The Plattsmouth Journal
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
C. W. SHERMAN, Editor.
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CLASS LEGISLATION.
All opposition to the income tax and
to the reform features of the tariff bill
comes under one head it is the strug
gle of a class to get the henetits of
taxation and to make other classes pay
the bills'.
New York argues that the income
tax is class legislation. The fact it
brings forward to substantiate this
argument is that property already pays
state and municipal taxes. Therefore,
the poorer people should pay tederal
taxes. Thus New York reaches the
conclusion that to ask the rich to pay
2:,0(M,000 or 830,000,000 out of the
$500,000,000 of federal revenues is class
legislation and unjust.
Ad valorem tariff duties are changed
to specific duties by the same pressure
and the same geographical section.
An ad valorem tax makes everybody
contribute to the federal expenses in
proportion to the cost of what he uses.
A specific duty lumps many grades of
the same commodity and compels the
man using the cheap grades to pay as
much as he who indulges in the expen
sive grades. A specific tax has always
been an artifice to exempt the luxuries
and tax the necessaries.
Northeastern politics is governed by
special and powerful interests. The
southern and western democracy fol
lows broad general principles. Taxa
tion according to possessions is one of
these principles.
THE KANSAS SITUATION.
The following on the political situa
tion in Kansas from the Chicago Times
is equally applicable to Nebraska:
"The state of Kansas will elect this
fall a full state ticket, a full delegation
to congress, and a legislature by which
a successor to United States Senator
John Martin will be chosen. The con
gressional delegation of the state as it
stand today is made up of one demo
crat, three republicans, and four popu
lists. Both senators are populists.
The one representative classed as a
democrat was elected as congressman
at large upon a fusion ticket supported
by democrats and populists. In 1S92
there was no straight democratic
ticket, either state or national, in the
iittld. The democrats very wisely threw
their solid support to the populists,
with the result of keeping the electoral
vote of the state out of the Harrison
column and the state government out
of the hands of the republicans. In
return for this apparent effacement of
the democratic party in Kansas the
national democracy profits by the pres
ence of two populist senators and live
populist, or fusion, representatives, w ho
have on nearly all questions of import
ance voted with the democrats. The
fact that the populist electors and the
i iiaion state ticket were elected by only
an average plurality of less than 6,000
shows that but for the combination of
the democrats with the populists the
republicans would have carried every
thing before them.
'With another campaign approach
ing certain dissatisfied partisans in
Kansas, arrogating to themselves the
title "stalwart democrats," announce
their purpose of repudiating the fusion
policy and putting a straight demo
cratic state and congressional ticket in
the field. The moneved men of the re
publican party could well afford to pay
these "stalwarts" liberally for such ac
tion. Doubtless a handsome corrup
tion fund could be raised among the
beneficiaries of McKinleyism for their
aid and sustenance. The single fruit of
their efforts, if they be at all numerous
and influential, will be renewed repub
lican denomination of Kansas.
"Neither in Kansas nor in any other
western state normally of republican
complexion should democrats quarrel
with populists. Particularly in con
gressional tickets is fusion wise and
necessary. Upon most economic and
financial questions your true populist
and your true democrat are one.
"Jerry" Simpson is a better democrat
than Harter or Dave Hill. In districts
in which the democrats can elect their
own man a distinct party ticket is
well enough, but in republican dis
tricts fusion with the populists is the
wise and patriotic course. The ends of
democracy, not the name, are what we
revere. The great statesman whom
democrats regard as the founder of
their party was a democrat in fact, not
in name. Thomas Jefferson called him
self a republican, but the principles he
so fitly represented now form the fun
damental code of the democratic
party, the name of which he never
heard. Without those principles no
party can be democratic whatever its
name. With them any party is demo
cratic though it dub itself populist or
anything else.
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WAsniNrroN, D. C, May t), 1SU4.
The twelve "good men and true" who
tried Coxey and his two lieutenants in
police court for not obeying the injunc
tion to "keep off the grass," have con
victed them, under the instructions of
the court, and it is now regarded as an
administration victory, the judge hav
ing been renominated for the cilice he
now holds, before he got through with
the trial, by the president. Excitement
here has measurably subsided, and will
probably remain so until the next in
stallment arrives in town.
