndholders, to pay interest not yet
due and to corrupt the poor with 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 Wal
street have the United States Govern
ment in tow. The taxes wrung from
the people to protect monopolies are a
their disposal. They have only to cal
and their cry is heard. Who hears the
plant of the farmer and the laborer?
On the heels of this demonstration o
the iniquity Of unnecessary taxation WI
are to have a new tariff tax that viii
search out every consumer in the LAM
and lay its mandate of plumber upol
him. If any one has escaped hereto
fore none shall now go free. All tina
is worn, all that Is eaten, all that j
used, the medicines of the sick, tn
tools of trade, the shelter from tn
storm, the dish in which poverty cook
it's scanty meal, the fuel, the bed, eve
the starry flag whose glory has a
length been furnished by injustice
hereafter every thing will pay tribut
to error and greed.
We have reached the parting of tn
roads. Monopoly and privilege vii
not willingly turn back. For the frs
time in our history they demand a
their right that which for years ha
been Obtained only by treachery an
indirectiOn. Will tho people conced
their claim and take the known conse
quences?-Chicago Herald.