Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 October 1894 — Page 7

STEVENSON’S SPEECH. The Vice President Talks on Democratic) Achievements. Conditions That Confronted the Clew land Administration—Benefits Accruing from Democratic * Measures. PFuxow-CmiiNs: In the presidential contest of 1898. the battle was fought and won by the democratic party, almost upon the single issue of tariff reform. Upon the issue of reduced tariff taxation, upon the necessaries of life, as sgslnst high protectionism, Mr. Cleveland was elected end the democracy restored to power. For the first time within a third of a pentury, the democratic party on Marfeh 4, 1803. controlled the presidency and both bouses of the congress. Under these conditions, the country had much to expect of the great historic party now restored to power. How hss the party kept faith with the people! Wh*t steps have been taken along the pathway of tariff reform? Has the democratic party but ‘kept the word of promise to the ear and broken it to the hope; ’ or has it made an earnest effort to make good every promise made In its platform and upon tke huntings? This is the Question now submitted to the peaceful arbitrament of the ballot. “Give me your attention, my tellow-oitixena, and 1 shall endeavor to show that the democratic party haa kept faith with those who Intrusted it with power; that against monopolies. fostered and strengthened by more than a third of a century of republican legislation, long strides have been taken along the line of true tariff reform. “It must not be forgotten that at the close of President Cleveland's first term on the 4th of March, 1889, the republicans came into power the beneficiaries of four years of wise and economical administration of the government business conditions were favorable, the country was prosperous, and the annual revenues were little less than one hundred million dollars in excess of its expenditures. The ques- * Don, as you will remember, then was: ‘What ahall we de with the surplus?’ All this was the result of the able and economical policy and methods of President Cleveland and his political associates in cabinet and congress.

Four years later, when the republicans retired from place and power, they left no such vexatious question as ‘What shall be done with the surplus?' to torment *the incoming democratic administration. Had the republican administion continued a month longer the necessity for issuing bonds in order to meet the current expenses of tho government would have been Imperative. There could have .been no possible escape from it. As it was. the evil day was ofaly tided over by postponing the payment of matured governmental obligations. The 1. present chairman of the committee of ways and means of the house of representatives has publicly made the statement that the last republican secretary of the treasury stated to that committee just prior to the close of the Harrison administration that additional income of fifty million dollars a year was a necessity. “I beg you to mark the contrast. The republican party at the inauguration of President Ifurrison was the heir to all tliat Cleveland and his party had achieved during four years of successful administration. As 1 have said, they found business conditions everywhere favorable, the treasury oversowing, the country prosperous. Four years later, on the 4th o% March. 1893, the republican administration retired from power, leaving a depleted treasury, governmental obligations undischarged, and the country upon the verge of bankruptcy. “The all-important question now arises. What was $he cause of this? Why surplus revenues and business prosperity at the close of the democratic administration, and a bankrupt treasury and the country staggering upon the verge of financial ruin four years later, when the Harrison administration retired from power? It was, my fellow citizens, the logical, the inevitable result of the enactment of the McKinley tariff law, a law that will take its place in history as the crowning act of ‘the bil-lion-dollar congress.' both branches of which, as you know, were under republican control. The McKinley law increased tariff taxes upon the necessaries of life to a point far beyond the highest rate hitherto known to our history. In its effect upon foreign importations, tt was, in a large measure, a prohibitory tariff. The intention of its authors was i,o give the market to the home manufacturer and allow him. at his own sweet will, to Increase to the consumer the cast of all the necessities of life. How was this to be accomplished? Simply by •o increasing the tariff tax as in many instances to absolutely prevent foreign competition. But this was not all. The McKinley law not only largely increased to the consumer the cost of all articles that enter into dally consumption, but it deprived the government «f its accustomed revenues—revenues absolutely necessary to meet the daily and hourly expenses of the government. The importations being cut off. of necessity the revenues were cut off. Is it to be wondered, then, that under the operation of the McKinley law. the

