The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-20

CONGRESSIONAL favor, IL Is To-Day worth l2b |
cents on the dollar. while the sSI 800 900
represented by actual Investment of
perhaps s20,O00,000 is worth los cents on
the dollar.
With these facts staring them in the face
the republicans of this house aud OF the
senate have increased the tribute which |
this odious and powerful trust is collecting
from the American people. EITHER THE
MEN WHO DO THESE THINGS ARE DIS
HONEST OR THE SYSTEM WHICH COM
pELS The DOING or THEM is VIC
lOuS. have no patience with the narrow
view which car not explain the sugar
schedule except upon the score OF personal
dishonesty of republican senator's and rep
icsentatives, because my experience
teaches me that dishonest man is rare i'll
either branch Of congress. My deliberate
judgment ia that the sugar trust POSSESSES
its power over you not because 1t buys
your individual votes. but because II Is a
part of your system. and as 1t helps so
support your system. your system is COM
PEELED to help support it; and II is as GER
| tain That trusts will continue to increase in
number as long as you continue your policy
| of protection. Men may perceive their dam
! ger and cry out against them, but these
vnst aggregations Of capital Will so on de-
stroying all individual and independent en-
| torprise unless their growth Is arrested by
| the destruction of the protective system
which has fostored them.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
But. Mr. Speaker. we do not rest our op-
position to this bill solely upon the ground
that it Injuries the country by discourage
ing tho production of wealth We go fur
Their than that, and without moments
| hesitation declare that even II con-
gress could add TO the aggregate wealth of
the people, 1t hus no right to do SO by TAX
| Ing u part of what some men produce and
giving II to others who have no honest
| claim upon 1t. The government has no
| right to take dollar of one mans money
and give it to another man, even If in do
| ing so It could multiply the gift one hun
| drcd times. We stand upon the broad and
unassailablc ground that taxation can only
| be justified when IL is levied for the pur-
| pose of supporting the government, and
that all taxation which is designed 10
enable one class to collect tribute from
| other classes is a legalized robbery.
am aware. sir that there are some
| who pretend 80 believe that an utterahce
| like this Is not in harmony with the pat
| form of our last National convention; but
| there is nothing in the language oil mat
| platform or in tho circumstances fhd-
| ing its adoption TO warrant that opinion.
| When our opponents alleged IN thc iuS'
| campaign that we had surrendered the
! democratic position on the tarlu lu"'uou'
| we let that as we let many other calum-
MES pass without any special reply ana
| We would not deem IL necessary 10 answer
the accusation now except tor the ltct
/ that some of our own frichds nae recon-
ly repeated II and have assaulted the tHrll
plank of the Chicago platform as 10
psrture from our well settled principles
| These critics. both inside ana outside OF
| the democratic party are Dissatisfied ne
cause the word "only" has been omi''en'
and they appear 10 think that the oii'SsiOn
of that word signifies an abandonment oil
III t,.l mr.
ing could be further from the truth than
this aud | venture to say mat no un-
nreiudiced man will contend. after readihg
the sentence ASA whole, That our llal,
| form admits of any such CONSTRUCTION; Ae'
MS SEQ exactly what 1t says. IT declares
that ,,
We hold that tariff duties should be
levied for the purpose of revenue, such
duties to be so adjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country anu
not discriminate between class Of sec-
lion and that taxation should lie ilfl-
tied nv the needs of the government,
II honestly and economically admliIls-
tered
OMISSION OF THE WORD "oNi-H.
In the face OF this specific declaration
that tariff duties should be laid for revenue
and that taxation should be limited TO the
necessities of the government, am I'M
|
that our platform recognizes the fieh' vi
congress- 10 tax the people for any PURPOSE
except to support the government IL may
he asked and ii has been asked why W.
changed our language II we ana not Wy ""
IN change our position. My answer IS uu'
Az, Aid Intend to change our position IN
one respect but not IN respect TO ms paslG
nronnsition We omitted the wurn my
not because we intcded TO sahct'on '" -
ton for any purpose except LOT rev ~
"A
certain school OF democratic statesmen ~
moan that in laying tarih duties LOT r'n'
, u,n va would look no further thah 'Ie
single question Of revenue ana momlu
wholly ignore all question as 70 me 49,.
itv nf the tax between the d'htVs'. 10 ~,
and sections: ana II ""o r,antion in
which the Chicago conVs"''S a,ona
! t"nd,d TO repudiate. Our demand
, mar taxation shall be Tor reN'Hue
was not abated in the ieasa !, t fnr
we nledeed ourselves tha' laNos pa ar.
, ro,,on,,e should be so adjusted aF 20 o,
| Iteom" ,',oi,, throughout the country VIM
~. discrln,Inatlng between class OF seV-
ton. .,, .,or,,, ia unalterably
roaed IN all taxation except euoh On . .
necessary TO provide for we , Tn.
r No government. II recognizes that an ~
Wv an I,ty levied purely and only for inc
t p w.. ~ ,ni,ing revenue affords sn III
4 ;Adrrto, nrotection TO thoFe VINO prouu.,s
the articles upon which snrn ,n, e' cfrect
i laid. and wo seek TO minirnlAe e,'ie 81 +,
by applying the Incidental protec,len ne 81 IS
Q roycpun tariff 70 rs many atuc',s ~
g ',,c,i|,hln and thus make II as 'Ent az
a ss,,lo an all Our object is not 10 ~
= ,oit onv ciass to a PARTICIPATION ~ ' ~.
t lhcnefte of protective tariii' put !. r re
reduce the incidental nro,ection Of vide vide
nue. tariff by disIbu'lHs 1t ,o over ,ei lie in
t r otee,ion in any form, and regret Inc
protector nroteotion which even a purely
v incidental incident ,ari Gf' affords, because ! kno"
, InTe enabling the producer to rG9lze ths
d higher price for his goods u co'n p,t sir,