The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-09-17

s ter Orgnized and qualified to meet all
8 qnestios now before the people than
C any oter. The first requisite Of a
j party administer the Government
= now lBcOloHly, the most difficult to
o Praetie, especially after a period OF
t great Expenditure. What we most
Il need iia very large reduction in local
E ttxes-and still more, q very great
/. Limitation of the power of local taxa
= ton. Now innumerable local au-
!, tlorites-cOunties, towns, cities, dis
= tncts, etc, have authority to levy
3 rxes lntil this amounts, in many
? c.Ses, o confiscation. Although this
! DIES MT enter in our canvass, yet 1t
: alsWes at once all this cry OF bur-
7 dasone taxes. They are local, not
: national, and here the people of Ohio,
: Whenever they have . chance, ought
: toput in the plOw of the Granger.
( HIS the accidental Democratic Gen
, enl Assembly of Ohio shown any
cDacity to reduce taxes or expenses F?
mink not. 1t was too eager in the
, clHse for the few offices connected
WITH our Penitentiary and asylums to
de any act of usefulness. The highest
compliment can pay it is that it was
so shattend into fxctiOns that il could
not do several evil things it attempt
ed. Upon this question of local taxa
ton we ought to have no party, or
soon all Incomes will be absorbed by
taxes.
Z SPECIE RESUMPTION.
The next object we ought to have
n view is to return to q specie stand
aid as rapidly as practicable. Now
kmW upon this point there is a wide
IditfgeRee OF opinion, and we must
not BE intolerant with each other
when We differ. Still 7 believe the ia-
telfigelt voice of the people is that We
can MT attain real prosperity, when
no ma can be cheated with false
values until our labor and prOduc-
tions ae measured by the gold stand
ard. We had months of weary talk
on thi subject in Congress, and al
thougi we took no positive direct step
towari specie standard, yet we did
prevelt, and trust forever, any ret
rogra0e step in the opposite direction.
The g,neral result is that no measure
can b, adopted that will lead us from
spede standard, while we will in
due time agree upon some decided
tholeh moderate measure to hasten
the tine when the dollar of our paper
money will buy as much as dollar OF
real money. Nor will this result
when produced deprive us of the use
full agency OF paper money, whether
! In ths form OF bank notes or United |
State notes, or of both-but only that !
Ii viii make this paper money what it |
promises ii is-an equivalent to coin
and when the only test of the quanti-
tity o. the paper money will be the |
amount of it that can be maintained |
at pal with coin. On this question,
though, am sorry to say, we as Re- |
publians are not entirely agreed, but !
We ars far better off in that respect |
than eur adversaries. The law of the
last session of Congress, though not |
what any one hoped for, has and will |
result beneficially and is in the right |
direction. The long standing sec
tiOnaleomplaint about the distribu-
ton Of National bank circulation /
has been honorable settled. Now |
banks may be organized in any OF the |
Southern States, aud this not by the |
increase of deprecated notes, but by /
the transfer of circulation from the |
East, where they had more than their
snare to the West, where they had |
less. Our grievance was not that We
needed the circulation, but that We |
were unjustly deprived of our right to
it. This law also settled the danger
Gus power claimed by the Secretary |
of the Treasury to increase the volume |
of paper money to the extent of forty
four millions of dollars at his will. 1t |
also provided a system of actual re-
demption of bank notes, by which the
people will get clean, new bank notes |
for the mutilated, dirty and defaced |
notes we had. OhI for one step fur
ther to make these notes as good as |
gold-and it needs only courage TO |
take it. / hope and trust that the |
Republican party will take this step. |
1t will complete the cycle of great fl
nancial measures which it has had the |
honor to propose and adopt.
sIMPLIFIcATIoN OF TAXEs.
The next most important aud diff
Sult question that as party, we must
rion Of National faxes-and upon this |
point the people have the assurance of
what we have done in the past as a |
guarantee and guide for the future. |
We have rapidly and wisely-almOst |
too hastily-reduced and simplified |
taxes. From taxes on all incomes |
and productions we have come down, |
with few exceptions, to taxes on |
spirits, tobacco, beer and imported /
goods. The few exceptions of stamp /
taxes unrepealed will probably be re-
pealed next winter and no doubt |
would have been last session, except |
for the continued influence of the
panic in reducing our revenue. The |
present excise taxes of whisky, tObac-
co and beer have been carefully /
matured, and are, believe, as honest
ly levied and collected as is possible.
i think no changes ought to be made
in thrse except to supply defects In
the machinery as discovered. As to
the duties on imported goods ] can
safely affirm that the present tariff is
far more certain, specific ard pro-
ductive than any ever before existing
in this country. In comparison with
the tariffs of 1912, 1916 and 1861, it is
better in every particular. 1t is bet
ter than the former tariffs in the
very direction that it can be still
further improved. More of the du-
ties are specific and the classificstlons
are more simple. Still, in these par
ticulars our present tariff laws can
and ought to be improved. In every
case where the nature of the article
will allow the duty should be specific
and all similar articles should be 1
classified into schedules and with de-
scriptive words impossible to be mis-
understood. These laws ought to be
codified, as many additions and |
changes have been made without /
specific repeal of old laws. The du-
ties and powers of the revenue officers
ought to be defined and simplified,
thought this was largely done during |
the last session.
TRANSPORTATION AND LABOR.
There are two topics that are likely |
to enter into our political contrOver- |
sizes that have not yet been so de- !
veloped by discussion as to justify |
me in defining the position Of the
Republican party, If, indeed, they |
are capable of a political issue. L
mean the transportation and labor |
questions. And as to both of these
know no better rule of action than to /
leave them to the laws Of supply and |
demand, without invoking the power 4
of the Government to control either
wages or rates. 1t Is the right of
every man to get as much for his |
labor as he can, and to avoid undue |
competition, he is ar perfect liberty /
70 agree to combine with Others, 70 |
refuse to work or do any lawful act,
to make his work more valuable. But /
any act done be him to prevent Others
from working, or to deter or hinder a
like liberty in others, is an unlawful
act, to be prohibited and punished ac-
cording to its degree. Lawyers, doc
tors, preachers, literary men or labor
ers must be governed by the same
law, and that the highest law, to
work when, where, and as much or
as little as he cho Jses, and to get as
much as he can for his labor. Actual
freedom to all to employ or be en-
ployed at any lawful business, with
out threat or intimidation, and to
get all he can for his labor, is the /
primary law that sprang from the
curse that fell upon Adam. This
apples to corporations as to individ-
uals, with this essential difference,
that corporations being creations OF
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