TAXATION IN MISSOURI.
Tlie Hate levied Kach Year by the
State SIik h 1800, an Obtained
Frwm the State Auditor.
From the time Missouri va3 ad
mitted iuto the Union up to the year
1800, the tax rates levied for the
nuipoi t cf the state aud municipal
overuineuta were generally very low
arid limited etrictly to the necer
itiea of government economically ad
ministered. in me year oi ii)U tne rate was
2.) centn on tho 100 for stat reve
nue, 10 cents on the $100 State in
l?rest, and 100 of 1 per cent Asylum
inz and a poll tax of 37 cents.
InlbG-land 18G4 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
tax of 100 cents on the $100 on their
property and $2 poll tax.
In 1&G5 the revenue tax was fixed
'ly the republicans at 40 cents on the
$100, military tax 20 cents on the
$100 revenue poll tax $1, military
poll tax $2.
In 18C0 the levy was 40 ceuis for
revenues, 50 cents for military,
-revenue poll $1, military poll
:$2 making 00 cents on the $100 and
-3 poll tax.
In 1SG7 the levy was 25 cents for
revenue and 40 cents for state inter
est, together making 05 cents on the
$100, and 50 cents revenue poll.
In 18C8 the lew was 25 cents for
revenue and 25 cents for interest
tuaiting ou cents on tne $iuu and
.revenue poll of 50 cents.
In 18G9 and 1870 the levy was 2
cents for revenue and- 25 cents for
interest, a total cf 50o cents on the
on the $100.
in 1871 the liberal republicans
'levied 25 cents for revenue aud 25
cents interest a total of 50 cents on
the $100.
In 1872 the levy was 20 cents and
"25 cents for interest together mak
ing a total of 45 cents on the $100
each year.
In 1876, 1877, 1878 1871), 1880,
1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 188G, lS87and
1S8H the levy was 20 cents for rev
DU and 20 cents for interest mak
ing 40 cents on the $100.
In 188, 1800, and 1891 the reve
was 20 cents for revenue and 10 cts.
for interest making a total of 30 ct.c.
on the $100.
In 1802, 1803 and 1804 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 adjoining
states for 1804 is twice as much as
in Missouri.
Cost of a l'qii!ist Legislation.
Ab the total estimated inouey of
the world, including paper, gold,
silver, copper, brass and iron tokens
Joes Dot 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 Peffers 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 farther tax to
'carry oout these plans? From what
J 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, weald
Reproductive of the general wel
fare or not.
I hare tried, by an analysis of the
bills introduced by the gentlemen
gent here to speak for the party, to
show that financial, industrial and
every other kind of calamity would
be the consequence of the legislation
proposed by the Populist or People's
party.
I trust that in the performance
of this task I have not in anyway
distorted or exaggerated the meas
ures criticised. Such was not my
purpose.
I have tried to show what the bills
contained, aud in indicating their
authors and number?, 1 have been
solely guided by the desire to sub
stantiate my statements with ti e
best proof obtainable.
With our republican fiiuiula ever
clamoring for increased appropria
tions,and in view of the fact that for
a generation in one or inure of the
three coordinate branches of the gov
ernment the republicans have been
teaching the idea that the national
government was unlimited and be
yond all restrictions of written law;
in view of these facts let me ask, is
it not the direct result of republi
can teaching and precept that today
we have a thud party advocating the
doctrines which I have mentioned?
To bridge the Atlantic or tunnel
the Pacific, or to do both uf these
tasks would be an undertaking lens
difficult and much less costly to this
government than try to cany out
the several measures proposed in this i
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and the last Uongress uy tne lead
ers of the People's party, a?id the
fact that our appropriation for all
purposes have baen kept within such
conservative lines is, in my judge
ment, one of the highest, claims
which we have for the further con
tinuance of the confidence of the
American people. Representative
Piffott of Connecticut.
Senator Voorhee'a OeHnrntion,
Kansas City Times.
In his great Bpeech delivered at
Terre Haute, Indiana, on Saturday
evening, the Hon. Daniel W. Yoor-
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
before in American history. Protect
ed millions without limit rallied to
the defense of that infamous act."
