The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 4, 1894, Page 2

} | % § a BP PR RCs re a = nn as ee em TAXATION IN MISSOURL. The Rate teyied Each Year by the State Since 1860, as Obtained From the State Auditor. From the time Missouri was ad- mitted into the Union up to the year 1660, the tax rates levied for the support cf the state and municipal governments were generally very low and limited strictly to the neces- ilies of government economically oe ministered. In the year of 1860 the rate was 4) cents on the $100 for state reve- nue, 10 cents on the $100 State in- ‘erest, and 1.60 of 1 per cent Asylum (ax and a poll tax of 374 cents. in 1863 and 1864 the revenue tax was raised to 32 cents; a military tax of 20 cents was added,with $30 mili- tary commutation tax on each person exempt from military service, and a 6ax of 100 cents on the $100 on their property and $2 poll tax. In 1865 the revenue tax was fixed ‘by the republicans at 40 cents on the $100, military tax 20 cents on the $100 revenue poll tax $1, military poll tax $2. In 1866 the levy was 40 eents for revenues, 50 cents for military, revenue poll $1, military poll $2 making 90 cents on the $100 and $3 poll tax. In 1867 the levy was 25 cents for revenue and 40 cents for state inter- est, together making 65 cents on the $100, and 50 cents revenue poll. In 1868 the levy was 25 cents for revenue and 25 cents for interest. making 50 cents on the $100 and revenue poll of 50 cents. In 1869 and 1870 the levy was 25 cents for revenue and 25 cents for interest, a total of 500 cents on the on the $100. dn 1871 the liberal republicans cevied 25cents for revenue and 25 cents interest a total of 50 cents on the $100. In 1872 the levy was 20cents and 25 cents for interest together mak- ing a total of 45 cents on the $100 each year. In 1876, 1877, 1878 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1S87and S888 the levy was 20 cents for rev- enue and 20 cents for interest mak- ing 40-cents on the $100. To 1889, 1890, and 1891 the reve- was 20 cents for revenue and 10 cts. for interest making a total of 30 cte. on the $100. In 1892, 1893 and 1894 the levy was 15 cents for revenue and ten cents for interest, a total of 25 cents on the $100. These figures show that the rate of the state taxes for all purposes has steadly decreased from time to time since the democratic party took control in 1873, and is now exactly one half the rate levied by the re- publican when deposed from power in 1870. The rate of levy for the support of state government in adjcining states for 1894 is twice as much as in Missouri. Cost of a Populist Legistation. As the total estimated mouey of the world, including paper, gold, silver, copper, brass and iron tokens dees not exceed $1,000,000,000, it appears that the amount of money called for by the bills proposed by Populist members is nearly five times the volume of the currency of the world. What our paper money would be worth under such circum- stances anyone of ordinary intelli- gence knows. It would be worth nothing at all. To carry out the provisions of Senator Peffer's resolution for Gov- ernment possession of railroads,coal mines and other enterprises would require, at a very moderate estimate, seme fifteen billions of dollars, mak- ing the total proposed expenditures upwards of fifty billions of dollars. Among the other things that would follow such legislation, it will be seen that the enormous amount -of money necessary to carry on the government is to be raised wholly -and alone upon the real estate. Are the farmers of the country now ready to add to the burdens they have, by a still further tax to -carry cout these plans? From what I have now shown to be the aims and purposes of the People’s party, ‘the country can decide whether such measures, if enacted into law, would ‘be productive of the general wel- fare or not. I have tried, by an analysis of the & CO. Sell The Orig inal Buy it. lutely airtight stove. Th the best cooking a in the world. I The largest stock of county. Call and see us. bills introduced by the gentlemen | iquitious law. sent here to speak for the party, to|ary contest has ever been waged show that financial, industrial and | before in this or any other country, every other kind of calamity would | and the importance of the victory is be the consequence of the legislation | magnified because of the fact thet it proposed by the Populist or People’s will never be repeated. It is impos- party. | sible to conceive that in times of I trust that in the performance} peace in a country composed of of this task I have not in anyway | intelligent, independent and liberty- DEACON BROS. ROUND OAK. Over S00 in use in Bates Co. The only abs: Majestic Steel Range aratus the Trop No such parliament- | j distorted or exaggerated the meas- ures criticised. purpose. Such was not my ‘loving people such a condition as | culminated in that atrocious measure ; could be again created. The founda- contained, and in indicating their country was distracted by civil war authors and numbers, I have been | and that will never occur again. solely guided by the desire to sub- stantiate my with the | best proof obtainable. With our republican fiieuds ever clamoring for increased appropria tions,and in view of the fact that for Demoerane Apathy, pinteman\e This talk of Democratic apathy is Jall bosh. It was proven soat War {rensburg. There were many mur- | muriegs among the people till they | got together and heard the real eon- | : {dition of things explained by the three coordinate branches of the gov- | = 2 re’ i av: | prmmens ve repabhcans nae een | more apathy, but the grandest man- teaching the idea that the national | government was unlimited and be-! 2 ee F 7 | that section yond all restrictions of written law; in view of these facts let me ask, is | a generation in one or more of the has experienced in * | many a day. It will be the same way . 