Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-05-26

IL - e 7l~ s1dveu people, Which had
notfor it's foundation stone this
very same doctrine that govern |
ment affairs should be left to lex
perts?'' And is there anythinS|
in all history to lead US to sup
pose that the characteristics Of |
the breed are not the same every
whether in Europe, the
or in the Uuited States?
True they are called in monar-
chlal countries king, clergy and
nobility, while here they are
called hnanciers. True, too, you
have not yet reached the stage
which attaches to our experts"
divine right, but if this country
could be cursed with another
four years of your administration
the rapidity with which your
evolution has already progressed
justifes the belief that you would
reach even this elimination.
fortunately for the American
people, we have already had
ample proof that our experts"
are true to the instincts of tho
breed. Let me cite few.
''There was not long since pub
lished in Chicago the following
certificate of the auditor of the
state of Illinois:
4" Il, David Gore, auditor of
public accounts of the state of
Illinois, do hereby certify that
the statement of property as
sessed in Cook county for the
year 1894, filed in this office in
pursuance of law, shows among
other personal property assessed
in said Cook county for the year
A. D. 1894 the following-viz.,
agricultural tools, implements
and machinery, $84,392; money
of bankers, brokers, etc., $43, 1926;
credits of bankers, brokers, etc. ,
$4,000. The above items show
all the property assessed under
headings herein set forth.''
"Will you not admit, Mr..
Cleveland, that these Chicago
''experts" have shown the ex.
pert shrewdness natural to thei,
class in their forcing the farmers
Of Cook county to pay not only
their own share of taxes, but
about Observation-Disclosures of that
of these "experts?"
''And does it not make you
blush, Mr.. Cleveland, to learn
that these experts, upon whose
testimony you would have the
people to so implicitly rely, have
said presumably under oath
too) that in all the hundreds OF
banks and other financial insti
buttons of the great city of Chi
cago, with it's 100000 of people
and it's hundreds of millions of
wealth, there is only a little over
$4,000 in money?
Last spring, as I can attest, a
gentleman, in company with an
Englishman, visited on business
a large legal firm on Wall street,
New York. One of the firm land
he would pass as an "expert' OF
the first water) twitted the Eng,
lishman upon his country's hav.
ing All income tax, while our
Supreme Court had just decided
That our country could not have
one. The Englishman replied:
Eyes, we make the wealth of our
country pay it's taxes, while you
make the poor pay them.'' ALL
uding to the tariff taxes as we'll
as the Supreme Court decision.
The lawyer quickly retorted:
''They ought to pay them. They
have their children educated by
the wealth of the country; they
have high taxes paid them by the
wealth, etc.
LIT would open up an interest
ing psychological inquiry to as
certain whether this particular
expert" has not already reached
the stage when he is ready to
assert the "divine right" of law
created wealth to plumber the
the poor.
:: :''When you were about to put
upon the property of the people
a $1o0,o0o,o00 mortgage last
winter, acting upon your advice
to the people, you called into your
councils certain experts -