No man knows better of that which
he speaks than Senator Voorhees
and bis voice should be heard by
every voter in the land.
The McKinley law robbed the
wage-earners and business men of
this country of more than a billion
of dollars annuallv for the benefit of
the trusts, the monopolies and the
favored contributers to the corrup
tion fund of the Republican party.
The accumulated proceeds of this
gigantic robbery were employed to
retard the progress of reform, acd
the attorneys of these spoliator?,
the Republican Senators, fought
with a vigor and industry unsurpass
ed, not with the expectation of
ultimately defeating the reform bill
by a direct vote, but in the hope of
preventing a vote and thus surrepti
ously strangling it That was their
plan, and though unsuccessful, it
served to protract the period of rob
bery for several months.
Senator Voorhees is correct in his
estimate of the magnitude of the
straggle for the repeal of that in-
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iquitious law. No such parliament
ary contest has ever been waged
before in this or any other country,
and the importance of the victory is
magnified because of the fact thet it j
will never be repeated. It is impos
sible to conceive that in times of
peace in a country composed of
intelligent, independent and liberty
loving people such a condition as
culminated in that atrocious measure
could be again created. The founda
tion of the evil was laid when the
country was distracted by civil war
and that will never occur again.
. Democratic Apathy.
Tl.is talk of Democratic apathy is
all bMi. It was proven so at War
ren8lurg. There were many mur
murii'ga among the people till they
got together and heard the real con
dition of things explained by the
speakers preseut, then there was no
more apathy, but the grandest man
ifestation of Democratic enthusiasm
that section has experienced in
many a day. It will be the same way
here. The people have been hard
up and as long as Congress was
iu session, the Democratic party got
the blame for what it did not cause
and could not remedy. But Congress
is not iu session now, and the times
are getting better each day from
natural causes. The beneficent leg
islation euueted by a Democratic
' Congress is also having its effect.
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Th
ine people are wearing origuier
j faces au 1 as they get together now
and discuss from an impartial stand
point the conditions of the past and
present they arrive at more reason
able conclusions From an inter
change of opinion they also get new
ideas aud become better informed.
They are calm now, and in a better
frame of mind 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
crat, 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.
Every Democrat who ever under
stood the first principles of Democ
racy and who is devoted to those
principles, will be a stronger partizan
to-day than ever he was before.
Rich Hill Review.
The General Welfare.
Post-Dispatch.
Under pretence of "providing for
the general welfare" $11,000,000 of
the people's money were last year
appropriated and paid in bounties
to 57S producers of cane sugar, all
living in one small corner of the
country on the shore of the Gulf of
Mexico.
This was an average of $19,000
for each sugar producer, or $58 for
each acre of land producing sugar
cane. The consumers of sugar not
only had to pay for this sugar a
market price fixed to secure to tke
New York Suear Trust an additional j
bounty of $25,000,000 a year, but
after paying for all the " sugar con
sumed they had to pay the rent and
labor cost of producing tke Louisia
na sugar crop besides.
Under the same pretence of pro
moting the general welfare $852,000
were paid in bounties to seven pro
ducers of beet sugar, who actually
received a bonus averaging $121,714
gave its price in fuel.
BUGGIF.S
in the
each for raising sugar to sell at the
market price.
Think of paying such immense
bounties to a few hundred lich men
to pturuxle the general welfare when
the money was taken out of the
pockets of millions of pvor men
raising unprofitable crops of wheat,
corn or cotton, or toiling Lard at
some other unprofitable industry:
When drouth or storni3 ruin crops
auJ a poor renter with a large family
of little children to uj port has to
sell his crop and work stock to pay
his rent, and mortgage next year's
crops iu advance for a "grub stake,''
why should not the Treasury help
him along with a hundred dollars or
so rather than divide $S52,000
among seven rich producers of beets
aud $11,000,000 among 57S rich
sugar caue planters?
Who are doing most for the gen
eral welfare of this country, the
seven capitalists, who were given
$120,000 each for investing BOiue of
their surplus capital iu sugar beets,
or the 7,000,000 of poor toilers 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 ahead while they live?
