Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1889 — Page 4

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Our neighbor seems to take to heart the remarks of Mrs. Helen Gougar at tie prohibition meeting and dips his editorial pen in gall to respond. Benator Voorhee?, last Saturday, at Scottsburg, this State, most unmercifully scored the monopolistic hordes. Now lot the big organ—the Indianapolis Journal- set up a howl, so that its little monkeys over the State may join in the chorus. The public debt increased during the months of July and August $7,394,006. Touring the corresponding months of the four years of the Cleveland administration the decrease was as follows: 1885.. $11,541,842 1886 10,959,802 1887 9,654,37 i 1888 11,461,974 Senator Yoorkees: The present high protective tariff is simply a huge, complicated, far-reaching, close-searching, insatiate,'grasping anu oppressive instrumentality of the plutocracy for the consolidation of the wealth and the power of wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of the many; it is a vast machine, put in motion by unjust and dishonest laws, to take hard-earned money out of your pockets, and place it to the credit of those who toil not, neither do they spin, but who, in bank ac*. count and dazzling riches, outshine Solomon in his greatest glory.

The Oxford Tribune soberlv reproduces the following from the Page (Va.) Courier: In 1861 it took just one bushe of corn to buy a pound of nails; now o e bushel of corn will buy ten pounds of nails. Then it required sixty-four bushels of barley to boy one yard of broadcioth; now the same amount of barley will pay for twenty yards of broadcloth. It then required the price of on 3 bushel of wheat to pay for one 3*ard of calico; now one bushel of wheat will buy twenty yards of calico. In 1861 the monopolistic protective tariff had not yet got in its work, and the country was moving along with the revenues derived from the tariff of 1846. Nails, broadcloth, calico, and everything else, except farm products, were cheaper then than now.

lii 1861, the market reports in our files of that date give wheat at 85 and 95. Per eontra, a farmer of this Marion township informed ns one dav this week he had dis. iposed of this year’s crop of wheat at 60c. In 1861, corn, oats, etc., rated proportionally with wheat as quoted that year. Bit the silliest, low-down, farfetched lie contained in the Virginia organ of Mahon e, accepted as so much gospel by our old friend Johnnie, and doled out I y him to his readers as sober truth, is thß statement that: “It then (in 1861) required the price of one bushel of wheat (85©. a 95c.) to pay for one yard of calico;” and that “now one b’.shel of wheat (60c.) will buy twenty yards of calico.” Of course the Virginia organ of the republican confederate brigadier means that 60c. will buy 20 yards of 3c. calico. But when it says that in 1861 calico sold at 85c and 95 c. per yard, it lies bad.

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who are the least able to pay taxes and does not tax those who are the most able to pay; that taxes the poverty of the country and not its wealth, thereby protecting capital and oppressing labor, is not entitled to the name of protection and can not long exist before the scrutiny of a just and enlightened public ODinion. A quarter of a century has elapse ed since the close of the war and yet it is insisted that the present war tariff, which was enacted during the war under the pretense of raising revenue to help defray the greatest war expenditure which the world ev?r witnessed, shall be continued indefinitely. No person in or out of eongress pretended at the time of its enactment that it was for any other purpose than to raise revenue, and all agreed that it was intended only as a temporary measure, which is so expressed in the title of the acts, and had not the war come upon us, no political party or politician wo’d have dat ed to propose such an increase of the tariff.—

Thore was great hurry after the close ©f the war to relieve the corporations and incomes of the rich of all war taxes and it was done. Now, my countrymen, do you not think it is about time that the farmers and laboring people were being relieved at least of a portion of the sajn.e war tax? You will remember, my countrymen, that during the last campaign, when the tariff reformers advocated a reduction of the average tax from 47 to 42 per cent., (a reduction of only 5 per cent.,) what a torrent of opposition was aroused by the protectionists all over the country, and they poured their money out like water to carry the election and defeat the reduction. The protectionist and monopolist tell you, my farmer friends, that this war tax is a good thing for you and a good thing for the business of the country. Then whv not put the tax back again on the corporations and incomes of the rich? Thay tell you that high taxes arc a good thing for you but not for c rporations and the wealth of country. The truth of history is that the capita ists took advantage of the excitement of the war times and the exigencies of the war to procure the enactment of a tariff that would enrich them at the expense of the people. Its enactment was not dictated by patriotic impulses, but by avaric\ Had the motive for its enactment been solely to raise revenue to support the government during the war, a much lower tariff would have been adopted. The present tariff was enacted to prevent competition and not to rais -! revenue, as the rate of duty fixed by the tariff that exis ed prior to the war would have produced more revenue during the war and the revenue would have gone into the treasury. The difference between a democratic tariff for revenue and a republican monopoly tariff for protection is, that under a democratic tariff for revenue the tax is levied and collected at the custom-house and paid into the treasury, while under the present republican monopoly tariff the principal part of the tax is levied and collectod at the ships and storehouses of the monopolists

