Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-23

words. 1t Is a well written fuocu-
ment putting the plan of the cam.
paign clearly before the people. The
LEAF-CHRoNICLE has not the space
at command to-day to publish it in
full, but herewith ii presents the
tariff and financial planks, which are
the most important ones OF the in
strument:
Sec. 3. We reiterate the Oft-repeat-
ed doctrines of the Democratic party
that the necessity of the government
is the only justification for taxation,
and whenever tax is unnecessary 1t
is unjustifiable; that when custom
house taxation is levied upon articles
of any kind produced in this country,
the difference between the cost of the
labor here and labor abroad, when
such difference exists, fully measures
any possible benefits to labor, and the
enormous additional impositions OF
the existing tariff fall with crushing
force upon our farmers and working
men, and for the mere advantage OF
the few, whom it enriches, exacts from
labor grossly unjust share of the ex-
penses of the government, and we de-
mand such revision of the tariff laws as
will remove their iniquitous inequali-
ties, tighten their expressions and put
them on constitutional and equitable
basis. But in making reduction in
taxes it is not proposed to injure any
domestic industries, but rather to pro-
mote their healthy growth. From the
foundation of this government taxes
collected at the custom-house have
been the chief source of Federal reve-
nue.. Such they must continue to be.
Moreover, many industries have come
to rely upon legislation for successful
continuance, so that any change OF
law must be at every step regardful of
the labor and capital thus involved.
The process of reform must be sub
jected in the execution OF this plan
to dictates of justice. We de-
nounce the Mckinley tariff law
enacted by the Ffty-first Con-
gress as the eliminating atrocity
of class legislation; we indorse the
efforts made by the Democrats of the
present Congress to modify its most
q
oppressive features in the direction of
free raw materials and cheaper manu-
featured goods that enter into general
consumption and we promise its re-
peal as one of the beneficent results
that will follow the action OF the peo-
pie in entrusting power to the Demo
cratic party. Since the Mckinley tariff
went into operation there have been
ten reductions of the wages of laboring
men to one increase. We deny that
there has been any increase of pros
perity to the country since that tariff
went into operation. We point to the
dullness and distress which wage re-
ductions and strikes in the iron trade
as the best possible evidence that no
such prosperity has resulted from the
Mckinley act. We call the attention
of thoughtful Americans to the fact
that after thirty years of restrictive
taxes against the importation of for
eign wealth in change for our agri-
cultural surplus the homes and farms
of the country have become burdened
with real estate mortgage debt OF
over $2,5OO,OOO,OOO exclusive of all
other forms of Indebtedness; that in
one of the chief agricultural States OF
the West there appears real estate
mortgage debt averaging $l65 pei
capita of the total population; and
that similar conditions and tendencies
are shown to exist in the other agri'
cultural exporting States. We de
nounce a policy which fosters no in
dustry so much as it does that of the
sheriff.
Sec. 7. We denounce the Republic
can legislation known as the Sherman
act of 1890 as cowardly makeshif
fraught with possibilities of danger il
the future which should make all o
its supporters, as well rs its author
anxious for its speedy repeal. W.
hold to the use of both gold and silve
as the standard money of the countr.
and to the coinage of both gold ant
silver without discriminating agains
either metal or charge for mintage
but the dollar unit Of coinage OF bot
metals must be ofequal intrinsic an
ex.hangeable value or be adjuste'
through international agreement or b.
such safe guards of legislation as shal
insure the maintainance of the parit
of the two metals, and the equal pow
er of every dollar at all times in tn
markets and in the payment of debts
and we demand that all paper curren
cy shall be kept at par with and n
. deemable in such coin. We insist vi
g on this policy rs especially necessar
r for the protection of the farmers an
r laboring classes, the first and most do
). fenseless victims of unstable none
: and Iuctuating currency.
Hon. La 1rence II. Neal ,of Ohio, pr
q sented minority report on the tari
8 plank of the platform. This repol
: unequivocally disputed the right I
/. Congress to impose tariff duties