Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-24

tie while the Executive; for longe'
periods the House of Representa-
tives, but not for one moment during
thirty years has it had all three, sc
that all these eyil-producing law:
have been absolutely beyond oul
reach, and went on operating and &C
on operating now, just as if the
overwhelming Democratic majority
of the House Of Representative
were Republican majority. Every
disorder in our finance; every in
Justice in our taxation is not only
the consequence, direct and obvious
of Republican legislation, but Of
legislation so plainly outside of the
constitution, SC plainly disregardful
of its inhibition, or of its limitations:
that not one statesman Of any party
prior to 1860 ever dreamed Of advo-
eating such transgressions.
That is not all nor the worst
Three years ago the Democratic
party experienced disastrous over
throw, and lost the House of Repre-
sentatiyes. which till then it had con-
trolled for many years. Both
branches of Congress and the Ex-
ecutive being then in Republican
hands, its power was complete to
write new laws apon the statute
books and to do with the Govern
ment and its administration what
ever they would. a block upon any
/ further new, bad, unconstitutional
legislation, which either a Demo
cratic House or a Democratic Execu-
tive could have effectually ihterposed,
was thus lost. For two years our
country was once again abandoned
to their designs. What did they do
with their unhindered power. Did
they repeal one Of those unconstltu-
sional laws for which they had been
pleading excuse of war, its burdens,
its necessities? Let our worse-than-
wartariff taxation reply. Let the
disorders of our currency make an
swer. No; they first cheated more
power into their own hand, and then
doubled its prostitution. (Applause.)
Their Speaker in the House, by vio-
lent and unparliamentary procedures,
distended the actual small to a fraud
ulently large majority, all of whom
followed him with dog-ike docility.
Naughter.) In the Senate six new
Republican Senators were seated to
represent a smaller population than
their census left uncounted in the
city Of New York, and one State
was defrauded of its Democrat
Senators. Their object was not only
more and worse unconstitutional leg
station, but also to put that legis.a-
tion beyond the peoples amendment
or repeal. This they did, and their
occupation within these intrench-
ments and the occupation of the
whole Republican and Mugwump
press has ever since been to plant
political discussion on preferred bills,
which their President would veto
and their Senate won't pass.
FAILING INTO REPUBLICAN NETS.
regret that some unwary Demo
Gratis in the press and in Congress,
thus render daily assistance in TAX
ing off public attention from the
unsurpassable monstrosities of their
living laws and assist the Republican
party in hiding the scope of that
resolution in purses. These "cut
purses OF empire and rule" run up
the expenditures to s1,000,000,0 900.
OF course they tried to pass the
force bill. They did pass the two
Mckinley laws, superadding to the
protected taxes of the tariff of
1883, the reciprocity humbug and the
new subsidy and bounty swindle,
still higher protected taxes. The
tariff on imported sugar, every dol
lar from which went straight to the
Federal Treasury, they abolished
for the sake of crowding up and per-
petuating higher protected taxes,
which, besides taking no less sum
from the peoples pockets for the
needs of the peoples treasury, takes
also many times greater sums from
the peoples pockets, not one dollar
of which goes to the peoples trea-
sury, nor to raise the workmen's
wages, out all goes into the private
cash boxes of a few employers of
less than per cent of our industri-
Gus toiling millions. (Applause.)
To call Republican taxation like
that unconstitutional, is like calling
highway robbery fault Of conduct
and fiat burglary and ndecorum.
daughter and applause.) But |
| seek to make it clear that to repeal
the Mckinley laws, to wipe them off
the statute books, reyiving the lesser
wrongs they supersede, is merely to
take the first step toward living up
to our unimpaired authoritative con-
stitution and>to keep in plain sight
of the people till next November
the Republican crime, the peoples
verdict, the need of its renewal.
(Applause.)