surplus t«n oy me laevetana aaminisirauon disappeared and s deflolt threatened our national treasury? Thus, as you will see, the inevitable effect of the McKinley lav was, first, to increase to the purchaser the cost of his foods, and in the second place, to deprive the foverament of revenues absolutely necessary to meet its current expenses. “Now. my fellow citlcens, it is not difficult to understand why it was that the heritace of the second administration of President Cleveland from its republican predecessor was a depleted treasury. It must not be forgotten that one provision of the McKinley law require&the annual payment of a bounty to the sugar planters for a long term of years. This bounty exceeded in its aggregate for the last fiscal year the enormous sum of twelve million dollars. The enormity of this legislation 1 will not now discuss. It has at the ballot box received the unmistakable condemnation of the Amerloan people. “I have now given in hurried review something of the conditions that confronted the incoming democratic administration on the 4th of March. 18M, and of the Ill-advised legislation that brought to this sad condition the treasury and country. You cannot have forgotten how earnestly President Cleveland and his political associates addressed themselves to the task of making good their promises to reduce taxation, nor can you have forgotten the unfortunate conditions prevailing at the time this great work was inaugurated. Business was paralysed, the workshops were closed, the great army of wage-earners in enforced idleness and poverty and want the common lot. It is no figure of speech to say that, literally, men were ‘begging their brothers of the earth to give them leave to toil.’ “Bear in mind, that this was the actual condition while the McKinley law was still in force, and before an arm had been lifted by the democratic congress to change the existing law. These are the stubborn facts with which the republican leaders are now confronted. What is their answer? What explanation do they give you as to this terrible condition of our business industries under the McKinley law. their own darling enactment? They cannot deny the fact that these conditions sprang into existence under the McKinley law, but they tell you they were the result of a want of confidence felt by the country in thedemo- • era tic party. As this has been the burden of their complaint la the press and upon the stump, let it have careful examination. What is their charge? That the financial depression under which the country was staggering when the democracy came into power, was caused by an apprehension—a fearful foreboding upon the part of the American peppte—that President Cleveland and his party were incompetent to administer the government, and that all business was to suffer derangement, if not paralyiis, *>y she threatened reduction of tariff taxation. 1 bag ydti to reflect upon this assumption for one moment. Who elected Cleveland and solemnly declared that after absent a lifetime of republican misrule, all branches of the' government should again pass under democratic control? Have you forgotten that the American people, by a plurality of one hundred and thirty-two in the electoral college, elected Cleveland over his -w,.—-Have you forgotten | Harri

t>7 this unprecedented majority elected Cleveland. you are told that the people at once, and before hts inauguration, distrusted him. You are told th^t the people immediately contemplated with apprehension and alarm what they had themselres achieved at the ballot box. In addition to this you are told that the sad condition existing at the close of the Harrison administration was the result of apprehension upon the part of the American people that the democratic president and congress would endeavor to 'tinker with the tariff.' With the beneficiaries of high protection, any attempt to reduce taxation Is always 'tinkering with the tariff.' I'he object of protection, as you know. Is to enable the producer to sell his goods at an increased price over what he would be otherwise able to secure in the open market. The higher the tariff, of necessity, the higher the price charged the consumer. In order to shield themselves from the responsibility of the evils brought upon the country by the enactment of the McKinley law. republican ore tor? and j*per» dcclirti. tfeese evils the result,' not of what the republicans had done, but of what the democrats might possibly da In other words, la Order to escape condemnation for the evlln resulting from their own vicious legislation, republicans are driven to the assumption that the people shrank with horror from the contemplated tariff reform for which they had so earnestly and emphatically declared at the polls. Can a more monstrous assumption be Imagined? It Is one that discredits the intelligence of the American people. Both at the elections of 1800 and of 1808. the McKinley law had been condemned. In the light of historic facts, then, does any sane man believe that a depleted treasury, and almost bankrupt country. resulted from a tear that a democratic congress might do exactly what It had been elected to do—reform the tariff and lessen to the people the cost of ths necessaries of life? No, my fellow-citizens, I trust you will not be

