Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-06-11

DinEnan Ferry. June II, 1891
EDITOR PRESS: r. The Dispatch your
neighbor is still harplng ON the question
''NNho pays the taxes" That is the title of
an article In It's columns Of Muy 81, which
IS vague and without head or tail.
believe the taxes pay themselves, for II
a man earns ten cents he pays one-half or
one cent out of that amount. II he does
no earn the ton cents be has to pay the
tax Just the same or be dealt with accord
ing to law
Al present few can earn anything, con
scquontly something else than their earn
ings will haveFto pay the tax collector
win the Dispatch please explain why
there is so little earning of the figurative
ten cents from which the tax would be
paid
Fearing it may be reluctant to do so, I
win give my own Tho farmers and work
ingmen at the polls in 1892 voted the Dem
ocratic ticket with a vengeance, putting a
Democratic president and congress at the
head of government While i'm their
glory they hatched out the Wilson German
free trade bill compelling the American
] CAPITALISTS 10 NAhiltlAiM uAl NltlI illOItN 9
which is the life blood of our prosperity
Articles became cheap, not because they
could be made cheaper, but because of an
over-stock of cheap goods sent from Flu
rope whore wages are much less than here.
! The Americans thus having their earnings
cut of could not pay high or in fact any
prices for them rs they were earning no
thing
The times they say are getting harder
Since the Republicans came in power II
true this is easily explained. When Har-
rison's administration went out, the coun
try so far as II could be was in agood state
of prosperity.
HARD TIMES CAUSED By DEMOCRATIC MIS-
RULE
Ignorance and idiocy fired by such papers
as the Dispatch led the people to elect
Cleveland and the rest of the ticket. Hi
first term of office was poaceable and conscr
vative they said. The reason was the Con
gress was Republican, and he had then ne
chance to destroy prosperity as he had il
his second term with a congress on his
hands of his own stripe.
When Harrison left Washington tn,
country was will supplied with money
scattered among people That kept the
ball rolling, but during thepast four years
it has kept going slower as capital KEEP
shrinking from Investment because it was
not protected
When Cleveland went ont the spare
money of the people was spent and TIN
ball was stopped
We started in the Cleveland admins
our regret we sailed in the Mckinley tern
without a cent, and now we must wait un
til the injury previously done the peoli
is remedied by proper tariff law, for no
until then win confidence be restored an'
capital released
Now the cities are waiting orders Fl, Il
the farmer for the goods which farmer
are not able TO buy.
The farmers are waiting to supply tn
cities with their products but the working
men are not yet able to buy, because the,
have no work yet and no money
Who pays the taxes ? Why capital pay
it by going through the process of labor q
all kinds and in business, feeding an,
clc hing the people, in return for whicl
people are happy to pay small percentag
for taxes TO support government and whel
properly protected the better they are of
and the more oheerfplly they pay becaus
they own more productive property.
AN EX-DEMoCRAT