People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09

that when he assails US for assailing |
the Dingley bill he label his article,
"Spiteful and Inconsistent"
The Iowa Tribune complains that we
have not answered it's argument. Its
argument is that no matter whether
the national tax is high or low the
trusts and corporations will get all that
the producers make.
This argument" we did not try to
answer. We were too much inclined,
perhaps, to consider it joke. We
could hardly believe that the Editor
was in earnest but since we find him
assailing the Dingley bill in one part
of his paper, and assailing the Dingley
bill assailants in another, we have
come to the conclusion that the editor
really advanced the proposition seri-
ously. That it does not matter to the
people whether they pay high taxes or
low ones
Think of it Here's a man so wrap
ped up in fusion entanglements, his
wide-stretched eyes so glued to that
prospect of Bryan money which Allen
holds, that he actually commits him
self, deliberately to the statement that
it does not matter to the people wheth
err national taxes are high or low!
According to this apostle of fusion,
it is all the same to the people whether
they pay tax on salt or not: all the
same whether they pay tax on cotton
bagging and ties or not; all the same
whether they pay tax on binding Irvine,
clothing and farm tools or not
According to this wonderful editor
and thinker, Congress can't hurt us or
help us except by legislation upon that
one specific subject which the Fusion
Pop is paid to agitate-Silver
If the Fusion Pop talks anything but
silver he loses all claim to share in
that slush fund which Allen so persua-
sively fingers.
In no other way can you account for
the astonishing doctrine of our Tri-
bune friend that it doesn't matter
whether national taxes are high or
low-the corporations will get all the
money anyhow.
Touching this argument" which
The Iowa Tribune complains we have
not answered, we beg to ask it CUES
ton or two.
~. If it does not matter to the peo-
pie whether national taxes are high or
low, does it matter whether state and
county taxes are high or low?
~. If the money question gets set
tied right, will it make any difference
to the people whether the national
taxes are high or low?
(3). Is national taxation now framed
with the view of enriching certain
classes and of legislating the money
out of the pockets of the many into the
Golfers of the few?
~. If our national taxation is franz
ed on that plan, and operates to enrich
the Carnegies, Hannas, Rockefellers
and Havemeyers at the expense of the
masses of the people, will the adjust
ment of the money question relieve the
victims of the tax system?
(5). Ought not the Dingley bill to be
defeated, and can it be defeated unless
it is opposedP
(6). Why do you question our motive
in attacking the Dingley bill when
you have not questioned the motives of
the Populist and Democratic Congress
men who have opposed it?
The Iowa Tribune is so completely
blinded by it's malice that it accuses us
of attacking the Dingley bill for the
purpose of taking the eyes of the peo-
pie off the dearly beloved silver ques-
ton. The editor actually says that
our purpose is to keep the Republicans
in power!
He says that all the gold standard
folks are talking tariff, and the fact
that we talk tariff also, proves that we
want the Republicans to stay on top.
Tried by the same rule, The New
York Journal, the leading Democratic
Silver daily of the world, wants the
Republican gold standard to prevail
for the Journal has been talking tariff
by the cart load ever since the infa
nous Dingley bill was proposed.
The best weekly paper devoted to
free silver is Wharton Barker's "Amer-
ican," published in Philadelphia. For
several years it has been standard
authority on the money question, and
it is dead against the gold standard of
the two old parties. Yet The American
has been Smelling the woods on the
tariff question ever since the Dingley
bill showed it's head.
Is The American false to the cause of
ref rm because it. also, recognizes 9th
err issues besides silver?
The Iowa Tribune has lost it's head
1t does not know how silly it is making
itself appear. The glare of that Bryan
money has hypnotized it. There really
is something else on the earth besides
the silver question, and the Tribune
will so discover in good time
Those who really wish to down" the
Republicans in 1898, and 1900, might do
well to remember that the very worst
whipping the Republicans ever got was
on this question of the national taxes
The Mckinley Bill.
The Dingley bill is vastly more vul-
nerable than that upon which the Re-
publicans met their Waterloo in 1890.