Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-09-13
DOCTRINES OF DEMOCRACY
EXPOUNDED BY BENATOR
RANSOM.

Conclusion of That Great speech
Begun In Yesterday's "Ci,izen"
The Income Tax-8uKar-The
Pops Financial Theories.
As Senator Ransom proceeded with
his speech at the Grand opera house yes
terday afternoon the audience grew more
and more interested and the good Demo-
cratic truths that Gll from his lips were
greeted with the greatest enthusiasm.
Cheer after cheer interrupted the Senator
and the effect Of the applause was
strengthened by the waving of many
handkcrchiefs by the Senator's a 1mirers
among the fair sex, who we're present in
goodly numbers. 1t was a worthy ova-
tion to worthy Democrat.
The Iucome Tax.
During the war the Republican party
put tax OH whiskey. on tobacco, and
on incomes. They had kept the tax on
whiskey and on tobacco, but they took
il off the incomes of the rich. The Dem
ocratic party has put that income tax
back upon the surplus wealth Of the
plutocrats Of the country. Every man
who has an income exceeding 1000 per
year must now pay tax to the United
States government of two per cent. on
the excess. This tax will raise from the
shoulders of the poor, the honest, the
patriotic people, S5O.00O.O00 per year,
and put it upon the surplus wealth OF
Wall street.
The sugar Tax.
Some populistic friend would ask him :
Senator, amt you ashamed that you
put duty of 20 per cent. on sugar"
No. The Republicans had made sugar
free, but they paid the sugar manutac
turer and retincr two cents bounty on
each ponnd of sugar. Millions of dollars
were thus taken from the treasury of the
United States and put into the pockets
of these manufacturers. The tax now
on sugar goes into the United States
treasury; the bounty went into the
pOcketS Vi the sugar trust.
He would say something else the Dem.
ocratic party had done. The Democratic
party had reduced the expenses of this
government. Economy is the greatest
virtue in government. During the first
year OF Cleveland's term the Democratic
party had saved $2S 100000. Republi-
cans claimed that this reduction was
accomplished by cutting off pen
sions. lie would say that no just pension
had been stopped. This saving was
made Notwithstanding the Democrats
had passed river and harbnr bill car
rying $12, 900, 900. while the Republicans
had passed no river and larbor bill dur
ing its last year in power. This shows
a saving by the Dem ,cratic party i'll its
first year of about Sill 100000.
The wO Parties COnirastsd
The Democratic party was not perfect,
nothing earthly is, and it might be ac-
cused of many things, but it had ever
been true to the South-true to all the
people. 1t had stood Loyalty by the in
tercsts of the seventy millions of free men
who populate this Republic. The Demo.
cratic party is not sectional party.
How was it with the Republican party
For 25 years not law was passed by
the Republican party for the good of the
South. He was Southern man and a
North Carolinian, and he could not en-.
dorse this long night of oppression to
his section. When did Grant (and he
spoke his name reverently), when did
Arthur, when did Garfield give South.
crn man an important foreign mission
Only one, Mr.. Hunt of Louisiana. When
had the South been honored by having
one OF her sons placed upon the bench OF
the Supreme court of the United States
by the Republican party Mr.. Harri
son had given this honor to Judge Jack
son OF Tennessee in almost the last hours
of his administration.
During Mr.. Clevelaud's five years oc
cupancy OF the White House he had ap
pointed four supreme court justices from
the South, and in selecting his cabinet
he had taken Carlisle, Smith and Her
bert from the South. The speaker
charged his hearers. both young and old
to stand by the party that stood by
their section. Under Mr.. Cleveland s ad
mnistration, whether in home or foreign
appointments, whether in Europe. Asia
or Africa, or on the cold borders of Can
ada, wherever you found a northern
man, by his side you would find south
crn patriot. Cleveland has done abso
lutte Justice to every section OF the coun
try, and without Justice there can be nc
peace.
A Retrospect.
Mr.. Bancroft, said Senator Ransom
has said in his history that North Caro-
linians loved liberty more than any
people Oh earth. Would North Caro-
lnians now turn their backs upon tn,
party that had given them not only
liberty, but every blessing that made lii,
dear to her 1,70NNC0 people? Lool
b; ok 20 years and see what North Caro-
l,na was under Republican rule. Gu
public schools were blotted out, ou
University in darkness, railroads al
stopped. court houses temples Of injus
tice, public credit gone, State bonds no
worth the paper upon which they wer
written. The Democratic party cam
into power, and how was it now2 II
wished he could paint the picture a
Democracy had made it. Not a mar
woman or child in all of Cardinals boz
ders, from where the waves of tn
Atlantic break upon Hatteras to tn
lofty pines OF your own mountains, bu
can rest in peace and perfect security
Our courts are models OF justice, no legi.
lator has had a charge of corruptio
made against him, there are 100
schools upon 1000 hill tops. full {
happy children, our railroads are bus
and prosperous, and our State credit
as good az that of Massachusetts G
New York.
And now go to Washington-go int
the two houses of Congress and fin
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