Year: 1870

portation to the Eastern cities. We
have got to have it, and we are going
to try.


The nearer you can bring the mar
ket at home to the farmer, the better
for the farmer, and the better for all
classes of people.


WISDOM AND CRAFTSMANSHIP OF RE-


PUBLICAN LEGISLATION.


They tell you a great many articles
are taxed. OF course they are. This
tariff must fall on something. You
cannot take in one hundred and sixty
millions of dollars Of revenue every
year unless you tax nearly eEeLy-
thing more or less but we nave Deen
reducing these taxes. want 20 sJa.e I
to you-althOugh you are douo'Iess -
already familiar with lt-WhaI IIl I4s
recently occurred in Congress. we
have passed a bill to reduce laAAlion
to the amount of eighty million u9I- 3I
lars. Now reducing taxes eighty NIL
lion dollars is worth a great many
Democratic speeches and great many
Democratic arguments. There IS q
great fact. We have Just repealed
fifty-seven millions of internal taxes,
and at the same time reduced the tar
ifF twenty-three millions. We could
not come down altogether; we came
down as low as we could to raise the
necessary amount Of money to carry
on the government, but we have, by
certain improvements in the admins
tration, been enabled within the last
fifteen days to repeal eighty millions
of taxes. How have we done that {?
First, we have repealed all, or nearly
all, the internal taxes, except those
on whisky and tobacco and the sales
of whisky and tObaccO-all the rest
with the exception Of stamps. We
have abolished stamps put on receipts,
which are q YeXatiOn to the people,
and we have abolished stamps on all
notes under one hundred dollars
We have brought down this kind Of
taxation to the lowest point that we
could, and nearly all that is left Of it
is on tobacco and whisky. A thou
sand other little taxes, that had to be
levied during the war, we have now
swept away.


REFORM AND EQUALIZATION OF THE


TARIFF.


Well, how about the tariff? We
have taken off twenty-three millions
from the tariff. On what? Prinei-i
pally on tea, coffee and sugar-thOse
three great necessaries of life that are
consumed by every family in this
country, and consumed not accord
ing to their wealth but according to
their number. The laboring man
the man in every condition of life
must have his tea, coffee and sugar.
We have reduced the tax on tea from
twenty-five to fifteen cents per pound
on coffee from five cents to three cents
per pound. We have taken three
cents per pound off sugar, or thirty
three per cent. of the entire tariff.


We have reduced the duty on pig
iron from 50 to 81 dollars per ton,
bringing it down to the point where
we think there will be fair cOmpeti-
ton between the home and foreign
producer. A great many articles we
have put on the free list, upon which
there was a small duty. So this Con-
gress that has been so much abused
and tradueed, has reduced your taxes
eighty millions of dollars. In the
presence of a grand result Of this kind
all little petty grumblings, earnings
and fault-findings disappear. Here is
a great event, a grand result. And it
was brought about by the Republican
party, and without the aid Of the
Democratic party.


DEMOCRATS VOTE AGAINST REDUCED


TAXES.


Now, I want to call your attention
to the fact that Notwithstanding our
Democratic friends are complaining
continually about the tariff, not one
of them in either branch of Congress
voted for this bill that reduced taxa
ton eighty millions of dollars-nOt
one of them. The work has been
done, but they did not do it; it has
been done by the Republican party in
Congress. Some Of you will wonder
at that-that these Democratic pOliti'
clans, who have been talking so earn
estly about the burden Of taxation
when brought to the test not one Oi
them would vote for the bill upon it:
| final passage! The most Of them
voted against it, and some Of then
lodged but if there is one man thai
voted for it I do not know it.


DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY.


The Democrats in State convention
/ in January last, resolved that tea, eOf
l'fee and sugar Should be put on The
free list. Those great necessaries o
| life, we could not do without taN
upon them. We have got to have the
one hundred and sixty millions o.
revenue, and although we put a!
/ D, Nru-- VI
not put it all there; there are moi
| enough of them. We must pay some
thing on our tea, coffee and sugar
and, in fact, on nearly everything
else. 1t takes a great many taxes tC
make a hundred and sixty millions o.
| dollars. These Democrats wanted the
| tax taken off from those articles; they
wanted tea, coffee and sugar put OF
/ the free list, but when the time fol
voting came not one Of them voted
/ for the bill. To show you how per
fectly hollow and hypOcritieal are al
these Democratic professions, l refel
you to this vote on the final passage
/ Of that bill. There is the test. Ont
vote in favor of reducing taxation !!
worth a hundred speeches in favO,
of it. They have make hundreds o
! speeches, but when the time came Il
vote they either voted the other way
or were not there.


I read an extract from the New
York World, one of the leading Dem
ocratic papers in the United States
and by all odds the aOlest. This is o
recent date, within the last ten days
it is commenting on this bill that
was just speaking Of:


"The proposal of the tail tariff,
as it is now called, from the fact o
its having been tucked on to the en'
of the internal tax bill, was a shrew'
move on Schenck's part. By Offering
a measure for the diminutiOn of taxa
tion-though the reductions them
selves were made in the most Objec
tionable way, viz: mainly upon tea
coffee and sugar-Schenek was abl
to secure the Republican vote 70
his bill. The Republican revenue re
formers knew that they could not fac
their constituents without having re
dueed taxation, and at this late periOI
i'm the session no measure for the pur
! pose other than that before them wa


possible"


WHAT ACTUATEs THE DEMOCRATI
PARTY.


What is the trouble with our Demo


cratic friends? Twill tell you. The.


have but one rule of action praeti
eallv, as though they have theOret
cally other; and that is to Oppos


whatever the Republican party does
When we proposed to reduce the ia.