The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-11
PAW PAW, MICH, MAY II, 1892
The Party of Sophistry.

bOuDtltSS " oOuhuo WY ihiPiS ooi' v
TO our Democratic friends to read in
that wonderful platform compiled at
Muskegon, the following pompous
statement, eve appreciate the import
ance of undoing the dishonest and
ruinous financial legislation of the Re-
publican party" but little, very little
reflection shows the inconsistency and
bad faith of a party that will preach
honest money, when it is fully com
mitted to the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and consequent enriching OF
the silver bullion owners at the eX-
pense of manufacturers and laborers.
1t is the Democracy that poses before
the country rs the advocate of ''disdOn-
est and ruinous financial legislation"
In view of this glarng Inconsistency
it is not to be wondered at that the
silver question, though the chief issue
of the campaign, is so persistently
ignored throughout this remarkable
document, the main strength of its
originators being devoted to condemna
ton of the Mckinley bill which $50
restricts the American markets while it
increases the burden of taxation" To
see the falsity of this statement requires
no reflection whatever, since even he
who runs may read the story of this
country's increased prosperity under
the policy of protection, while the
4 Il Of tho
United States during the twelve-month
ending March 81, 1892, was greater by
SO, 1000, 900 than that of the year imme
diately preceding the passage of this
beneficial and much maligned measure.
But the gall of the Michigan Demo
cracyis equal to any thing when, though
the disgraceful record of the "Squaw-
buck" legislature is scarcely thing of
the past, the chairman of the state cen
trail committee could stand before the
convention with the ridiculous asser-
ton, 1--WE meet in the light of Demo
cratic state administration that com
mands the esteem of every good citizen,
(How many bad men the Wolverine
state must containD and the gratitude
efficiency (Oh, shades of FridlenderD
its true economy (by penny wise,
pound foolish policy and its faithful
fultillment of the party pledges to the
people" Of course the parentheses are
ours, but so ridiculous seem these
grandiose statements, that we could
not refrain from jotting down the men
tai accompaniment that forced its way
to our consciousness, just as it will to
that of every Republican who reads
them.
1t is this same spirit of self gloriiica
ton that has lately filled Democratic
sheets with enlogistic articles under
such glaring headlines as Exit EX-
travagance," or Enter Economy
through the Door ope ned by the Michi-
gan Legislature" The Courier of April
20 contains one of these articles styled
"Another Democratic Device in the
Taxpayers Interest" in which great
credit is given the "Squaw bucks" for
the wise provisions of the much boosted
corporation tax law which is to secure
such an immense revenue to the people
And yet this law enacted by this
efficient" legislative body is so defec-
tive that our Supreme Court has granted
a mandamds compelling the Secretary
of State to file the articles of association
of the Maine Central Oil Gas Stove Co.
employing a capital of 81 800, 000) a0ith-
ont payment of tax, on the ground that
the law does not apply to foreign cor
porations. 1t therefore becomes APP
parent that corporations DESTROYS of
evadng the law have only to incorpor-
posed and then file their articles here.
ate in another state where no tax is inn
OF course small corporations would not
consider it worth while, but it looks as
though these Democratic Solons had
repeated New York's mistake in driving
large corporations out of the state, in
stead of granting the alleged relief to
the taxpayers.