The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-30


When started the campaign this time.
determined that IL should be rs clean IS
that one, and / have no time TO notice
every dog that barks ~ nny heels. despite
the fact that the orators OF the other party
are violen. and vicious in their attacks. /
can stand or l can fail on the principles
and the platform OF my party and not deal
in personalities Applause.
he paid his respects TO the constitu-
sional convention in about the same strain
- at other places. and denounced the ap-
portionment proposed rs purely partisan,
saying thar il Was expected TO pass it be-
cause OF The pecaiiar exciting conditions.
He said: II am here TO say that they have
reckoned without their host, aud this very
superintendent scheme has united our
party in the state IS nothing else could"
Speaking of the short visit Of Mckinley
TO Albany and his advocacy Of his own
bill, he continued.
This question was passed upon by the
peopie in Is@2 after one of the greatest
educational campaigns ever known. The
decision expressed then by the people was
based upon intelligence and good judg-
meat We have nothing to fear from q
re-dlscn.sion OF the tariff question. do
not believe the people intend 10 change,
nor can thew be led 10 change their de-
cision of Is92. All can say of Mr.. Nc
kinney Is that ne has ran mad on the high
protective tariff question. and he and
other Republican party leaders se-In
to have lost their reason. You
would think from reading his
speeches that high tariff taxation was
q blessing; that the tariff vas not a tax.
and that the foreigners pay the tariff tax.
| will not Insult your intelligence IN dis
cussing these questions. Your verdict in
1892 shows that yoa have thought these
questions out for yourselves. Mckinley
is against the Democratic party for the
crime of reducing taxation through re-
indicted on this arraignment. and will
Confidently abide the decision OF the peo-
pie. and TO my mind nothing but the repe-
tition of the magnificent vote OF 1892 in
this state awaits Us asthe result of such
conviction. LII we do not succeed this fail
We will in the end, just 30 sure as the sun
shines.
The distinguished author of the Nc
Kinley bill, in q speech at Newburg on
SATURDAY. last, in advocating high pro-
tectiye tariff. made use OF this expression,
VIZ. For this year politics is business.
and business is politics This is indeed
most extraordinary sentiment, ana one
which deserves an analysis al this time.
The idea which Mckinley intends to con-
form or another money is to be
made out of politics. | repudiate
any such sentiment as uemoralizing
and as repugnant to the spirit OF our form
of government. He wants Us TO under
stand that money can be made out of the
tariff, and that hence the tariff should be
encouraged, increased and redoubled. The
fatal error in his position lies in the fact
that be entirely ignores the constitutional
purpose of tariff and the nature of its
true function. Tariffs should not be i'm
posed to enable any ass Of people TO make
money out of their provisions, because
tariffs are taxes imposed upon imports
under the general power Of congress to
impose tates fos the support OF the gov
eminent. He ignores the fact, now thor
ousbly understood by the American
people, that the tariff is tax. and,
although the importer pays the tax IN the
first instance, It Is. ss o general rule,
eventually paid By the consumer. and no
man. no class. no people can legitimately
make money out OF taxes imposed strictly
for the purpose OF hen@tit.
"It is unwise; yes, 1t Is demagoguery
itself, to teach the people that this Is q
paternal government, and that money can
properly be made BY mixing business with
politics Mr.. Mckiniey's sentiment is .
vicious one. and should be discounten-
anced by every right-thinking citizen.
Taxation, whether tariff or other taxation,
should not be made the instrument of en-
riching people. and cannot well be made
such unless L is abused, distorted and di-
verted from its constitutional purpose.
There 10 no mistakiug Mr.. Mckinley's
true meaning, because, IN the same
breath. he interprets it by announc-
ing that In Louisiana the sugar
producers propose 10 vote for their own
business. over which he is much reioiced,
He concea.s the true reason Why, as he
asserts the sugar producers in Louisiana
propose to desert the Democrats party,
because IN the new Democratic tariff the
sugar bounties which were provided TO be
paid in the Mckinley bill, and which
600 annually, taken from the COM
mon treasury of the people, have
been repealed 10 other words, he
seems TO approve the assertion
that every person should receive some
profit from legislation, or eise should take
no interest in politics. This is a narrow,
a selfish and . dangerous view of public
aud of private duty. Ine great champion
of protection fails 10 zee that if the sugar
producers OF Louisiana desert the Demo-
cratic party because they are not given
the privilege of receiving millions
Of dollars of bounties from the
general government, then other
citizens may discover that their
true interests have been subserved by the
repeal of the sugar bounties and NAV con-
clude 10 Join the Democratic party by
reason of that fact No wonder he ex-
presses great anxiety that the people shall
vote quickly this fall, but he does not want
them TO deliberate, AZ reflection will show
the faIlscy Of his arguments"