The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-14
RUIN AND THEN REVOLUTION.
THIS rs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MEANS
Wayne Moveagh can no Longer Endorse
it's Teachings.


his vote in November will be cast for
Grover Cleveland. Mr.. McVeagh has
sent letter to J. w. Carter, secretary Of
the Massachusetts, Reform Club, which is
in part as follows:
"While / am more than ever resolved
10 hold duty to my country far above any
ties OF party, find myself at present in
general accord with the Democratic party
and willing to trust its course in the fut-
ure. The insight, the courage, and the
patriotism the masses Of the party eXhib-
tied in compelling the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland, when he was without a single
OfIice-holder to support his candidacy,
seem to me to demand that should meet
them in the same spirit and act with them
as long as they maintain that high stand
ard of policy and of administration. 1t
is the more easy to do so, because the
Republican party, securing its return to
power four years ago 10y promising to pre-
serve matters as they were, ut once en-
parked upon what regard as a reckless
and revolutionary policy, even overturn-
ing all the safeguards of legislation in the
House of Representatives in their haste
TO pass the force bill and the Mckinley
bill, both, to my mind, unnecessary and
Unwise measures.
There is no pretenSe, however, that
the Mckinley bill is abandoned On the
contrary our express approval OF it is de-
manded. No doubt but that bill, which
| can not but think was an uncalled for
disturbance of then existing tariffs, greatly
benefited a few interests, bat certainly
it greatly oppressed many others. Ofthe
protected industries themselves, many
Were then, as now, in far more urgent
need OF free raw materials. The bill hav-
ing raw materials on the free list could
not have passed, for those having such
materials for sale controlled enough votes
to defeat it, and they were very likely TO
do. so ii their bounties were continued.
The manufacturers of free raw material
were therefore obliged to join in the OBJ
jectionable process of increasing prices
by restricting production, thus adding to
the number of trusts, by which tue price
of the necessaries of life is placed at the
mercy of unlawful combinations of capt.
tai 1t is not surprising that labor, be-
ieving itselfto be oppressed, should rise
in revolt and that civil war has actually
ragged this summer in four different sec
tions of the country. And of course the
farmers, paying more for what they buy
and getting less for what. they sell, grow
poorer day by day; and excellent farm:
i'll some Of the most fertile section Of this
most highly protected State will hardly
bring the cost of the buildings upon them
''But the economic evils, however great
of the Mckinley bill, and the unreason
able system of protection it represents
are offar less Importance to my mind thai
the moral evils which follow in thei
wake. In deciding for what purposes tn,
masses of the people may be properl.
taxed, it must not be forgotten that take
have a wonderful capacity for filterin,
through all intervening obstacles till the,
reach the bowed back of toll and resting
there; and, therefore, the governing Q
bounties under any form of taxation
mainly the giving away of the wages c
labor. The sad truth that the curse G
the poor is their poverty is illustrated il
nothing more clearly than the undu
share they suffer Of the burdens of taxa
ton.
GAS the Republican party is now def
nitely committed to the policy of taxin
the people for the purpose of givin
bounties to such persons or interests a
can secure the necessary votes in Cor
gress, so the Democratic party is now a
definitely committed to the policy of IT
stricting taxation to the needs of the COY
eminent for public purposes alone. TIL
gulf fixed between these two policies
taxaiion is as wide and as deep as ca
we'll exist between political parties; an
am also convinced that the other cause
in which / am interested can not hope f(
success until the avowed policy of Il
Republican party on this subject is owe
thrown. Until then the right Of eaC
State to control elections within its DO
ders will not be secure. Until then the
rs no prospect of our enjoying the sing
and stable standard of wealth which 9th
civilized and commercial nations posses
Until then there is no hope of placn
eitherour pension system or the regul
ton Of Immigration upon a lust and prop