Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1892 — Page 4

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(•The ■■ »p."r—"'. i 1 ■;■'■■!' — JT. jUAOXBUXM, Proprietor. FRIDAY, MAY 6. 1892. .Dem.: Democratic Ticket. THE STATE. For Governor. •Dem.: CLAUDE MATTHEWS, : ; of Vermillion. For Lelutenant-Governor, ■Dem.: MORTIMER NYE, ; of Laporte. For Secretary of State, "Dem.: WILLIAM R MIKRS, ; • of Madison. • For Auditor of State, ;Dem : J. 0. HENDERSON, : of Howard. ; For Secretary of State, •Dem: ALBERT GALL. ; of Marion. For Attorney General, ;Dem : A. G. SMITH. : of Jennings. For Sunt. of Public Instruction, •Dem: H. D. VO RTES. ; of Johnson. For State Statistician, :Dem : WILLIAM A. PEELE, of Randolph. For Rei■orler Supreme Court, ;lmm: 8. It MOON, ; of Fulton. lilom: JEPTHA D. NEW, ;: of Jennings. 0 ; Judge Supreme Court. 3d district, •Dem : JAMES McCAUE, . ...: of Warren. ; Judge Supreme Court, sth district, •Dem : T. E, HOWARD, ;; es St. Joe. :; Judge of Al’penateCourLlst district. :. ..: of Spencer. ; Judge of Appelate Court. 3d district. •Dem : FRANK GAVIN. :: of Decatur. : Judge of Appel.ate Court. 3d district, .Dem THEODORE P. DAVIS, ;• of Hamilton. ; Judgeot Appellate Court, 4th district. •Dem: O- T. LOTZ. of Dtlaware. : Judge of Appellate Court Sth district :Dem : GEORGE E. ROSS, : ofCass. ’ the county For Representative—Adams, Jay •Dem.' and Blackford. •7..“.: WILLIAM H. HARKINS. . For Representative—Adams and Jay. ;Dem.: RICHARD K. ERWIN. ; For Prosecuting Attorney—2#th •Dem.: Judicial Circuit I RICHARD H. HARTFORD. • ••■• •• For Treasure’, •Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ••••••• ; For Sheriff, ■Dem.: SAMUEL DOAK. • ••— ; [For Surveyor, :Dem.: JOHN W. TYNDALL. For Coroner, •JJem,: OLIVER T. For Assessor, •Dem.: ANDREW J. PORTER. For Commissioner—First District. •Dem.: HENRY HOLBROKE. * »••••••; For Commissioner—Third District, • Dem.: BAMUEL FETTERS, On what grounds can one person be justly taxed for the benefit of an-, other? The Illinois Democrats declare ' themselves in favor of electing U. S. Senators by. an elective vote of the people. The billion dollar congress will be noted in history by two outrages upon the American people—the passage of the McKinley bill and the wicked waste of the people’s money. Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, is a little late in becoming a Republican Presidential possibility. He should have had his little joke on the first of April instead of at the close of the month. When a tax is imposed to meet the expenses of a prudent and econ* omical administration of a govern* ment then taxation is a blessing, but when it is imposed to keep up the expenses of a prodigal billion dollar congress, then taxation becomes burdensome and oppressive* Mr. Lemon, Raum’s financial friend, when the Raum investigation began to get hot, to escape being “squeezed” by the committee, skipped to Europe, perhaps to study agriculture in the mother country that he might better instruct American farmers as to how they should vote the Republican ticket. With John P. Alger at the head of the state ticket of Illinois to champion the cause of tariff-reform lu that state, the Democrats will make a hard fight/ The farmers and laborers are beginning to see that “protection’' means oppression instead of relief. Republican friends you will have to hustle to get the wool over the Voters eyes this time. J[ohn P. Altgeld, of Chicago, was nominated for governor of Illinois by the Democratic state convention on the first ballot. He is a self-made man and possesses

the qualities that will appeal to the great masses of laboring men. His courage and patriotism were shown at the age of sixteen when he en. listed as a private in the Union army. Our Republican friends are trying to make the people believe that the Democrats are not willing to fight them on the old battle field for tariff reform. The following resolutions of the Illinois convention held April 27th shows the feeling of the Democrats of that state on the subject: “We demand an immediate revision of the tariff, free raw materials, a reduction in the duties on the necessaries of life and such changes in the shipping and navigation laws as shall restore the American merchant marine and the supremacy of the American flag upon the high seas.” The American Farmer is the title of a neatly printed, profusely illustrated periodical published in Washington, D. C., by Mr. Raum’s financial friend, Pension Solictor Lemon. While published ostensibly for the advancement of agriculture, a glance at the pages will readily convince even a wayfaring farmer that the object is to influence and control bis political action rather than teach him what Pension Solicitor Lemon “knows about farming.” The trick would be shrewd if not so transparent, and Mr. Lemon and his party will find that but few of the honest, unsuspecting farmers will be enticed through its deception into Little Ben’s parlor. Is it a fact, as has been reported, that a representative of Raum’s financial friend, Pension Solicitor Lemon’s American Farmer, socalled, recently approached an offi cial of the Grange with a proposition, supplemented