deceived, xne enrorcea lateness wmcn ass brought sorrow to so many hearts and hearthstones was the direct result of what a republican congress had done, and not of what it was feared the Incoming democratic congress might da The people were neither taken by surprise nor alarmed by the bold declaration in President Cleveland’s Inaugural in favor of reduced taxation. Tariff reform had been the shibboleth during the campaign. As 1 have said, both in the platform and in debate, it was the battle cry of the supporters of Cleveland and the democratic party. The people demanded a reform of the tariff, and the declaration by the president, and the bill passed by the house of representatives at the late session, but voiced the will of the people as dei dared at the ballot box. Again, my country- , men. I beg of you not to be deceived, but to i hold to a just accountability the republican leaders who are solely responsible for the terrible condition from which the country is now happily emerging. “Bear in mind that from March 4.1861. until the inauguration of Cleveland on the 4th of March. 1893, there was no single moment that the democratic party controlled the presidency and both houses of congress; never a moment that it could place a single law upon your stat-* ute books. For all of the legislation during that period which has brought in its train financial disaster, monopoly, combinations and trusts.’ the republican party is alone responsible. -$£d yet by republican orators we are condemned in one breath that we have done too much, and in the next that we have not accomplished more. Is it not unreasonable to demand that a democratic congress in a single year repeal all of the ill-advised enactments of a third of a century of republican domination? “I come now to consider the question as to how far the democratic party has redeemed its promises—how well it has kept faith with the people. It promised a reduction of the expenditures of the government. This promise has been made good by a reduction of the expenditures of twenty-eight millions of dollars oyer those of the previous year, when the executive and the senate were republican. In this connection, it must be remembered also that the sum appropriated by the present democratic congress for pensions exceeded by twenty millions that appropriated for the same purpose by the republican ‘billion-dollar con

gross. “Have you forgotten that the entire extra session of congress, convened soon after President Cleveland's inauguration, was consumed in repealing the Sherman law, passed by a republican congress and approved by a republican president? This ill-advised enactment, which, in a large measure, destroyed silver money as a part of our circulating medium, required the annual purchase of fifty-four million ounoes of silver bullion, and this at an annual cost of little less than fifty million dollars, and the bullion thus purchased was, as you know, heaped up as so much merchandise in the vaults of the jpeasury- The groat republican leader. Senator Sherman, the author of the bill, voted for the repeal of the purchasing clause indicated, candidly confessing that the law had not met the expectations of those who enacted it, and that its longer continuance upon the statute books would prove disastrous to the country. Thus you will sen that the democratic administration and congress, at the outset, were confronted with the necessity of repealing legislation which, by the confession of republican leaders, had only brought financial disaster. “What further has the democratic congress accomplished? By its platform and the utterances of its candidates, the democratic party stood pledged to the repeal of the odious federal election lawn These laws, placed upon our statute books when the republican party was in the heyday of power, provided for the interposition oft armed deputy United States marshals at the polls. It would be difficult to ^conceive of legislation more hostile to the spirit of our free institutions or more destructive of the rights of the elector. For years they had stood a constant menace to the freedom of the ballot-box. By the act of the democratic congress, approved by a democratic president, these enactments, like republican force bills and the old federal alien and sedition laws, have become things of the past. It will exci te the wonder of those who come after us how laws, so hateful and tyrannicalcould ever have received the approval of the American congress. “The democratic congress has increased the tax from ninety cents to one* dollar and ten cents per gallon on distilled spirits. This will increase government revenues ^ annually twenty millions of dollars. Bo you in the interest of the whisky trust desire this law repealed? The democratic congress has placed a tax on playing cards, which as you know, were untaxed under the McKinley law This will bring to tbe treasury three million dollars per annum. Do you wish this provision of the new law repealed, and the old law restored9 If so, your pathway of duty Is clear. Tote to return io congress the republican lawmakers who opposed the tariff upon playingcards and the increased tax upon whisky. “But again, what has this democratic congress accomplished? You will bear in mind that the ‘billion-dollar congress’ controlled by the republicans created more than twelve hundred new federal offices at a total annual cost to the people of more than two million dollars. The present democratic congress, by a series of wise and well-eonsiderod enactments, greatly simplified and Improved administrative methods in the several departments of the government hy means of which more than six hundred useless federal offices have been abolished and governmental expenses thereby lessened annually to the extent of near one million dollars. ' “One section of the democratic tariff hill fust enaewed provides for the payment of an income tax. Adividual incomes of less than four thousand dollars are wholly exempt from this tikr Savings ha nks and building and loan associations are exempt from this tax. This wise exemption is in the interest of small investors and depositors. Upon other corporations and upon individual incomes exceeding that amount a tax of two percent, is to he collected. As this feature of the hill has encountered fierce hostility both from republican legislators and press. It is well togive it consideration. Two questions at once arise: Is this a Just enactment? Was it, necessary? Its enactment became a necessity because of tbe bankrupt condition in which the passage of the McKinley law and tbe extravagance of the republican congress had plunged the country. Its enactment was the logical result of the vicious republican legislation that had brought a deficit instead of a surplus to the treasury. | “The duty of the democratic congress when

