The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 23, 1890, Page 2

oe SS MR. MILLS’ RINGING WORDS. : | Truths About the Tariff Put in Most. Convinemg Language. = i Plattsburg, Mo., July 12.4-As, soon as theapplause which greeted | Mr. Mills’ introduction had ceased the eminent tariff reform leader | spoke as follows: “Ladies and fel-| low citizens of Missouri: I congrat-| ulate myself to-day on the great privilege of standing in the presence of this yast concourse of the people of the state of Missouri. It has been | the privilege of the representative of the people from generation to gen- eration to meet on public occasions | in assemblages like this for the dis- eussion of questions effecting public interest and the public welfare. In my honest opinion outside of the four years of civil strife, there has never been a time when it was of more importance for the Ameri- ean people to confer, to counsel and to work. The time has come when © : | bedding it aroind the palaces of the lrich. I would not willingly offend | people and should be made to this any republican. If they are offend- ed it is the truth that offends them. I came here to preach the old dem- ocratic faith in Missouri, the faith that we inherited from our fathers. When the war of 1860 opened the old functionary that had done ser- vice for so many years was turned over to new hands and a receipt tak-| enfor it. During the decade that preceded 1860 wealth increased as never before and ag never since. Tramps were not known and plenty was everywhere. Wealth was dis- tributed and happiness shone upon the land. But at the close of the decade named a new regime began. Then began that system of protec- tive tariff. This word tariff comes from tariffa and originally had its application only to duties imposed by the Moors upon all traders in the Mediterranean, on the ground thag they had the exclusive rights to those waters. That’s where tariffa comes from. After a while old Vir- we must tread beneath our feet all} .. prejudice and untruth and follow the lamp of truth wherever it may lead. The country today is depressed. The sad-evidence comes to us from maid tlieeMoor, and He. did! yale and hill, from mine and factory and from field and household. Who is responsible? For more than two hundred years previous to 1860 the wealth of the nation was distributed around the humble hearthstone where it should be cuntributing to the human happiness and human eomfort. God reserved the rights of the people to work for their indi- vidual wants. The result of that labor is now rapidly concentrating into the coffer of the few. Up to 1860 there were but one or two citi- zens who could call themselves mil- jionaires. Two hundred years of democratic principles resulted in this continuous distribution wealth. This wealth was diffused. To day the one-half of the entire wealth of 60,000,000 people is own- ed by 25,000 people. Poverty and distress is the inheritance of the masses, while wealth and palaces are the inheritance of the wealthy. Who is responsible? When I was young the farmers used to come to me to loan me money. To-day they are mortgaged for all they can stand, unable to pay their debts, unable to supply their wives and children with the : usual comforts of life. Who is responsi- ble? _Thank God, I can look into your faces and say you are not. Election after election the ballot has spoken against a system of robbery. To-day the country stands with. as- tonishment and looks upon the na- tional congress at Washington, where the representatives of the peopie say they will create life of- fices and appoint life officers. These are the members of your congress. What has become of the old Anglo Saxon idea? this country said that the governors must be governed. We have follow- ed this idea for hundreds of years. The people as governors of the gov- ernors are told that we are ne long- er trustworthy. When the people are crying for their rights, in the language of Vanderbilt, they say ‘The people be damned.’ responsible? The country is in peri of}. ginia gave us a man who was bold enough to say ‘All waters belong to all nations. Nota dollar can you get from us.’ We'll close our ports,’ But Thomas Jefferson soon compelled them to open and they have ever since remained open. That's the kind of tariff we paid in old times. After the war the tax on all incom- ing goods was increased and a new tax was levied on domestic products. They said this was necessary, and perhaps it was. I would be the last man to criticise the act at that time, for I helped to bring about the condition complained of. [Laughter] But after the war when the necessi- ty became less, when we came back to the union and said: ‘We want to help you make this the best govern- ment on the face of the earth,’ then indeed they did commence to repeal the taxes, but not in the right way. They repealed the taxes for the ben- efitof the rich and not the poor. They did not take the tax off the coat you wear and the implement you use in toil. The fundamental principle of lib- erty is equality—equality of burden and equality of benefit. The old democrats have heard these years ‘Equal rights to all, exclusive rights to none.’ It is the government that protects wealth. ‘The poor man has not the power to protect anything but his person. When these repealers first repealed they said, ‘Let us first rid ourselves of tax, not the poor He doesn’t know much any- way and if he does squirm we'll shake the old flag and shout in de- fiance of pauper labor. and that will fetch him.’ [Laughter.1 I want to make an illustration. If all the public wealth would be re- duced one-half, if the public money were doubled the wealth would be Seite Se eS doubled. This increase of wealth must be considered in connection with one great fact. You are all in debt. The public and private wealth of the country aggregates about $20,000,000. You remember the talk about expansion, inflation and the contraction of currency. In 1873 e country was shaken from one Who is end to the other by the monetary i. situation. Then a distinguished Its institutions can not last. The |82 of Misscuri, Robert P. Bland, man is a sophist who does not knowledge this result under existing ac.| Presented a bill for the free coinage of silver. [Cheers.] ‘God has given rule. Our fathers who gave us lib- the gold and ret said he. ‘He erty intended that we should foster has enriched the hills with it. Take and retain that liberty and hand it down from generation to generation It was said then that the people at and coin it by the thousands of dollars and throw it into the circula- tion and it will bring relief, even if ‘were incapable of self government. it does not effect acure.. But acer- The older ones said they could be trusted. They said they would have the will and the courage to inform themselves on public questions and tain republican senator declared that it would soon take a wheelbarrow full of silver dollars to buy a beef- steak. Why, silye has been in cir- to be governed by the interests of culation since Abraham’s time Sil- the whole people. All this provi- | ¥° and gold have been the money sion was necessary to foster and|i2#ll ages. Now they propose to preserve liberty. After all, the majority of those who have legislated are not alone responsible. You know that old saying, ‘Like priest, like people.’ Like representatives, like people. The representative executes the people's will. You will not find Mr. Mansur and Mr. Dockery voting for the laws that are oppressing you, because these gentlemen have a constituency that will not permit them todo so. [Applause.] Those responsible for the taking of wealth out of the hands of the poor stop the circulation of silver in the face of our efforts to increase it. A said to me the other day: ‘Ninety-nine out of every hung dred ave in favor of free coinage.’ And yet that man went and voted against it. He, like all others, dared not go in the face of that pious man of God, who, on his way to Wash- ington, held family worship in the car, because he said, ‘I will veto the bill if it passed.” Yes, if this holy Benjamin crept out from under his : : dfather’s hat 1 a who elect are responsible. They are eee ae 4 sayy thichill, co os = the hands of barons who will have ter. end by the representatives of the people. You are still in debt. You have got to send men who will tell the truth; who will stand before you \likd Samuel of old. I have tried and ‘so have my colleagues, to give equal rights and equal burdens. I have every consideration for those who ‘have been misdirected. I am not ‘sent to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. [Applause and laugh- ter.] I tell you, republicans, you | have been standing to the rack ail | these years whether there was any- thing init or not. Have you now the courage to turn round and give a helping hand? I make this appeal to you. I tell you the greatest, dark- est of national iniquities is the con- centration of the wealth of the peo- ple for the benetit of the few mil- lionaires. Our republican friends would long ago have taken sugar off the free list but they said to the su- garmaker, you don’t live in the right part of the country. Finally when they did have to throw a Jonah overboard, then came sugar with its $55,000,000 of duties. But steel, cotton, iron and woolens, with $63,- 000,000 of duties had been protected from the first. I venture to say that there is searcely a man ir. this audience who has not paid $10 too much for the suit of clothes he is wearing. And yet they tell you that the mechanic gains, that the farmer is helped and all labor is fostered and advanced by this protection. They tell you they protect grain of all kinds for the benefit of the farmer. I ask the least informed of you, who could bring foreign grain into the country to compete with the products of your farms? The man would be a fool who would try it. I tell you this so-called protection of grain is simply a fraud. They have fooled you. We have exported as much as $150,000,000 worth of wheat annu- ally against 1,946 bushels imported, and this importation was learned to have come from Germany where it is a perfected brand and brought to this country for seed and not for food, and at a cost of $3.20 per bushel. You all know one of the many humorously brilliant and truthful things said Abraham Lin- coln: ‘You can fool a part of the people all the time; you can fool all of the people part of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.” When your exports of corn amounted to $90,000,000, our imports reached 2,338 bushels. Yet they protected corn. They also put a duty onrye. You couldn't guess what our imports were. Sixteen bushels! [Laughter.] They are fooi- ing the farmer while they have their hand clear to the bottom of his pockets. Last year they put a duty on hides for the benefit of the west- ern farmer. But the manufacturer said: ‘Come down from there! I know you're up there! You're my meat! And they did come down. Our friends promised us free sil- ver. They said we should have all the free silver we wanted. But like Mary Jane, when she signalled the old man to stop his exaggerations, the friends in the north sang ‘Over the Garden Wall,’ and finally when they got down to cabbages they an- swered, ‘We'll not fall another cab- bage.’ [Laughter.] And cabbage has been the great distinctive fea- ture of this administration. [Laugh- ter and applause. ] Til tell you what will protect— right to buy and sell, right to choose your own occupation, right to con- tribute to the general prosperity, and no right to be plundered—and the democratic party is the church militant to carry out these princi- ples. A word about your exports. Why are they constantly falling off? Ger- many put duties on our products. France is to-day discussing the question of prohibiting our corn, having already prohibited our pork. They tell us that our pork is exclud- ed because it is not wholesome. That is a mere subterfuge. The dis- eases of American pork is the Amer- ican duties on French imports. Will the farmer permit these threaten- ings? Will they redeem their coun- {try? Ifnot, then no more home- isteads. Then our land will soon be itheir parks with deer and other and| The laws of this country should| game, while you and your children jive there. be made for the benefit of the whole | will be their retainers who will be | jcalled to prepare the dog and horse} for the chase.. Your father never intended you should have such an | inheritance. | Those who have made our obnox- |ious laws are every day saying that | you shall not have our vote. Shall | | we permit this centralized despotism | ] at Washington to continue? Can we stand up and say ‘the country is ours?’ We have the nerve to do it and we will not prove false and re- creant to our duty. A bold and im- pudent man sits in our legislature to-day and tramples in the dust the rights and usages of years. He reck- ons without hishost. There will be another reckoning. They have boldly said we will appoint officers i for life and you can’t put them out. They shall see. The Saxon race never remained in slavery. The Saxons have been almost extermin- ated, but their blood was largely transmitted to their conquerors. They will fight their way. They will rise and continue to rise, and will transmit again to their people.” Let the South Alone. From the Philadelphia Record. The best customers the people of the northern states ever had, or ever will have, are the peopie of the southern states. They buy more from us. and sell us more, than all the rest of the world together. Why, then, should we harrass our brethren, our partners in business, our closest friends, by legislation promotive of political disturbance and race conflicts? After the war was over without consulting the white people of the south, we imposed upon them, by adoption of negro suffrage, the solu- tion of one of the most difficult and complicated problems ever thrust upon the attention of a civilized people. Should we not be satisfied to have practically taken the control of the federal goverment out of the hands of the white majority of the}s people, without insisting upon the meddling further with the manage- ment of political affairs in the late slave states? If the whites and the blacks in the south should be left to look out for themselves there would not be the least danger of any inter- ruption of the prosperity which im- mediately followed the withdrawal of the federal arms. The south is the most attractive field now open to northern enter- prise. It cannot remain so for a day except under the undisputed domination of its white inhabitants. They, only, are the fit and proper custodians of representatives gov- ernment. They, only, can make life, liberty and property safe in the south. Why should we not let them alone to work out their destiny? An Old Man’s Terrible Crime. Council Bluffs, Ia., July 17.— Frank Hall, an old man, but a no- torious character, who lived in the outskirts with his wife, last night returned home drunk and drove her from the house in her night clothes. At dawn to-day she returned and he struck her with his revolver, knocking her down. Then. leaning over her prostrate form, he placed his weapon at her head and fired. He turned and walked out of the house and drawing his knife cut his own throat. When the police ar- rived they found Mrs. Hall dying and Hall outside in a pool of blood. The woman was properly cared for but died in a few hours. Hall was taken to St. Bernard’s hospital and will recover. An Inatan Uses an Axe. Columbus, Ohio, July 16.—This afternoon James Tarney, an Indian from Indian territory serving a ten years sentence in the penitentiary for manslaughter, seized an axe and split open the head of Jacob Gross, a colored prisoner, who will proba- bly die: cut on the head Tom Cun- ningham, broke the shoulder of Chas. Geeves and cut into the top of Michael O’Hara’s head. The de- puty warden hearing the Indian yelis rushed in and, with aid of other prisoners, disarmed the assailant, tied his feet and locked him in a cell. The murderous Indian is thought | es be insane. a i John Johnson and all his name-; sakes live in Chicago. According | |to the late directory 500 of the name: MR. J. D ALLEN, say to the farmersof Bates county thatI appreciate the fact that co (FOR | HAVE RAISED IT AT THAT PRICK which means low wages to a hence I have made arrangments to furnish them cheap money tg refund their present loans, and to call on me at ouce. 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