The democrats in the house are in an
excited state of mind over the number
less amendments to the tariff bill pro
posed in the senate, and I predict that
if these amendments are adopted they
will never get through the house.
Why, some of them simply discount the
McKiuley bill by their monstrous rates.
It is conceded that they are the work
of Brice and Gorman, who are working
for pay as they are certainly laboring
in the interest of the republicans. I
still cling to the hope that the bill will
be so changed in conference as to make
it essentially in accord with the Chi
cago platform. Otherwise I hope the
bill will fail, as the American people
can then better appreciate how hard it
is to get rid of a bad system of laws,
passed at the behest and in the interest
of classes. Of course such a con
tingency would relegate the democratic
party into a minority in the next house;
but such a result would not be an un
mixed evil under existing conditions.
It is, to my mind, somewhat doubt
ful if the party can win the next house
at any rate, for the president is using
the public service, not as if it were a
"public trust,' but as a private per
quisite, and as a means of promoting
goldbug sentiment in all of the states
south and west. Under such circum
stances it will be almost a miracle if
th- democracy can get together in time
to fight the common enemy. In Geor
gia, for instance, Hoke Smith is direct
ing appointments to the end o! getting
an endorsement. In Alabama Secre
tary Herbert is carrying out the same
program, and Mr. Morton (through Mr.
Castor) will, of course, dp the same job
for Nebraska, having as aids every one
of the presidential appointees, from
Frank White down. In states from
which no cabinet officers come the con
tingent of appointees are expected to
control matters, and if they can't do
that, will doubtless make it impossible
for silver democrats to win. Thus the
tariff is made a secondary issue, and it
is my belief that Mr. Cleveland and his
advisers have planned to either make
the next house republican or put it in
the hands of the gldbugs. We shall
see what sort of a prophet I am when
matters come to a focus.
The house yesterday, in committee
of the whole, had under consideration
a bill for the erection of anew printing
office building, when there occurred one
of the nicest contests of the session
over the question whether the
site proposed by the committee should
be purchased at the rate of $3 a square
foot making the block cost $300,000
or should the committee be instructed
to select a site on ground belongicg to
the government. Mr. Bryan headed
and managed the fight for the latter
proposition, and it won by a vote of 104
to 50 thus saving $300,000 to the
treasury. O. W. S.
Something is wrong with the Ne
braska City News. It hasn't harped
against fusion in Nebraska for at least
two weeks. Speaking seriously, how
ever, the antagonism of a demo-republican
sheet like the News should have
no influence with the democracy of Ne
braska. The conscientious democrat
who wishes that the elections this fall
will witness the downfall of republi
canism in Nebraska knows perfectly
well that such a blessing can not be
brought about by any method other
than fusion with the people's party.
Unfortunately for the democracy it
harbors a few people who call them
selves democrats, but are really repub
licans, who argue that fusion will
weaken the party. Bosh ! Fusion in
Nebraska will beat republicanism and
thereby strengthen the democracy.
Without fusion the democracy will
continue to be third in the race. How
can any party which is certain of de
feat even before a campaign is in
augurated, hope to strengthen itself
and become popular with the people i
when it refuses to render aid in caus
ing the downfall of that antagonist of
honest government republicanism V
The true-blue democrat who wishes
that the old-time enemy, the republi
can party, may be whipped in Nebraska
this fall, can not help but believe in
fusion.
STAND FOIt THE WILSON MILL.
The amendments to the tariff bill as
it came from the senate finance com
mittee, presented Monday by Senator
Jones and agreed to by the democratic
senators known as the compromise
committee, aie not at all in line with
the party pledges of tariff reform or
with the policy and desires ot the
democrats in the house, as expressed in
theoiigiual draft of the Wilson bill:
The schedule presented by Senator
Jones contains over 400 radical changes
and virtually constitutes a new bill,
yielding in almost every point to the
desires of the protectionists. These
changes, of course, mainly apply to the
great commodities most affected by the
tariff; to iron, sugar, glass, tobacco,
cotton and cotton manufactures, wool
and woolen manufactures, and to
petroleum and its products.