3 1 f bli | here. The people have been hard ere) GBR ella Gi oats u and as long as Congress was can teaching and precept that today we have a third party advocating the mentioned? | in session, the Democratic party got | the blame for what it did not ca {and could not remedy. But Congress jis not in session now, and the times al doctrines which I have To bridge the Atlantic or tunnel the Pacific, or to do both of these tasks would be an undertaking less difficult and much less costly to this lare getting better each day from natural causes. The beneficent leg- islation enacted by a Democratic government than try to carry out: /, : : . : es Congress is also having its effect. the several measures proposed in this “ithe pempily ee and the last Congress by the lead- sae copies je em }and discuss from an impartial stand ‘act that our appropriation for all: purposes have been kept within such my judge- claims weariog brighter faces and as they get together now point the conditions of the past and Ss pane present they arrive at more reason conservative lines is, in ment, one of the which we have for the further con- tinuance of the contidence of the American people. — Representative Pigott of Connecticut. jable conclusions From an ister- highest a } is change of opinion they also get new jideas aud become better informed. They are calm now, and in a better ‘frame of miod for discriminating be- tween what really is and that which alleged to exist. In all such com parisous the Democratic party and |the Democratic deeds ef its repre- sentatives will come out unscathed. The stronger the comparison, the better for the party. Every Demo erat, when he weighs fully the acts of his own party and those of the others, will become all the more firmly convinced that his party is still the party of the people, and that his duty lies with his party. Senator Voorhee's Declaration. Kansas City Times. In his great speech delivered at Terre Haute, Indiana, on Saturday evening, the Hon. Daniel W. Voor- hees, chairman of the finance com- mittee of the Senate, in summing up the work of Congress stated: “The repeal of the McKinley act, when all the circumstances and con. | ditions are calmly considered, will { be found to have been the most stupendous struggle against power and consolidated capital ever made | age before in American a Protect- | “°° Julciew) COG Up Utne I have tried to show whatthe bills | tion of the evil was laid when the | speakers present, then there was no | | ifestation of Democratic enthusiasm | | Every Democrat who ever under-| stood the first principles of Democ- | ed millions without limit rallied to : the defense of that infamous act.” | No man knows better of that which | he speaks than Senator Voorhees | principles, will be a stronger partizan | to-day than ever he was before.— Rich Hill Review. The “General Welfare, and his voice should be heard by | Post-Dispatch. every voter in the land. | Under pretence of “providing for The McKinley law robbed the} the general welfare” $11,000,000 of wage-earners and -business men of | the people’s money were last year this country of more than a billion | appropriated and paid in bounties of dollars annually for the benefit of to 578 producers of cane sugar, all the trusts, the monopolies and the |living in one small corner of the favored contributers to the corrup- | country on the shore of the Gulf of tion fund of the Republican party. | Mexico. The accumulated proceeds of this) This was an average of $19,000 gigantic robbery were employed to for each sugar producer, or $58 for retard the progress of reform, ard each acre of land producing sugar the attorneys of these spoliatore, cane. The consumers of sugar not the Republican Senators, fought only had to pay for this sugar a with a vigor and industry unsurpass- market price fixed to secure to the ed, not with the expectation of New York Sugar Trust an additional ultimately defeating the reform bill | bounty of $25,000,000 a year, but by a direct vote, but in the hope of | after paying for all the sugar con- preventing a vote and thus surrepti-) sumed they had tu pay the rent and ously strangling it. That was their labor cost of producing the Louis: plan, and though unsuccessful, it | na sugar crop besides. served to protract the period of rob- Under the same pretence of pro- bery for several months. | moting the general welfare $852,000 Senator Voorhees is correct in his | were paid in bounties to seven pro- estimate of the magnitude of the| ducers of beet sugar, who actually struggle for the repeal of that in- | received a bonus averaging $121,714 ne BU GGLES in the =| DEACON BROS. & CO, --=¢ Ps 9 The Low Priced Hardware and Grocery House. each for rai market p Think of paying such immense bounties to a few hundred rich men to promote the general welfare when the money wns taken out of the pockets of millions of poor men raising unprofitable crops of wheat, corn or cotton, or toiling bard at some other unprofitable industry Whe and a poor renter with a large family 1 drouth or storms ruin erops of little children to support has to sell his crop and work stock to pay his rent, and mortgage next year's crops in a grub stake,” why should not the Treasury help vance for a“ him along with a hundred dollars or divide $852,000 among seven rich producers of beets ‘and $11,000,000 rich \sugar cane planters’ so rather than among 578 | Who are doing most for the gen- this country, the seven capitalists, who were eral welfare of given ),000 each for investing some of their surplus capital in sugar beets, or the 7,000,000 of poor te lers who are bringing up the coming genera- tion of American people aud paying taxes out of every dollar they earn without any prospect of ever