The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-11-05
THE ISSUES.
For the Democratic Advocated

For the DcmOcrAtlc AuVocale.I
On Tuesday, the 9th of November, the
American people will decide the issues of
another Presidential canvass. And never
have they been called upon to determine a
canvass iraught with greater or more i'm
portant interests to the people. The issues
between the two dominant parties are plain
and we'll dfcned. Tho Republicans have
a candidate nominated in the interest of
the lords and plutoerats, millionaires and
monopolists, federal officials and favoritism;
candidate pledged to a policy of class
legislation that is slowly but surely sapping
the foundations of our Republican institu-
tions, making the rich richer and the poor
poorer; millionaiers on the one hand and
pauperism on the other. The election of
MIR. Harrison means continuation OF
higher protective taxes, the passage of the
odious Force bill that the late Senator
Plumb denounced as the most iniquitous
bill that ever crossed the threshold of the
Senate, whereby the United States judges
could appoint federal officers to every voting
place in the United States to manipulate
the elections, destroying thereby the auto
nomy of every State and making our cleo
tions political farce at cost Of millions
of dollars to the people. 1t means also
continuation of billion dollar congresses,
lavish and unnecessary expenditure of the
peoples money to foster and enrich the
privileged classes at the expense of the
masses.
The Democratic party on the other hand
have a candidate nominated not by the
politicians, but in spite of them; nominated
not by any class of beneiciaries, but by the
| determined will of whole people, whose
unanimous voice for Cleveland bore down
and overwhelmed all opposion; candidate
who had been tried and in whom the peo-
ple trusted: candidate who had declared
in favor of the masses when he said that
unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation; a
candidate who advised such laws that would
be of the greatest benefit to the greatest
number of people; candidate whose ad-
ministration of four years had redeemed
$4,000, 900 acres of the public domain that
had been recklessly filched from the people
and passed into the hands Of favored syn
dicates and alien corporations candidate
whose honest administration found at the
end thereof, one hundred million dollars
surplus in the treasury; candidate VINO
declares that a public office is public
trust and that tariff is tax upon labor
and therefore should not exceed the neces-
sary amount to pay the government ex-
penses economically administered; candl-
date who is opposed to a dollar that is worth
only sixty cents, and has therefore declared
for an honest dollar of 100 cents for the
poor masses as well as the rich; a candi-
date who is opposed to a system Of taxa
ton and class legislation that has diverted
the wealth of the country from the pockets
of the laboring masses into the hands of a
few, until we now find that less than TWEEN
ty-fve thousand people own over half the
wealth of these United States. How has
this been done? The last census showed
population of sixty-three millions and
about sixty-three billion dollars worth of
property or wealth, over half of which is
now owned by less than twenty-five thou
sand persons, and which has been mostly
acquired since the breaking out of the war.
By the last statistical abstract by the
Bureau of Statistics, we find the amount OF
customs received from tariff taxes or reve-
nue. since 1862 has been S5,175, ,972, ,314.
Experts and statisticians also tell us that
for every dollars worth Of goods imported
into this country we buy of the home
manufacturers from three to FIVE dollars
worth. Now it is plain to see, that the
higher the duty imposed upon foreign
goods the more the home manufacturer car
put upon his domestic goods over and aboy,
! a fair profit. Therefore suppose we bu