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If the democratic party should fail
to uake the Wilson bill a law it would
be branded as a party which sought
power only for the offices. But it will
not fail.
The chief reason why the income
tax appears so odious to the robber
barons is because it will fry fat out of
them for the use of the nation instead
of the republican party.
Doctors have been trying to hyp
notize insane patients in Topeka. Why
not try it on Lease and Lewelling?
Think of the comfort if it proved suc
cessful. Chicago Times.
Therb seems to be some apprehen
sion lest an income tax might offend
William Waldorf Astor of London and
Andrew Carnegie of Scotland, eminent
Americans both, who believe a pro
tective tariff an admirable thing for a
country in which they don't care to live.
When all kinds of raw material arc
put on the free list, perhaps we will
get back our John Jacob Astor, but we
cannot expect the return of Mr. Carne
gie from Jerusalem as long as there is
a tariff on seasoned hides. St. Louis
Republic.
The Lincoln Call is trying to induce
some young lady to accept a trip pass
to California, as a compensation for
reading that sheet. Which one of the
Call editors will accompany the young
lady, the paper does not say, but
probably Deacon Bushnell. Beatrice
Democrat.
Bourke Cockran's device for avoid
ing the income tax and meeting the
deficit is simple. He wouldn't tax the
rich man. Oh, no 1 His idea is to
issue a few million dollars7 worth of
bonds and pay the aforesaid rich men
generous interest for holding them a
few years. By this able contribution
to finance Mr. Cockran makes his call
ing and election from New York's
brown-stone district sure.
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CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, D. C , Jan. 9, 18J4
After securing a quorum in the house
Monday the debate on the tariff bill
was fittingly opened on the democratic
side by Chairman Wilson, and on the
republican side today by Julius Csesar
Burrow?, the "Columbian" orator of
Michigan, on the side of the robber
barons. Mr. Wilson is a small man of
slight Qgure, and in poor health. A
scant crop of gray hair covers his head
and a long straight moustache adorns
his upper lip. In a clear, sonorous
voice he began bis plea at 3 o'clock for
a reduction of the burdens which beset
the people with oppressive weight in
these times of depression. He spoke
for an hour and a half and then becom
ing exhausted asked leave to complete
his speech this morning, which favor
was accorded him. He is a strong,
forceful, argumentative orator, pos
sessed of great familiarity with all the
details, not only of the tariff, but of
the various lines of business and com
merce of the country, and he made a
most effective and impressive speech,
receiving a generous ovation at its close
both in the house and galleries. The
burden of his speech was to the effect
that while but five per cent, of the la
bor of the country was effected by pro
tection ninety-five per cent, was
obliged to pay additional burdens on
account of the high rate of duty and
the monopolies built up by protection,
and it is folly to assume that the
wages paid in the favored trades in
any measure compensates for the op
pressions practiced in the name of
favor to labor. He declared protection
to be a fraud, and fortified it by a
strong array of facts. He showed
furthermore, that the placing of raw
materials on the free list would cheapen
products to the manufacturer quite
sufficient to compensate for the reduc
tion of duties on the more advanced
manufactured product. His statement
of the republican method of reducirg
the surplus left by the former Cleve
land administration was a graphic
picture of that lametable episode,
which paved the way to the passage of
the McKinley monstrosity and the
present depletion of the public revenues
and the ruin which stalks abroad in
the land. In the interest of the whole
people he argued that the decisions of
the elections in 1892 be carried to a
conclusion. No answer will be at
tempted to that speech.
