Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 July 1894 — Page 4

fife jjifct bounty democrat lit »l. McC. K'-TUOFS. Th.. I»ikf lount} Remo.-mt h*s Ik# l»r* Kit circulation ot any uewsj.a|ic»' published in he County i Advertisers wi!J make a note of Aklafert! - One Year, tn mivnnce.fl 8} ifcjix Months, in advance.“. tk> One Year, tn advance.fl 8} ifcjix Months, in advance.“. tt> - Entered at the postoffico In Petersburg for . transmission through the mails as secondclass matter. FltlDAY, JULY 13.1894A NN O UN V E M E N TS. FOK CLERK. Ei>. Democrat: Please announce my name ns a candidate for the nomination of clerk of the circuit court of Pike county, subject to the decision of the democratic nominating convention to be held August 18, 1894. The suppoft of all citizens solicited. R W. Harris. FOR SHERIFF. Ed. Democrat.—Please announce my name as a candidate for sheriff of Pike county, subject to the decision of the Democratic primary election. The support oi all is cordially solicited. T. J. Scales. Ed. Democrat. — Please announce my name as a candidate for sheriff, subject, to the decision of the democratic nominating election. Christajn b. Henke. Yn order to place The Democrat in every home in Pike county (luring the coining campaign we have decided to make an exceedingly liberal offer for new subscribers. Thepaper will be sent from mow until the ‘first of January, 1895, for4 fifty cents. *Each subscription must be accompanied by the cash. No name will be placed on the books where the money does not accompany the order. Any 'postmaster willreeeive your subscription and send the same to us. This low price for the largest paper in ‘pike county should secure us a thousttnu new subscribers during the next thirty days. The campaign is coming on and the people of Pike county bhould be informed as to what is going on in the county and to then vote for their best interests. No olh er paper in the county will give you the figures and facts as they exist at the presentjtime. Friends of this paper should speak a good word to their neighbors and get them to send for The Democrat at once. Have them send for a sample copy or let them have yours. Fifty cents from uow until January first.

The democratic central committee of Pike county met at Winslow last Saturday to set a time to nominate a county ticket, and Saturday, August 18th, was the day named when The People of Pike county will assemble together in mass convention and .nominate men for the various positions to be filled at the November election. The meeting was a very « enthusiastic one and the various townships well represented by others than the committeemen. Nominations will he made in mass convention and where The People shall rule, and where no clique or set of men shall rule the roost. Arrangements are now being perfected whpveby some of the most noted" men of national affairs will be presen t on that day and lay beforeyThe People the true status of all airs The People of Pike county are becoming awakened to the fact that there is something wrong in their local affairs that needs re-adjustment, aud to that end will come together am. place a ■ticket in the field that shall command {he respect and ' votes of The People Regardless of past party affiliations. !a ticket will deal fairly and squarely with The People without going outside and keeping things in the dark. Such a ticket will £nd is bound to be elected by The People of of Pike county at the coming election iu November. The debt of Pike bounty is piling up, (he taxes are hlimbing up aud there must be a change iu affairs lor the interest of The People. If. Is *!me to make preparations for the coming contest and tp that end The Democrat would bclvise that none but competent men be nominated, none but energetic and thosu who command the respect and confidence of men of both political parties. 1 . The fact that the democratic party has been behaved by its leaders in the senate is no rejection on the party unless the party submits to the betrayal and condones the offense of the leaders. It the democratic party has the nerve to assert its fidelity and honesty to its principles it will gain more respect than it can possibly lose by the treason of a few men. „ The jury says Prendergast is not a lunatic. Any man who is sane i enough to corpmit deliberate and premeditated murder is sane enough to bang. The dawdling of the Illinois conns with this assassin is a reproach

