Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — DUTY OF DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.

RDOE« <J. MILLS POINTS OUT -A PLAIN PATH, Sorrtfc Light Thrown oh Innrr Workings of tfhe Torlff—Blnder Twine and Rope Should Be Pot on the Free I.lst — -Remove the Barriers to Commerce. What Democrats Most Do.

“We must show to the people of the United States that we were honsst in the 'declarations upon which they gave us the administration of the Government i-n all departments. “We must arrange taxation for the single purpose of raising revenue for the Government. We must show to them that we were sincere when we said that 'taxes should not be levied for the purpose of protecting anybody against 'competition. “To do our duty will call for only an ordinary amount‘of intelligence, hut an-extraordinary amount of courage. In iproceeding to formulnte a measure that shall take the place 'of the presentsytem of tariff taxes, wc must keep'uppermost 'the principle of the right of the American people to labor and to market the product of their labor.

“Tire problem to-day is that the productive efficiency of the people of the United States-is so great that in a part of the year it brings forth more than will satisfy all our people for the whole year. Barriers have been placed in the way of their marketing elsewhere what they produce •during the rest of the year, and they must be removed. In order to do that we must take thq heavy penalties off goods coming into this country. By the same act that you prohibit importation you make impossible exportation. “We must take the tax off every raw material that enters into ttoe manufacture of goods that we produce. Coal, the metals, and all tbe fibers must be put on the free list, and so must all of those things ttoait enter into the manufacturing of (the articles In which the skill of the American laborer is superior (Do the skid of ttee laborer of any-otto eir country. Thera, too, the taxes insist be taken off -finished goods thiufc are of common necessity in so far -as -those taxes are purely protective. All 'this must be done because our people now appreciate that wtoem you put a high tax on am article and that article oomes Mato this coiontTy to he sold something mrest pay for it, (toriff, tax, and aillL, amd tlney knraw that the payment mmst'Oirame fflrenn the-surplus of American labor, as fi-t is mow and has long'been coming. “The Den'oeratic-party lhas wisdom enough. It toas too routfh prudence. For thirty pears, truth -anmpels me to say tfhat there has been cowardice In the leadership of the Democratic party. Grover (Cleveland 'was elected beotuse -the people appreciated that toe had the'Courage to dlo what was might. •‘The-people'have'teeued the edict that these 'must be a (tariff system which will reduce thriir'tourdens to a mitoiimuin. It Hsto 'carry out their edict that they put 'the Democratic party In power. If 'that party fails totd© this the people will bury it four years ifnom maw -deeper than they buried the Republican party last November.” —Roger Q. Mills, at the Re(tojnm.Qh»b 'dinner.