The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-07
senate. p.yAWD,s VIEWS.
How the Democrats will Act Regard.
ing the President ana HIS Iehoi"s
Nom nations

ing the President ana His Pending
Nom ,natiOns,
A special dispatch from Washington TO
a Baltimore paper gives an interesting iAtef'
view with senator Baysrd, on national topics
The substance of the senator's remarks were
a. follows. He said: "The evils and de-
s,ructiye tendencies Of eectionalfm arc plaia-
ly apparent, and The avowed intention OF the
republican leaders TO keep the north solid rs
against the south, makes it more than ever
necessary for the friends of true union to
exert themselves. l. is plain that our sys-
tenn of taxation, external as well as internal,
aiff and excise taxes, need reform atom and
establishment, upon broad and equitable
principle of equal adjustment Of public bur
dens upon all classes of population and oil
sections of this country. The power OF taxa
ton is tue gres, sovereign power of n gov
eminent md is controlled only by tho dscre-
ton of those in authority. Ii it exercised
with psrtislity favoriDg certain classes or
localities in the union, discomfort, alienation
and the disorders that follow 10 their train
deeper or more far.reachirg question than
how, to what extent, and upon what suhjsc 8
shall our national government exercise its
powers Of taxation. 1t is
THE DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE
that taxes should be imposed upon the citizen
only for public purposes and justilisble public
ends, and not for the purposes Of giving
advantage to persons engaged in special
classes of pursuits over others. The political
doctrines that look TO subsidies drawn from
this public treasury in aid of individual en-
terprises, or which give undue advantages in
any way to classes, corporations, or sssocia-
tions of any kind however meritorious, in
the shape of high protective tariff, or grants
ofputlic lands, or unequal legislature in any
form, are all anti democratic, and reed the
steady, answering opposition Of those who
believe the famous spothegm Of Mr.. Lincoln,
that this is a government of the people, for
the people, by the people, There are prob.
lens of our day filled with difficulty, and the
solution of which is not easily to be stated.
On the one hand we have tho growing power
0faccumulated wealth, marvellous ard beyond
all precedent In history, and this capital,
associating ITSELF and with tho industrial
activities of our people encouraged by our
free institution of government, Is developing
THE RESOURCES OF OUR COUNTRY
with most magnificent results. All this is
gratifying to the pride oftbo Amorican pco-
pie, and yet it is accompanied by facts we'll
calculated TO alarm those who believe tho
great secret of maintaining free government
IL to prevent the aggregation of power in
dangerous proportions in single hands. That
man must be blind who does no. SOC and OBJ.
fuse who's does mot fesl grave apprchen-
sions for the safety and welfare of the
masses, the great body of the working peor
pie under our Institutions of government
arising out of these consultations of capital
which overshadow personal Independence
and individual liberty, and render ,ho COM
petition by individuals amo,t hopeless in
those fields Of enterprise in which corporate
power has already Obtained virtual mo.
nopo!y BY crushing its upoesoc-
sted rivals. see in the growth
of wealth sDd its consolidation
GREAT DANGER
TO orr institutions Of government, which
were insended to secure personal liberty and
Independence by distributing power and
create democratic aud not ~ plutvcrstic
republic rho abolition of the rule Of pr-
mcgenitufe, the destruction of entails, tho
equal division Of iutestsio estates, without
regard TO sex, the prevention Of pcrpetuities,
the subsection Of land to tho pay mont of
debts, were all intended to tecure, MS far ss
laws could, opportunities for the decentrai.
Zation of wealth, and TO prevent its CONSOLE
da,ion in the hands of u few; yet il grows
every day moro obvious that by An almost
universal system of corporations oil this has
been defeated and set at nsught. Corpora
tions never die, nor ara their estates ever
disturbed. but in single md neyer-dying
grasp they can hold the aggregated property
OF hundreds of thousands of men, and WELD
their ilfluences under n single unrelenting,
uusy mpsthizing, selfish intcnt--sn intent
upon which tho milder and more benefcenl
impulses of human nature are permitted 10
have but little effect. 1t is my Judgment
the great mission oflhc democratic party is
not to uphold tho laws tina. create and
protect property and encourage its accumu-
lstion, but to prevent this power through
the forms OF legislation. from gaining
UNDUE INFLUENCE
over tho liberties OF the individual citizen, by
keeping before the American people tho
great idea, the constantly elevsting thought,
that the man Is always to DO coneiderei
above tho production Of his labor, and tina.
government should consist in checks upon
power and projections for weakness L. il
The true m,sion OF the democratic party To
SEQ that all classes and all grades Of man sre
duly protected Ia their legal rights md that
under no pIe,eai should individual rights bs
invaded by Legislation. whether il be the
hollow cry of n priceless ballot and fair
count or the Interference with mems personal
habits by sump'uary laws invented for po-
liticsl ends. Think the control of corporate
power by the national government would
tend to ward civilization, which would de-
stroy all powers OF local self government -
that great school of the American citizen.
II would tr nster !he powers that can now
be used for seli.protec,ion in the localities
that experience the evils and have ii in tRer
power to apply tho remedy, when torbcar-
ance shall have been exhausted, and place
them under the control of the single lcgsa-
turo ut Washington, which would become
the focus of all Of those Influences unfayora.
BILE to liberty. havo seen too often the
alarming powers of ono or two corporations
over tho action OF congress no. 10 make mo
dread
THE COMBINATION OF INFLUENCES
that would DO brought TO bear upon the ma.
tional legislature when IL was supposed to be
solely inves!ed with power over ito subject.
and undertook to cotrol these enormous and
highly varied interests" "Suppose tho gov.
eminent should become tho owner and opor.
ator OF these corporstions!'
"Tnen our present government woull dis