People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15
THE OMAHA CONVENTION

ing OF issues, without any meaning
less tumble of tangled words, it has
boldly declared war against the infa-
nous legislation which is destroying
our people.
Favoring the Gree and unlimited
Coinage of Silver" it had the mar
hood to say so. The humblest pillow
boy in the land can read those words
and understand them. 1t would take
cow-pen full of Philadelphia law
yers to tell the meaning of the
strange, hash-pot of words upon that
subject in the Democratic platform.
Ours was written plainly because we
all agree. Theirs was mixed, iumb-
led and hybridized because half of
their party is for Free Silver and the
other half is against it. Hence the
mental agony Of framing the plat
form to read one way in the South
and the opposite way in the North
and East.
Our platform favors the Income
Tax to reduce the burden of the
Tariff. The Democratic convention
was managed by Wall street million
aires and adheres to the policy of
taxing the poor and their clothes and
food while the rich 60 untaxed. Our
platform enounces clearly for Ma
tional Currency flowing direct to the
people without the intervention Of
Banks Of issue. Theirs turns back
the hands of the clock thirty-fve
years and demands that State Banks
of issue and National Banks of issue
shall be perpetuated as the masters
of the money world and the asses
sors of tribute upon the industry of
the people.
Our platform was not dictated by
Railroad Kings like Whitney and
Brice; therefore it has the courage
to declare that the Nation must re-
claim its highways and unfetter them
from the Rob Roys of Commerce
who now levy their tax upon every
pound of produce from every field of
industry.
The Democratic platform, framed
by boodlers and spectators, had the
shameless audacity to declare in IA
vor of National Loan to the big
Fair at Chicago and to saddle the
future of the party with the Mica
rauga Canal job.
Our convention had no such camp
followers in it. Hence it was quite
natural that we should not have to
swallow such pills or insult the dis
tressed laborers of the land by pre-
tending that patriotism demands such
spoliation of the Taxpayers.
We believe that Protection as
principle is wrong and we said so.
We believe that the Government has
no right whatever to tax a person
for any other purpose than to defray
the expenses of economical admins
tration, and we said so. We believe
that the Income Tax should be es-
tablished and thus supply revenue
which would take the place Of the
Tariff to that extent-thus lessening
even the Revenue Tariff and tighten
ing the burdens the Tariff imposes
upon domestic industries. And we
said so. Why did not the Democratic
Platform demand that their Revenue
Tariff should be made lighter by the
aid Of an income tax? Because the
millionaires who ran the concern are
not willing to pay their taxes. The
Standard Oil Company does not
want eny such legislation-and the
son-in-Iaw of one of its chiefs was
the man who bossed the Convention.
Rail Road Kings, like Calvin Brice
do not hunger for an Income Tax.
National Bank Millionaires, like Ros-
well Flower, do not thirst in that
direction. Great Democratic Journal
lists like Pulitzer, of the New York
World, loves his palace in Paris, and
his royal yacht, and the princely
revenues of his paper too much to
see any loneliness in the Income Tax.
Democratic Millionaires like German
of Maryland, Brown of Georgia,