Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-06-27
J.K. STREET, EDITOR
MASONIC LIGHT
OF Dallas. Texas
CANDIDATE FOR CONCRESSMAN.Ar
LARGE FROM TEXAS.
Subject to the Vote Of the Democrat III
Primary. July n, 1912.

Texas:
| want TO go to Congress, for
the salary it pays; financially |
need it; but | am familiar with
the material interests Of Texas;
| have been in the newspaper
business for 80 years in this
State. When l published the
Manufacture and Realty Record,
| wrote up nearly every county
in Texas; inspected each section
in person. Ii elected | shall do
my best to promote the interests
of Texas. On some of the po-
litical views are:
The Tariii-Free Trade.
The tariff is the leading ques-
ton, which has affected the bust
ness interests of this Republic
from the beginning. | oppose
both theories, a tariff for reve-
une only and a tariff for protect.
ion. They are so near alike that
the results under the rule of both
are measurably disastrous to the
masses of our people, hence |
am a free trader. A tariff for
revenue only, is also protection
and special privilege" which
the manufacture adds to the cost
Of his goods and the people pay
it.
If it is Democracy to benefit
the masses OF the people with a
small tariff, then it is better with
no tariff Under the plea of
building manufactures and bene-
fitting labor we rob n hundred
citizens to benefit one.
The tariff is breeder Of
trusts. All political parties are
striving to destroy trusts, still
they do not remove the root OF
the evil-the tariff. The courts
fine the trusts for violation of
the trust laws and dissolve their
corporations, but they go on
under new name and do bust
ness and increase the price oi
their products; so the cost OF
living is now nearly double what
it was two decades ago.
Abolish the tariff laws and
amend the trust laws so as TO
make it a crime to violate them.
The penalties should be peniten
tary ofTense and forfeiture of the
charter. To destroy the trusts
entirely would not injure the
country. We would be better of
if we had no beef trusts" Now
the cattle and the hog raiser sell
to buyer, then it goes to the
beef trust market at a large ex-
pense for shipment, then to the
wholesale dealer, then to the 10.
cal retail dealer, then TO the
consumer, who pays the profits
Of four middlemen, paying 80
cents to 30 cents pound for ba-
con which he ought to buy from
the hog raiser at = cents TO 10
a pound. Thus the destruction
of the trusts Injuries only the
trusts
If we abolish the tariff there ia
Il better way to get a revenue for
the support of the National Gov
eminent at a less expense TO the
people, and that is by a direct
tax on each State according TO
their assessed values, as is pro-
vided in the Constitution,
Art |, Section , and 4. The
officers that now collect State
and county taxes could collect
the Government tax with but
little or no additional cost, and
with none to the General Gov.
eminent. Democrats ought To
be strict constructionists of the
| Constitution, which requires the
Government To be supported by
a tax on the States.
| The benefits of this Constltu
tional plan over the present tar
| III plan, are evident. 1t destroys
the trusts and taxation is equal
on all according to what they
own, giving equal rights Ia all
| and special privileges 10 none.
Now "A man pays sl5 for a suit OF
clothes which would cost about
$40 II there were no tariff reve
nue., The man who owns $50
coo pays no more for clothes than
a man worth $1,000; they pay
the same tariff tax. Under iii.
rect taxation the $4,000 man
would pay on what ho owns,
nfty times a. much a. the 81, 90
man, a AK 50 small that neither
would De burdened. Abolish
the tariff and the millions % dol
lars invested IN Government
revenue buildings, the immense
cost 10 pay revenue officers
salaries aud the graft that there
: in the tariff system. which
now requires about one third 81
The revvnucg Tor collecting IL,
would h. not only a saving - the
I government but lmmcn ! = y
I more 50 90 an tho people. aboa,
E half what the tariff costs. Now
thc rich pay no more than ths