The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-06-01
FARMERS AND MILLION
AIRES.
Remarkably Clear Views of a
Lawrence County Farmer.


which has wrought itself into q
tragedy. The mirth and song of
the ftrties and iifties have been
changed TO riots and bloodshed Of
the eighties and rineties. The cal
cium lights have been thrown up
on the bulwarks Of the Republican
party, and this mysterious science
of theirs is being laid bare to in.
speciion. They have always con-
tended, while advocating a high
rate of taxes, that the wages of la
Dor and good prices for farm prod
ucts depended wholly upon this
high rate of taxation of fairness OF
dividends upon manufacturing
stocks. They say to the laborers
we look to the high tariff to sus.
tain US, and We expect your votes
that we may give you better wages
In other words, you poor hirelings
are not capable of managing and
taking care Of yourselves, and you
must have seli-cons.ituted guar
dian. AT the November election
you vote these high taxes and we
will pay you for votes in big wages.
Let's see whether these selfcon
stitnted guardians have kept faith
with the country or not. Take the
report of the commission appoint
ed to investigate the effect OF the
Mckinley tax law upon the price
of labor. Mr.. Aldrich, the Repub-
lican Senator from z. l., / think,
vas chairman; and they report the
startling fact that the effect of the
Mckinley law had advanced labor
one sixth of one per cent. during
the first II months. Let US now
stop and calculate upon the result.
Lets take as basis the man who
is earning 81 per day or IS per
week. One per cent OF Sc equals.O6
one sixth Of this would equal 1c.
At the end of six days he has then
1901. He goes to the store on
Saturday night and lays this out in
general merchandise to support
his family. Under the Mckinley
tax law he pays 52% taxes on these
goods. 529S of IS is 1912. Then
for the privilege of earning one
cent extra per week you pay 1912,
Is this business and will we longer
submit to it? The defendants Of
this country have been lead to the
slaughter for the past twenty years
by thus promising a thing that
was never intended to be made
good. Taxes have been growing
higher siuce the days OF R ]. Walk.
er, and wages and farm products
corrsspondingly lower. The facts
are that after thirty odd years OF
Republican management, 1t will
take more of the products OF the
farm and days labor to pay the
national debt than it would have
taken at the close of the war. Die
it ever occur to you, my reader
that (unless brought from a for
eign country there is not a dolla
of wealth in this whole country to
day, that is not a product of tn
soil or earth? The farmers have il
the main produced the wealth Q
, the country-why has legislation c
. the past few years been such as I
rid them Of the whole Of it,
would that some Conscientious Re
publican farmer wo1ld answer this
Through this mysterious scienc
the Republican party has enable
corporations and factories to gro
rich, build up monopolies, reduC
h wages, until the labor Of the couI
: try is organizing and striking, tr,
ing to force these men to redeeI
their pledge made before the ele'
ton. Look at the coal-strike e.
ample. The Mckinley Congre'
o fixed an import tax on coal OF 70
per ton that the coal digger migl
e receive from 81 35 to 70 per day fc
v his dangerous employment. Ii
stead of getting the benefit of tn
y Zoe per ton tina. was promised then
r they got 20, 30 and in no place o.
& er Cos per ton tor soft coal.
It And now, after all this greed
shown in a degree ten times wors
J. than the worst of the whole, b
e their frantic efforts to defeat a pit
full 2% tax on incomes over $4OO
o Why my friends, it is a part
| wisdom and justice that the wealt
Of the country Chat we farmer
!, have produced under a scorchin
q ,un and that has under pretext
{, law been confscated and delivere
lie TO a favored class should contril
N u'e TO the support of the Cover
ment. Wealth is as much the su
as icct of protection as the life OF o.
cltizans and should therefore be
5 is due proportion of the burde
Of the country. AS taxes now stan
Is George Gould with his million
,.,ho ,yaaro M haitian nlothaa al