The Forrest City times., 1894-04-27


 their protective system home market would be built up: that non-agricultural classes would be brought into the country to con sume the surplus wheat Of the north west And yet the surplus produce Of this country, which had either to go to waste or seek foreign market, was from S701, ,0o00oo to &l,OOO0C0,0J0 As to competition from India, he declared that bushel of wheat could not be produced in India and laid down in the city of New York in competition with a bushel of wheat raised in Dakota or anywhere in the United States, and that even the cost of trans portation to London could be paid, and still American wheat would compete there with the wheat from India.
 The republican doctrine was opposed to trading with foreign people and wanted to build u home market But here s500-, 100000 of manufactured products to be con. sumed at home. How was that going to be consumed? In order to carry out the repub- lican doctrine, people would have to be inn ported to consume these products The dem. ocratic doctrine was to export the products all over the world. where the people live and where they should remain. The republican doctrine, on the contrary, was to import peo- pie to consume the surplus agricultural prod ucts; and it would be necessary to import s. 0Oo,00) to do that. The republicans would im- port Chinese and Japanese, and Soudanese and Maltese and Chimpanzees to join Coxey's army among the aborigines. ILaughterl.
 He had been taught by his pious mother to read the Bible and he remembered reading of Elijah where he attacked the 400 false prophets of Baal and slaughtered them. It was thought then that all the false prophets were dead but 1t seemed that some of them got away The exhaustive taxation under the Mckinley bill, and the exhaustive Instructions in it, said MT. Mills, had prostrated the farmers of this country: and when the farmers felt the strain they stretched out their arms and, like Samp- son, pulled the whole fabric over the heads of all.
 Mir Mills asserted that the American work man could only be protected by finding stant employment: and he could only find con stant employment when his products were sold at their lowest possible cost And their cost could only be low when taxes were removed from all the materials of manufacture, so that his products could go into the markets of the world.
 "Emancipate our people," Mir. Mills ex- claimed Give them chance to show their skill. their genius. Give them their natural and Heaven born rights. Give them back the ocean, and then the workmen will not be con- ing to Washington to implore the government to do something for them Their remedy is not to come to Washington now Their remedy is to go home, go to the ballot box and sweep out of existence the party which dares to pile taxation upon them and destroy their chance of getting a market for the sale of their goods The ballot box is the place. not Washington"
 Coming to the question of the income tax. Mir. Mills asked why should not the wealthy be taxed. When people were associated together in government every citizen should contrib ute his proper share toward Its support. and his proper share was to be determined by the amount which he had to be protected by the strong organized power of the government
 He recalled the fact that some years ago, when the state of Pennsylvania was unable to protect railroad property in Pittsburgh, fed eral troops had to be sent there. and he added that that railroad company had never contrib uted one cent to the federal government
 The income tax had been denounced to the senate by the senator from New York (Mr Hil) as socialistic anarchistic and sectional; but when the poor laborer had to pay 0Si9 per cent. duty on the shirt he wore, that tax was not so denounced. All taxes. he repeated should be assessed in proportion to the ability of the taxpayer to pay. and in proportion to the property which he had to be protected. He had never heard that the senator from New York, when he was governor of that state, had called on the legislature to repeal the income tax there; and if such tax was a fair one for the state of New York, why was it not also fair one for the United States? It was useless, he exclaimed to denounce the income tax as odi ous. sectional and inquisitoriaL It was use less to make any sophistical arguments against the right and duty of every man to contribute to the support of the government: it had got to be done. The American people were in earnest about it. If this congress did not do 1t. the next would It was going to be done. It was prohibitory legislation that was closing American markets and driving unemployed people into the highways, bringing them to Washington in thousands. Co plead. not for their rights. but for fallacies more ruinous and impracticable than those under which they were living now.
 Concluding. Mir. Mills said: There is duty devolvng on this body It not be ex- cused We must pass this bill. Make it as good we can; but we must pass it. We must not only pass it, but we must stop this business of continually talking about it