The country has long been treated to
the republican song about the calamity
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howls of the populists, but Gen. Bur
rows' speech discounted the calamity
howl that the worst populist in Kan
sas ever uttered. His effort was one
loug howl and prediction of ruin and
devastation to follow the passage of
the Wilson bill. It exceeded anything
of its kind ever uttered in congress be
fore, and made one think the speaKer
believed that utter and unrecoverable
disaster would surely overtake the
country should democratic rule pre
vail. He attributed the present dis
tress altogether to the fear of a re
duced tariff, and wound up with the
declaratiou that all this might b: re
versed, the factory wheel, every loom,
every forge and all forms of prosperous
industry would be instantly set in mo
tion if the democrats would only de
clare their intention to leave the tariff
as it is. It was a fitting parallel to
the speech ef Collamer, of Vermont
prior to the enactment of the Walker
tariff of 1846 the best tariff measure
this country ever lived under and
whose calamity bowls never found an
echo in the experience that followed.
Tne people ill only have to wait a
few months till they see a beginning of
thi3 reform movement.
The debate will now go on, day and
night, for three weeks.
The president's nominee for supreme
judge Mr. Hornblower of New York
has been set upon by the senate com
mittee, at the instance of Senator Hill
who took this means of showing his
opposition to the administration.
No word yet as to Nebraska appoint
ments, but there is an intimation that
fealty to the gold-bug program is not
essential to presidental consideration
in all cases. C. W. S.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 11,1894.
The most notable speeches yet made in
the tariff debate have been those of
Wilson, Tom Johnson, De Witt, War
ner and Harter for the bill, and Bur
rows, Dalzell and Dingley in opposition.
Dolliver, the "Iowa cyclone," spoke
today, but his speech was a disappoint
ment. Mr. Johnson, although a manu
facturer of steel rails, spoke from the
standpoint of a free trader, and his
arguments were of the rough and ready
style of a man thoroughly at borne in
his subject, and with the readiest pos
sible use of language to express every
thought and idea. He believes in the
single tax theory that it would abolish
customs laws, discharge collectors, sell
the custom houses and collect neces
sary moneys by taxing land and men's
opportunities. In this direction he
Value for vonr
FURNISHER OF CASS COUNTY.
favors an income tax. He is not afraid
of outside competition for his work
men, and believes with free trade every
industry that is legitimate would pros
per as never before.
The republicans are all calamity
howlers of the intens sort, and from
Burrows to Dolliver every one of them
predicts the direst disaster to the
country from the enactment of the i
Wilson bill. It is a fact worthy of all ;
remembrance that, while with one
breath the republicans all claim that
the tariff does not raise the price to the
American consumer, they one and all
raise a howl at the features of the Wil
son bill which do not give an increased
duty on the finished product over the
duty charged on the partially finished
article. A case in point: Mr. Paine
of New York complained in his speech
of the fact that the proposed duty on
wire rods is just the same as that upon
wire cloth the finished article. The
natural query arises, if the tariff is not
a tax upon the consumer, what differ
ence does it make to the wire cloth
manufacturer what the duty is on wire
rods? This complaint made by High
Protectionist Mr. Paine gives the whole
snap away.
Mr. Harter of Ohio made a splendid
argument today, and before be got
through had the whole pack of repub
licans on his back, trying to break him
down, but without avail. Harter is
himself a manufacturer of threshing
machines (the Mansfield thresher),
which are put on the free list by the
Wilson bill, and his blows fell with
especial force on the heads of the rob
ber barons, and their attorneys here
winced under the gentlemanly and
good-humored thrashing. If Harter
stood for the people on the money
question as he does on the tariff, I
would like him all over. But he is
wedded to the golden calf and cannot
be moved.
The senate is & till at work upsetting
the president's plans, and have re
jected the appointment of Harrison,
the mugwump brother of Benjamin, as
collector at Kansas City. That was a
case in which Mr. Cleveland thought
to spite the whole Missouri delegation,
who bad recommended another man,
because that delegation bad stood for
free silver. The application of a little
"senatorial courtesy" has, however,
blocked the game. The same thing
may happen in Nebraska one of these
days possibly. C. W. S.
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A SAMPLE CASE.