by a Ben Butler wink “and the accompaniment,” to obtain a list of Granges, its officers, members, etc? The offer, it is reported, was spurned with indignation whild the unfortunate repre sentative, to escape a kicking-ou-lost no time in getting out Is that one of the methods to be adoped for reaching Democratic farmers, and, in the .name of agriculture, deceive them with the false teachings of the Republican party. But Dorsey and Dudley and Davenport will resort to any means in the future, as they have in the past, to accomplish their unholy purpose. ~The Republicans of to-day cannot make even the ghosts of the former leaders of the party stand upon the platforms they build. Grant was a Democrat when the war broke out, and Grant as Presi* dent said in a message to congress: “Many duties now collected, and which givp but an insignificant return for the cost of collection, m ight be remitted, and to the direct advantage of the consumers at home. I would mention those articles which enter into manufactures of all sorts. All duty paid upon such articles goes directly to the cost of the articles when manufactured here, and must be paid for by the consumers. These duties not only come from the consumers at home, but act as a protection to foreign manufacturers of the same completed articles in our own and distant markets.” All that the party stands for to-day is diametrically opposed to this honest exposition of doctrine. Garfield said: “All the revision of taxes should be in the direction of Tower duties.” If these men, whom the Republican orators boast of in all perorations were alive to-day, they would have to revise their opinions and speech or march under the banner of Grover Cleveland and tariff reform. In the Raum investigation on Friday last a witness, Special Agent Greenawalt, testified, after assurances that he would not be prosecuted, that by 1 Commissioner Raum’s order he set a trap to induce Congressman Cooper, of Indiana, to violate the law. Greenawalt went to Indiana and gave a pension attorney $25 to hand to Cooper, as a fee in a pension case. Mr. Cooper not only is familiar with the law, but he is au honest man, and he promptly

returned the money. Greene wait went upon the stand as a witness for Raum, but under the shrewd examination of the committee he revealed the whole plot of the commissioner to ruin a congressman whom he disliked. All these parties, Cooper and Raum live in Indiana, and the oommittanoe must be familiar to that other Hoosier, Mr. Benjamin Harrison, temporarily* President of the United States of America. The verdict of the American people is that Commissioner Raum has done many things for which he should be removed. This last reason is added weight to the popular verdict If, in the light of many disgraceful revelations, the president further shields Raum, the public will not be slow to believe that Harrison is no better than Raum. It is high time for a change. The scandal is offensive. The Tribune made quite a stir not many months ago over the beneficient influence of the tariff on the pearl button industry. The only pearl button factory m the country was established here in Detroit, not because of the tariff, but because the gentlemen in interest had acquired a machine which discounted all previously employed apparatus for the manufacture of pearl buttons. Oar local protection organ declared that the pearl button industry was one of the beneficient results of the tariff, and that it meant the employment of large numbers of skilled laborers. It is painful to read in this morning's issue of that newspaper that the pearl button indue try has been transferred to the Detroit house of correction, where convict labor may be applied to its development. This bears out the theory of the News, advanced at the time of the controvefsy over the pearl button tariff, that the tariff on pearl buttons did not insure to the benefit of any single laboringman, and that the industry was established onjy because the mechanical devices employed were such as made it possible to apply the cheapest grades of Labor to making of the product— Detroit, News. A DEMORALIZED PARTY. The fact that all its best men have been forced completely into the background is convincing evidence ot the demoralized condition of the Republican party. As late as four yean ago a man of pure and upright life, of strong conviction, of unswervering honesty and unfaltering courage—such a man, for instance, as Walter Q. Gresham—could still command a following in it. But after the blocks-of-five campaign of 1888 this became impossible. The party had the choice between repudiating that policy of reckless and unscupulous Radicalism or adopting it in permancy. In 1890 Republicans by the hundred thousands cast their influence against their party that it might be warned in time to recede. But it refused to hear them. Its office holders controlled it fully, and a •change of the course of the party would have meant their retirement from office, and their loss of standing as well as loss of leadership in the party. It held its course, and as a result it is now absolutely committed to Harrison and the school of politics he represents. Men like Gresham are no longer mentioned among Republican leaders. Their places have been taken by Wanamaker, Steve Elkins and others who believe that the one thing necessary in politics is “necessary funds” in the hands of “reliable men.” Nothing but an overwhelming defeat in N ovember will give the party a chance to reform or to restore to leadership men who have not entirely surrendered to the idea that frying out fat and controlling blocks-of- five is the “best politics.’ REPUB LI CAN A CKNO WR EDGEMENT. The Indianapolis Journal sounds a note of alarm. It concedes that the Democrats have nominated a superior ticket, and admits.that the convention which made the ticket was a great pne. It says: “The Democratic convention was a respectable one, as political conventions go. In composition and material it was fully up to the average ot state conventions, and was a fairly represented body of men. It was neither turbulent nor disorderly, as many expected it to be. While this was largely due to the fact that the party bosses used every posible precaution against trouble by taking much of the convention’s work out of its bands and putting all the fire brands out ot reach, the fact re- • ■ ■

mains that it was in the main an orderly convention. The ticket embraces all the Democratic state Officers except Secretary of State Matthews, who is nominated foi governor. The worst thing can bt said against the ticket is that it ii Democratic. It is as strong as tbs party, and Republicans should know by this lime what that meana It can be beaten, but Republicans should not deceive themselves by supposing it is a Weak ticket” IB COME TAXES. A correspondent writes concerning the question of income tax. He wants to know why one man should “count for more than another;” why all should not stand on a equality in the matter of taxation. For reply there is this to say: That equality in taxation is absolutely just and ascessary, if by equality we mean that all men shall be subject to the same rule of taxation. But thejsuggestion of an income tax in no way involves any inequality in that respect. A law taxing all incomes of more than a fixed amount would apply equally to all men. But if by equality we mean that all men, irrespective of condition shall pay equal amounts of taxes, no tax law ever accomplished that or aimed at it, or ought to aim at it. When a tax is levied upon property the man who has much must pay more than the man who has little. And this is perfectly just. The men who pays most has most to be protected by the state and should contribute most to pay for protection. An income tax answers perfectly to this principle. It has the additional merit that it deprives no man of the necessaries or the comforts of life; that it places burdens where they are most easily borne; that it does not impose restrictions upon trade or in any way handicap industry; that it taxes results, not the processes; accumulated wealth, not the means of wealth’s creation, and that it permits those who pay the taxes to know bow much they pay. Indirection in taxation is the prolific mother of extravagance in public expenditure. 8= ■■■'■ S IS THIS CONSISTENCY? “As all the people are consumers,’ says the Tribune, “and the great mass of them are engaged in some one of the many occupations which add each an item in the ultimate cost to the consumer of one or more articles, it stands to reason that any change in the value of the circulating medium, if it work as intended to favor any particular class, can only do so at the expense of the rest, br at least some of them.” And since Tt is wrong to favor a particular class at the expense of the rest the Tribune is opposed to making a change in the value of the* circulating medium. It is true that any change in the value of money affects some classes or class favorably and other classes unfavorably. It is true that unlimited silver by the paper money short cut would reduce the value of our money one-third, more or less. It is true that this reduction in the value of money is intended to benefit two classes of people—debtors and the rich owners of silver mines —at the expense of other people. Therfore, all fair minded men ought to be opposed to a reduction of the value of the dollar by the unlimited silver method or any other method. The Tribune sees all this very clearly, and it opposes the Bland bill on the good ground that it is wrong to legislate for the enrichment of some people at the expense of other people. And yet it advocates and defends a kind of legislation which is confessedly intended to accomplish this very purpose. Its conscience is tender when it is proposed to rob some people for the enrichment of others by the silver device, but exceedingly tough when it-is proposed to stop robbing some for the benefit of others by the tariff device. The object of a tariff for protection is to clothe certain classes with power to appropriate the earnings of other classes without returning an equivalent. So far as it fails to do this it fails to do what it was made for. And yet the newspaper which opposes the Bland bill because it is intended to benefit some classes at the expense of others defends tariff legislation which is intended for the same thing and which has been accomplishing that thing on enormous scale of injustice for the last thirty years.— Chicago Herald. M

