Show CLASS legislation if it ia go good god d for a erchant to give credit to one individual why 1 hy would it not lot be good to giro civo credit to all such stich a policy would cranto a community ol of pauper haupers pau pers again ho be might inight ag well bay it if it is proper for a dog to have one tail tai I 1 he would oid be beaetter better off with will two tai tails ia parts aru A merchant may show favor to whom ho he will ilis ilia wares ire are his big own owl and he may dispose of them accordini according to his own owl wishes if lie chooses 08 to favor one customer more than another that other may trade elsewhere not so EO with the government that belongs us as much lluch to one citizen as it does to another there S should 1011 id be no discrimination crimination dis according to the democratic idea of equality the 13 government lias has no right 0 neither legal 0 nor moral to favor one class of consumers more than another the rights of one should not lo lie 0 held i noro moro sacred than the other this principle of justice is even recognized by such republican statesmen sea as ae are arc able to withstand tho the eighteen karat pressure brought to bear upon thera them by the trusts and combinations which control not only our markets but our tariff legislation on oil april 17 1890 a republican congressman from california mckenna asked upon the floor of congress why are sugar consumers selected for especial favor the democracy does not believe in aspeci ai favors or class legislation 0 in reference to the dog having two taxis tails we will rem remark irk the comparison could better be made with the republican doctrine of tariff that party believe s in raising b the tarica every time it gets ft a majority in congress in other words it evidently believes that if i a dogs tail is all right when a foot long it would be that much better if it were c fifty feet long |