Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-09

aln going to be to vou. God will bless OFF. eHDfts an We will achieve the reforms yve wish tG achieve. Wiki cheering In. les The reforms which we demanded in that platform have b ,en carried out VI, ought now to come forward and carry them out. IL Is binding upon you aud bintlipr upon me to eafry forward the work nutil lile contract IS established The only way you can escape from iC is to say that the FeoPle party has been untrue to the con- pact made between the city laborers and the country refo"iners. Gan YOU say its Chorus of voices-No
 W have been represented in congress by body or Populist congressman. and they are the only men who have never voted against single plank in their platform. ont at every turn of fortune, on every turn ot legislation, they have voted solidiy for the pledges made in their platform and. therefore, 1 say that the Peoples party has been true to the labor interests of tho country and the labor terests of the couu- try ought to be true to the Peoples party. Have been untrue to itg [Cnes of mo. no from all over the stand. Pardon me while give you the record Not only did carry out every plank in that platform and do everything in my power to have the reforms enacted into law, but did this especially in behalf of the labor intetests of the country. I1aboringmen 1 voted III congress for an s-hoar law. Was that lfB crowd. 1 voted in congress against the Pinkertons and introduced a resolution and had lt passed against that infamous < gang. Was that right2 Wild yells. I defeated os te floor of the house the Cut. ting military bill which sought to bring tue stii5e militia of every state under Fed eral control aud thus increase the power of the Federal government. centralize the military strength of the plutocraeY of the land and put the laboring people underline heel of such men as Grover Cleveland l dcfeeted he law. ECheers Not only that; the records Of congress will show thar l took leading and decisive part in passing the automatic earcoupler bill which eompels the railroad corporations within five years from the time that law was passed 10 buy and put on their trains these automatic s-selfcouplers Of trains, which will rescue the laborinR- maa from danger and save the thousands maimed and are killed in coupling cars. Was l right Shouts of approval and loud prolonged cheering
 Then fellow citizens, the party has been true to you and its nominee has been true to you. Then, say. the contract ought to stand that you made with Us at St. InlliS. that you made with Us in 1899 again; that you made at Indianapolis and that you made at Omaha. The contract onght to stand unless the reforms de handed have already heen carried out Have these reforms been carried ouus What were they? First of all you de- fnanded that the tax system of the country should be capitalized should be upon a juster footing, so that the wealth of the land might bear its fair share of the taxes Didn't you do it: didnt you think it was right then; don't you think now it is right 0ughtn't the Federal taxes Co be levied upon those who are best able to a.t .t..I. Eae is inyour town tax. that Is ill your county tax, that is in your state Lax obtain also in youf Federal taxes-that q man should pay in accordance with what he has got Oa9hth the Federal tax be paid in pro portion 10 the property which the Federal got l009 acres of land ought to pay more tax than the man who has got l the val lies of the two tracts being relatively the same. The man who has got 1000 cattle should pay more tax than the man who has got only one dozen, the value of the cattle being relatively the same. We say this That the Federal tax is so levied that the wealth of the country escapes taxation Who is it that pays the taxes2 It is the labOringman. it is the small merchant, the suHll farmer, the artisan and the me- chanic. The day laborer pays his federal tax when he buys the goods that clothe his nakedness, the food that feeds his hunger, the house which shelters him from the storm, and when he buys the tools he works with. He pays federal tax on cinthe like he pays federal tax on to- haeco The amounB QS che Federal tax is added to the cost of the tobacco, and the man who chews and smokes the tobacco is the man wbo pays the tax. He pays a to bacco tax like he pays whisky tax. The man who buys and drinks whisky is the man who pays the federal tax, because the amount of the tax has been added to the price of the whisky thereof. It is the same way about his house, about the clothing about the shoes. about the furnishing goods and about the 5000 articles which en- ter into the home life as the necessaries of life. The tax is added to the price of the goods, and you pay for the tax when you buy the goods; therefore the tax is levied on the man who buys these things, on the man who buys farm implements and on the man %lo uses farm implements, and on the man who needs the neeessaries of life; therefore; it is that the poorest man may pay more tax than a rich man, We say this is wrong. We say that the Federal tax, like the state tax. ought to be levied on wealth. We say that the great rail roads, owning one-hfth or one-sixth of all the wealth..of the land who pay no Federal taxes, ought to pay them. The great man ufacturers who used to pay Federal tax, pay none now. The manufacturers tax was q tax laid on wealth. They sent lobby to congress to have It repealed, ana eou- gress obeyed the demands of wealth and took off the tax of the manufacture CTS. Therefore, having laid it upon you, you thereafter had to pay your own tax and the manufacturers tax, too. A yoice-That's rightl. Not only that; there used to be tax on the great insurance companies They have the wealth of the land, they bring in royal revenues and they pay princely salaries. They have no Fed ers,l tax. The Federal government i'll for mer years made them pay tax. It was q tax on wealth, Wealth objected to paying it and the insurance companies sent lob by to congress aud demanded a repeal of that tax. They had 1t repealed and had their tax laid upon ollr shoulders So that today we pay the tax of the railroad com parljes, the manufacturers tax and the in- suranee companies tax and still you doI [ get happy. Laughter,
 There was a tax on express companies. They represent wealth, they represent cor porate industry and corporate prosperity. They have royal revenues and you can't Inn V heir stack pn the markets for any