! A CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT. : The tariff speech by Congressman > Wo. L. Wilson, of Virginia, last i week, should be read by every voter ' in the Uuited States. It should be i printed in pamphlet 'form aud i scattered broadcast over the couui try as a campaign document. Logic 1 and eloquence are its characteristics . and its truthful statements are ao i simply put that the most unskilled in tactics of politics and soienoes of economics cannot fail to understand him. Who, for instance, cannot understand that the following proposition involves the sound and essential underlying principle *of just government: Primarily, Mr. Speaker, thia is a question oi taxation, to eveiy sell-governing people there i» and theie can be -o more vital and more momentous question, a st s tern oi taxation correct in principle and just in operation is the final goal, I may say is the essential defi ition, of free government. As we approach such a system, we broaden and equalize our freedom. As we depart from it, we narrow and make unjust distribution of that freedom. Who, again, can see what is burdening the industrial and producing classes of this country, and debarring them from the achievement of satisfying results, when they read this summary by Mr. Wilson of the robbery to which they are subjected? Os all the taxes paid by the people of the United States more than one-half are paid into the treasury of the United Stales For every day of the fbcal year something more than |t,000,000, the proceeds of taxes, find their way into that treasury and out again to meet the ordinary expenditures of the government. Ido not believe, sir, that It is within the compass of statesmanship 10 gather $1,000,000 between the rising and the setting ot every day’s sun from the people of this country, without imposing serious burdens upon themwithout impairing their capacity to produce, and lessening the profitable ex change of their products. As Mr. W ilson, says, “there is not another country in the world that imposes on its people * * * such a cruel and merciless rate of taxation.” The most startling part of this truly remarkable speech is, however, where Mr. Wilson, quoting Mr. McKinley’s own report, points out that the wool schedule was dictated by the wool-growers’ associations, state and national; the metal schedule by the American Steel and Iron association; the woolen clothing tariff by the Wholesale piothiers’ Manufacturers’ association, and so on down the list. Item by item, the men of this country who do their own thinking, knew these things -before, but as Mr. Wilson has collected them, and as he holds them up in the white light of truth, they are an unanswerable ai rajgnment of the party responsible for the McKinley bill. As one correspondent says, “not Carlisle, who is synonym for the cold steel of logic, or Mills, who is synonym for the server of eloquence,” could have excelled the West Virginian. The speech is a campaign document. Democrats can desire nothing better. ■ 1 The Pension Office has been the principal plague of the administration. The President was' especially unfortunate in the appointment of Mr. Tanner, who appeared to look upon the Commissionership as a means of celebrating himself as a liberal dispenser of the public money. From Mr. Tanner to General Raum has not been conspicuously an upward step, and it is probably that Mr. Harrison will be obliged to make another change in this, the last year of his Administration. The Pension Bureau cannot,'how ever, be thoroughly reformed with-, out congressional help. Under a system which has gradually grown the pension attorneys have been the principal beneficiaries of Uncle Sam’s generous bounty. The new law passed by the last congress reducing the fees of attorneys was a good beginning; but the big agencies are still doing a‘ great business, and appear to have the inside track to information. Congress ought to interfere further m this matter. The Pension Office should be overhauled from end to end and reformed severely. Excursions to Arkansas. To Hot Spring “The Carlsbad of America”viX , * le Clover Leaf route, T., St. railroad, and Iron Mountain Route. 3d —May 16th and 17th, Account auction sale of city |ot« by U. 8. Government, district meeting Southern and Central Turnverein Association and annual meeting General Assembly Southern Presbyterian Church. Through tickets on sale at principal stations. limited returning 30 days. Two trains daily,;Buffet Reclining Chair, seats free in day trains, Buffet Vestibule Sleeping cars on night trains. One change of cars in St. Louis Union Depqt. Call pn nparpst agent ar address, Q. C. Jenkins, Gen'l Pass. Agt., Toledo, Ohio. Still Ahead. Wilder & Co, at the Central Meat Market, have greatly reduced their expenses and are now selling meat cheaper than ever for c tsh. • Plenty of veal always on hand. Give them a trial. 4?tf ’ "" '. • , ,

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