peases of the government, vm imperative. How could this be done? Either by continuing or poesibly increasing to the people the coet of the necessaries of life by tariff taxation, or by hnpwlag a moderate tax upon the eamiagsof the wealth of the country. The democratic party was solemnly pledged to the reduction of taxation upon the necessities of life. This pledge could be made good, and sufficient governmental revenues at the same time secured, only by the imposition of the tax 1 have Indicated. Just in proportion as the burdens of taxation were removed from the shoulders of the poor, they were to rest upon those more able to bear them. A democratic congress removed the tax wholly from salt, from lumber, from binding twine, from agricultural tmnlements. and greatly reduced the tax upon cotton and woolen goods, and other articles of daily use. How was this to be made good to the treasury? A democratic congress thought it wise to do so by a tax upon annual incomes exceeding four thousand dollars. This enactment was to remain in force only for the period Of fire Tears. “I submit tb you now the question, do you desire the immediate repeal of this law* Did republican senators and members represent your interests when they voted against this law* You must bear in mind that the aggregate wealth of this country exceeds the enormous sum of sixty-five billion dollars. The question 1 ash you now is. whether H ia not lust that a portion of the revenues necessary to meet the expenses of the government should bo collected from the earnings of the vast sum 1 have mentioned? In other words, shall governmental expenditures be met in part by a tax upon the earnings of wealth or shall it all soring from taxes imposed Upon consumption? It Is said this tax Is odious—inquisitorial. All taxes are more or less odious and inquisitorial. Public necessity Is the. only Justification for any form of taxation. It has been truly said: *The necessities of government are the beginning and ending of Just taxation’ But you have been told that this tax cannot be collected. This statement rests upon the assumption that men of wealth, the factors In the great marts, are dishonest It assumes that men of affairs will risk the pains and penalties of perjury, rather than disclose to the proper officer their annual Income. This assumption is not only an insult to American manhood, but is disproved by the facts of history. During the period of eight years extending from 18<K to 1970. the revenues derived from incomes alone fell but a trifle short of three hundred and fifty million

dollars. 1 repeat the inquiry, is it not just that some portion of the burdens of taxation should rest upon the accumulations of wealth, and not wholly upon the articles of daily necessity to human existence? The expenditures of the national government are necessarily great, and annually increasing with the growth of the country. The income tax is one of the methods devised by a democratic congress to meet the imperative necessities of government Do you desire its immediate repeal? If so, elect a republican congress, repeal the income tax. and thereby add thirty million dollars of annual taxation upon the articles of daily consumption. “I now ash your attention to a consideration of other sections of the tariff bill which has passed both the house and the senate and is now the law of the land. I state to you, in all candor, that it is not all that 2 desired. There never was a moment that I would not gladly have given the casting vote in the senate in favor of the tariff bill as it passed the house of representatives. From the beginning I have been a firm believer in the doctrine of free raw material. But it must not be forgotten that while the house of representatives contained a democratic majority of near one hundred. our majority was but one in the senate. In fact, with every state fully represented in that body, there would probably have been no democratic majority at alL The senate contained but forty-four democrats, and with the republican senators voting solidly against the bill at every stage, it can easily be seen that in a body so nearly balanced tariff reform had no easy battle to fight At one critical moment of the struggle the bill was only saved by the easting vote of the presiding ofttoer of the senate. 1 have thus gone somewhat in t© details in order that you may realize something of the difficulties under which the present law was enacted. Recalling as I do the hostility of republican senators to the tariff bill from the moment it crossed the threshold of that chamber. 1 can only wonder that it ever became a law. Firmly believing. as 1 do. that beneficial results must follow its passage, I rejoice with you in its triumph. and that the McKinley law is no longer upon our statute boohs. In determining the merits of the present tariff law comparison should be made, not with an ideal tariff bill, but with existing law—the MeKinley law then in force. What then are some of the contrasts between the law just enacted and the McKinley law which it has displaced? Let me state a few of them: The McKinley law gave to the sugar planters a bounty of two cents per pound upon their product. This was to extend for a period of fifteen years from the passage of the bill. It was paid out of the treasury of the United States, and amounted during the last year to the enormous sum of twelve millions of dollars. The tariff bill just passed by a democratic congress repealed this sugar bounty. and removed from the statute books this odious class legislation. It was enacted by a republican congress, and every republican senator and representative voted against the bill providing for its repeal. I submit to you now the question, are you in favor of the reenactment of this bounty? Is it your desire that it again find its place upon the statute bock? It so, vote to return to the national congress the republican leaders who struggled so earnestly against its repeal.

