Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-27
A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

by the same method used oy the
drover who rushes and hurries his
porkers up the runway and into the
cars, the party of tariff taxes proposes
to manage the next campaign for
the Presidency of the United States.
These political drovers intend to
rush and hurry the people to the polls
in what they are pleased to call "a
short, sharp campaign" The voters
are regarded as SO many children with
whom argument and sober discussion
of public matters is useless and I'M
necessary, and the footing Of tin horns
and the blare of bands is expected to
supply the enthusiasm"
With this new school Of statesmen,
" He who dallies Ton the way to the
polls) is a bastard, and he who doubts
(the threadbare falsehoods of protec-
tom is damned"
Not long ago, the rallying cry of
Coxey's army was, If you want more
money, come with us to Washington"
The rallying cry of the tariff-tax army
is, "If you want more money, send
us to Washington" And the more
you think of it the less the difference,
The shorter the campaign, the better it
suits the tariff-tax party, for then no
time is lost in answering questions.
We must, therefore, ask our ques-
tions now, or forever hold our peace.
CD We have been told time out of
mind, that tariff-taxes yield general
prosperity to the people. There has
been a tariff tax for thirty years. Why
is it that but thirty-four homes out of
each hundred, including farms, is free
from incumbrance Census 1890,
Bulletin 71) And mark you, this in a
country where the Homestead Law,
Presumption Right, and Timber Gull
ture Laws, have practically GIVEN
homes to millions
(2) The taxpayers, to support the
national government, paid $4,000
for each working day of the year 1882.
Why were they obliged to pay $L037,-
600 for each working day of the year
1892 Statistical Abstract, 1904.
(3) If the Republican party sin
cerely desire to pay the public debt,
why did Republican congress in
1873, over Republican Presidents
veto, pass law, prohibiting further
retirement of the greenbacks? Con
gressional Record, 1879
(D Why have Republican admins
trations permitted tariff taxes to be
paid to the government in greenbacks,
when on every greenback, plainly
printed is the announcement that it is
NOT to be received for customs dues
(5O AS two.t thirds of all the gold the
government can possibly receive from
any and all sources must come from
customs dues, does taking greenbaeks
instead of gold, help or hinder the
government in keeping a supply of
gold on hand
t6) Because of taritf-taxes, the
people here are daily paying 100000,
in gold, for freights and passenger
fares to foreign vessel owners. Does
the tariff which compels them to do
this have anything to do with " drain
ing the country of gold" (See Mr..
Blaines's speech to the Chamber of
Commerce, y. y, 1851
~ Will you give us at least a
vague hint as to the century in which
we may expect that part of the
national debt represented by $34O,-
100000 greenbacks will be paid under
a Republican law which compels the
government to reissue them as fast as
they are received by it
tS) Does the Republican party eX-
pect the people of this country, or of
any country, to believe that it did not
stab to the heart our governments
credit when i enacted the Bland
Allison law of 1873 and the Sherman
law of 1880 II you were to take all
of the silver disc and bullion)
purchased by the peoples money I'M
der those two republican laws and put
it on the market, you could not set rs
much for il by $l2O,00o,0ou as was
paid for it, Statistical Abstracts,
1873 1891 And if you took all Of
the silver bought under these two