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Nebraska raised 157 million bushels
of corn valued at 42 million dollars in
1S93. Acreage, 6.241, 226.
The people's party has nominated
Victor A. Lapier for congressman -at -large
iu Pennsylvania. lie is editor of
the Danville Record.
What w ill it profit a man to hoard
a few dollars in cash and lose a hun
dred by depreciation of his real and
and personal property V
The present widespread revival of
religious interest in this country is the
best sign now visible of a sweeping
democratic victory at next fall's elec
tions. Under a McKinley tariff a man
whose income is S500 a year may pay
$100 in taxes and bounties. Under an
income tax a $5,000 income would pay
S20, or 2 per cent on all above $4,000.
There is a deficit to fill up and the $500
incomes have about all they can stand
of discrimination. Let us equalize.
Cockran and Stevens, of the ways
and means committee, voted with the
republicans against the income tax.
Now what we want to know is, does
that make them republicans? Out here
in Nebraska it is so confounded often
and easy a democrat is branded a pop
before he knows it that we are much
concerned about the statesmen from
)ew York and Massachusetts. Lin
coln Herald.
Dispatches from Washington an
nounce that Bourke Cockran has begun
filibustering against the income tax
We trust that the organs of Wall
street, both in and out of New York,
will reprint now some of their im
passioned denunciations of the filibuster
and demands for the suppression of
dilatory motions published about the
time the repeal of the Sherman law
was before the house and senate.
Again Mr. Bryan has made a
tariff speech that has set the news
papers to talking and the people to
thinking and his enemies are green
with envy, while the brainy congress
man goes merrily about his business
lie has at least 100,000 admiriug voters
in Nebraska who are anxiously wait
ing for some way in which to show ap
preciation to a loyal, brave, straight
forward, honest man. Hastings Demo
crat.
THE Sl'UAK TRUST.
Last year the sugar trust paid divi
dends of 22 per cent on $37,000,000 of
common stock. Every dollar's valua
tion of this stock was water. Diyi
deads were distributed by this mam
moth combine which in one year nearly
or quite equaled the entire amount of
actual capital invested. It was all
done by that little McKinley tax on re
fined sugar and that free raw sugar
The trust fixed the tariff and the tariff
fixed the trust exactly where it wanted
to be fixed for life. Sugar seems to be
cheap. But it is used to such an
enormous extent that it can produce
$50,000,000 for the government without
costing much m"ore to the consumer,
and can, manipulated in the McKinley
fashion, double $10,000,000 every year
for a combine of refiners. If raw sugar
is free, refined sugar ought to be. It
cannot possibly pay a nation to arrange
its taxation so that powerful combina
tion. nan afford to spend millions in
eorrapttag politics.
CAPITAL COKRESPOSDENCK.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 22, 1893.
Saturday's debate on the lime schedule
developed the fact that only a small
portion of the state of Maine is inter
ested and benefitted by the McKinley
duty of 12 cents a bairel on lime, while
the lime makers in all the balance of
the country get no benefit, and are op
posed to the continuance of that tariff
rate. As to the Maine beneficiaries
Mr. Dingley appeared as their cham
pion, and under the crucifying ques
tioning of Mr. Bryan he was compelled
to admit that the duty imposed by the
McKinley law "enabled" the manu
factures of Maine to charge a higher
price for their lime than they could
charge but for the tariff thus admitt
ing the truth of the democratic posi
tion that the tariff is a tax on the con
sumer. The Wilson bill proposes a
tax of 10 per cent, advalorem a pure
revenue duty.
Today the sugar schedule was under
discussion and after the three hours
debate had been consumed the sugar
bounty proposed in the bill was stricken
out and the whole schedule was put on
the free list. Pending other amend
ments the house adjourned rver. The
amendments adopted are far-reaching
in character, and if left alone will
completely knock out the whole brood
of tariff beneficiaries in that line in
cluding the beet sugar crowd. Mr,
Bryan spoke on the subject opposing
a tax on sugar, preferring to collect the
needed revenue by an income tax
rather than tax the necessities of the
poor, who under a tariff duty on sugar
would be obliged to pay as much duty
as the rich, per capita.
