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can be held accountable for its conse-
quences, but they will be held accountable
more and more sharply as the evidence of
their dishonesty, duplicity and malignity
accumulates,

As to any thought of resisting the appli-
cation of double taxation, it is out of the
question. A contemporary the other day
called on Governor Perkins to veto the
revenue bill. We are very sure Governor
Perkins comprehends the situation far too
clearly to think of attempting anything OF
the kind. For it is not the statute which
! is in fault, but the organic law upon which
the statute is based, and it would not he
worth the while of the Executive to fake
issue with the Constitution. Double tax
alton has been formally accepted as the
law of the land. That is the simple truth,
and time and temper may be saved by
recognizing it at once. Certainly it does
not consist with the duty of tho .e who
have steadily opposed the doetrine S of the
new Constitution to stultify the nselves by
seeking to make it appear s.iat that in.
strument does not mean what they sin
cerely believe it means. And we regard
it as in one sen &c fortunate that
the trainers of the Constitution
builded their work so massively
that it canr4ot be pulled to pieces.
For we are convinced that no. mod
liication Or compromise could be other
than Ill timed, and that the best and only
Way to convince the people OF the badness
of the Constitution is to let them feel its
evils. From this there is indeed no es-
cape, and it is as well that it should be so.
Politicians, if suffered to have their own
way, would always agree to any compro-
mise rather than risk the loss of prestige or
the mourning of ill-will. In this case,
however, it ought to be enough for the
politicians to know that there is no cause
for animosity against them, seeing that
they are powerless to prevent or to modify
the organic law. The new revenue law is
a bad one. That fact we cheerfully adj
nit. It will produce extremely mischiey
Gus results. OF that we are Thorough 4
convinced. 1t will injure the least reas oa
cDl6 C-dSSGS VI NOGt!S OIiS uiosV ma
seems certain. But all its i'll Feet
are due to the positive and uua
voidable mandates of the CO nstitu
ton, and therefore, until the peopl
are prepared to repeal these cons iSutioaa
provisions, they must submit to whateve
they entail. California will hav probaol
the most Objectionable revenue. xysto-n i
the Unicn, but it will lot be tue fault c
the present Legislature, and certainly no
of the Republican party. Sat party
not accountable. for the adj ,gtion OF til
new Constitution. 1t cam into powe
and found that instrument, in existence
, It has no authority to do anything NOR
than carry out its provisi ems loyalty, n
matter what they involve. It is possibl
that this disagreeable outcome of so man
abortive attempts to graphic with inelasti
principles and systems may have the efec
of convincing some people that 1t is neve
safe to vote for bad measures in the vagu
hope that they may be somehow got mod
fed or mitigated in the application. Con
situations are often far more unmanageabl
than is expected, and our new one is alto
gether intractable in the matter of multi
form taxation.