Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-25
MIR ,HILsoNIN CALIFoRN1A

Yesterday week was a cold day for
Mckinney in San Francisco when the
eloquent young West Virginia states
man, WM. L. WILSON, who is carrying
the campaign of education through the
West and Northwest, jumped onto his
tariff bill and ripped it up the back.
THE meeting" says the San Francisco
Examiner, was held under the auspices
of the various Democratic clubs and or
CARNATIONS of the city, and the turnout
was ore of the largest ever witnessed in
the city during non-pOitical times"
Mr.. WILSON'S speech was, rs usual, a
mastery and convincing argument for
Democracy and Tariff Reform. After
discussing the opposite aims of the two
parties and the fact that in the fight
for Tariff Reform and government by
the people no such thing as an loft
year" is recognized, Mr.. WILSON
launched at once into q discussion OF the
tariff. Said Mr.. WILSON:
have found that the chief difficulty in
getting the people TO deal intelligently with
the question of Federal taxation has been
that Federal taxes are hidden from th-m
You know how much taxes YOU pay TO the
State OF California, and your county and
your municipality, but there is no man in
this audience, intelligent as ii is, that can
get down 10 night ana figure out how much
taxes be pays the United States Govern
ment The Congress which died on the
4th day of last March appropriated during
its existence little more than one billion
dollars. There are in circulation in this
cOuntry-gOld, silver and paper money OF
every kind-about billion and a half of
dollars. Here, then, you have single
Congress that takes up 81 out of every 50
of the circulating medium of this country
and eXpends it by its appropriations. a
billion of dollars expended in a single Con-
gress
Where does the United States Treasury
get the money.
Mr.. WILSON continued:
'You impose your taxes as a rule upon
that property which a man has accumu-
lated, stored up aud put behind him, so to
speak, and you mercifully spare that bat
tie which every man has to fight every day
with hunger and cold for the neceSsaries of
life Into that fight the State mercifully
declines to enter 1t is exactly in that
fight on the necesSaries Of life and labor
and on the tools with which you labor that
the United States filings the chief burden
of taxation, while it exempts all the accu-
mulated property which man has stored
behind him.
When YOU come to examine the details Of
our tariff system you will find that the
United States throws its heaviest burdens
where they should be lightest, and its light
est burdens where they should be heaviest.
More than One-tenth part OF this billion
of dollars appropriated by Mr.. Reeds Con-
gress came into the Treasury as the tax
imposed by the United States on the single
article of wool and the fabrics of clothing
made from wool This necessary article Of
life-necessary to you who live i. the
eQuable climate Of California, necessary
more 10 us who live in a colder climate.
supplies 10 the Treasury of the United
States more than one-tenth of its ordinary
expenditures.
That is not the worst of it When you
come to tax this particular article of con-
sumption you place tax heaviest where it
should be highest and you make your
taxes lightest where they ought to be the
heaviest. Before the Mckinley bill went
into OperatiOn-and it is worse since-the
amount which the Government of the
United States eXacted in taxes on $40 worth
Of broadcloth was something over F.. The