It is intimated here that Congress
man Mercer contemplates con
tending with Senator Manderson for
the next senatorship from Nebraska
and that he is organizing to bring that
about. It is, of course, only a rumor.
and Mr. Mercer is too acute a politi
cian to give that out as his intention
at the present time. Mercer isn't as yet
much of a force on the floor of the
house, but socially and in the cloak
rorms be is recognized as quite an
entity. C. W. S.
Washington, D. C Jan. 23, 1894.
Whether people recognize it or not, it
is a fact that this country is rapidly
drifting toward free trade through
the channel of the democratic party
This is every day becoming more ap
parent as the debate on the Wilson bill
progresses. The first step in this di
rection was the strong vote for free
rails; the next was the defeat of the
ways and means committee in its ef
fort to put off the time for the taking
effect of the free wool clause till
August; the third was the knocking out
of the proposed bounty on sugar and
the putting of the entire sugar schedule
on the free list. Next came free coal
and free iron ore. And it is very in
teresting to note that the most radica
declarations in favor of absolute free
trade receive the most unstinted ap
plause, both on the floor and especially
In the galleries, while protection
diatribes meet with a cool reception
however eloquently uttered. It is al-o
apparent that the proposed income tax
is very popular with the masses, and
the open advocacy of this method of
equalizing taxation by Congressman
Bryan adds much to bis popularity
with the masses of the people who visit
the capitol and listen to the debates on
the floor of the house.
One of the most amusing, as well as
satisfactory to me features of the
course already taken was the progres
sive steps by which the Louisiana ring
of sugar planters, which was working
for a revival of the tax on sugar, was
knocked out in all its movements
First they voted for Warner's anend
You Must Surely Deal With JOE.
You'll get; a Square Deal and a Heap Lot Above You Money's
Worth, FOR CASH. Everything at Bottom Prices. 1 purchase
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Old Stand Ccrner Room, Waterman Block, Flattanouth, Ub.
ment putting high grade sugars on the j
free list, next they voted for the repeal
of the sugar bounty as proposed by the
committee on ways and means (which
provided for the gradual extinction of
the bounty at the rate of J of a cent a
year), and iu this were joined by the
free trade democrats and republicans
Next they voted against the republican
Meikeljohn) amendment to re-enact
the McKinley schedule on sugar, and
then, to wind up, voted for McCrea's
amendment putting sugar on the free
ist, only to find themselves beaten
when it came to the final vote to put a
duty of 1 cent a pound on sugar ty the
free traders, assisted by the republicans.
Then they waked up to realize that
they weie completely floored.
The ways and means committee 'o
day agreed to report the income tax
bill. This measure as presented is the
result of the labor of Messrs. McMillan
and Bryan the sub-committee whohad
the matter in charge. The bill as su
stantially agreed upon has been given
to the press. It is quite lengthy, but
the essence of it is to levy a tax of 2
per cent upon all that part of incomes
which exceed $4,000; so that if a man
has an income equal to that sum, but
not in excess of it, he pays no tax, but
if his income exceeds that amount he
pays only on the excess. The bill also
taxes the incomes of corporations, as
r presented by shares of stock, in ex
cess of $4,000.
I predict that the bill will pass the
house, but what its fate will be in the
senate remains to be seen. Certain it
is. however, that unless a duty is put
on sugar to provide-the rt venue needed
it is likely also to pass that body. 1 1 is
said in its favor that it is the easiest
collected tax of any the government
ever tried, as well as the cheapest.
