The Connecticut citizen., 1892-10-08

passed, for those having such materials for sale controlled enough votes to de- feat it.
 
 It is not surprising that labor, believing itself to be oppressed, soon rose in revolt, and civil war has actually ragged this sum- mer in four different sections of the country, And, of course, the farmers, paying more for what they buy and get ting less for what they sell, grow poorer day by day and excellent farms in some of the most fertile sections 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 unreasonable system of protection it represents are of far less importance to my mind than the moral evils which follow in their wake. In deciding for what purposes the masses of the people may properly be taxed, 1t must not be forgotten that taxes have a wonderful capacity for Altering through all intervening obstacles till they reach the bowed back of toll and resting there; and therefore the giving of bounties under any form of taxation is mainly the giving away of the wages of labor.
 It seems to me like travesty on taxa ton to require as the Mckinley bill does. the farmer who grows corn in Indiana to pay d bounty to the farmer who produces cane sugar in Louisiana, or to require the farmer who grows wheat in Pennsylvania to pay bounty to the farmer who pro- duces maple sugar ill Vermont; but it is nearer tragedy than travesty to tax the masses of the people to increase the wealth of the very wealthy owners of most of our protected industries.
 But even such inequality and injustice are the least of its evils, for while such a system endures political corruption is absolutely sure to increase, as such system not only invites. but it requires, the corrupt use of money both at the polls and in Congress. It is of its very essence that fiat" shall be fried" out of its beneficiarles.
 
 And the evils of system of legislative bountes, so far from stopping, only begin with those bounties secured to the industries protected by the tariff, The disasterous course of he Republican Party on the silver question is an apt illustration of this truth. While it demanded increased bounties for its favorite manufacturers, it could not re- fuse increased increased bounties to the silver producers, as the votes they con- trol were probably necessary to the passage of the Mckinley bill. So situ- ated, the Republican Party had no alter native but to pass the silver law of 1890, doubling the purchases of silver and re- uniring the building of more warehouses in which to store the useless metal.
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 The poison of a debase q currency, is daily more and more felt in every channel of business and finance, and IS inevitably driving gold out of the country and leading us to all the evils of huctuating and therefore dishonest currency based upon silver alone. The Republican party cannot take any effective stepstoward repeating the bill, for the silver men are very likely if their bounty is stopped to so vote that the bounties of the Mckinley bill will stop also.
 There is still another great and increas- ing evil traceable to all excessive tariff since the war, and the constant meddling with it, and that is the bringing to our shores of those vast swarms of undesira- ble immigrants who degrade American labor by their competition and threaten the stability of institutions bas2d upon an intelligent love of country. It is not easy to exaggerate the moral evils they are likely to inhict upon our social order and our national life,
 As the Republican party is now definite lv committed to the policy of taxing the people for the purpose of giving bountles 10 such persons or interests as can secure the necessary votes in Congress, so the Democratic Party is now as definitely con- mitted to the policy of restricting tax ation to the needs of the Government for public purposes alone, The gulf fixed between the two policies of taxation is wide and deep and am also convinced that the old causes cannot hope for sue cess until the avowed policy of the Re publican Party on this subject is over- thrown,
 Until then the right of each state to
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