The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-16
He is the Man Whose LABOR
Supports Government
THE TAXPAYER FORGOTTEN
SENATOR MILLS SAYS W.
pIrITDLNC UP A PLUTOCRACl.
IAL LAWS ATE NEEDED
But They Cannot be Enacted ana Inc
Work of Creating ard ~u'u-
pying MiIIionaires Still
Goes On.

1From the Speech Of Senator Mills on
the Tariff Bill
7 come. sir. to speak for the forgotten
mantle taxpayer. | come to speak lor
+boSa from whose pockets this vast sum
is TO be raised, from whose labor ana
sweat day and night this vast contrlbu-
tion is TO he taken They have some
right to be heard in the councils OF the
nation when their property is to be taken
bv an act of legislative rapine and dis
tributed among men who base paid no
consideration for it.
What are we doing? Building up vast
and solid plutocracy in this country.
Somebody asked the other day how many
millionaires there are III the United
States. You could count them on the
fingers of one hand before 1860. The pol
icies and measures adopted by the Dem
ocratic administrations before the war
did not permit the growth of such mon
sters in this country. Republican policies
have fostered and fattened them. They
solently demand that other people shall
work out their lives to pay them tribute.
| | read from paper written by THOMAS
G.. Sherman, one of the ablest lawyers
| in the United States. 1t was published
and republished again in the magazines.
1t was published in 1890. 1t has never
been questioned. 1t has been sent broad
cast: it has been commented upon every
where. and never have | heard one
breath of contradiction or criticism of
the article. / will read what he says, and
he gives the names of some of them in
his discussion and they do not deny it:
There are 200 persons worth $4,000
600 each-$4. 900 100000.
There are 400 persons worth S10,000,-
600 each-S4. 100000.
There are 1000 persons worth $1,000
900 each-S5. 100000
There are 1000 persons worth $500
900 each-S5. 000. 100000.
There are 5000 persons worth 81 ,000,-
600 each-$6 000. 100000.
/ Twenty-four billion dollars owned by
$500 persons.
Then he puts 10000 people who own
100000 each, making S7,500Oo0.000.
Thus these 24.600 people owned SOL
/ 500. 100000. or more, at that time, than
one-half of the national wealth of the
| United States.
Startling as are these figures. the work
of creating and multiplying millionaires
still goes on. and today the people are
confronted with bill proposing to levy
500 taxes and 5000 taxes and $500 tax
es on a hundred dollars worth of the
necessaries of life-not to raise revenue
and pay the debts of the government. but
to raise revenue for the private pockets
of a favored class, and to an amount es-
timated at nearly S2.300.000,O00 a year.
| Now. Mr.. President, what is all this
for-this building up of great fortunes,
this enormous fund-creating and multi
plying millionaires? Have we not been
witnessing for the last few years thing
that must be humiliating to every lover
of the institutions of this country? Have
we not seen the daughters of the million
aires endowed with money wrung by
legislation from the pockets of the for
gotten taxpayers of this country, shipped
to Europe Ike fatted heifers and peddled
for titles? What a spectacle to see Amer
lean women exported and sold like so
many carcasses of mutton or fresh beef
for titles forbidden by the constitution
Of their country to be worn within its
Observation-Disclosures to be at deadly en-
nifty with its institutions. And yet we are
constantly beholding it.
OF what moment was it that the Faith
ers of the Republic, bearing the wounds
and the bloodstains of the Revolution
fought to secure their liberty and the lib
erty of their posterity? OF what use was
it for them to declare that titles of nobil-
lity should not be conferred in this coun
try? 1t was natural that they should dc
So 1t was the democracy of a free gov
eminent that they were creating-a free
popular government, whose whole power
came from the governed. 1t was gov
eminent of the governed, self-govern
ment free government and there was
no place in our system for titles and titled
classes. And yet we see as soon as these
people get this inordinate wealth then
daughters are shipped over to Europe anC
, put on the market, hawked and peddleC
and sold with American money to be
come princesSes and duchesses and count
esses and marchionesses, and we are here
; levying upon the pockets of the poor La
E boring people 5000 and $500 and $500 t.
enable this girl to make the trip and t.
buy title.
If we are in favor of equal taxation ant
: of equal and just laws, why should w
e not require the protected industries o
the country into whose pocket we pou
this enormous bounty, to contrlbut
money enough at least to support tn
, government that does it? Five per cen
on $9,300,0 100000 would support the gov
eminent ana give you nearly 100000
900. While we are creating this enormou
fund, nearly two billion and three hur
!. dred million dollars of pure bounty ever
9 year to build up these enormous fortunes
q can we not ask these gentlemen kindl
= and condescendingly to submit to a tax
+ alton of just per cent instead of 100 @
10 $50 per cent?
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