Walker of Massachusetts is one of the
most prominent advocates of protec
tion in the house, and is a veiy bright
old man, but his intolerance and per
sistence in this line has led him into a
very unfortunate situation. Some time
since the officers of the Central L.abor
union of his town (Worcester) sent
hira a series of resolutions passed by
that body endorsing the "Wilson tariff
bill, and asked him to present them as
a Detition to congress. This he re-
fused to do, but instead wrote them a
very caustic letter denouncing the
resolutions as a fraud and not the
fairly-expressed opinion of that body
of working men. A few days later the
petition, together with his letter, was
sent to Jerry Simpson of Kansas, who
presented them to the house with some
not very complimentary allusions to
Walker's denial of the right of peti
tion. To this Walker replied by giv
ing a personal account of the men who
got up the resolutions, chargii g two of
theiu with being fuee traders (as it
that were a crime) and a third aa
avowed anarchist. He denounced
them as ignoramuses, men who didn't
know what they were talking about,
and unworthy his attention. The
latest chapter of the crntioversy came
yesterday by presentation of the review
of the whole matter and an additional
list of resolutioi s denouncing Walker
and his methods "passed unanimously
by a very largely attended meeting of
the Central Labor union of Worcester,"
in which they score Walker i nmerci
fully for his narrowness and ask him
to resign. They admit tl at tbey do
not aaree with him politically, but
cite the example of John Quincy
Adams in presenting a petition of those
opposed to him and his defense of the
riehtof netition. The whole matter
o
was read to the house nd went into
the record to the crushing discom
fiture of the old tariff baron, who
didn't have the courage to stay and
hear it read.
Mr. Walker if a fair representative
of protectionism run mad.
The democratic majority in caueus
has voted to make the income tax a
part of the tariff bill, but the measure
is meeting with a good deal of opposi-
tioir cui4T from th New York mem
bers, with Cockran, Sickles and Tracey
at the head. That they will succeed in
preventing the amendment, I doubt
very much. They have counted noses,
and find they can only muster thirty-
six democrats, and that lacks fifteen of
being enough. It is well known that
some republicans will vote for the in
come tax. They are catching at every
straw they can find to help them out.
aud they have an idea that the income
tax wul give them some chance of sav
ing themselves in the next congress.
These New York democrats speak
for Wall street and the Incorporations
in their fight against a tax on incomes.
Those rich men have nearly all the
wealth of the country, and they want
to enjoy it untaxed, while the labor
and necessities of the people pay the
expenses of government. They plead
very hard for their side. "Why do you
want to put this bill onto tbw tariff
I ill?" said ore of these men to a west
ern member recently. "Don't you
know that the tar'ff bill is a heavy
load for us to carry? Let up for God's
sake and let us save our districts."
"Why, I thought enough of western
and southern democrats voted with you
last summer on the silver repeal bill to
save your districts. I think it s time
we had a chance now to save our dis
tricts,'' was the reply. C. W. S.
A M'KINLKV ItlOT.
Chicago Times.
Be it understood that this riot in the
Mansfield coal region of Pennsylvania
is a republican riot, a high-tariff riot,
a McKiuley riot. The rioters sire
Huns, Slavs, and Sicilians, the very
dregs and offscourTngs of southern and
southeastern Europe. They were im
ported to this country (duty free) by
the coal barons aud, iu the name of
protection to American labor,' sub-.
sti tuted iu the mines for decent Ameri
can, English, Irish and German labor.
The coal barons had no use for decent
labor, for self-respecting labor, for la
bor that knew its rights and demanded
to live as a white man should. They
brought in these convicts and fugitives
from justice (duty free) and, having
installed them in filthy hovels, stripped
them of their names, numbered them
like convicts, and paid them what
wages they liked, chiefly in store truck.
They suppled them with cheap whisky
and, in a word, supplied all the acces
sories of a pandemonium on earth.
That is what the coal and coke re
gions of Pennsylvania have been made
by these rascals who are new insult
ing American labor and denouncing
the Wilson bill in its name. These are
the fellows who, torsooth, trust now
cut down wages to "the European
level." They have done what they
could already to debase labor below
any known level. Not in Siberia, not
in the quarries of Carrara, or in the
vineyards of Sicily is labor at a lower
ebb, metally, morally, or physically,
than in the hilly fastnesses of these
robber barons of Pennsylvania.
It is their riot a McKinley riot.
They brought this mob element into a
peaceful land and planted their con
vict colonies. The convicts duty free
have broken loose and are spreading
murder and arson over the region.
The very center and promised land of
McKinleyism is lighted up with incen
diary bonfires from torches of the
wretched creatures whom McKinleyism
has brought duty free in the land. It
is a notable triumph for the McKinley
party.
The "A. I. A." has published its
platform and at last we know what that
mysterious order is. It is a secret so
ciety to foster religious dissension and
defeat at the polls every candidate who
nrtAon r an Wriha to the same creed as
the
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