Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-11-23

On the basis of the highest qualifications
and the most undoubted integrity. He
signed the enactment of Re
publican Congress on the subject, and
promptly appointed board, presided over
by It's ablest champions, to prepare the
details of practical and constitutional
system. With this much-desired reform
| hope also to see adopted, in time, what
l recommended to my constituents ten
wears ago--tLe nomination of postmasters
by the votes of the people interested, be-
lieving they can nominate these officers
quite as judiciously as they now nominate
sheriffs and clerks and treasurers. With
such reform in successful operation, l be-
lieve the Republican party would be more
harmonious and powerful than without
them. Cannot any one see that unity in
New York, where even National success
is ilnperiled by divisions as to patronage,
would be worth more to the party than
all the official appointments in that State
5. TARIFF AND INTERNAL REVENUE.
The pathway of duty on these subjects
was plainly marked out when the last Re-
publican National Convention resolved
unanimously that lit is due to the labor of
the nation that taxation should be equal
lied and reduced as rapidly as the nation
al faith will permit" and also that, as the
national debt had been contracted "for the
preservation of the Union for all time to
come, it should be extended over fair
period of redemption" and the rate of in
tcrest reduced thereon, whenever it can
be honestly done" The unexampled IL
quidation of over one hundred millions of
debt per year has elevated and fortified
our national credit, and the elasticity of
our revenue system has been illustrated
by increased receipts year by year. almost
to the extent of the great reductions made
by the Republican Congresses since the
war But with $409, 100000 of receipts
during 1871, duty compcls again a recur
renee to the text of the platform on which
the people placed the Republicans in
power. Besides the annual reduction of
one per cent of the principal of the debt
to which the national faith is pledged by
law, and the prompt payment of the inter
est and all other nation expenses, the next
Congress could safely reduce taxation
sixty to eighty millions, leaving safe
margin to guard against unexpected re-
verses in the finances. And thus will
again be redeemed the pledge made to the
labor of the nation to reduce taxation as
rapidly as the national faith will permit.
The tariff having been increased during
the war avowcdly to increase the revenue,
and to offset also the internal taxes then
levied on nome manufactures, the last
Congress reduced it from an average of
45 per cent. to 40 per cent But other
reductions can now be safely and judi
ciously made.
Tea and coffee are the poor mans neces-
| saries of life, of which he consumes per
head as many pounds us the rich and
they are not produced on our soil The
duties on them-like internal taxes on
home manufactures, incomes, etc, are es-
sentially war taxes, which should be wise
ly kept in reserve by the nation for the
enormous expenses and great momentery
eXigencies Of the war.
In regard to other ameliorations as tc
the burdens of taxation, details can easily
be arranged when the principles are set
tied on which reductions should be made
Unless Congress is expected to discrimin
ate against American industry, it must keel
in view American wages, the highest ii
the world, and it is to be hoped always Il
remain so; for, where labor enjoys tn,
highest wages, and realizes the creates
proportion of value it creates, there ar,
the people the most prosperous and happy
SO also must the fact that, iron, wooden
and cotton manufactures are essential +
our true Independence be kept steadily i
view. Suicidal, inded, would be the bloy
that would blindly strike down the grea
industries of the nation, or compel then
as an alternative to reduce the wage
OF their employees to the European stand
, ard
| With all the darkening OF counse ell o
| the tariff question, the wisest refcr
and the truest landmark legislation,
my opinion, is within the nnge of dutie
| levied for revenue, and for prohibition
to make fair competition between fo
eign articles, produced by cheap labo
;. and American manufactures, produce
by American labor at American wages
to make free the hundreds of article
from which so little revenue is receive
6 as scarcely to pay the cost of collectio
!, to tighten the duties on or to render fir
! raw materials not produced in our ow
country and whose importation won
quicken our manufacturing interests, gi
: employment to our laborers, and enah
!, us to add to our exports of manufacture
:, and to keep taxation as high as it W
bear on the luxuries Of mankind
! To sum up-for must not draw mo
!. heavily on your spacc-the Republica
II have only to show by their acts til
ID theirs is the party of genuine practit
l. reform-that, founded as it was on t
W noblest reform of the age, and carryi
70 one reform after another, it can be sure
II relied on as living party of living cal
: est men, to face and settle wisely eve
, living issue OF the present and the futu
as it has in the past--and it will contin
both to deserve and command succe
And thus, against the bitterest OPPOSITE
- it may encounter from the party I'll
= realizes now another defeat will inst
to it the confusion of tongues and t
:, final dispersion which it attempts at
: New Departure SO strikingly prefgur
IL tIo ~ ponrrhliaau .,Ea1ony will au.