The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-04

1t meant to take from the State officials
the power to hold elections and give IL
so Federal officials.
The manner, the how Il should be held,
Congress may regulate. ballot. instead Of
viva voce; but IL cannot wrest from the
state the power TO elect and determine
as to its representatives, and give II TO the
Government which the people hold to
be responsible. How responsible? II the
Government can deceive on the election
OF the representatives OF the people, 10
whom ii Is responsible.
THE FORCE BILL.
Mr.. Tucker then took up the Force BILL
and gave 1t a thorough sitting as to prin-
ciplc and motive.
| The measure, declared the speaker, as
! sails both functions In elections. II at
! tacks the elective function by challenging
| registration, az II a challenging supervisor
could be the judge of our SURFACES: by
| challenging the citizens right to vote at
the polls. by domineenng visitations OF
! Federal detectives. by autocratic power
TO arrest voters without a warrant. and by
| the intimidation by posse and Of the
armed troops at the polls Of free peo-
/ pie.
This terrorism is to keep away voters,
! because elections arc free. The scheme
| IS not content with invading freedom OF
/ NIoifF, IL hSlIpS dbSOiNtclN.
IL attacks the determinant function I'm
! elections by the appointment OF a super
visor, who Is not TO be n citizen Of Vir-
/ ginia, and he. with all his subordinates.
are 10 supervise and challenge. to make
return Of elections 10 board OF can
vassers appointed by n Federal court
which is partisan, and there Is TO be no
result Of election returns 10 Government,
or any State official, but exclusively TO
the Federal officials.
The board is to decide finally. and send
its return TO the House of Representa-
tives. There can be appeal to the Fed
eral court, which is the ultimate deterrni-
nant in making return Of an election
TO the House OF Representatives.
Whoever heard OF so dragging justice
into the mire Of partisan politics Such
action is unjudicial. This part Of the bill
is clearly unconstitutional.
How does the court get this power?
ONLY when 2)0 voters in voting district
OF 5000 put the machinery I'm notion
The court Is opened at the instance Of a
gathering Of 200 10 sit as a judicial guar
dian Of an election with which. as a court
il can have, under the Constitution. MOTH
ing TO do, for the procedure is not
forensic. nor the function assigned to the
court judicial
The citizen who is charged with viola
ton OF law may be dragged from home
10 far-off Federal court for daring to
claim the power Of freeman in defense
Of his GOd-given rights.
Never in the history OF the Anglo |
Saxon race for centuries back has such |
plot against liberty found q hearing in
the legislation Of you people.
But it is not unlike the former acts |
or the Republican party. In five years |
after the war that party put the South |
under absolute military despOtsm
When power was slipping from them |
at the close Of the FOrty-third Congress |
they tried to fasten a force bill on us |
which a Democratic House could not re- |
peal against a dissenting Senate and |
President Grant. When they saw the |
handwriting on the wall in 1890 they tried |
10 pass this diabolical Force bill, and |
put the Mckinley bill on the statute |
book. stacking the cards in the Senate
by six new Republican States to prevent
repeal.
And with all their professions of peni-
tence for the Force bill they will. If
they have power given them again, pass
a force bill as effective for evil as the
Force bill they now pretend to discard.
What is the motive for this Force bill? |
The Republican party has in vain tried
to stihe the free Democratic sentiment
Of the South.
II will not be suppressed. Democratic
South and Democratic North threaten 10
overthrow the Republican policy Of tariff
plumber If elections are free from their
control the Democracy, North and South,
will win. and we will lose the Mckinley |
plumber and have tariff reform.
Take away freedom of election, usurp |
the power to count and return and send
ncmhers from the South, and we car
retain power and cor tinue the tariff
The plot is to destroy freedom Of cleo
N rde N |
can power as the means Of perpetuating
Republican plumber
Mr. Tucker then took up the tariff as
a scheme Of plumber of class by class,
and section by section.
He showed that the tariff was a tax
by tracing the tax as an element in
prices paid b. every consumer and that
asst year $3.50, 600 was paid to the United
states Treasury in taxes. Virginia's
share in proportion to population was
s 900 coo.
He then showed that a very large num-
Der Of duties paid were not paid into the
Treasury. because they were so high as
o prevent importations, deslgnedly so,
nd that they enhanced the price Of these
lOme articles by reason Of their having
monopoly.
Foreign goods, being shut out. were
lot a revenue to the Government, but :
bounty paid by the consumers TO privi-
eyed monopolist manufacturers. S
How much was this? The whole manu- S
actured product in 1890 was 5000 900. 00O J
)ne-half is benefited by tariff, or $780,
10 900. .
The average duty is forty-five per cent,
only two-thirds of the duty
s being entitled to price, which would
lake $500 100000. or the enhancement of
be price due to tariff. '
The speaker said he would moderate ,
is estimate by $500, 900 600, as the annual
ounty Of consumers 10 privilege mo- Il
opoly. OF this Virginia, according to a
opulation. pays SIS, 100000.
Thus Virginia pays, State and county A
TX, say a. 900 900; 10 the United States o.
reasury, $4,000 900; TO privilege monopoly, Il
3. 900 900. Under State tax Virginia pays
000.0 900. and under tariff, s23, 900 O00-six u
mes more under United States tariff
IAN TO Virginia herself, and more to Ii
onopoly than to the United States and
irginia combined.
Where does the money so you pay to
le United States Treasury? asked the >.
1eaker. One-half goes 10 pensions, which ~.
ever comes back in any form. Almost 80
u the bounty paid 10 monopoly never =,
'mes back. for there are few monopo- ~
SITS In Virginia. Is ii a wonder. then. ~
lat our farmers, mechanics and laborers
re poor? u'
Mr.. Blaine. said he, some years ago "
rote that the tariff increased the wealth
the country. True 1T whose wealth? I'd
In one decade Of low tariff. from 1880 '"
1850. the whole wealth Of the country