The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-06-28

10 tht OnlN TOr
taxation, and whenever taxation is
unnecessary 1T Is Unjustifiable; that
when custom house taxation is levied
upon articles of any kind pro-
duced in this country. the difference
between the cost of labor here and Ia
Dor abroad. when such difference ex-
lists, fuliy measures any possible bene-
hts to labor, and the enormous addi-
tiOnai lmpositions OF the existing tariff
fall with crushing effect upon or
farmers and woriingmen. and for the
mere advantage of the few whom il
enriches, exact from labor n grossly
unjust snare of the expenses of the
government, and we demand such re-
vision of the tariff laws rs will remove
their iniquitous inequalities. tighten
their oppression and put them on a
constitutional and equitable basis.
But III making reduction in taxes, it
is not proposed To injure any domestic
industries, but rather to promote their
healthier growth. From the founda-
ton of this government, taxes
collected at the custom house
have been the chief source
of federal revenue. Such they
must continue to be. Moreover, many
industries have come to rely upon leg
islation for successful continuance. so
that any change of law must be at
every step regardful of the labor and
capital thus involved. The process of
reform must be subjected in the exc
cution of this plain dictate of justice.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff
law enacted by the Fifty-first congress,
as the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation: we indorse the efforts
made by the Democrats of the present
congress to modify its most oppressive
features in the direction of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured
goods that enter into general con-
sumption: and we promise its repeal
as one of the beneficient results that
will follow the action of the people in
intrusting power to the Democratic
party.
Since the Mckinley tariff went into
operation there have been ten reduc-
tions of the wages of laboring men to
one increase. We deny that there has
been any increase of prosperity to the
country since that tariff went into OPP
Grafton. Third, we point to the
dizziness and distress with wage
reductions and strikes in the
iron trade as the best possible evidence
that no such prosperity has resulted
from the Mckinley act. We call the
attention of thong Americans to
the fact that after thirty years of re-
strictive taxes against the importation
of foreign wealth in exchange for our
agricultural surplus, the homes and
farms of the country have become
burdened with q real estate mort
gage debt of over Sc, 500, OOO. 900, ex-
elusive of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agricul-
tural states of the West there appears
a real estate mortgage debt averaging
sl6s per capita of the total population;
and that similar conditions and tend
encies are shown to exist in ether
agricultural exporting states. We de-
nounce policy which fosters no in
dustry so much as it does that of the
sheriff.
Reciprocity.
Section 4. Trade interchange on
the basis of reciprocal advantages to
the countries participating is time
honored doctrine of the Democratic
faith. but we denounce the sham
reciprocity which juggles with the
markets and free exchange, by pretend.
ing to establish closer trade relations
for a country whose articles of export
are almost exclusively agricultural
products with other countries that are
also agricultural, while erecting n Gus
tom house barrier of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries of
the world that sand ready to take our
entire surplus of products, and to ex-
change therefor commodities which
are necessaries and comforts of life
among our own people.
Trusts Denounced.
Section s We recognise in the
trusts and combinations which are de- |
signed enable capital to secure moro
than its just share of the joint pro-
duct Of capital and labor. natural con-
sequence of the prohibitive taxes
which prevent the free competition
which ID the life of honest trade: but