People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-06-04

not yet reached the stage which at
taches 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 culmina-
ton.
Fortunately for the American
people we have already had ample
proof that our experts" are true to
the instincts Of the breed. Let me
cite few:
|. There was not long since pub
lished 10 Chicago the following GER
tilcate Of the Auditor Of the State Of
Illinois:
L., David Gore, Auditor Of Public
Accounts Of the State OF Illinois, do
hereby certify that the statement of
property assessed in Cook County for
the year 1894, filed IN this Office 10
pursuance Of law, shows among other
persOnrl property assessed in said
Cook County for the year A. ID. 1894,
the following, viz: Agricultural tools,
implements and machinery, sS4, 1872;
money of banks, bankers, brokers,
ETC., s43, 92j; credits Of banks, bankers
brokers, ETC., $4,000. The above
items show all the property assessed
under headings herein set forth.
Witness my hand and official seal.
DAVID GORE.
Auditor Of Public Accounts.
VIII you not admit, Mr.. Cleveland,
that these Chicago experts" have
shown the expert shrewdness natural
to their class in their forcing the farm.
ers Of Cook county to pay not only
their own share Of taxes, but about
nineteen-twentieths Of that OF these
''experts?"
And does it not make you blush,
Mr.. Cleveland. to learn that these ex-
perts, 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 institutions
of the great city Of Chicago with its
two millions Of people, and its hun
dreds of millions of wealth, there are
only little over forty thousand dol
lars in money?
You cannot too quickly recall and
act upon the Latin adage-sOcus
nOscitur.
2. Last spring, as | cannot attest,
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 Englishman upon his
country's having an income tax,
while our Supreme Court had just de.
cided that our country could not have
one. The Englishman replied: "Yes
we make the wealth OF our country
pay its taxes. while you make the
poor pay them" (Alluding to the
tariff taxes as well as the Supreme
Court decision.) The lawyer quickly
retorted: "They ought to pay
them. They have their children
educated by the wealth Of the coun-
try; they have hign wages paid them
by the wealth, etc."
1t would open up an interesting
psychological inquiry to ascertain
whether this particular expert" has
not already reached the stage when
he is ready to assert the "Divlne
right" of law created wealth to plum
der the poor.
3. When you were about TO put
upon the property Of the people q
hundred million mortgage last winter
acting upon your advice to the people
you call into your councils certain
experts, MessTs. Morgan, Belmont
Rothschilds & Co., to advise you.
You accepted this advice 1--WE are
bound in the absence of proof 10 the
contrary to admit, honestly, even II
we are forced to do so at the expense OF
your sanity, and they pocketed about
eleven millions OF the peoples money
as the price Of their expert" advice.
4. When about to put upon the
people another mortgage few weeks
since you called to your councils one
Of these same experts" Mr.. J. Pier
pont Morgan, and the newspapers Of
New York say he has on file 10 your
Office two letters one advising you 10
sell bonds at l04 and another Offering
himself to buy these same bonds, 10
competition, at about seven millions
more than he advised you to take.
5. Itwas under advice of experts"
that our Government ISIS ued her first
bonds, sold them to the same sex
perts" for greenbacks deprecated TO
40 cents on the dollar and afterwards,
instead Of paying for them In the