sgsssgmm■■ —.—fi- ■ LET THU HOUSE PROTEST. Control of the tariff has now pass* ed to the house. When the senate voted upou its amended bill it trans-* ferred to the house ihe option of making that bill a law or letting the McKinley law stand. The parlimentary situation now is that the house can at any time pass the senate bill. The senate can do no worse than it has done—can do no more than to insist on the bill as voted upon Tuesday night. In the house the ways and means committee will, of course, report*in favor of disagreement. The house will appoint a committee to confer with that already appointed by the senate. If the joint committee cannot come to an agreement or if a compromise is reported to both houses the senate can refuse to modify its bill, but cannot prevent the passage of said bill. If the house cannot obtain consessions it can always vote on the senate bill. The gain made when the senate voted last Tuesday was that the sugar trust and other monopolies which wauled to retain the McKinley law lost their power of attaining that object. How distinct was their purpose ol keeping the McKiuley law was apparent in the attempt coup of Hill and the Louisana senators. If Irbv had not deserted them the bill would have been defeated on Unal vote by 37 to 36. Having the senate bill in its possession the house can either make it the law or reject it. Democrats expect the house to make emphatic protest against the Coxeyism injected by the senate. The ways and means committee will report against concurrence in the senate amendments. A conference committee will be appointed to earnestly insist on a stronger measure of reform. Democrats also expect the house to act with celerity and good sense. Everybody is tired of politics and agitations. It is a matter of common information that the senate has become a perfected engine of obstruction. The almost indecent haste with which it voted Tuesday night to insist upon its amendments and to appoint a conference committee does not inspire hope of its receding.IIowever, the house cannot do less than make a vigorous demand foil reform, and if there is any party pressure which can affect the band of Gorinanites it should be used. Lei the house onij remember that the country wants a rest and an immediate chance to arrange husines calculations. The house protest must be made, even if there is no possibility of getting what it wants, to show that the senate bill is not indorsed by the democratic party, but is accepted because the senate has an insurmountable power of obstruction.

In to-day’s paper will be found the announcement of Dr. It. W. Harris, of Jefferson township, as a candidate tor the democratic nomination lor clerk of the circuit court. The doctor has been a resident of Pike county for seventeen years and has become identified as one of its leading and most influential citizens, and by his great industry and untiring energy has built up a magnificent piactice in his section of the county. For the past six years lie has been trustee of that township and given them a clean and economical administration of its aftairs. Being courteous and affable he has drawn to him a large circle of warm friends ot all political parties, who hold him in the highest esteem. He is a hustler and should he receive the nomination at the hands of the convention that meets on August 18th he will undoubtedly be elected by a handsome majority. He is well qualified tor the position he see^s and would make the people of Pike oouuty an accommodating official. --- The republican central committee and the candidates from Petersburg held a meeting at Winslow last Sa'urday. Besides the crowd and the candidates from this place there were but four offiiers present. The present situation was talked over but. what conclusion was reached it is not safe to 6ay, The boys were very glum over the meeting and kept closed mouths for three hours, but the secrets ot the meeting are leaking out and shows just in what condij tion some of tiie candidates stand with the people. The Indianapolis Journal speaks of ! Colonel A. L. Conger as ‘‘a sometimes useful and always uoisy little man.” The Journal evidently reckons that the colonel’s usefulness begins and ends with his contribution to the republican campaign fund. Not strangely, the colonel lias a different idea about the matter. What a monuinesque figure the senior senator frorp New York is. He was the only democratic senator who voted with the; republicans. There is a future for Senator Hill, but it is with t|ie republican party. 1 * *•*

