Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-06

Il
was com posed of diss sppointed poll
ticians, disappointed and soured-
Non Partizans because no party
thought they were worth having:
| Constitution! New Constitution!
There is nothing good in it except
what Is from the old. A worse one
was never presented. Most of it Is
meaningless, having no design
"ut tOcinch the interests on which
the vitality OF the 8 ate depends
1t contains % 600 words. Don't
ever suspect me OF having counted
them 1t Is u fraudulent and ras-
cally instrument. II pretends to
protect the poor man. 1t appeals
10 passion on the Chinese question,
but the part referring to that was
the emptiest, vilest and most rss-
csllv presented In the whole in.
strument. =
He then spoke of the protest
against Government protection.
Said he was opposed to the tariff or
Interference with private affairs,
nut If there was one thing that
hnuId be protected it is American
labor, and the Chinese should
never be allowed to land OH our
shores. Reads the Chinese article
and shows that the word "allen y
includes the poor Irishmap, Eng.
lishman, German or other foreign
er. II we ever want any relief
from this Chinese curse-that un.
Ter the laws, Of treaties and exist.
ing relations we have no other hope
but through Congressional action.
Thank God there is Presiden tiaI
compaIgn and If California politi.
clans keep their eyes open, there
noses clean and chins wiped they
can compel the Government to
adopt an anti-Chinese policy. y
(Reads the
part Of the article referring to the
employment of Chinese on public
works and said) $50 long as a Chi.
naman has no vote there need be
mn fear of him getting days
woikn AT or showing
cOnrlusively the usele-sness of the
anti Chinese clause he said: "It
was not intended to be of any use
to anybody and its effect would be
merely to drive the Chinese from
one field of labor to another. An
argument in favor Of the new Con.
stitution Is that iC can be easily
amended. This Is not true as it il
hardly possible to am end it as it
requires a two-thirds vote OF both
houses elect. Sometimes memb bers
of the Legislature get drunk, som.-
times get sick, and when Provi-
dence is unusually unfavoiable
they die, so that II you adopt this
you may be at the mercy Of a reck-
less minority who can nearly al
ways muster one.third and are
against any needed amendment.
Ungeuerous.
illiberal and unwise! Income taxes
may be collected from, SO, &c.
Ever since income taxes were first
imposed they have always been
found the least productive and
most unwise of all taxes. VI
You have heard of SAM
uel ]. Tilden, the foremost man
of his party and Of his country
and I made one hundred speeches
for him for President and yet
never said income tax once. He Is
worth eight or nine millions, or |
eighty or ninety millions, and yet |
his income tax was so ridiculously |
small that a suit was commenced,
and have never said income tax
o ce. Income tax is u bad thing
Yet this Constitution Is mandat ory |
and If adopted will irrevncably sad
die you with the poll tax and in
come tax both, But 1 have tele.
gram here which may contain
something good. [Rsads dispatch ]
"San Francisco sends greeting with
ten thousand majority" o! we've
got them! How is it possible that
u people who have had showered
on them 80 many blessings would
o 'mmit the insatiats folly of ruin
ing their prosperity, stopping their
progress and courting their total
ruin. That this people could be
poisoned by the doctrines of fanat-
les from Europe or worse Ameri-
cans, whose only capital Is dirt and
lousiness! It cannot be possible.
n
But about this tax business: They
promise to extend the valuation
from 5000, 900, 900 to 5000. 900 900,
aud therefore the taxes would be
reduced ii the expenses were no
greater. have heard the fanatics
ot the Sand Lots tear their shirts
listening to General Howard and
Judge Terry announcing this fact
OF the increase Of taxable valuation
The speaker then proceeded to show
that there were SIG, 900, ,0G0 Of m honey
taxed, and that the money element
was better taxed than any other.
On the taxation question, money,
debts, etc., the speaker made an
exhaustive and convincing argu-
ment which we have not space to
reproduce.
Isay that money ought not to be-
taxed ut oil, in tho interest of the
p,or man. Money ls a mechanical
contrivance for the measuring of
values and as medium of ex
change. 1t Is machine as much |
as loom, a plow or any imple-
ment. Therefore. 1t should not be |
taxed, and anything that increases
its value is an injury to the poor
people. There are a great number |
of consideration in this tax ques-
tion. The power to tax IL the
power to destroy. It Is the hard
est thing In the world to place q
tax where 1t belongs. II 1t was not,
governments would run smoothly
and poor people would he greatly
relieved. If the government taxes
an article the merchant sells the !
tax with 1t, and when it gets down
to the poor nun, who has nothing
to sell, where will he be? The only
way I know to relieve the present
state of affairs is to reduce taxa
tion and reduce expenses. This Is
the only remedy, and public opin-
ion alone can make things straight.
Wiser views, reduction OF offices
and DuhliO ODiDiOn are the modes