St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-15

All Caused by Too Much Tax
alton.
NEWARK, O.-Sept. 14.-Hon. Law
renee L. Neal, of Chillicothe. Democratic
candidate for governor, opened the CAM
paign here today IN the presence of a
large delegation from Columbus. Mans
field, Chillieothe, CirclevilIe. Lancas-
ter, GAINESVILLE, Mt Vernon and other
points, all of which are within from
thirty to sixty miles of this city. All
the Democratic candidates on the state
ticket were present.
Mr.. Neal spoke upon the tariff eX-
clusiyely. He said:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens:
| have no personal claims to urge
today. l come 10 plead the cause of the
people. and it is not inappropriate that
l should plead their cause in this place,
where nearly 100 years ago, in 1891,
were married my grandfather and
grandmother, children of patriots who,
with resistance to unjust taxation for
| almost seven long years, endured the
hardships and encountered the dangers
| of the great struggle for freedom ana
| free government, by which independ-
| ence was achieved for themselves and
for us. Two questions of great public
| interest. one temporary in its character
and effects, but disastrous in the high
| est degree to the business of the cOun-
try. The other, farther reaching in its
influence, fraught with the happiness
and prosperity or the political opDres-
sion and slavery, not only of this gen
GRAFTON. but of generations yet I'M
born, who command our most thought
full consideration. That which was
prophesied has become history. We are
now reaping the bitter harvest of Re-
publican legislation. The Sherman
silver law and the Mckinley tariff law
| underlie the feeling of distrust and
want of confidence winch at this time
pervade financial circles. These two
acts are alone responsible for the pre-
vailing stagnation in business and trade,
the closing of our mines and factories
| and the general depression in agricult-
ure, aud a condition of prosperity can
| only be restored by us, as people, by
our adherance TO the Democratic faith
| in the manner of both currency and
| tariff reform. MIR. Neal, after demand
| ing the repeal of the purchasing clause
| of the Sherman silver law, and giving
| the declaration of principles adopted by
| tue Democratic state convention at Gin
| cinnatl his personal Endorsement, said ::
THE GREATEST FOE
| to the prosperity of the people is Nc
| KinleyiSm. So long as the federal sys-
| TEN of protective taxation is continued
we can have no general and permanent
| prosperity i'll this country. To regain
! such prosperity we must apply the AK
| to the root of the evil with earneStness
and vigor, and forever destroy the Nc
| kinley plan of taxation. The law which
| BELTS the name of the Republican gov
ernOr of Ohio, which was passed by a
| Republican congress, and received the
| signature of. Republican president,
and which is now declared to be the
| successful embodiment of Republican
| principles, presented for the first time
| in the history of our government, naked
| and undioguiSed, the question whe Their
| taxes shall be imposed for the payment
| of expenses and obligations of the gov
| eminent. Or for the purpose of creating
and maintaining manufacturing eStab-
| lishments. owned, operated and con-
| trOiled by private individuals, private
corporations, trusts aud Syndicates.
The protection OF favored enterprises
was made to override all public pur-
| poses; and, i'll this attempt to diminish
| the revenue and aid Such enterprises
| by such increase of duties, additional
taxes to the amount of more that S65,-
| G00,000 per year were imposed upon ar
ticles that are absolute necessities,
essential to the daily comfort and we'll
being of the people.
The claim of Gov. Mckinley that the
tariff tax is paid by the foreigner is
utterly fallacious. He must admit that
the foreigner pays no part OF the 81 ,000,-
OO0,G0O that go every year as bounty
to the home manufacturers. He is not
rash enough to make any such claim;
and yet he could make it with as much
| reason and force as the one he does
make-tllat the tax upon the imported
goods is paid by the foreign manufact-
urer or merchant. 1t is as plain as that
two and two make four, that your mer-
chant simply
ADVANCED THE TARIFF TAXES
to the government aud that the conSum-
ers not only repaid them to him,
but repaid them with his twenty-five or
fifty per cent profit added thereto 1t
is just as plain that the taxes. though
indirectly paid, more than doubled the
| cost OF the goods TO the ultimate pur-
chasers. The whole burden of taxation
under such system rests upon the
consumption Of the people. The prop
erty and wealth of the country pay no
part of its taxes. This destroys that
principle OF equality which is an
essential requirement OF a lust method
of taxation. The rich aud the Door are
not placed Oil an equality on their con-
trlbHtionS of taxes under such SYSTEM
The taxes paid by them are not in pro-
portion to their ability TO pay. The
very fact that consumption constitutes
the basis for taxes, prevents equality in
the payment of it, and does so to the
disadvantage of the poor man because
the consumption of the rich man does
not bear the same relation to his income
that the consumption of the poor man
bears TO his earnings.
The true principle of taxation would
impose the highest duties upon articles
of luxury and the least possible duties
upon the neceSSaries of life, but the Nc
kinley act reverSeS this principle and
adopts the contrary one. The alleged
protection to American labor by such
Legislation Is just as much fiction and
fraud as is the miserable pretext that
our tariff taxes are paid By foreigners
whose. goods we buy.
THE PROTECTED BARoNs,
whose selGshness and greed have eradi.
Gated from their very nature the COM
mon instincts of humanity, care not for
the welfare of the men of this or any
other country. They believe i'll free
trade in men. Cheap labor is with them
as essential a part of their protective
system as nigh tariffs; and the profess
sion of desire by them to secure pro-
tective duties in the interest and for the
benefit of the men who work in their
protected industries, is dishonest con-
cealment of their true motives and pur-
poses. The history of tariff Legislation
proves this to be true.
Another sufficient fact that cannot be
contraverted is that the wages of men
employed i'll different protected indus
tries bear no proportion whatever to
the duties upon the articles i'll the man
ufacture of which they are severally
employed. More potent still is the fact
that men engaged in like industries and