Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
OUT FOR CLEVELAND.
Ex-Attorney General Wayne Macveagh
Eavors Tariff Reform.

| Veagh mas written letter to John W.
Carter, secretary of the Massachusetts,
Reform club, in which he announces
that he will vote for Grover Cleveland
The letter says in part:
| GAS both parties have presented I'M
exceptionable candidates there is no
reason why the differences which exist
upon questions Of public policy should
be discussed otherwise than in good
humor and with entire respect for each
others opinions.
| s'In the present campaign what may
fairly be called the false alarms of the
canvas will prove of little value because
| of the general confidence in the safe
/ and conservative character of both
candidates"
The writer finds himself in full ac-
cord with the democratic party and
finds it more easy to act with them. be-
cause the republican party, securing its
return to power four years ago by
promising to preserve matters as they
were, at once embarked upon what he
regards as reckless and revolutionary
! policy. even overturning all the safe
| guards of legislation in the house of
| representatives in their haste to pass
! the force bill and the Mckinley bill,
/ both, to his mind, unnecessary and I'M
wise measures.
| Passing over the force bill with
| reference to the earnest and wide
spread opposition thereto and to the
. advocacy two years ago of the measure
by President Harrison, Gen. MacVeagh
takes up the tariff, of which he says:
! ''The economic evils, however great,
! of the Mckinley bill and the unreason-
able system of protection it represents
are of far less importance, to my
mind, than the moral evils which fol-
! low in their wake. In deciding for
what purposes the masses of the peo-
pie may properly be taxed it must not
| be forgotten that taxes have a wonder
! full capacity for filtering through in
: tervening obstacles till they reach the
! bowed back of toll and resting there,
t and, therefore, the giving of bounties,
| under any form of taxation is mainly
! the giving away of the wages of labor.
| The sad truth that the curse of the poor
| is their poverty is illustrated in nothing
more clearly than in the undue share
| they suffer of the burdens of taxation.
But even such inequality and in us
tice are the least of it's evils, for while
such system endures political corrup-
| ton is absolutely sure to increase, as
! such system not only invites but it
, requires the corrupt use of money both
at the polls and in congress.
| ''The republican party ought to be
an honest-money party. and it would be
! if it could, but while it demanded in
creased bounties for its favorite manu-
| facturers it could not refuse increased
/ fha
| votes they control were probabl nee
essary to the passage of the Mckinley
| bill. The poison OF debased currency
is making itself daily more and more
felt in every channel of business and
| finance, and it is inevitably driving
gold out of the country and leading us
to all the evils of a fuctuating and
therefore dishonest currency based
| upon silver alone.
IF congress was to levy taxes upon
the people to confer bounties upon GER
tain classes of manufacturers, it was
very natural that the pension agents
should also join hands to increase their
fees by an indiscriminate granting of
| pensions. The result is that nearly a
generation after the close of the war
there is a steady increase. Of the vast
| sums passing through the pension
agents hands, until now the total
amount staggers belief and has become
of itself a very serious burden upon the
treasury. Surely there is neither rea-
son nor justice in legislation which de-
stroys all distinction between The dis
charge of duty and the Sinking of it,
between loyal service and desertion of
the colors, between wounds received in
battle and diseases contracted in the
pursuits of peace
''There is still another great and in
creasing evil chiefly traceable, in my
opinion, to the maintenance of an eX
cessive tariff since the war and the
constant meddling with it to make it
higher: and that is the bringing to our
shores of the vast swarmS of undesir-
able immigrants. Just as the duties
upon imported merchandise have been
increased so has tie grade of imported
labor been lowered
''As the republican party is now def
initely committed 10 the policy of tax
ing the people for the purpose of giving
bounties to such persons or interests as
can secure the necessary votes in con-
gress 50 the democratic party is now as
definitely committed, to the policy of re-
stricting taxation TO the needs of the
government for public purposes alone"
A Singing Retort.
Not more than a thousand years ago
there came to one of the Brook lyn, par
ishes young rector who had been
reared under the traditions of the very
highest of high churches. Among these
traditions was that which holds that
the clergymen of all other denomina-
tions are without authority, and, there
fore, not worthy to be called ministers
of the Gospel. One evening at a social
gathering he was introduced to oae of
the Baptist clergymen of the city of
churches Taking the Baptist by the
hand the young rector, with much
flourish and ostentation.- said:
'Mr. -, / am glad to shake hands
with you as a gentleman. though can
! not admit that you are clergy man"
''And L" said the other, quietly, am
glad to shake hands with you as
clergyman. though cannot admit that
unn a Gentleman-"-N Y. Herald
MANY MARvELS.