In almost every instance the tariff
figures of the original house bill, called
the Wilson bill, are greatly increased,
and in many cases even the figures of
the senate finance committee's amend
ments are raised. A particularly un
acceptable action of the so-called
"compromise committee" is the chang
ing of the duties on many articles from
ad valorem to specific, concealing in
each change thus made a heavy increase
over the schedule figures of the house
bill. Such changes are made, for in
stance, in the figures affecting struc
tural iron and steel manufactures and
iron and steel rails. The domestic sell
ing price of steel rails in 193, a price
far above the cost of production, was
per ton. In the Wilson bill
steel rails weie made dutiable at 20
per cent ad valorem. Taking, for the
mere purpose of comparison, the do
mestic price of rails as a figure on
which to base computation of the duty
we find that under the Wilson bill it
would amount to 55.62 per ton. The
so-called "compromise committee" dis
cards the ad valorem duty and substi
tutes a specific duty of seven-twentieths
of a cent per pound. A ton of rails
then under this schedule would pay an
import tax of $8 40, a very material in
crease over the moderate duty imposed
by the house bill, and at least one
American manufacturer, Tom John
son, declares he can make steel rails
without any protective tariff whatever,
while other American manufacturers
have recently been selling steel rails in
Canada, directly competing with Euro
pean manufacturers, for about $lf per
ton, and confessedly at a proGt. In
Brussels carpets, too, which American
manufacturers have been exporting to
Europe and selling in the open markets
of the world at a fair profit, the Wilson
bill rate of 30 per cent ad valorem is
increased to 35 per cent, although the
senate finance committee's report had
accepted the house bill schedule intact.
In dairy and farm products many items
which were free listed in the Wilson
bill have been heavily assessed in the
compromise report. Milk, which was
on the house bill free list, is assessed 3
cents per gallon; broom corn, which
was also free, is marked up to $0 per
ton; cabbages and eggs, free before'
are assessed at 2 cents each and 3 cents
per dozen respectively all cheap de
vices for catching the farmer's vote
with impossible 'protection."
So it is in nearly every one of the 400
changes; the protectionists are favored
at every point and the house bill is so
altered as to bo scarcely recognizable.
The Wilson bill as it was presented to
the senate was a fair tariff-reform
measure. When the senate finance
committee had done with it it was con
siderably altered and amended, but
still possessed of some of its com
mendable features. But if these so
called democratic compromisers be al
lowed to work their will of it the bill
would become an emasculated wreck of
its former self, in which the house
should refuse to concur. It is :n im
provement on the McKiuley law, true
enough. But, as amended by the com
promise committee, the bill would not
fulfill the promises of the party plat
form, would not satisfy either high
protectionist or ultra-free trader. It is
a weak, poor, spineless thing that the
senate compromisers would offer the
house in place of the virile, robust Wil
son bill at the forthcoming conference.
The bouse democrats should stand out
for the original measure.
The seventeen-year locusts may be
coming, but Coxeyism will pass away
and the senate debate can not last all
the year.
Of course Mrs. Mary Yellin' Lease
will be a candidate for congressman-at-large
if she is a candidate at all. Mrs.
Mary Yellin' has been at large too long
now to begin to confine herself to the
pent-up Utica of one district.
I CLEVELAND A I'OI'l LIST;
Now what in the name of all that is
asinine and Danaesque does this from
the New York Suu mean 'i
" We have long known that in (irover
Cleveland, a platform untohimself and
a crank at that, was the seed of poli
tical incoherrncy and disorder. His
fate has made him f-r the moment
populist. But we deny the right of
responsible democracy to turn somer
saults after an eccentric and irre
sponsible executive, and to make itself
doubly anarch'st by adopting the
wealth-plundering principle of an
archy without the popular sanction of
a national election."'