Russell Sage, who is said to be wurth
at least $20,000,000 and probably a
great deal more, has been assessed on
S(00,000 of personal property. Most of
Mr. Sage's wealth is in the form of per
sonalty and it is all in New York. He
is not a holder of real estate, like the
Astrs, and he has not moved into
Ulster county to escape New York
taxes, as George Gould contemplates
doing. Yet Mr. Sage is in active re
volt against his assessment, which he
says is excessive. He has labored with
the tax commissioners for a reduction.
All the comfort he gets from these offi
cers of the law lies in a promise to re
consider his case directly he makes
affidavit In other words, if Mr. Sage
will swear that his fortune is not large
enough to warrant an assessment at
000,000 and the commissioners fail to
find that he has sworn falsely his tax
may be reduced by, say. $1,000 or 2,
000 or $5,000.
It is a hard case. Mr. Sage is not
merely a very rich money lender; he is
a deacon in church. He has not yet
responded to the commissioners' invi
tation to appraise his own property
under oath, and the presumption is that
he hesitates to do so lest he should
either place the figures higher than the
commissioners have or else swear
falsely. Either horn of the dilemma
is repellant to a respectable deacon,
who loves money and has not been used
to paying his lawful share of the taxes.
The outcome of the deacon's per
plexity will be awaited with interest.
It will afford a precedent against the
time when the income tax shall become
a part of the law of the land. Indeed,
the deacon finds himseif now in ex
actly the predicament that the an ti-income
taxers dwell upon as one of the
malign effects of an income tax. He
must disclose the extent of his wealth
(and income) and pay the taxes, or else
he must perjure himself. The choice
should not be difficult for an honorable
man, and, sure, Deacon Russell Sage
is an honorable man so are they all.
Chicago Times.
There is no reason why the coal
consumed by the asylum for the in
curable insane at Hastings should cost
more or less than that used at the in
dustrial school at Kearney, or at the
asylum at Norfolk. The executive
officers of this state, by their votes in
the several directory boards, have the
power to forje uniform prices for all
coal used by the state, and also a level
transportation rate on coal to each and
all state institutions. If these official
have a proper regard for the interests
Counters.
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Fullest
of the state they will systematize the
coal and supply business, and thereby
save many thousands of dollars an
nually. Omaha Bee
Federal Labor Union No. 5,333
of Cincinnati, a non-partisan body, has
sent to the ways and means committee
the infoimation that "the great major
ity of signatures among workingmen
ami employes protesting against the
Wilson tariff bill are obtained through
what is practicallcoercion,the fearof
losing their positions in ca&e of refusal
to s'gn when requested by their em
ployers to do so." This resolution re
veals an old and familiar practice
amongthe protected manufacturers for
woiking up spontaneous sentiment
against tariff reform among their un
protected employes. It ought to have
more weight with the committee than
a mile of bogus "petitions."
Tuk Chicago Inter Ocean should
comment upon the decision of the
pension bureau that a soldier who
shoots himself while hunting deer is
not entitled to a pension. The Harri
son administration gave a veteran ?4,
631 back pension money for an injury
of this nature and the unpatriotic
Hoke Smith declines to continue the
largess. Such evidence of democratic
hostility ought to call for several
italics and a few double leads from the
I. O. Chicago Times.
That was an exceedingly wise finan
cial scheme of the Harrison administra
tion, using the money left in the treas
ury at the end of Mr. Cleveland's first
term to buy government bonds not yet
due, at a premium of 22 per cent, and
the republican partisans are blowing
about a reduction of the national debt.
The Harrison administration left no
money to buy bonds with, even at a
discount.
Robbei.s attacked the procession es
corting the empress regent of China
the other day and kidnapped a numter
of nobles, whose ransoms, they say,
will be devoted to feeding the starving
poor. This is a hint to Julius Csesar
Burrows that what the Celestial king
dom needs is more protection.
The N w Yoi k Herald says a large
corruption fund is being raised in the
east, to be used in Washington this win
ter to defeat the Wilson tariff bill.
Manufacturers and other beneficiaries
of tariff legislation are the contributors.