Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-08-05

"Now suppose, that IN your community,
you change your system OF collection and
the entire tax on consumption went to
Washington and not to protected indus
tries. Suppose you make every merchant
tax collector, who shall be forced to
so manage his store that he shall have
two cash drawers, one for tax and the
other for himself, and when you
make six-doilar purchase, he
puts two dollars into the tax drawer and
four into his own. If you undertook to
collect taxes in that simple and plain man
ner you could not do it for forty-eight
hours. (Applause.)
"What is the difference between the two
great parties? The democrats are con-
fronted by two diIemuas. First, all tax is
based on a system of Injustice and inc
quality; and the second, the constitution
provides for the support of the ma
ton in that matter. They then
propose to equalize it as much
as the constitution will permit, and to take
off the tax on the poor people and raise it
on the rich. (Appiause.) The republi :
cans in the Mckinley law have shown
their plan. Diamonds, 10 per cent; COM
mon window glass, 80 per cent; orange
oil, free; linseed oil, 60 per cent; horse
shoe nails, 116 per cent. An old tax on
seal plush Of II per cent; under the new
law III per cent. All this is evidently to
do away with the vulgar taste of the peo-
pie for such cheap goods. (Applause.
1t is the democratic policy to reverse these
rates. (Appause.l
GAS result of the Mckinley law, we
have in congress $50 majority, and this is
only foretaste. That is the difference in
the two great parties. The republicans
say: Look at our industries, and see if
you do not believe protection hes built
them up Yet every dollars worth came
from Mother Earth, and labor is bringing
it up from its crude sources end
protection has taken so per cent.
of the wealth and put it into tie pockets
of ten per cent of. the people. The ques-
ton is not what is the aggregate wealth
of the Uuited States, but how equally
is divided among the people.
what does protection mean in plain
language? Itmeans in political economy
the taking of money from one class Of
people and putting it in the pockets of
another by process of law. A tariff will
raise the price of every domestic article
which comes into competition with for
eign article.
''Talk about consuming the food sup
ply of the country! You can't do it in
century. If the manufacturing is built
up TIE agriculture goes down. You must
take in return what other countries pro-
duce. Up to last year there we're no tin
industries in this country, yet tin has
been growing cheaper every year. Ii
there Is any labcrer In a Christian coun-
try that gets anything out of protection,
it is only the one out Of nineteen who
work directly for the protected industry :.
If they could, the republicans would tax
the harp on which we are supposed to
while away time in heaven
In conclusion he Sid to the alliance
men: "Yo gu can never right one wrong
by putting another in its place. We do
not want class legislation. We must
climb the ladder step by step and
make every Individual build up our
material progress. And finally he shall
enter the secret booth, and on the nex5s
morning will be heralded throughout the
and the election OF Grover Cleveland.