Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-08

/ there is a drought and we don't raise any
We have TO import potatoes and pay the big
price this imposes. When We raise big
/ crop nobody brings any in.
But the farmers generally understand now
| that good commerce, fair exchange, is profita-
| bic to both parties, and that bad commerce
| stops itself John Bull is SLOUGH at trade:
/ Brother Jonathan is clever enough when II
comes to swapping. They won't exchange
/ less it is a good thing for both. The farmers
| are all right They understand that putting
| tax on things doesn't make them cheaper"
| APPLAUSE FOR CLEyELAND's NAME
| Hon. Owen Scott called Blaine's rec
| iprocity scheme "a gimlet hole bored
through the Mckinley law" His ref
erence to Grover Cleveland as the leader
of the hosts of tariff reform brought
| forth storm of applause.
THE TARIFF AND ITS VICTIMS
Mr.. Edwin Burritt Smith, in respond
| ing to the toast: The Revision of the
| Tariff by Its Victims said:
The tarif has been long with and
affects every transaction OF our lives that to
many it has become a blessing personified- be-
ing capable of friendships and enmities. They
regard loyalty to what is absurdly called pro-
| lection, others regard loyalty to country.
| They have not yet denied the right to
modify the tariff to meet changed condi-
tons but they insist that all revision must be
| by its friends. In fact since the Republican
party accomplished its public programme with
reconstruction it has been ma inly occupied in
| distributing spoils and revising the tariff
THE war rendered the heaviest possible tax
alto necessary The internal-revenue conec-
lions for single year exceeded S30o.00o,oo0.
| This vast burden, in one way or another, rested
! on property. With the close of the war came
necessity for tax reduction 1t would seem
that the two great systems OF taxation which
| had grown up together, one because of the other
| and both because of the war, should have been
| De- has hnarz -
1 history. AS the English Barons converted to
/ their own private the public lands placed
/ in their hands to enable them to perform mil
| itary services after the services were no longer
required, American tarin barons have
| continued to levy private taxes on their con-
sumers years after the repeal of the internal
revenue taxes which led to the tarin act Of 1854.
| "A favorite mode OF revising the tariff by its
friends consists in throwing tariff bill into the
| secrecy of conference committee in the clos
/ ing hours of the session. Then. by changes in
| classification, a skillful use of ad yalorem and
| specific duties in combination and other shrewd
devices, it is made very dificult if not quite
| impossible, for even an expert TO tell the ex-
! tent Of protection allowed. II one had the
| hardihood TO protest he is called theorist' or
a student of maxims rather than Of markets
! such revision has for its end the removal of
all National taxes upon property, in favor OF
| the heaviest possible public and private taxa
| ton imposed upon consumption Revision OF
| the tariff by its friends means the escape OF all
accumulated property and the entire income OF
| the rich above actual expenditures and the
heaviest possible taxation on the entire in
| come of the poor man who Is obliged TO spend
| all he gets. The victims of the tariff can adopt
| no surer course than the opposite OF that which
| has been pursued by its friends. Revenue du-
ties and taxes must be reimposed and those
| which are protective greatly reduced.
THE day and hour at hand when
| the victims of the tariff, under the splendid
| leadership of the man who has given great
| cause to his party and great party to splen-
| did cause, will undertake revision Of the tariff
which will indeed be a reform
Mr.. Edward G. Mason spoke of THE
| New Political Era as the time when
men would vote their convictions UNI
influenced by party considerations.
Subsidies and Bounties'' Colonel II.
w Snow thought were the idiotic at
tempts of a defeated cause to restore
to the sea the American commerce
which restrictive laws had driven
from it.
THE CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION.
Mr. w G. Ewing responded to the
toast: THE Political Revolution: What
Was It's Cause?" He said:
The great popular condemnation of the
methods and principles of the party in power
is the clear, reasonable and only logical result
of the campaign Of education that for so many
weary years, in season and out of season, the
self sacrificing missionaries OF tariff reform
have prosecuted in every school district and
voting precinct within the limits of the Federal
Union. This campaign OF education lifted the
American people up to higher plane of indie
pendent political and moral thought than the
shackles and trammels of party have ever be-
fore permitted them to occupy. 1t has taught
the people that submission to party dictation
is slavery pure and simple, slavery abJeet and
servile. 1t has taught them thai there can
no hipr iph ig
morally wrong. 1t has taught them that
country is more sacred than party and that
humanity is broader than nationality. 1t has
| taught them that there can not be liberty with
CIT law or law without justice.
| 1.-THE campaign of education has taught the
| American people that subsidies, bounties, pro
| tective tariffs and reciprocity belong to the
same class of crimes and are coparceners in
the same corruption; it has taught them that a
| law which taxes the toiling masses hundreds
of millions of dollars annually to aid private
enterprises, by discouraging or prohibiting Inn
| ports is in itself wrong, and becomes unspeak-
| ably infamous when its legitimate result ls
made the pretext for further enormous burden
| of axation by way of subsidies to the owners
| of ships under the miserable pretense OF en-
couraging the very commerce that the first rob
| berry drove from our ports From the cam
| paign of education the people have learned
| that a bounty is not only cowardly alias for
protective tariff but is diaboical in its oozing
corruption as to give the thing it stands for its
only semblance of honesty: for of the protect
i've tariff ii may be said that the poor man who
pays the extorted tax gets something, although
ever so little, for his money. But not SO with
the bounty; every stricken home in the land.
| every suffering. toiling child of want is taxed
| tc pay the bounty and the children OF wealth
eat the sugar and wear the silk.
THE campaign OF education has taught the
| American people that the great need Of the
hour at the helm of State is not leader Who
like the man IN the moon. shines in a borrowed
light, but genius like Lincoln whose inherent
majesty of character raised his ancestors from
obscurity; not a plumed knight, but sober,
thoughtful, prudent man; not man OF audac-
ity. but man of integrity Of tenacity of pur-
pose of majesty Of character-in short, the
man who inaugurated the campaign of educa-
ton made political revolution possible, and IS
| the guiding star of purer and better Govern
ment Of the people and for the whole people
Grover Cleveland"
| Graveyard Point"
The strange phenomenon of one spot
having served as the burial place for
people of three races in three distinct