The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1894-09-13

arste bill. Immediately repealed and
yet, taken as a whole, it goes further
in the direction Of relief to the tax.
ridden people than any bill that has
been considered in any Congress
since the war. It's reduction of rates
is greater than those proposed in
either ths Morrison ball OF in the
Mills bill. Alpaca, wool. copper, ,tir,
lumber, salt, binding twine, bags aud
bagging agricultural implements and
many other implements and many
other articles are placed Oh the free
list In neatly every schedule there
are large Reductions In the iron.
steel and WOO en- schedules there are
many reductions exceeding IS per
cent. On the basis of the iiuporta
tions of 1892 SO Oh WOODEN manu-
facturss alone, there is u reduction
to the consumer of more than $I63,
100000. On cotton, on felts, on
cotton velvets and on hundreds of
other articles the reduction il great
er SO per cent.
The bill places a tax on sugar. A
large majority of the Democrats in
the House opposed this, and, as the
bill passed the House, sugar in all
it's forms, was on the free list. The
The cane growers got no aid from
the government, the Sugar trust got
no aid from the government.
STRIKES AT THE TRUST.
I have thus outlined merely the
provisions of the great reform meas
ures. It strikes at the trusts and
monopolies It reduces the cost of
necessaries Of life. It to some ex
tent opens our markets abroad. It
promotes agriculture; it encourages
manufacturing and it will add to the
comfort of millions Of our fellow
citizens.
1--WE votai upon a proposition to
repeal the tax upon the circulation
of State bank currency. behsvs
that our people would derive moro
immediate benefit from the repeal OF
that law than from almost any other
legislation that could b had
Against us ON the question were
found many Democrats, all tho Re-
publicans and all the Populists A
majority thus constituted defeated
our efforts and the repeal Of the bill
failed. This question in not settled
We have repealed all Federal cleo
ton laws which permitted the inter
ference OF outsiders with our domss
tic affairs and which were used only
to defeat the will Of the people.
Henceforth Georgia, as we'll as every
other State, will manage elections in
accordance with their own laws, and
elections will be free and fair. We
have passed a law which subjects to
taxation by the States more than
$500, 100000 which under Republi-
can law was exempt from taxation,
thus relieving to some extent the
burdens of the taxpayer. We have
reduced public expenditures some
S40,000,000 for the current year
With this record who can assail us?
Our ancient adversary, the Repub-
lican party, though not strong in
this State. is the enemy we must
meet. When Democracy suffers de
feat, Republicanism will be triumph
ant. Here at my home We are
challenged by the Peoples party.
This organization has candidates
and it has q platform of principles.
Of its candidates I shall say nothing
They are presumed to be as GOO d, /
hope they are better, than their plat
form. That platform contains
some planks which are new and
some which are old. Those which
are valuable are not new and
those which are new are not
valuable Our Populist friends
want to buy the railroads, the
telegraph liues and the telephones.
The thousands of millions of dollars
necessary to do this does not stag
ger them. The great army of Office
holders necessary to manage and
protect these enterprises does not
embarrass them. Our Populist lead
ers deal with millions as ordinary
people deal with dollars, and as for
offices, they all want them.
While we have not done all We
hoped to do, we have done more in
the past year to redress the wrongs
THERE Is DANGER