The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-01-13
a HE1vr RESPONSIBILITY.



rsxes Must Hs K-aucsd aud Raw Msss-
risls Made Free.
When Mr.. Harrison was rcnominatcd
Mr.. Carnegie cabled him his congratu-
lations and told him that the American
people knew a good thing when they
saw IT. Mr.. Carnegie only told half
the truth. lie should have added that
the American people knew bad thing
when they saw il.
You meet as the faithful adherents
of commercial emancipation. The sth
day Of November came to you and To
the republic like "A grand sunburst that
frightened up the whole world. For n
time the battle went against US, but at
the next opportunity victory came But
the victory has placed very heavy
burden of responsibility upon our
shoulders. We must show to the peo-
pie Of the United States that we were
honest in the declarations upon which
they gave US the administration of the
government in all departments.
We must arrange taxation for the
single purpose of raising revenue for
the government We must show to
them that we were sincere when we
said that taxes should not be levied
for the purpose of protecting anybody
against competition.
To do our duty will call for only an
ordinary amount of intelligence but for
an extraordinary amount of courage.
In proceeding To formulate measure
that shall take the place of the present
system of tariff taxes, we must keep
uppermost the principle of the right Of
the American people to labor and to
market the product Of their labor.
The problem to-day is that the pro-
ductive efficiency of the people OF the
United States Is SO great that in part
of the year II brings forth more than
will satisfy our people for the whole
year. Barriers have been placed in the
way of their marketing elsewhere what
they produce the rest Of the year. and
they must be removed. In order to do
that we must take the heavy penalties
off goods coming into this country. By
the same act that you prohibit imporsa-
ton you make impossible expectation.
We must take the tax off every raw
material that enters into the manufact-
ure of goods that we produce. Coal.
the metals. and all the fbers must be
put on the free list, and SO must all of
those things that enter into the manu-
featuring of the articles in which the
skill of the American laborer is superior
to the skill of the labor of any other
country. Then. too the taxes must be
taken off finished goods that are of
common necessity in SO far as these
taxes are purely protective. All this
must be done because our people now
appreciate that when you put high
tax on an article and that article comes
into this country to be sold something
must pay for it, tariff. tax and all, and
they know that that payment must
come from the surplus of American la
Dor, as it is now and has long been
coming.
The democratic party has wisdom
enough 1t has too much prudence.
For thirty years truth compels me 70
say that there has been cowardice in
the leadership Of the democratic party.
Grover Cleveland was elected because
the people appreciated that he had the
courage to do what was right
All we have to do is to follow our
chief, support him courageously, and
stand by the promises we have made to
the people. Then they will keep us in
power for another generation. The
distinguished gentlemen who are rum
ming around telling the monopolists
that the revenue duty we will be forced
to levy will be sufficient to protect them
have fallen SO far behind the band wag-
on that they now fail to hear the mu-
sic and have lost the step
The people have issued the cdict that
there must be a tariff system which
will reduce their burdens to a mini
mum. 1t is 10 carry out their edict that
they put the democratic party into
power II that party fails to do this
the people will bury it four years from
now deeper than they buried the repub-
lican party last November. Roger q
Mills. at Reform Club Dinner.