The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08


i g per Mt In 1915 and from that until $780, In
4 1sdO war tarin was imposed whose average
| was IS per cent. Its burdens were willingly
| borne by the patient people. Untold millions
| OF money poured into the federal treasury and
the people gladly paid every exaction that was
| made OF them, for they were told and believed
| that when the war had ceased these taxes
| would be reduced after proper interval; but
instead thereof they were increased, until in
1883 the average was Al per cent, and In 1890
| came the Mckinley act, which levies an aver
age OF % per cent federal taxation upon all i'm.
| ports received into the United States
Citizens, for this enormous increase Of taxa
tion there has not been good and SUFFICIENT
cause In 1880 when the administration OF Mr..
| Cleveland was closed, one hundred millions Of
surplus money was in the treasury vaults.
/ Every obligation was being met and extIn.
| guished as II matured- Every creditor was be-
| ing satisfied. Debts, bonds expenses, pen
sioners-all men who had righteous claims
| were promptly satisfied In their demands.
| reinstatement OF the protective theory It en-
| tered the hall OF legislation. 1t outraged Hber.
| ty by the rejection OF representatives who had
| been fairly chosen in order to make room for .
| partisan majority, unseating member after
| member OF the house until II had secured itself
| In absolute control in both branches 1t began
| the most extravagant the most shameful
course Of enormous appropriations that any
| congress ut any time had ever INDUCED In. II
was saturnalia Of legislation. Men, drunken
| with power. stung to madness by defeat and
looking upon the present ~ the golden moment
OF opportunity freely voted away the surplus
and burdened the accrufng income. For two
years to come the expenses Of your government
have been SO swollen that Il 600 900 900 is neces
sary for the payment thereof. This tl,0OOO00-
100 is to be met by taxation levied upon you and
your fellow citizens throughout the United
States Outraged and incensed by this profit
gacy, the people drove the republican house Of
| representatives from pd1er.
1t would be idle for me in this intelligent
audience to discuss and dissect at length all
the items that went to make these prodigious
and unwarranted appropriations They will
not bear investigation They can receive no
approval from q free and virtuous people.
Why, twenty five years after the close Of tho
war, when all was In profound peace, when ex.
penses had been drawn down by careful ad-
ministration to the lowest practicable point
without embarrassment to the government or
wrong to any creditor, suddenly the incurson
OF the huns and vandals under Mr. Reed
breaks down all barriers. set decency itself ut
defiance, and in response thereto the people
elected . congress, three fourths OF which was
democratic in name and in sympathy three
fourths OF which was pledged for retrench-
ment economy and reform. know OF no req.
son why the judgment OF the people should be
reversed. The nat went forth last fall 1t ID
In process OF execution now, and there should
be no halting In its righteous course until good
government, economy and low taxation are in
stalled IS the great guides Of the peoples I'D.
ministratlon
And monstrous as have been the direct appro-
priations MADE by this congress last past the
direct appropriations are but part. Indirect
debts have been settled upon the government
which your children will be engaged In paying.
But enough OF It, The solid, undisputed ter.
rible fact that q thousand millions Of your
money has been voted from the treasury under
the profiigate auspices OF . single congress Is
reason why you should not relax, but should
pursue the determined course upon which you
have at last entered. The NapoleOnic DECLARE
tion has been made that because sugar Is free
the bitter dose OF partisan legislation is sweet
ened to the taste Of the freeman. The pill is
sugar roasted and therefore you will swallow
II the more easily.
II It be true, IS Mai Mckinley early said IN
his speech which have quoted before, that
the sixty million dollars Of taxes raised from
sugar was = tax upon the foreigner how can he
defend his law which gave that tax away! This.
however, only In passing The fact - that
while the tax was abolished on sugar II was
increased on tin and wool and other OF the
great necessaries Of life In use by the whole
people. The further fact Is that you are com.
PEELED to raise this thousand millions in two
years, and you can only raise 1t by taxation
| and by the expenditure OF the surplus on hand
| Taxation must be and is inevitably increased,
and q change in object II not . lessening OF its
| burden II comes, too. with peculiar i'll grace;
/ for in addition to abolishing the tdk on sugar
the people are called upon to pay great boun.
4 ~ to those who raise II within the United
States In order that they may compete with
foreign producers. There is no sugar raised
In Iowa; none In Illinois; none In al tho
| great states Of the northwest, to
| amount to anything A little Is raised In
Vermont but the vast gift Of the go. 10000 OF
bounty goes to the cane planters Of the south,
and you, the men Of the colder regions Of our
country must pay on wool and linen and tin
and other things whose taxes have been In
creased to make good not only the deficit in
| sugar tax but the bounty to be paid. to the
| sugar producer. Were there constitutional
warrant for this course 1t would still be 3 most
inequitabie proceeding. What reason exists
why you, the corn raisers Of Iowa. should help
the cane raisers Of Louisiana In the prosecu-
ton Of private industry No reason in the
| world, fellow citizens except that by glitter.
ing delusion and fraud you might be imposed
upon, and that when you took cheaper sugar
home you might be induced thereby to forget
the greater plumber which Is made In its name.
There are constitutional objections. however.
| which to my mind overweight all monetary con.
siderations in this regard The granting Of
bounties by tho United States government Is q
new departure It opens up IN unlimited field
OF plumber, OF combination and OF wrong. The
party which has broken through precedent the
customs OF the nation and the constitutional
barriers. to grant . DO unity Of 100000 year
to the sugar raisers, must be called to account
or next year your bounty will have to be exer.
cised in other fields and In broader directions.
l put 1t to you, Is men who love the country
and who wish to leave 1t unimpaired and
stronger to your sons and daughters that this
breach made by this bounty is one which must
be repaired, or through It will roll the whole
ocean OF other bounties, with their corruption,
extortion and oppression.
The democratic party Is to-day standing IL
front of that breach and trying to stay the tor
rent. II says that the constitution Of the
United States does not authorize such Q prodi
gal use OF the public money; that bounty fol
raising sugar Is not for government needs. and
therefore 1t should and must be reprobated
with its whole school and rout OF kindred boun
ties which wait to see how this pioneer bounty
fares before they rush In and eat the treasury
It behooves you all. irrespective OF party to see
that no man Is returned to power who Is moi
clear In opposition to this bounty business
And II II may be suggested, IS 1t Was by Maj
Mckinley, that some democrats may take nd
vantage OF this condition, II Is none the lesi
| reprehensible and radically wrong The re
/ puOAC0u party " VIC ASAAinICy O11 100 AOOS
It's fnsl declaration OF purpose. II proposes Il
SO enlarge the protective features Of our tarif
law as to prohibit competition with for
eign nations and 70 raise In 50 doing all o
the funds necessary for the most extravagan
purposes In other words 1t proposes to maxi
the expenditures OF the government meet its In
come, whatever that may be, under this sys
tenn. The democratic party proposes to make
the income Of the government meet its ex.
penses, economically transacted Between thu
two there Is . radical difference In principle
and In result and It ID for free men to unite II
determining which course is right and just ant
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