This sugar bouuty was the most
infamous enactment in the annals of
American legislation. But it was a
fair sample of all protective or "gen
eral welfare" acts. That is to say, it
was a bohl robbery of the many for
tho benefit of a powerful few, who
ttould control politicians and pay for
license to plunder the people and
the public treasurv.
On the passage uf the McKinley
bill James G Blaine predicted what
it would do. He said first, that it
would defeat the republican party
in every 6tate west of the Alleghany
mountains. This part of his pre
dictions proved true iu 1802. Sec
ond, that it would deplete and bank
rupt the U. S. treasury. This proved
true a year before Cleveland was
elected the last time. Third, that
it would demoralize commerce and
that the great agricultural states
would be the sufferers, all of which
has proven as true as the prophecies
of oid which were inspired Ex.
The new tariff law imposes a tax
on peddlers of leaf tobacco but not
on farmers who sell leaf tobacco of
their own growth and raising. The
provisions respecting eales of leaf by
farmers are the same as they have
been during the 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
full statement of sales if required to
do so by auy revenue officer. St.
Louis Republic.
Clinton Democrat. Rev. Love.
who has been the pastor of the El
dorado 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 nad at him for his running for
the legislature on the Populist
ticket.
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Tbe Issue in Missouri.
The issue to be determined in
Missouri in the coming electiou is so
plain and so simple that no intelli-
gent ciUiieu can fail to comprehend ;
6 1 i
it. ,
It is whether the present capable, j
prudei:t, economical, business like;
administration of state affairs shall
b.
e continued, or this management !
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TLe Demoraoy gained control of
Missouri twenty two vt-ars ago. At
that tiu:e the debt of the state
was .22.000.000. Today it is but
$10,000,000 and 4.000.000 is held
for the school fund, the interest ou
which goes annually to the cause of
education.
The t:t ir.te was theu -H ceuts ou
the SlOO valuation.
It is now 25 ceuts and 10 cents of
this is for stat indebtedness, 5 cents
for school aud lJceutsfor the regu
lar expense of the sat government.
o other state in the union levies
so small a tax for state purposes. Iu
Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas aud Kausas
all adjoining states,the rate is double
what it is in Missouri.
When the Democrats came into
power the state was paying G per
cent iuterest and bonds were at a
discount.
Now the state pays ."U and her
bonds command a premium.
There are matters that concern
every taxpayer, whether he be Dem
ocrat, Republican or Populists.
The coutrcl of affairs in this etato
if it passes from the Democrats,
must go to the Republicans. Every
intelligent citizen koows this. Mexi
co Intelligencer.
Locating the Confederate Lines.
Chattanooga, Teuu , Sept. '2(5.
The work of locating the confederate
lines iu 1803 on Lookout Mountain,
Missionary Ridge aud Chickaiuauga
is progressing nicely. Many of the
commissioners appointed by the gov
ernors of the several southern states
that had troops in these battles are
now in the city, assisting the Chick
amauga and Chattanooga military
park commission in the work. The
Louisiana Commission arrived yes
terday afternoon. Gens. Royuton,
Smith. Fullertou and Stuart, the
Park commissioners, expect to huve
all the lines aud positions located
within the next mouth.
Gen. E. C. Walthall and Mai.
George M. Gevau, members of the
Mississippi State Commission spent
Monday with the Park Commission
ers in locating the postiou of Walt
hall's brigade iu the battle of Chick-
amauga, and yesterday Lookout
Mountaiu aud Missionary Ridge
were inspected.
Maj. Gevuu was Inspector Gen
eral of Walthall's brigade, which was
composed of the 24th, 27th, 20th,
30th aud 34th Mississippi Regiment
and Fowler's Alabama battery.
Keynote To The Campaign.
In his great speech at Terre
Haute Senator Voorhees unquestion
ably souuded 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 couutry! A solid mass of Re
publican legislation 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
lies, the squandering of public funds
the misapplication of pension laws,
the creation of tariffs fer the benefit
of the few and for the detriment of
the many, the depression of business
and demoralization or trade are di
rectly traceable to Republican legis
lation. No other party has had a chance
to do anything for the country until
within the last year, when, according
to the official statement of Speaker
Crisp, the Democracy has accom
pliahed more for prosperity than
any other party baa done in the
same leagtk of time in the history of
the world. Republic
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