The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-22
FIFTH EDITIO
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Despatch tothe Associated Prcss
Fresidenas Message 90 the House or IA.
Bill. "PP'E ASriW
The President, to-day, communicated tho s,,-
loving message to the. House OF Representa-.
The accompanying bill, entitIedH An Act Rs,.
s si!9g sI me duties on Imported Copper and Cop
without my approval TO the House of Repre-
Sentanyes' IN which branch OF Congress- 1t
mtnish she public receipts, for the Objects of the
bill cannot De accomplished without seriously
ores, from which a onsiderable revenue is at
present derived. While thus imparing the res
sources OF the Government it imposes an ad.
ditional tax upon an already oversutden ed
people, who should not be further imp diversified
That mOnODOlies may DO fOsteTed aud cOrpora-
tions enriched. II is represented, and he de-
claration seems TO be sustained by evidence,
that the duties for which this bill provides are
nearly or quite sufficient to prohibit the impor.
tation OF certain foreign ores of copper. rs en-.
a9'ment, 6a thoFF9iore; WILL proye detrimental
and at the same time destroy the busin ass ,
for many years successfully established. OF
smelling home ores in connection with q
smaller amount of the imported article. This
business, it Is crediby asserted, has heretofore
lion OF the country, and thus the industry
which this legislation is designed to encourage
Is actually less than that which will be de.
stroyed by the passage OF the bill. It seems,
also, 10 be evident that the effect of this mea.
sure will be to enhance by 70 per cent. the cost
of blue vitriol, an article extensively used in
dyeing and ia the manufacture OF
such an augmentation in the price Of this
commodity will be to discriminate against
o her great branches OF domestic industry and
by increasing their cost to expose them most
unfairly to the effects of foreign compeu-
tion. Legislation can neither be wise nor Just
which seeks the welfare OF single interest at
the expense and to the injury of many and
varied interests, at least equally important and
gress. Indeed, IL is difficult to find any reason
which will justify the Interference of Gov.
except as s-'- far as s may be rendered rendered
necessary by the requirements OF the revenue.
lative Intervention proposed in the present in
stance will diminish not increase, the public
receipts. The enactment OF such a law Is urged
as necessary for the relief OF certain mining
interests upon Lake Superior, which 1t Is
idS and can only be sustained by an enhancement
ofthe price of copper. II this result should fol-
sive benefit of a single class would be imposed
upon the consumers of copper throughoU0
the entire country not warranted by need
of the Government, and the avails of which
would not in any degree find their way into
the Treasury of the nation. II the miners of
Lake Superior are In q condition OF want, 1t
cannot be justly affirmed that the Government
should extend charity to them in preference to
those of its citizens VINO in other portions OF the
country suffer in like manner from destitution.
Least OF all should the endeavor to aid them
discreet as that contemplated by the bill, which,
moreover, proposes to continue the exercise Of
its benefaction through an indefinite period OF
years 1t is, besides. reasonable to hope that
| positive suffering from want of it may exist.
1t will prove beneficial In a region where agri-
cultural labor, is so much in. demand,
and SO well compensated. A careful
| examination or the subject appears to show
that the present low price Of copper, which
| alone has induced any depression the mining
es IS P sss
lmpolltic, II not impracticable, to remedy by
legislation These causes are In the main an
increase in the general supply OF copper, owing
TO the discovery and working of remarka-
bly, productive mines, and to coincident
! in ha NIL ion md ~
copper as the substitute of other and cheaper
metals for industrial purposes 1t is now sought
natural laws, to place the people OF the United
States in the enjoyment and use of an essential
private and sectional interests for the changes
Industrial progress Athough pToydnr far a6
increase OF duties, the proposed law does not
the fair acoeptation of the term. -
1t does not look to the fostering of q young
and feeble interest with view to the innate
attainment of strength and the capacity OF self
support. 1t appears to assume that the present
and permanent, and is more likely to increase
than to be gradually overcome. Yet in spite OF
power, to sustain that Interest and to impose
| II, in hopeless perpetuity, as q tax upon the
country. The true method for the mining
interests OF AXE superior TO obtain relief II re-
t lei Is 10 endeayGr n 70 maze I'll tneir
dueing the cost OF production. Special or class
legislation cannot remedy the evils which this
bill is designed to meet. They can only be
overcome by laws which will effect wise
honest, and economical administration of the
Government, q re-establisnment OF the specie
standard OF value, and an early adi astment OF
our system Of State, municipal and national
taxation, especially the latter, upon
| the fundamental principle that all taxes, Whe.
ther collected under the internal revenue oil
under tariff, shall interfere as little possi,
| BILE with the productive energies of the people
The bill Is therefore returned in the belief thai
the true interests of the Government and of thC
| people require that it should not become law
| ANDREW JOHNSON