Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-23
John Lamparter & Co.
Sole Agents
I83 S. Howard st.

masters--how aesthetic your trus,
magnate does become In such a little
while-every dollar of which, in the
shortest possible time, has been filch.
ed from the pockets of the American
people through prohibitory tariff
laws and trust combinations and ex
actions.
This all may be prosperity. The
republican idea of prosperity. It i,
not mine nor yours.
The steel trust exists and flourish.
es, as do all it's kind, in defiance a.
tbe Sherman law, framed and pushed
to passage by John Sherman; it does
business in Ohio in defiance of the
Valentine law. The republican attor-
ney general of Ohio recently, during
the strike, demanded that it pay the
statutory fees required to be paid BY
every foreign corporation doing busi-
ness in Ohio.
It treated the demand Of the attor-
ney general with silent contempt.
And now we have a remarkable opin-
lon from the attorney general, at this
late day, that after oil it need not
pay, that the law does not 30 require.
/ have no. quarrel with men Of
wealth who become SO in fair COM
petitive business with their country
men. But when, by act of congress,
tariff schedules enable few men to
organize monopolies and trusts to
take at will other peoples money,
who, because of this same law, are
unable to help or protect themselves,
we have the right 10 know the means
and methods and results of this sort
of Legislative looting, and to compel
the repeal or revision of any law or
laws that make such intolerable con-
ditions possible.
Senator Doliver, q republican sena-
tor from Iowa, on September 21st, at
the memorial services held on that
day, in memory of the martyred pres.
ident, in Chicago, used these words.
"It ought not to be forgotten that
conspirators, working out their nefa-
rious plans in secret in the dens and
caves of the enrth, enjoy an uncon.
scious cooperation and side partner
ship with every lawless influence
abroad in the world. Legislators who
betray the commonwealth, Judges
who poison the fountains, the foun.
tains of justice, city governments
which come to terms with crime-all
these are the regular contributors to
the campaign fund of anarchy"
There IL much just complaint about
out state institutions. That they are
not properly and economically man
aged. That their executive offices are
the convenient places for job seekers
as the reward for party services to
political bosses. THAI the sums OF
money taken IN taxes out of the peo-
pie are appalling in amount and spent
with lavish profiaaey. Up In Sandus.
ky they charge that the old soldier
inmates In the home arc hitohed to
lawn mowers and are made to haul
them, while lot of place holders
draw fat salaries.
Large sums of money have been cy-
pended from state funds on the war
rant of so-called emergency board
upon whom there appears TO be sbso.
lutely no check, and this, too, in
many instances for purposes that are
at least questionable,
The bank of the Miami canal has just
been turned over by tho present state
republication administration for praoti-
cally nothing, to an electric railroad un-
der the guss Of mSying canal boats Sy
being laid upon the bank OF that canal
In Cincinnati, and in other places. Il
has h been given to Httle fsvored syn n
that canal for ap electric railroad IL the
most, colossal private fortune that Ohio
could give away
of Ohio have been running the public
institutions, spending all OF the money
and keeping the books, Come, now. let
us have a democratic ADMINISTRATION and
they have been correctly. kept and the
That Is reasonable. II will do no harm.
believe In rotating crops, Why not ap.
offices9
tiop of taxes, Who pays them, and how.
aside from who are tax-gatherers and the
tax-eaters? You farmers and house:
holders know that you pay practically all
". shv taASS' ray oh NaiuoaoiAo hoosys .
II not quite, equal to the actual value
of your farms and dwelling houses. How
about the great corporations and trusts
that the last Ave years have developed
and produced7 What taxes do they payf
We have In Cincinnati q large quasi pub
he corporation that Is capitalized at over
$4,000, 900. Its stock is selling above par.
II Is paying taxes on little over $2,>
000.000 while each householder In the
town this minute is paying taxes on near
". II not quite, the full value Of hi.
house, It is so In every town and county
In this state.
I am not going to bore you with any
statistics. ! am appealing this moment
to your general knowledge, You know
II to be true. Go and look at your tax
duplicates The great bulk Of taxes In
Ohio is paid by the farmers In the ooun-
try and the small house owners In the
cities. The great corporations, capital
lied In many instances at hundreds or
millions their stock selling away above
par, pay trivial sums In comparison with
you farmers. What has the republican
party in OHIO eyer done to eaualise these
tax burdensf Nothing. although almost
continually In power.
Within year democrats In Ohio have
been calling attention to these glarin8
and outrageous inequalities. Our repub-
lican friends at their last convention were
forced to pay some attention to the sub
jact, and thsy resolved to do something
about II, But whoever heard OF republi-
cans disturbing anybody II he had much
money, and especially II campaign con-
tribution could be squeezed out OF him.
oh, say a lot of them. the constitution
or Ohio Is In the way. When the rePuD-