Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1894-06-29
Republican Buncombe.

We denounce the Democratic as
sault on the American protection
system, which has reduced to idle
ness 100000 of working-men, apt
already destroyed values to ar
amount far gi ieater than the nation
al debt created for the suppression
OF the rebellion, and we re-atfirm oul
allegiance to the principles of pro
lection as set forth in the nationa
platform of the Republican party
for tue last thirty years. We view
with alarm the increased burden
thrown upon the people of the STATE
of Missouri by the Democratic board
Of equalization, arbitrarily raising
the assessment of property in the
state OF Missouri, $40, 100000 with
out decreasing the rate of levy
Davis County Republican Platform.
The patriotic (?) gentlemen who
recently passed the above resolution
10 Daviess county seem not to be
aware that this country is still liv.
ing under the Mckinley tariff law,
the very acme OF protection laws.
II 100000 workingmen are idle,
they have become go under the very
system built up and fostered for
thirty years under laws enacted by
Republican congresses. II values
have been destroyed by anybody,
they have been destroyed by this
came Republican policy of protec-
ton that encourages overprotection
to the point OF stagnation, thus
reducing the prices below the limit of
profit.
A Republican convention without
one or more "alarm" resolutions
being passed, would be as incomplete
as the play OF Hamlet with the era
~ Dane left out. The Republicans
are always alarmed when they are
not in power, but whenever in the
past twenty years their biennial
alarm has induced them to make a
serious effort to get back into power
In Missouri, the people have then
gotten sufficiently alarmed to pre-
vent the success of their scheme by
a good, safe majority.
The alarm this resolution declares
they feel is simulated, like all
past cries Of "wolf" they have raised.
The added assessment of which it
complains is sustained by every prin-
ciple of justice. 1t is the result of an
attempt on the part Of the state
board of equalization, to equalize
values in the different counties of the
state on the same classes Of proper
ty. There is no principle Of justice
that would permit q court Of inquiry
and equity to sanction the assess
ment OF land in Charlton county,
equal in value to land in Carroll
county. at q price 20 per cent. under
the value placed on the Carroll land.
Therefore the state board raised
the Charlton county assessment. No
reasonable man could object to this.
And political party that does OBJ
iect is unfit to be trusted with
power. What the state board has
done is just what our county boards
do every year. This year in Chair
ton county the board of equaliza-
tion, in discharge of it's sworn duty,
raised, on certain classes of personal
property, the township assessors
appraisements,in in some cases. as high
as sc 2-3 per cent. In other town
ships the assessments were reduced.
The equalization changes made in
this manner by the board raised the
aggregate assessment some $780,
600, but the assessments were equal
lied and still the levy rate was not
decreased.
II we never had any buncombe
resolutions. politics. we suppose,
would become q tame affair.