The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-08
Farmers and NIononoIy.
er Journal.

Savoyard il. Courier Journal
Farmers complain of excessive
and dishonest taxation; they com,
plain of a scantiness of circulating
medium; they complain of corpora,
ton ACKNOWLEDGMENT and aggrcss.
ion; they complain of extravagant
reckless prodigal and profigate ex.
pcnditure of the peoples money
Now, what political party is respon.
sible for these abuses? The Repub-
lican party enacted monopoly taxes
in 1862 and periodically has increas.
ed them since that time; it enacted
the bill "to strengthen the public
credit" credit by which the contract
was changed and the promise to pay
paper dollar became promise to
pay coin dollar; it demonetized
silver in 1873, and thereby again
changed the contract, making the
promise to pay coin dollar prom
Use to pay gold dollar; it enacted
all the legislation under the opera
ton ofwhich empires ofthe peoples
land were bestowed on railroad
corporations whose lines were paid
for with the peoples money, and
much of the stock of which railway
companies is owned and controlled
by aliens; under Republican rule
the watering of stocks became n
legitimate robbery; under RepubIi-
can rule single Congress expends
billion and upward in Il time of pro-
found peace.
These are some of the chief evils
that grind farmers in the mill of
monopoly, and chief of these evils
the abomination of denominations,
the sum of viiIianies, is the tariff
that compels one class to take of their
fruits and bcstow it on monopoly
Tor the protection of American la
Dor" All the other evils save this
may be reformed and corrected and
the farmers would feel no relief.
Radically reduce the tariff, put it on
n basis of revenue, only, and for
public purposes, only, and farming
will take the rank in American in
dnstries it held third of a century
ago; instead of boys leaving the farm
to go to the city, the people will
leave the city to go to tue farm.
The tariff is the worm the In
bud, the canker in the fruit, the can
Ger in the flesh that is pauperizing
you; it is the head devil that robs
you for the ''protection" of rich men,
40 better-not so good-as your
selves; it was to save the tariff that the
Presidency was stolen from Tilden
in 1877; it was to save the tariff that
the Presidency was bought for Har-
rison in 1888; Reed became tyrant
and Mckinley a robber in order to
save the tariff that he'll was raised
again over the niggers in the last
Congress. Here is the point of at
tack for every farmer. 1t won't do
10 have a dozen issues No fox was
ever caught by hound that left the
chase to go after rabbit You
farmers can reform the tariff if you
will only resolve to do it, and when
you have reduced the tariff taxation
to a strictly revenue basis you will
be on the high road to prosperity
and can easily reform other and
less evils.
The Democratic party has not
had entire control of affairs since
March /, 1S61-more than thirty
years, during which time all the
devilment was done. True, we had
the President and the Houee of
Representatives four years, but
when we lifted much of the taxation
off the farm the Republican Senate
vetoed it, and thus killed the MilIs
bill, measure that would have rem
dered incaIcuiablc benefit to every
farmer. Every i'll that farmers
complain of, every iniquity that
forced them to organize for mutual
protection. is the work of the Re-
publican party. Then what is the
first thing to do? Why, kill the
Republican party, and the Demo
cratic party is the only force tina;
can kill the monster, and then if tho
Democratic party docs not give re
lief, why kill it.
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