Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-05
GIVE US LOW TAXES +!
So Says Hon. Jas. A. Mckenzie,
of the Worlds Fair Com
mission.
An Interesting Interview With the Ken
lucky Ex-Congressman on Mat
tiers of Vital Interest to the
General Public.

A LEAF-CHRoNICLE reporter met
Worlds Fair Commissioner Jas. A.
Mckenzie in the Arlington Hotel
yesterday, and engaged him in con.
versation, with the following resu t
"Col. Mckenzie, see it stated in
some of the Kentucky papers that
you will be candidate for election
to The Fifty-third Congress. Is it a
fact? and ifso, what bearing will your
candidacy have upon your position
as Worlds Fair Commissioner ?"
GAS present advised, I will be a
candidate for election to the Fifty
third Congress. My connection with
tho Worlds Fair will net in the
slightest degree initiate against the
duties of my candidacy. The requir-
ments of the situation are not suffi-
GENTLY contiguous to involve the
idea of a formal declaration of candi-
dacy. But il may be truthfully said,
that unless something unforeseen
shall supervene, | shall ask the PEG
pie Of the Second district to send me
to the Fifty-third Congress-"
"What will probably be your poll
cy if elected ?'
'As usual, | shall clamor for a
proper recognition of the people and
their rights and the restoration of a
line of legislation that will tend to
tighten the burdens Of which they SO
rlghtfuliy complain. 1t is very easy
to set up man of straw and knock
it down, especially by people who
are unwilling to maui rails. But
real relief must come from men
who are willing to work, and who
believe that laziness is to be compen-
slted by personal inertneos and dis
cussion of finances. Truth is the
basic superstructure OF everything
that is desirable in life. The land
marks of history are marked by men
who are not liars. No lineup states.
man in the back room of a country
dOggery has ever yet settled financial
questions that fOrebode disaster to re-
publics. What we need imperative
Iy and inexorably are low taxes, and
the unalterable determination to
make the people The bcncfciaries of
good legislation, rather than a class
that has grown rich by the accident
OF bad legislation"
"What is your position respecting
the Farmers Alliance %
"Without indorsing many of the
theories inculcated by the Farmers
Alliance, can say Of a truth, that
very many of their efforts lie in the
right direction. The absurdity of
the sub-treasury will not appear to
most OF them. But | shall endorse
the coinage of all the silver that can
be produced by American labor, and
the liberalization of our tariff laws to
the extent that the humblest honest
man in America may eventually live
in an untaXed house, wear untaxed
clothing, plOw his fields with untaX-
ed implements, and inaugurate such
Il system of education that his chill
dren may learn to decline Latin
nouns and conjugate irregular Greek
verbs in books upon which the pro-
fame hand Of the tax gatherer has
never been laid. The whole tenden-
cy of modern civilization is in favor
of that Christianity of commerce
which finds its fullest exemplifica-
tion in the interchange of commodi-
ties which poor people ineXorably re.
quire. The time will come, possibly
within the next quarter of century,
when the absurdiiies and iniquities
Of the Mckinley law will be regard.
ed as being as absolutely absurd and
iniqutou5 as the corn laws in Eng
land. There is but one primordial,
overshudowing proposition presented
to the American mind, and that is
the lessening of taxation not
through revolutionary methods, not
by indirection, but by the persistent,
overwhelming pressure of American
thought-upon a system that has
tended to foster and build up mil.
lionRires to repress the spirit of indi-
vidual endeavor and to make men
rich through the mere operation of
laws
Colonel, what do you think of
the seeming intention to subordinate
the tariff issue to the unlimited coin
age of siIver?"
81 would just say that the silver
question is one of such magnificent
importance that it seems hard to
subordinate it to anything. / am in
favor personally of coming and put
ting into circulation every dollar of
American silver that can be brought
to the minis rs the products of
American labor. But the present
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