NOBURDEN ON THRIFT .TAXATION OF INCOMES AS FAIR AS OTHER METHODS. A Large Part of Tariff Taxes Are Diverted From the Public Treasury Into the Pockets of Trust. Monopolies, While Incense Revenue Goes to the Government, There was a mass meeting in Carnegie hall, New York, recently, to protest against the enactment of an income tax. x j The gentlemen who called the meeting set forth the grounds of their oppo- j sition in the call itself. Let us examine them a little. They say that this tax is “unjust in its discriminations.” But what discriminations does it make? It imposes a tax at a uniform rate upon all incomes above a moderate amount which is exempt to all men alika It makes no discrimination between men or classes of j men or occupations or anything else, ! but puts all upon an exact equality. They say the tax is “sectional in its inceptions.” That phrase is surely meaningless, seeing that there are earnest advocates and bitter opponents of the tax in every quarter of the Union, while in its operation it must deal absolutely equally with incomes in every state. They say it is “inquisitorial in its provisions and- offensive in its operations.” But. in what possible way is it more inquisitorial or offensive than any other tax that is levied upon values? Is it more inquisitorial to ask a man what his income is than to ask him what his real estate is worth or how much personal property he owns? Is it one-tenth as “inquisitorial” or “offensive” as a tariff levy which sets an inspector to open one’s trunks and explore among one’s soiled linen for something that should contribute revenue? They say it is “an unreasonable burden upon the thrift, enterprise and ability of the business men of the country. ” But in what conceivable way is this truer of an income tax than of any other impost? Does not every business man, and every professional man, and every mechanic and farmer and laboring man have to endure a “burden upon his thrift, enterprise and ability” when j he is taxed upon his hat and his boots, on his clothing, his house, his tools, dinner pail and whatever else of life’s necessaries he uses? And is this burden any the lighter because a large part of the taxes thus paid is diverted from the public treasury into the coffers of the' trust monopolies, while every cent of income tax will go tor the government? All taxes are a burden upon thrift, enterprise and ability, the income tax less 60 than most others because it takes only from superfluity.

But especially these gentlemen con-1 tend that the income tax is “socialistic. ” They mean by this that some men because they have large incomes must pay it, while others because they have none are exempt. Is a tax upon land, then, socialistic? The men' who have land must pay it, while those who have none are exempt. And the same thing is true of every other species of tax known to man except a poll tax. And if there is any touch pf socialism behind the advocacy of this tax will the gentlemen who resent it reflect a little upon tho origin of socialism in taxation? Is not the whole protective system, which most of them favor, radi- J cally socialistic? Is it not class taxation? j Is it not in its very essence a govern-1 mental interference to take one man’s | earnings and give thejn to another? Is this mass meeting In opposition to the income tax to'be a mass meeting for the abolition of all “socialistic” taxation— an out and out free tpade gathering? It is easy to make phrases. It is still easier to pack a “call” full of parrot cries, not one of which ever had any Sense or logio or truth in it—New York World. [Carnegie Music hall is near the center of New York’s millionaire population. About 1,200 of these wealthy tax dodgers reside around it It is not strange, then, that two days before the proposed meeting all of tho numerous boxes and stage seats had been engaged. In spite of all efforts to pack the house with anti-income taxers, a loud protest went up from the body of the hall against the passage of the resolutions. Two previous mass meetings in Cooper Union demonstrated that the masses of New York city prefer an income to a tariff tax. It is more than probable that, if this meeting had been held in Cooper Union or some other halTwithin easy reach of the working people, the resolutions would have been defeated. The income tax is the most popular feature! erf the Gormanized Wilson bill. It will do more to save the Democrats this fall than all the rest of the bill. ] Senator Hill’s Bole. Senator Vest told the simple truth to Senator Hill when he said that the Democratic majority in the senate had been obliged to favor a tax on lead ores in order to secure the votes of the McKinley Democrats in that body. Senator j Hill knew that just as well as he knows that the rates on collars and cuffs have been advanced in order to hold Senator Murphy. Senator Hill is not a fool, but he seems to be something of a hypocrite just now.—Boston Herald. Lies and Fleas. The American Protective Tariff league has favored us with two numbers of The Defender. One is: “The farmer’s egg basket. How protection checked our large importation of foreign eggs and benefited the American farmer. ” The other, “American tariffs from Plymouth Rock to McKinley. ” If you want to read pages of matter filled with lies thicker than any dog ever was with fleas, send to New York for samples.— Single Tax Courier. Time’s Hark Secrets. Senator Gorman little dreamed one year ago that he would have a tariff infant of unknown parentage left on his front doorstep. Pittsburg Dispatch.