“.Now, fellow-citizens, you Have before you somethin* of what a democratic congress has accomplished— something of the meaner in which it has kept faith with the people. Tariff reform has achieved no easy victory. Since the repeal of the corn laws of England, by which the people were permitted to eat uataxcd bread, the world has witnessed no such parliamentary struggle against monopoly and privilege. It is your battle that has been fought, and you are the beneficiaries of the viewy which has been achieved. It has literally been a struggle of the people against tha monopoly and greed fostered and made powerful by more than thirty years of republican legislation. The combinations and 'trusts.' now tbe curse of our people, have only been made possible by the high protective tariffs which have enriched the few at the expense of the many. Under and solely because of high protection, colossal fortunes have accumulated which are a menace to our free institutions. Tha men who control the trusts and unlawful combinations against trade have been from the beginning the beneficiaries of high tar lathe determined advocates of the McKinley law. The time had come, and fully come,when such legislation should cease. The people so decreed. By the popular edict, the republican party—under whose evil auspices had sprung class legislation and the trusts and conspiracies whi rh logically follow high protection—passed from power, it was not to be Cxpeeted that the individual recipients of the benefits of protection would sit idly by when the attempt was being made to reduce the tariff, and lessen the burdens of taxation. The struggle was long and doubtful it was literally organized privilege*, monopoly and greed upon the one side and the unorganized people upon the other. I* repeat, that with the single exception I have mentioned, n more desperate parliamentary struggle has never been known to our Englishspeaking people. “The new tariff law is now upon the statute book. Be who runs may read, that business conditions are even now more favorable; the fires have been lighted in our workshops; the wage-earner Is no longer in enforced idleness, and light is breaking upon our commercial pathway. Under the beneficent operations of low tariff, the evils fostered by McKinleyism will disappear, and our country enter upon a career of unexampled prosperity. The practical question for your determination is, shall this law he administered by its enemies or by its friends? If you believe that for the first time in a third of a century you have been taken into the account in the preparation of a tariff bill, and that your Interests lie along the plane of tbo low taxation 1 have indicated, then 1 need hardly remind you of the imperative necessity of holding up the arms and strengthening the hands of those who have wrought out this great reform. History will but repent itself, and the prosperity that followed the passage of the Walker tariff—the low tariff of 1M9-WU1 as surely follow that which has lust been enacted.

PICKED UP INFORMATION. Thk brillanceofa candle flame can be measured with compasses and calipers. Thk Cincinnati college of "medicine and surgery lias become affiliated with the Cincinnati university. At Great Falls, Mont., the mercury has been known to drop twenty-five degrees inside of five minutes. Thk first oil well in America wat on a small farm in the mountains of Wayne county, Ky. It was discovered in 1829. Roger Williams came in the ship Lyon to Nantasket, Boston, Febuary, 15,1631. His sentence was passed by the general court October 19, 1635. He died in April , 1683. An old newspaper publisher at Boston hasa notice of the marriage of Capt. Thomas Baxter, of Quincy, and Miss Whitman, of Bridgewater, on December 16, 1788, “after a long tedious courtship of forty-eight years, which both sustained with uncommon fortitude.” THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Thk Sunday schools of the United States have nearly 11,000, enrolled. Europe has only about cent, of the Sunday school attendance l gfjfche world. Eighty per cent, of the Sunday school attendants in this country speak the English language. Thk Sunday school membership of Germany has increased over eighty per cent, in the past twenty years. There are 82,000,000 persons, teachers and scholars, enrolled in the Protestant Sunday schools of the world. There are 25,069 Sunday schools, 81,950 teachers, and 1,635,000 scholars in the different continental nations of Europe. In 1874 there were in d^rmany 1,818 Protestant Snnday schools, with 86,418 teachers and scholars, in 1893 there were 5,900 schools and 784,769 teachers and scholars. OOO^olars eight per THE ORIENT.

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