The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-06-30

treasury after piling new burdens of
taxation upon the already oyertaxed
labor of the country.
We denounce republican protection
as fraud [cheers under which the
labor of The great majority Of the
American people is for the benefit Of
few [Cries ''Read it again. y We
declare it to be fundamental princi-
pie of the democratic party that the
federal government has no constitu
tional power to impose and collect
tariff duties except for the purpose of
revenue only, and we demand the col
lection of such taxes shall be limited |
to the necessities of the government
when honestly and economically ad-
ministered.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff
law enacted as a eliminating atrocity
of class legislation. We endorse the
efforts of the democrats of the present
congress to modify its most oppress-
i've features in the direction of free
raw materials and cheaper manufac-
tured goods that enter into consump
ton, and we promise its repeal as one
| Of fho hap rac,,lfc hot will fol
low the action of the people in en-
trusting power to the democratic par
ty. Since the Mckinley tariff went
into operation there have been ten re-
ductions of wages Of laboring men to
one increase. The prosperity of the
country since the tariff went into op-
Grafton is claimed We point to dull
ness and distress, wage reductions
!, best evidence that no such prosperity
) resulted from the Mckinley act
We call the attention of the
2 thoughtful American to the fact that
t after thirty years of restrictive taxes
against importation of foreign wealth
9 in exchange for agricultural surplus,
r the homes and farms of the country
/ have become burdened with real es-
e tate mortgages of over so, 500, 600, =
' 600, exclusive of all other forms of
= indebtedness that in one of the chief
= agricultural states of the west there
S appear real estate mortgages averag-
+ ing $165 per capita of the total pop
: ulation, and that similar conditions
are shown to exist in other agricultu-
n raj exporting states We denounce
n a policy which fosters no industry sc
e much as it does that of the sheriff
8 Trade interchange on basis of re-
s ciprocal advantages to the countries
h participating is time honored doc
l. trine of the democratic faith, but WI
/ denounce sham reciprocity which jug
y giles both the peoples desire for al
1t enlarged foreign market and free ex
lie change by pretending to establish
is closer trade relations for a countr,
IS whose articles of export are almos
y exclusively agricultural products wit
al other countries that are also agricul
ID tural, while erecting custom hous
Y; barrier of prohibitive tariff take
le against the richest countries of til
IN world that stand ready to take ou
Of entire surplus products and exchang
ce therefor commodities which are neces
Of sites and comforts of life among ou
p people.
Id We recognize in trusts and comb
j. nations which are designed to enabl
i'll capital to secure more than its jut
ne share of the joint product Of capt.;
ID and labor, natural consequence {
of prohibitive taxes which prevent frc
tc COlupcIitiOH III iifcj uOHCob tiaN'c W
ed we believe their worst evils can /
s. abated by law and we demand rigi
to enforcement of the laws made to pr
to vent and control them, together wit
mt such further legislation in restraint
their abuses as experience may sho
ry to be necessary.
by The republican party, while pr
N Tossing a policy of reserving publ
an land for small holdings by actual sc
its tiers, has given away the people
its heritage till now few railroads al
i'll non resident alien individuals al
ill corporations possess a larger ar
yer than that of all the farms betwe
the two seas. The last democrat
of administration reversed the impro,
snt dent and unwise policy of the repu
al llcan party touching the public d
the main and reclaimed from corporatio
the and syndicates, alien and domest
eg- and restored to the people neal
ant 100, 600, 600 acres of valuable land
try be sacredly held as homesteads