getting $1,000 abead while they live? This sugar bounty was the most infamous enactment in the annals of American legislation. But it was a fair sa: le of all protective or “gen eral welfare” acts. That is to say, it was a bold robbery of the many for the benefit of a powerful few, who sould contro! politicians and pay for |license to plunder the people and | the public treasury. Ou the passage of the McKinley bill James G Blaine predicted what it would do. He said first, that it would defeat the republican party in every state west of the Alleghany | mountains. This part of his pre- dictions proved true in 1892. See- ond, that it would deplete and bank- rupt the U.S. treasury. This proved true a year before Cleveland was j elected the last time. Third, that it would demoralize commerce and that the great agricultural states would be the sufferers, all of which bas proven as true as the prophecies ! of oid which were inspired —Ex. The new tariff law imposes a tax on peddlers of leaf tobaeco but not on farmers who sell leaf tobacco of their own growth and raising. The | provisions respecting sales of leaf by farmers are the same as they have! been during tbe last four years. But the farmer must not twist his leaf before selling it He can sell noth- | ing but the plain leaf and must make j full statement of sales if required to |doso by any revenue officer.—St. ' Louis Republic. Clinton Democrat.—Rey. Love, | | dorade Christian church for some | months past, has stepped down and | out by the request of his congrega | tion. His farewell sermon assigned | three reasons for his action. First | the indifference of his congregation; | second, their reluctance to pay him; | and third, because his congregation ; was mad at him for his running for | ticket. Is Your Tongue Coated, your throat dry, vour eyes | dull and inflamed and do you teel mean generally when you get up in the morn- ing. Your liver and Kidney are not deing their work. Why don’t you take Parks Sure cure. If it does not make ou feel better it costs you nothing— Sold by H. L. Tucker. ing sugar to sell at the} who has been the pastor of the El-) |the legislature on the Populist) | The Issue in Missouri. Theissue to be | Missouri in the coming election is so | plain avd sosimple that uo intelli. determined in . ti @ | gent citizen can fail to comprehend ;. it. It is whether the present capable, + economical, business uistration of stute affairs or this manageme i over the to party of ey I. Filley is control of The Demoracy gained twenty-two yearsago. At e the debt of the state 00,000. Today it is but TH IK | ZA IN WV AC = « IW —— and $4,000,000 is held} 4 ool fund, the interest on inpually to the cause of | te was then 45 ceuts on ithe $100 v tion It is now 25 cents and 10 cents of | | this is for state indebtedness, 5 cents hool and 10 cents for the regu-/| | for 5: Har expense of the sate government | No other state in the union levies | | so small a tax for state purposes. Iu \Iowa, I s, Arkansas and Kansas | | all adjoining states,the rate 1s double | | what it is in Missouri. | When the Democrats came into| power the state was paying 6 per| cent interest and bonds were at a discount. | | Now the state pays 34 and her j bonds command a premium. | There are matters that concern | every taxpayer, whether he be Dem-} ocrat, Republican or Populists. The coutrel of affairs in this state | jif it passes from the Democrats, | must go to the Republicans Every | intelligent citizen knows this.—Mexi- | co Intelligencer. | Locating the Confederate Lines. | Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 26.—} | : | The work of locating the confederate jlines in 1863 on Lookout Mountain, | Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga Many of the commissioners appointed by the gov- is progressing nicely. ernors of the several southern states that had troops in these battles are now in the eity, assisting the Chick- amauga and military | Chattanooga | park commission in the work. The | Louisiana Commission arrived yes- | terday afternoon. Gens. Boynton, | | Smith, Fallerton and Stuart, the | Park commissioners, expect to have jall the lines aud positions located | | within the next month. | Gen. E. C. Walthall and Maj. | George M. Gevan, members of the} Mississippi State Commission spent | Monday with the Park Commiesion- ers in locating the posjtion of Walt- | hall's brigade in the battle of Chick- amauga, and yesterday Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge were inspected. | Maj. Gevan was Inspector Gen- eral of Walthall’s brigade, which was composed of the 24th, 27th, 29th, | 30th and 34th Mississippi Regiment and Fowler's Alabamu battery. Keynote To The Campaign. In his great speech at Terre Haute Senator Voorhees unquestion- | ably sounded the keynote of the campaign—if such a hackneyed but expressive form may be used— when he said: What a vision rises to us as we look backward for the causes which have led us up to the present conditon of the country! A solid mass of Re- publican legisiation from 1861 to 1893 confronts us. In all that space of American history, embracing the average period of a lifetime, every! enactment of whatever kind or de- scription, every law, whether by bill or joint resolution, is of unquestion- ed Republican origin pedigree aud! adoption. There is no escape from this dec- laration. Whatever of failures in business, whatever of panics, what ever of the demonetization of silver the creation of trusts and monopo- |Jies, the squandering of public funds | |the misapplication of pension laws, i \the creation of tariffs fer the benefit | | of the few and for the detriment of! |the many, the depression of business | jand demoralization or trade are di- |rectly traceable to Republican legis- | lation. 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