The record-union., 1894-08-14

transportation charges on exports of ag-
rlcultural productions is homeopathic
or allopathic practitioner?
From his prescription I should guess
he is the former.
If 1t is good for the Government to pay
half of the transportation charges, don't
see why it would not be better for the
Government to pay all of the transporta-
ton charges.
Now, l am an allopathic practitioner OF
the rough sort, such as practiced among
the miners in the early days. like old
Doctor Johns, who used to say to his pa
tients: "Now, am not going to keep
you IN misery. l am going to give you a
dose which will either cure or Kill you."
liked that kind of treatment, so pro-
pose sitter dose: Let the Government
pay all OF the transportation charges and
give an additional bonus Of 80 per cent.
on England's prices, which it is claimed
establish the market prices of our pro-
ducts. This would enable our producers
to stock the markets of the world.
Anyone can see that ii this policy is
followed for few years it will enable us
to scoop in nearly all the gold coin on the
face OF the earth. Then we can lay back
and dictate to all other nations just what
they shall do-iust as England dictates to
us now.
1t is tue this policy viii compel our
nome consumers to pay 100 per cent. more
for all agricultural products, but then they
buy only about 70 per cent. of our pro-
ductiOns, and the trifling amount which
they pay extra will be right in the family
as you may say-and will benefit our
own home producers.
Somewhere beneath the gray-thatched
dome OF my anatomy there beats a
fatherly heart, which does not like to see
ffoIf
so have scheme to overcome, or coun-
terbalance, the apparent injustice to all
other producers.
Let all who depend on their daily labor
for subsistence, and accumulations for
future comforts, get all they can from
their employers, and then let the Govern
ment pay them one dollar each per day
in addition.
Boys, how does this proposition strike
you?
Don't you think it will accomplish
what you have been SO long trying to per-
form. /. e., set aside the natural law OF
supply and demand? AS it seems to be
an accepted fact that any person elected
to an office by popular or majority vote
of community. small or large, is en-
dowed with absolute power, and that
anything can be enforced by enactment
OF laws, / ask you for your suffrages to
and / promise If elected to dictate to
Congress laws more favorable to you
than any which have been enacted.
If you want six hours labor established
for legal days work, will have Con-
gress pass a law that there shall be
eighteen hours of darkness every day,
and then even your necessities cannot
compel you to work more than six hours.
If you want law passed that wealth
shall not be devised to posterity, will
have law passed that the Government
shall confiscate all of a mans prop
erLy when he dles-which is the same
principle which is involved in present
Inheritance laws which require the Gov
ernment to confscate, by extra taxation,
a portion Of mans estate.
If you want a graduated income tax, /
will tave Jaw passed to take all of a
mans income except what he needs for
ubsistence-which is the same principle
extended a little
If you want laws passed to prevent the
accumulation Of wealth, | will have q
law passed that no man shall acquire
anything more than he needs for actual
consumption and shelter-which is a
microscopic view of the same principle.
You can see that [ prescribe the rem
edies full strength and in sufficient guam
titles to quell the disease, or quiet the
patient.
Give me a majority of your votes.
which will invest me with absolute
power, and see if don't give every man
just what he wants, and more to. Per-
haps L can arrange the laws so that no
man will have TO work for a living.
This may relegate you into what has
been called condition of barbarism, but
what objection can there be to that, if it is
the blissful state of naked ignorance
which is said to have existed in the Gar
den of Eden before man had been coaxed
by woman to eat of the fruit OF the tree
of knowledge? OLD CRANK.
Sacramento. August 10. 1894.