Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-23
WHAT A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS DID
 FOR THE PEOPLE.

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 FOR THE PEOPLE.
 ''The Democratic Congress has been un- able to do anything" said Mir. Aldrich in his speech accepting the Republican nomi- nation for Congress. No doubt Mir. AL drich wishes this statement to be believed, but it is disproved by the record.
 The Democratic Congress was able to do something, and did do great deal to tighten the burdens of the people. Let's see if it didn't. Here are few things it did:
 It repealed the Federal election law, the most odious and uudemocratc measure ever enacted to control the votes of free men.
 It reduced the expenditures of the gov ernment below those of the last Republican administration more than S28, ,000, ,000 in one year, thereby relieving the people from the payment of that immense sum into the Federal treasury to stimulate extravagant jobs.
 It reformed the abuses of the various government departments at Washington, improved the public service, dispensed with Gn immense number of useless posi- tions, and thereby reduced the salary list more than S1 ,ooo, ,oo0 annually.
 It repealed the sugar bounty law, by which more than $1O. .0OO, ,OOO a year was taken from the pockets of the people--the taxpayers-and paid to rich Louisiana planters and an infamous sugar combine or trust.
 It provided for the taxation by states, counties and municipalities of more than $500 GOO, GOO of taxable values which had heretofore not only been exempt from tax- alton but had enabled interruptions persons by fraudulent practices to escape from their just share of the burden of domestic gov ernment. This measure will help to / tighten the burden of taxation now resting so heavily upon the shoulders of the farmers and laboring men of the country.
 It provided, as part of the tariff law, an income tax upon the wealth of the country, thereby placing upon the shoulders of the rich due share of the burdens of the gov ernment. Under this law all persons in receipt of an income of more than S4000 DOT annum will have to pay as taxes to the Federal government per cent on all their income in excess of S40O0. The sum thus raised will be s15. .00O 1000 to SEQ, ,OoO, ,OOO every year-just that much of the burden of taxation lifted from the shoulders Of the farmers, laboring men and poorer classes of our citizens and transferred to the shoulders of the wealthier classes, where it justly belongs. (This is one reason why MT. Aldrich don't like Democratic Iegis- lation.)
 It recognized the dignity of labor by pro- vidng ty law national holiday upon which the working people may cease from toll and unite in peaceful celebration of their achievements and triumphs.
 It enacted more than 200 laws for the benefit of the people in different sections of the country.
 It passed the best tariff bill the country has had for forty years, bill which will relieve trade and commerce from the un- bearable burdens of the Mckinley Repob- lican prohibftory tariff, open the markets of the world to the products of our farms, workshops, mines and factories and ena- ble American industry and skill to com pete in all foreign markets for due share of tue worlds great commerce, thus mak- ing steadily increasing, unforced, nat ural and therefore permanent demand for American products of all kinds and giving the toiling millions of our people steady employment in producing goods, wares, merchandise aud man ufactures to supply this increasing Ademand. Among other provisions of this bill:
 It reduced the tariff duty so that on the schedule of wooden manufactures alone S163, GOO, GOO will be saved each year to the people of the United States who wear woolen clothes and consume wooden goods, or an average of g 60 to every man, woman and child in the nation. According to the census of 1890 the population of the Ninth Congressional District of Alabama was 160, 754; and under this Democratic tariff law, which was bitterly opposed by the party to which MT. Aldrich belongs and as whose candidate he is running for Con. grees, the saving to the peopie-the tax payers-of Bibb, Blount, Hale, Perry and Jefferson will be S469 ,96O.40, with which they can purchase other comforts of life, educate their children and improve their homes and farms. And yet MT. Aidrich says: "The Democratic party has been