The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-27
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.

True Democratic doctrine has rarely been
more clearly or forcibly stated than it was
by Representative MCADoo few days ago
before the committee when the subsidy
shipping bill was under consideration. The
leading idea was that subsidies to all
classes would be nullity, since each would
lose its own special advantage through
like advantage granted to all others. I'm
less there is discrimination, the govern
ment can grant no favors. The govern
ment has no money of its own, and can
only take money from all and give it to
few if it gives subsidies or protection to
any interest. Without this unjust and I'M
constitutional discrimination, the so-called
protection is All impossibillty. Equal ia
vors to all, is precisely special favors to
none; and it is wholly impossible for s'pro
lection" to exist, when all receive an equal
share of the benefits of government
Yet, many people seem to imagine that
the government can aid certain enterprises
without at the same time doing so at the
expense of others; and still they know that
every dollar the government has, or that
| it enables favored classes to get,
is the product of labor and the
result OF saving. They know that the gov
eminent cannot give a single dollar to any
man on earth, unless it takes that dollar
from the pocket of some other person /:
they know that every gain made BIZ the
''protected' classes is at the expense of the
vast majority Of unprotected inhabitants
yet by some kind of faulty they imagine
that the government can enrich one class
without taking money from the other
classes with which to accomplish that OBJ
iect.
Representative McADoo deals with the
question in this luminous fashion:
You have subsidized the manufacturers
through your tariff; you will have subsidized
your laborers through state ownership of pri
yate and corporate property; you will have sub
! sidized your farmers through a government
loan and pawn shop; you will have subsidized
your sugar raisers in Louisiana; you will have
subsidized all the people Of this land that YOU
have not salaried or pensioned, and there will
be no one in this land, however humble his
station or however exalted his condition tina
| will not be recipient of government bounty
Ali of those whose names are not found on the
enormous pension and salary rolls of the re
public will be indirectly recipients of bounties
when that day arrives, Mr. Chairman, il
| the name of heaven who will pay for tn,
bounties! You will then have in this land tina
Arcadian or idealistic country where no on,
needs to labor; where, like the fowls of the air
God will take of US in some inscrutable and un
known way; where the rich and poor viii
flourish like the lilies OF the field, although
they toll not, and 1 presume our Statesmen
friends on the other side of this House and GU
Of it who are advocating these measures viii
show that, by some miracle outstripping tina
of the loaves and fishes, the Almighty will rail
a sort of mamma of silver certificates into tn
treasury Of the United States to pay for al
these things.
1t is either my good fortune or my misfortun
that shall not be member of the next Cor
greSs, but l want to say to my eastern friend
here, many of whom will be in that house
want to say to them if they will permit me- i
no spirit of dogmatism or superior wisdom. tina
cannot perceive how an eastern man can stan
on this floor in the Fifty-second Congress to op
pose subsidy to the farmers, either by loanin
them money on their lands or by making loan
upon their hogs, or their wheat, or their othe
products, who in this Congress votes direc
subsidy to one interest in his own section.
trust that halt will be called now in orde
that those OF US who do not believe in stat
socialism, who view with alarm the prevailin
J tendency to take the government into bushes
partnership, may not see our worst fears com
true. The motto of the Democrats party in thi