Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-04

the peoples capacity for SELL sve1r ment, en
Invasion of natural and naliena BILE rights
more odious and tndefensfble than the British
stamp act against which our fathers took up
arms more than a hundred years ago. will
not dwell at this time and place on the repeal
OF the federal election laws further than 70
rejoice with yoa that the CLEAN of the
bayonet nor the threat that 1t Is coming will
ever again be seen or heard in the sacred pre-
cincts of the American ballo: box. We may
also rejoice with an exceeding great joy that
corrupt judges on the federal bench partisan
and their disreputable deputies,
with Incidental straw bail, will never
any more in Indiana, or in any other state,
pollute popular elections or overthrow the
fundamental principles Of free government
When some one again asks what the democrat
ic party has done in the past year it can be an
swered that. among other good deeds. it has
restored the freedom OF the ballot box and the
purity OF the elective franchise. In fact, the
whole body of the public service was SO filed,
crammed and choked up with partisan, cor
rupt and unpatriotic legislation during the
long ascendency of the republican party that
the task OF reform appears on every hand and
wherever we turn. When I look out on the
vast and difficult work to be done, the extern
sive reformationS required before the govern
ment can again yield harvests OF prosperity
and happiness 10 the people, l am sometimes
reminded Of an old farm which for many years
has been in bad hands and has ceased to be
productive of wholesome crops. Its fields
will be found breeding briars. brambleS,
poison vines, thistles, cookie burs, beggar
lice, gimpson weeds, dog fennel. smart
grass, skunk cabbage and yellow jack
cts nests. Old SEagS and ugly
stumps also cumber such fields and hinder the
work of the pillow and destroy the patience of
the plowman. When farm in this condition
has the good fortune to get change Of owner
ship and to pass into the hands of skillful
ana honest farmer, you would hardly expect
him to clean out all its noxious distractions
and put it in perfect order for corn, wheat
oats, hay and clover in single season. You
would grant him at least two or three years to
overcome the evils with which his farm was
afflicted before he took possession. The bene-
fit of this illustration and the same Indulgence
you would extend to the farmer il his work of
agricultural reform, are all ask for the demo-
cratic party in its present attitude. We have
begun our work Eob.y and we'll; much has been
Gone and yet much more remains for US to do
before all the foul growth in the political fields
for more than thirty years past can be entirely
extirpated."
The Tariff Law.
Senator Voorhees, said one of the
greatest of democracy's works was the
repeal of the Mckinley law, and
added:
II do not hesitate to declare that the bill
which passed both houses of congress and be-
came q law on the 2Sth day of August, 1894, what
ever its other merits or defects may be. will do
more in the aggregate toward the inevitable
reduction of duties, and consequently viii
make a longer stride in the direction of free
dom in trade and commerce. than any other
measure ever enacted into law by the Amer
icaE congress-
OF the income tax he said:
I'VE provided that at least thirty million
dollars year should be collected hereafter
from people who have good, net incomes. rather
than from people who have nothing but their
wants. and their labor with which to meet
them What is this but transfer of taxation
for the support OF the government from the
laboring man to the idle and comfortable rich:
What IS j. but relief from high protection
and direct and powerful blow to the whole
protective system: On the floor Of the senate
said:
The proposition contained in the pending
bill to levy tax OF two per cent. On all net in
comes OF corporations and of individuals in eX-
cess OF four thousand dollars per annum is so
just and equitable toward the hardworking
taxpayers of ueaEer resources throughout the
entire country that not word in its defense OF
explanation would seem necessary here or
anywhere else But the narrow and cor
roding selfshness of riches has been aroused
by this simple measure of justice into fierce
resentment and contention We hear on ali
hands the dictatorial voice of individual and
corporation wealth demanding that il shall not
Ee disturbed by the slightest touch Of the tax
gatherer, whatever may be the demands Of the
government or the oppression of the toiling
masses.
"On all the wants and necesSaries Of life the
man of wealth, with heavy income, pays less
rates of tariff tax under existing laws than the
laboring man or 1aborin9 woman whose wear
ing apparel is of coarser material and whose
household living is supplied with cheaper
goods bearing higher rates Of duty. His bonds
his accumulated riches of all kinds, and all in
comes arising from them, are exempt from al
government burdens, remaining not only di-
N finished and unmoleSted, amidst the darkened
homes and fragrant distress. but growing fat
ter stronger and more defiant as the days and
the years go by. He who has spent all his life
| In making an amusement of wealth looks out
upon the poor. tired. toiling world as II from 9
] fortified castle. He feels himself sumptuousiy
provisioned against all wants and amply pro-
tected against all contact or concern with the
labor-Stained millions who struggle from one
ocean to the other for the means OF existence
| Mr. Voorhees, then entered into an
elaborate explanation of the tariff, and
said: 81 stand with Grover Cleveland
on tariff reform, and with him l be-
lieNe in the curative processes of flu
ture legislation.
The tariff on sugar has been great
| 1y reduced" said Mr.. Voorhees,, and
added:
1T is needless for me to say that we would
have wiped it out If we could have done A
! solid phalanx on the republican side OF the
senate chamber, allied to small but vel
known contingent on our side, is the only
reason why the trust has one-eighth of one
| cent a pound left to swear By, CT rather tc
swear at as It has been doing ever since the
senate bill became a law.
The brightest feature of this tariff is found
in the fact that 1t is turning point in the his
tory of our economic legislation. 1t signalizes
the final stage in the most costly experiment,
ever tried by a peaceful nation. For On entire
generation of men this country has continued
to apply the doctrines of an unSctentifc, mar
row. provincial school of economists who teach
that people enrich themselves by divertins
their energies from more or less proouc'
tive industries. by taxing. hampertng and dis
couraging those activities for which their soil
climate and abilities are adapted, and foster
ing those which are unnatural TO them
AS all economists OF worldwide repute
have taught from the first. such ar
effort must fail, and the semblance
of success only be maintained as
long as the taxes and Determinations the syS-
tenn requires continue to grow heavier Ac-
cordingly tariff after tariff has been passed IL
successive years each more .burdensome and
more unjust than its predecessors, until in the
Mckinley law of 1890 the protective system
reached its elimination and broke down. The
experiment has failed In the new law the ma
ton has turned its face toward justice, toward
economical truth, toward lasting prosperity
toward ultimate freedom OF trade; and the
movement henceforth Will be In that direction
But now as my remarks are drawing to q
close perhaps some one in my audtence-some
kind friend. democrat or republican, no matter
whicE-here tonight wants tc inquire again
and something more in detail. what the Fifty
third democratic congress has done thus far:
Let me answer in tsse splendid language OF
Speaker Crisp:
I've have not done all we hoped to do; we
have done more in the past year to redress the