The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-17
OUR REVENUES.
Mckinley Tells How Government Acquires
and Distributes Its Funds.

had 1900 visitors Wednesday and made
four speeches. The inclemency of the
weather had no effect upon the size or
the dimensions of the delegations. The
visitors from Geauga county, o., num-
bered $500; from Ashland county. 400;
from Parkersburg and other points in
West Virginia, GOO. and from Indiana,
100. The big delegation from Geauga
county and the one from Ashland were
composed of farmers. They brought
their wives and children with them
and there were more than 200 women
in line when the delegations paraded
In the streets. The first speech was
made to the first Mckinley club of In
diana. He said:
There is a good deal of misunderstand-
ing as to how n government gets its money
and as to how II pays II out There are
some people who seem to believe that the
way the government gets It's money Is to
make It. The government gets its money
10y taxation. and can get II In no other
way. There are three or four sources from
which the government Of the United States
gets money. The chief sources are through
tariffs and internal taxation. Then. the
government gets money from the sale OF
Its public lands and postal service, and
from these several sources there comes
the money that Is annually required to
meet and discharge public expenses II
takes about siSO.000.000 a year to conduct
this government. One million and one
third dollars every day are required to
keep It's wheels In operation.
Now. II the government had power to
make money, as some people believe, or
had the power to double the value OF a
thing by its stamp or fat it would not
need to resort to taxation. II would SIM
| ply set Its mints to work and make the
| necessary money to pay its running cx-
penses. 1t could have paid off the ma
| tional debt long years ago in this way.
| There Is another thing / would have you
all know; that the government can't get
| gold or silver except through the custom
| house or the internal revenue office, or
| from the sale of public lands. without CIV
| ing something for 1t. just as you and
| have to give something for It. II we want
| gold or silver or paper money. Now how
does the government distribute this
money? Somebody asked me that ques-
ton the other day. How does the govern
ment distribute the money? The govern
ment distributes its receipts, it's annual
receipts. by an appropriation of congress,
to its creditors. That is the way the money
of the government is distributed. 1t is
distributed in payment OF the army. the
navy, public improvements, rivers and har-
try. for the expenses Of congress. the judi
ciary. the interest on the public debt and
the principal of the government bonds. and
the pensions OF soldiers. and to the other
creditors. and there Is no other way for
the government to distribute any money
| II has except to the people 1t owes. There
Is no such thing as general distribution
| OF money by the government OF the United
| States.
1.-THE point want to make in the little
| talk l give you this morning is that the
| government doesn't create money. can't
| create money, and whatever money 1t needs
| It's got to collect from taxes on its peo-
| pie, either by a system of direct taxation,
| or by system of indirect taxation, known
| as the tariff And II the government wants
to have any gold or silver minted for its
| own use, It's got to pay for that gold and
| that silver, just as you and have to pay
| for 1t II we want 1t for our purposes. The
| idea that the government can create
| wealthfis a mere myth. There Is nothing
| that can create wealth but labor. that Is
| the foundation of all. labor.
Mr.. Mckinley spoke in the tabernacle
| in the afternoon. His utterances were
rull of patriotism and strong pleas for
he cultivation of broad national
spirit. His first speech was to the Ash
land county delegation. Responding to
the remarks of DR.. G. Hess, the spokes-
man, hc said, among other things:
"Our policy seeks to give situation to
| every man of this country who wants to
| work; and the policy of partial free trade
| has put the workingmen In q situation
| which entails upon them loss and upon
| every farmer of the country injury in his
| home market. Now, what we want to
| do, my fellow citizens, this year, is to
stand by these great principles. / make no
| personal appeal to you; l make no party
! appeal to you. l appeal to you in the
| name of country to give your votes this
| year to that party which you believe will
| subserve your highest interests and pro-
mote the greatest prosperity to our COM
mon country. l bid you obliterate party
| lines and old party distinctions and unite
in sustaining the country and the honor of
the country and stand for the maintenance
of law and order, the public tranquility
and the return of q policy that will take
care OF the American workshop and the
American market and defend II against
the workshops and markets Of the old
world"
Il do not believe there are many men IN
this country, no matter what they have
thought in the past who will not now say
that free trade or so-called tariff reform, has
proved by the experience Of the past four
cars to be Il signal and disastrous failure.
1t has failed, utterly failed, In every
prophecy, promise and expectation. 1t has
not secured a single thing that its advo-
cates said would follow its adoption. More,
It has not served a single American inter-
est II has served the interests of other
nations of the world, but has given no
benefit to the American people. 1t has not
helped the laborcr. the farmer. the manu-
the miner. the trader 1t has not helped
either the producer or the consumer. 1t
has hurt both and hurt both alike, for
producer and consumer are inter-dependent
and one cannot prosper without the other,
and the one cannot be hurt without the
other feeling 1t. II has given the treasury
an Inadequate revenue-insutficient rev.
enuc-and II has given the laborer made
quate and insufficient employment and tho
farmer a disappointing and ruinous price
for his products. II did not command the
support OF half of the democratic party
OF the country when II was put into the
public enactment known as the Wilson
tariff law. II did not even commend itself
to the president. who refused to sign 1t,
while its practical administration has con-
Nrmed the wisdom OF tho men In and out OF
the democratic party who condemned II
and would have nothing to do with 1t. 1t
has received popular disapproval by the
most sweeping majorities ever known In
our political history In every election held
since It's enactment Every time the peo-
pie OF the country have had chance they
have given that law blow. We want to
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