PROTECTION AND BRIBERY. JTnd* Monopolies Maintain a Lobby as an Adjunct of Bnstneu. . A tariff for revenue will put a stop to charge of wholesale bribery around 'Washington. Nothing else wilL ' The tariff lobby is the nursery of all the other lobbies. 1 A protective system without some /orm of bribery cannot be conceived, interests whoso profits depend upon rises and falls in tariff schedules will put up money to elect a man to the house or senate if they are sure of him and to defeat another man who. is dangerous to their schemes. Frank Hurd was one of the first victims of the protection policy of killing off reform leaders. William R. Morrison was next. A mercenary still hunt nearly captured Carlisle’s seat Protection is necessarily bribery. Nobody ever attempted to formulate an equitable system for imposing tariff duties. The question is always how much the protected interest can get the general scramble. Protection is essentially a mercenary transaction all through. It was mercenary when sovereigns could grant trade monopolies to favored subjects, and the royal hand was held out for either payment in advance or part of the swag. There has been no change except as compelled by changes in forms of government We can look for little more than scandalous charges and highiy colored rumors from the senatorial investigation. It can be believed, however, that protected interests have been offering bribes during campaigns and committee hearings. They always have offered bribes and will never stop until the protective idea is killod. Bribery, petty and occasional, will always exist Systematic, organized, steady bribery is the distinction of the protective system alone. No other possible interest can afford so much Tor bribery as the protected interests. Where hundreds of millions are involved there is no trouble about spending a million or two to get the necessary votes., Other interests might employ lobbyists occasionally, but it is protection alone which must by the circumstances of its existence maintain a big lobby as an indispensable adjunct of its business. Government cannot be pure while protection lasts.—St. Louis Republic. They Ought to Kick. The Tin Plate Consumers’ association has addressed to the senate committee on finance a protest against the imposition of a duty of 1 1-5 cents a pound on tin plate. This is the rate fixed by the house bill, and the senate committee, after reducing^ it to 1 cent in its original report, accepted the house pill’s fate in the revision. The duty imder the law of 1883 was 1 cent, and the McKinloy tariff increased it to 2 2-10 cents. So that it appears that the duty now proposed is higher than the duty which the McKinley tax superseded. A duty of 1 cent would be higher pow in proportion to the value than it Was in 1889 and 1890, because the price of tin plate abroad has fallen. The association holds that the people were led two years ago by the passage of the tin plate bill in the last house to expect that the Democratic tariff bill, whenever it should be passed, would reduce the duty to 1 cent for a time and provide for the removal of the entire duty afterward. We suppose that in determining what the duty should be the Ways and means committee yielded to £he demand for revenue. If now it Should appear that sufficient revenue is supplied by other provisions of the hill, the senate committee might well reduce the duty on tin plate to 1 cent, or to three-fourths of a cent, for even the last framed rate would be almost as high in proportion to value as the rate under the tariff of 1883.—New York Times.

Henson For tlie Income Tax. The ricli manufacturers of the east who have been besieging the finance committee for bounty only make themselves ridiculous when they irop to add a protest against the income tax. They are the very men who have made that tax, in its present offensive and dangerous form, certain to become a law. They have been molding legislation to their will and for their benefit all these years, and it has been, more than anything else, a desire to make them pay back a part of the profit they have made out of governmental aid which has led to the proposal to tax the incomes of the rich. This is a truth which the managers of the New York meeting to protest against the income tax will do well to lay to heart. If they come outsquarely against all class legislation, protectionist as well as socialistic and Populist, well and good. But if any of the speakers or vice presidents of the meeting can be detected as men who have been moving heaven and earth at Washington to get money voted to them in their business their protest will lose all point and impressiveness. They will find it hard to deny that special taxes are a fair equivalent for special favors. —New York Post. We Have£he Cheapest Labor. Senator Mills, in his recent great speech on the tariff, showed that our labor is the cheapest in the world and that of England is next. According to his statistics, the labor cost of $1,800 worth of product here is $347, while in England it is $486; in France, $604; in Germany, $533. There are two ways of looking at this question, and there it is wherein many people are deceived by the spacious arguments of the protectionists. Wages in our country when measured by the rate are the highest in the world, but when measured by the product they are the lowest.—Ann Arbor Argus._ Somewhat Discouraging. Senator Brice’s remark that it is not the business of political campaign committees to remember from whom they receive contributions is not calculated, one might pay, to be very encouraging to those who are asked to contribute^— Providence Journal.

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