Cleveland a populist V Theopinions
of Messrs. Simpson, Allen, Lewelling
and Fennoyer are invited upon this ex
traordinary proposition. As for nr
selves, we would as eoon think of class
ing Charles A. Dana as a democrat as
dubbing Cleveland a populist, even
"for the moment."
The Sun's eccentric editorial was
drawn out by a mild and guarded sug
gestion in the Washington correspon
dence of the Times a portion of this
paper, by the way, in which nothing
not mild, guarded, and eminently just
ever appears to the effect that the
west would force the retention of the
income tax for decades yet to come,
even though the east succeeds in limit
ing its operation to five years. This,
the Sun thinks, threatens a "commun
istic revolution," about which that
paper should surely speak with au
thority, as its owner and editor was a
member of the most famous commun
istic settlement ever established in the
United States. But, besides calling it
communistic, the Sun further denomi
nates it anarchistic a palpable con
tradiction of terms, as anyone who un
derstands thedistinction between com
munism and anarchism will understand.
It is easy to understand the rage of
Dana over the income tax. He loves
his income and he hates the west. Long
years of republican denomination have
resulted in giving the east most of the
income and levying on the west most
of the taxes. This w e people of the
west propose changing and hence we
are denominated by Editor Dana anar
chists, communists and cranks.
TnE sensational news comes by tele
graph that the republicans have elected
the mayor of Evanston, Wyoming.
We have a vague impression that the
republicans carried some other town,
somers-er-ruther, this year, but we are
not quite sure where the pesky place is
or what its name mont be.
The Pot is Still
Boiling
AT WESCOTT'S.
No let up on the rush for $15 Men's
Suits at $7.50. It's a strain on
WESCOTT and makes him a little
round shouldered, but he is still
wrapping them up over 200 Suits
have been sold and delivered.
GREAT ATTRACTION IN
MANHATTAN
Neglige Shirts
AT WESCOTT'S.
Have you seen them? Most everything
in Furnishing Goods is fresh and
new at WESCOTT'S and sold at
Rock-Bottom figures and no Mon
key Business.
WESCOTT,
THE CLOTHIER.
The minor that the latest senate
compromise on the tariff bill took wool
from the free list is not verified bv the
j list of alterations confessed by the ma
jority of the finance committee. How
free wool escaped the g tneral wreck of
democratic pledges which the linai'ie
committee has been accomplishing dur
ing the past two months may be set
down as the eighth wor.der of the
world.
The Fitchburg (Mass.) entirel lets
the cat of sectional selfishnef s i-tit of
the protection bag. It notes the plac
ing of a large order for southern yarns
by a Fitchburg company "because the
southern mill, by running sixty-six
hours a veek, can undersell similar
concerns in our ow n state," and re
marks that this incideut "should lead
workingmen to see that in the end they
w ill be the ones to suffer if law s are en
acted that will prevent local mills from
competing with those of other states.
It is not cheering to note that the
tlicials of the navy ordnance depart
ment sent to investigate the Carnegie
armor plate frauds have been accept
ing hospitality at the hands of the peo
ple they were detailed to investigate
They were met at the railroad station
in Pittsburg by Chairman Frick and
other Carnegie officials, driven to
Carnegie's club, the Duquesne, and
there installed in sumptuous quarters
as guests. The .New York Times says
of their further procedure:
From the club they were taken to
Homestead and conducted inside the
fortifications, where the investigation
was begun. Mr. Wallace, t he attorney
for the informers, begged the otlicials
of the investigating board to stop at a
hotel during their stay in Pittsburg,
but the seductions of the club were too
much for them. To make matters
still more uucomfortableand terrifying
for the witnesses a pass is required
signed by the superintendent before
they can get inside the fort to appear
before the board. And every such pass
is carefully registered, for what pur
pose may be imagined.
The navy department would better
investigate its investigators. If their
methods and course have been as re
ported they should be recalled to
Washington and kicked out of office.
Acting on The Journal's sugges
tion a movement is on foot to organize
a bicycle club in this city. A meeting
has been called for tomorrow night at
eight o'clock at the gymnasium in the
basement of the Sherwood block, and
all wheelmen are invited tobe present.
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