and goes into their pockets. A democratic tariff for revenue is a tariff to support the government. A republican protective tariff is a tariff to support and build up private interests. Every citizen sho’d be willing to be taxed to purport the government. No citizen slio’d be willing to be taxed to support private interests to budd ud private for+unes. The peple have been taxed ever since the war to project and support private ests, and the result of such a system has bee . to rapidly aggregate the wealth of the country in the hands of the few. PrUr to the enactment of the present war tarifl there were r.ot twenty men m the United States who could be called millionaires, and onlv one man worth over two millions, and lie had accumulated his fortune without the aid of protective legislation. Now it is alleged by learned economists, who have taken great pains to collect statistics! in relation to the wealth of the country, that there are over twenty-five thousand individuals in the country worth over a million of dollars each, and some of them worth as ftiuch as tw,o hundred millions, and that these 25,000 individuals

I own ozer half of the private wealth of the nation. Estimating ous present population at only 60,000,000, one-twenty-.four -hundredth of -he population own halt of the private v. ealth of the whole country.

Now let us contrast the present distribution of wealth with* that which existed up tc the time of the enactment of the present war tariff. Our present form of government may be said to have commenced when the constitution went into force, or when the first president was inaugurated, A pril 30, 1789, and from that d'-te to the enactment of the present var tariff was seventy-five years—three quarters of a century, During all that time there were not twenty individuals in the co-ntry worth over a million of dollars each, the wealth of the country being diffused among the people. During the past twenty-five years— one fourth of a century—under the pr sent tariff, therejhave been created millionaires by the thousands, the wealth of the country has been concentrated in the hands of th» few, monopolies, combines and trusts have been built up, which comtrol the markets and dictates the wages of labor.

This rapid accumulation of great wealth by the few, through special privileges granted bythe goyernment, has created an inordinate desire for riches. It is rapidly taking possession of the public mind and threatens to become the ruling passion of the nation. All history shows that when avarice becomes the ruling passion of a n d;ion, its davs of usefulness to mankind are numbered. Daniel Webster said in one of his great speeches that “liberty can not long endure in any country when the tendency of legislation is to concentrate wealth in the, hands of a few.”

The question of tariff reform should receive the immediate and continuned attention of the people. Neither party ties nor religious creed should prevent the people from giving it that serious consideration that its importance demands. The present tariff should not be allowed to exist until the reaction against it may bee ome so "iolent as to demand legislation tbat will embarrass capital. Capital should not be wrongfully assailed nor unjustly legislated against, but capital can take eare of itself without special legislation in its favor. It is the masses of the people—the poor—who need the fostering care of the government.

Abraham Lincoln said in one of his messages to congress: “ There is one point to which I ask attention. It is the effort to placn capital on an equal footing with if not above labor in the structure of the government. I bid the laboring people beware of surrendering a power which they already possess and which, when surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement to such as they and flx new disabilities and burdens upon th.m ti'l all ofjtheir libtrtv shall be lo t 1 ’ Againhesavs: “Labarisprier to and independent of capital Capi> is Only the fruit of labor and naver could have existed if labor had not flrst existed Labor is much the superior and deserves much the htrher consideration”

The republican * arty of to-day is as radically wrong, and its position as indefensible on the question of taxation aa was that •! the proslavery ad vocato during th<? days of slavery The pr j-slaveav advocate contended that slavery was the normal condition or and that it was right for capitalists to own slaves snd to appropriate the fruits of the slaves’ toil to his own use

The republican of to-day contends that it is tight te tax the laboring aud producing classes for the benefit of capital In o her words, that it is rigat to tax one m n tor the benefit of another mat: lhe priacipl in each case is the same; bo s h are founded In injustice ind oppression, and the people will ere lomr burs by their ballots the presen' svstem of unjust and oppressive taxation as deep as they bunted the oppression of human slavery

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Notice ot Final Settlement of Estate. In the matterjof the Estate of Timothy O’Conner, Deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, October Term, 1889. Notica is hereby given, that the undersigned, as Administrator of thej estate of Timothy) O’ Conner, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate,fand that the same will come up for examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 22d day of October 1889, at which time all persons interested iu said estate are requ’red to appeal in sa-d Court and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouchers should| not be approved. And the heirs of said estate, and all others interested therein are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirshir or claim to any part of said estate. DANIEL O’CONNER, □ Sept. 1 3,1889. Administrator.

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