The Forrest City times., 1892-01-08
DEMOCRATIC MATTERS.
MCKINLEY IN BOSTON.


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 Moaning ts Serve Bis owa End
 Addressing the Home Market clui
 fn Fremont Temple Boston. Mfr. Nc
 Kinley quoted George Washington al
 saying that we cannot have revenue
 unless ve have taxeslr The relevancy
 of the quotation is not apparent Me
 Kinley WAS discoursing of the beautles
 of what he and his school call pro
 lection" and not of taxation But
 Washington did not say that we cannot
 have revenue unless we have pro
 tection-" He did not say that we can
 not have revenue unless we delegate the taxing power to a favored few.
 and maze 1t the business of govern
 ment to assist these few in collecting taxes or tribute. from their many
 fellow citizens
 George Washington was not speak ing of anything of that kind At the time there was strong opposition to the proposal so invest the general govern ment with power to levy ard collect taxes A formidable party insisted that the states alone should have the power of taxation. and that the geuer- al government should he made de- pendent on the states for revenue. Washington contended that the gener- al government must have revenue. and that 1t could not get revenue un- less if had the power Of taxation. When public opinion was inclined to deny to the general government all power of taxation Washington was not likely to advocate the Mckinley plan Of giving the government au- thority to hand over the taxing power to favored individuals
 But perhaps Mckinley quoted Wash ington for the purpose of ofrefuting him suggests the Chicago Herald for he proceeded at once to say that the Home Market club and the Republican party in Ohio believed we would bet ter not tax ourselves 30 loag as we can find the products of other people to fax-r IL appears from this that Mckinley. the Home Market club and the Republicans of Ohio think Wash ington was wrong They think we can have revenue without taxing our selves They think we can raise about all the revenue we need by taxing the people of other countries. Washington probably did not think so. II he were alive Mckinley could teach him something But Mckinley will have all he can do in teaching tho in- telIigent people of Massachusetts that we can get cur revenue from foreign CTS by taxing the goods they send us and at the same time prevent them from getting their revenue out of us by taxing the goods we send them
 Mir Mckinley told the Bostonians that after the great war had gone by and the necessity for large federal ex- penditures growing out of the war had passed the Republican party abolished all direct taxation except upon two subjects and ia their legislation they relied upon tariff taxation to raise the needed revenue And they have been very successful The two subjects referred to are liquors and tobacco. Mr. Mckinley has discovered that the taxes on these things are direct taxes It has always been supposed that they were indirect taxes and perhaps even some members of the Home Market club suppose 30 still Has Mir. Mckinley also discovered that the tariff is tax after all, or was his remark about tariff taxation a utt rsf
 The Ohio statesman is not strictly accurate in regard to matters of fact. The Republican party under his lead ership has not relied on tariff taxa ton to the same extent that 1t formerly did. It cut of not far from as0. 900. 900 of revenue from tariff taxes last year but the internal rev. enue. derived from what Mfr. Mckinley calls direct taxation. is likely to be greater this year than in any previous year since 1870. The customs rev- enue this year will be smaller part of the total than at any time for more than twenty years. It is not true, therefore that the Republican party under his leadership has relied on tariff taxation for the needed revenue Its policy as shaped by him has been collect less revenue from foreigners" and more from the American people The facts must force him either to admit that this is 90 or else to abandon his claim that the foreigner pays our tariff taxes He is at liberty to seize either horn Of the dilemma.