Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-09-24

ed to land with his goods, he must pay
$1,000 to this government in the shape
of duty of 100 per cent. He finds that
there is no way to get his goods ashore
without, and he is obliged TO pay this
$1,000 to the government officer. That
makes his woolen goods cost him 50 900
by the time hegets them landed at New
York; and supposing that it would cost
him $500 more for freight to Fargo, his
woolen goods will have cost him s2.5OO
by the time he gets them home, and if
he wants to sell them he must make his
profit on that amount. Now is there a
man in the audience who cannot see
that if that man had not been obliged
to pay that 81 900 duty at New York,
that his goods would only have cost
him 81 500 delivered in Fargo instead
OF $4,000 as at present. And want to
say further, that if there is any man
here who cannot see that the price of
those goods in Fargo was increased
81 900 by that tariff, ,and when that man
comes to sell his goods he must charge
his customers that much extra in order
to get his money back, I say that if I
could get hold of such man ,and could
take him down to the geological garden
at Washington, we would have the big
gest crowd there to see such a natural
curiosity, that was ever seen there.
1t is true that the republican party
has reno red some of the burdens of
taxation to the amount of S2s6, ,OO0. 900.
But from whom did they take this bur-
cen? Did they take it from the shoul-
ders of the common, everyday farmer
and laboring man? At the time of the
close of the war the republican congress
removed the tax upon the incomes of
the rich, which amounted to S156, ,OOO,-
600. The republican party removed the
tax of per cent upon manufacturers,
which brought in s156, ,O0O,0 900. The re-
publican part removed the tax upon the
railroads, which amounted to s11 ,OOO,-
900. Oh yes; the republican party has
removed some of the burdens of taxa
tlon from certain classes of pesple, but
what classes were they? And now you
must also remember that in order to
remove some OF these burdens from the
shoulders of the rich, the republican
party has increased the taxation on
the woolen clothing worn by you farm
ers and you laboring men until it is now
100 per cent. Your clothes, your hats,
your boots, your underclothes, are all
taxed by the republican party i'm order,
not to provide money to run this gov
ernment, but to increase the profits of
the manufacturers.
These, then. are some of the differ
ences between the principles and the
practices Of the two parties, and I hope
you will remember when you come to
deposit you ballots next year that the
republican party stands for high taxes
for the benefit of certain classes, while
the democratic party is fighting for
equal rights for all, and special privi-
liges for none.
CONGRESSMAN BYNUM's SPEECH.
Il am not here tonight to make any
speech, but to talk to you in business
way about the great tariff system.
would like any republican to tell me
how this government, or any govern
ment, national, state, county or city,
can create wealth. Governments are a
burden, they cannot create wealth, and
when a government gives wealth. or in
creases the profit of any person or busi-
ness, it means and it must mean that
the government has taken that wealth
from somebody before it can give it
away. Get that idea firmly fixed in
your minds that the government can
give away nothing that it has not first
taken away or collected from somebody
else, because the government itself has
no wealth; it is beggar, and it must
send round the hat every year to get
what it has.
Yet the republicans will tell you that
the tariff creates asshome market. Y Yet
there are not more than 1 10000 men
in this country who are engaged in in
dnstries whose profits are increased by
the tariff, and even supposing that all
of them have families and that only
makes {, 1000, ,OOe mouths to feed. II