The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-05-21

Gcan in congress has had the courage to
offer to re-enact il. When the bare
suggestion TO do so was made, Repub-
licans like John Sherman declared that
the Mckinley law would never be re-
enacted, that it was weak and vicious,
and that its reciprocity features were
weakest and most vicious of all and that
the present conditions are in no particu-
lar the result of the abrogation of bad
tariff law.
The Republican house Of representa-
tives passed a sort of party tariff act
restoring small portion of the McKin-
ley rate on part of the schedules and
sent it to the Republican senate.
And what did the Republican senate
do? Struck out all reference to the
tariff and transformed it into bill for
the free aud unlimited coinage of both
| gold and silver at the rate of l6 to /.
There was good deal of the McKin-
ley style of campaigning in this, but it
| did nothing in the direction of relieving
the people.
Prating about the inadequacy of the
revenues Of the government the Re-
| publican congress, instead of working
on the lines of economy and retrench.
|
vice in making extravagant appropria-
tions and expenditures.
Did it do this with view of bettering
the condition of the masses? Not at all.
Its sole object has been to create def
cheney in the revenues, to the end that q
moderate system of taxation, which
naturally implied an economical admin
istration of public affairs, should be
made odious and an excuse invented for
the enactment of laws which will raise
the tax rate and afford opportunities to
monopolies and trusts to flourish at the
expense of the masses.
The Republican legislature Of Ohio
and the Republican congress of the
United States travel along the same
groove. When the former came to Co
lumbus on the first Monday of January
1896, they found deficiency of 81 800,
600 in the treasury according to the
actual facts.
Instead Of retrenchment the legisla-
ture passed lot of doubtful and expert.
mental tax laws, and then appropriated
SO, 100000 in excess of all possible re-
ceipts, so that on the first Monday in
January, 1898, the legislature will be
brought face to face with treasury de.
ficiency of S3,000,0 900, with strong
probability of finding Sl5,0OO,0 600 OF
more of local bonds invalidated by the
supreme court, which the state must
either assume or which will be repudi.
ated, to Ohio's eternal disgrace.
That is the kind of relief that the
people of Ohio got at the hands of Re.
publican legislature.
The people of the whole country got
the same sort of relief from the Repub,
lcan congress. Instead of retrench.
ment the first session of the Republican
congress found deficiency of the enor.
nous sum of $40 900, 900, and has appro
priated or will yet appropriate $780,,
600, 900, or nearly 100000, 900 in excel.
of the first session of its Democratic
predecessor, hoping thereby to create G
deficiency of $3.50, 100000 by the frs
Monday i'll December, 1897, and then il
there should be Republican congress.
and president, find the excuse ready
made for putting the whole iudustria
fabric OF the country into the hands oi
the tariff robbers
Tom Reeds first congress managed
to eXpend 81 200, 100000 of the peoples
taxes in two years. His second anC
last congress bids fair to go $500, ,00O, ,0OC
600 900.
This is nearly in the proportion thai
the Republican legislature of Ohio in
creases expenditures and deficiencies
If the con ,tant and unjustifiable in
crease of expenditures. the accretion o.
deficits in the revenues-or rather thu
discl epancy between income and ex
penditure = thereby necessitating al
ultimate increase of the burdens of tax
alton, is proof of craftsmanship, theI
Republican legislation furnishes tha
proof in ample quantities.
But it is none the less an importan
question as to whether the taxpayer
can afford to sacrifice the major part O.
their substance for the benefit of the
taxeaters, or whether some other roaC
is to be followed
The action of Governor Mckinley
friends in tracing to the door of Sena
J tor r-elect Foraker the recent attacks O
the A. p. A. is the first symptom il
sight that the trodden worm has finall,
turned upon its tormentors.
The McKinleyites have hitherto beer
very meek while subject to the Foraker
Bushnell lash. Nor are they unusuall,
demonstrative even yet, but in huntin,
down the true source of the A. p. A
promulgations they are laying the foun
dation for their future course, in tn
event Of McKinley's election.
That course is not hard to forecast
Joe Smith, us chief of the kitchen cabi
! net, will see that no friend of Joe Fora
ker rises even to the dignity of fourth
class postmaster. When the Forake
crowd stand shivering out in the cold
the man who was so mercilessly driver
out of the state library, and all tn
other Mckinley men in Ohio who wer
! given sh rt shrift and strong rop
by the Foraker Cox Bushnell execu
tioners will be sitting near the presi
Dental stove and within easy reach O
the flesh pots, repeating the old saw
"He laughs best who laughs last"
w. A. I.
Miss Cecilia Gschwepd and her guest