The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-12
srsArohuAyAmos VIEWS.

How the Democrats VII ~ ,n,,.i,,o
Ing the presidcnt ANA uiS Fc""'"S
Nom ,nntions.
A special dispatch from Washington 70
Baltimore paper gives an interesting 'h,e''
view with Senator Bsyard, on national topics
The substance of tho senator's REMARKS "o'o
AZ follows. He said: "The Owls ana uo'
structiye tendencies Of fectonaiim are plaia'
" apparent, and the avowed Intention OF lne
republican leaders to keep the north SOLID eS
against tho south, makes it more than eV9r
necessary for the friends of true union 10
exert themselves. Il is plain that our sys"
tenn of taxation, external as we'll as internal
ariff and excise taxes, need reform ''ion and
re.es,sblishment, upon broad and equitable
principle of equal adjustment of public bur
dens upon all classes of population and all
sections of this country. The power OF taxa
tion is the great sovereign power or gov
ernment and ia controlled only by the discre,
ton of those in authority. 1t II Is exercised
with A partially favoring certain classes or
localities in the union, discomfort, alienatlon
and the disorders that follow in their train
must inevitably occur, and know OF no
deeper or more far-reacbiDg question IMAM
how, to what extent, and upon what s9oJects
shall our national govern .nent exercise It's
powers of taxation. 1t is
THE DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE
that taxes should be imposed upon the citizen
only for public purposes and juslitisble puollc
ends, and not for the purposes of giving
advantage to persons engaged In special
classes of pursuits over others. Ihs polllIcsi
doctrines that look to subsidies drawn from
the public treasury in aid of individual en-
terprises, or which give undue advantages IN
any way to classes, corporations, or associa-
lions of any kind, however meritorious, In
the shape of high protective tariffs or grants
of public lands, or unequal legislature 10 any
form, are all antidemocratic. and need the
ste sdy, unswerving opposition of those who
believe the famous apothegm Of Mr. Lincoln,
that this is a government Of the people, for
the people, by the people, There are prob
lens of our day filed with difficulty, and The
solution of which is not easily to be stated
On the one hand we have the growing power
of Accumulated wealth, marvellous srd beyond
all precedent in history, and this capital,
sssocating itself, and with the. 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 10 the pride of The American peo-
Die. and vet it is accompanied by facts well
calculated to alarm those who believe the
great secret of maintaining free government
is to prevent the aggregation OF power IN
dangerous proportions in single hands. That
man must be blind who does not see and OBJ
fuse wbo- does mot feel grave apprehen-
sions for the safety and welfare of the
masses, the great body of the working peo"
ple under our institutions OF government.
arising out of these consultations of capital
which overshadow personal Independence
and individual liberty, and render the COM
petition by individuals almost hopeless IN
those fields of enterprise in which corporate
power has already obtained virtual mo
nopo!y by crushing its ,unsssocl.
std rivals. I see in the growth
of wealth and its consolidation
GREAT DANGER
TO our institutions of government, which
were intended to secure personal liberty and
independence by distributing power, and
create democratic and not plutocratlc
republic. The abolition of the rule OF prl-
mogeniture, the destruction of entails, the
equal division of intestste estates, without
regard to sex, the prevention of perpetuities,.
the subsection of land to the payment OF
debts, were all intended TO secure, as lar as
laws could, opportunities for the decentrall-
zation of wealth, and to prevent Its consoli-
dation in the hands of few; yet it grows
every day more obvious that by sn almost
universal system of corporations all this has
been defeated and set at naught. Corpora
lions never die, nor are their estates ever
disturbed, but ia single and neyer-dying
grasp they can hold the aggregated property
of hundreds of thousands of men, and WELD
their ipfluences under single unrelenting,
MISUNDERSTANDING, selfish intent-an intent
upon which the milder and more benehcent
impulses of human nature are permitted to
have but little effect II is my judgment
the great mission ofthe democratic party is
not to uphold the laws that create and
protoct property and encourage its accumu-
istion, but to prevent this power, through
the forms,ot legislation, from gaining
UNDUE INFLUENCE
over the liberties of the individual citizen, by
keeping before the American people the
great ides, the constantly elevaling thought,
that the man is always TO be considered
above the production of his labor, and that
government should consist in checks upon
power and protection for weakness. IL Is
The true mission of The democratic party 10
see that all classes and all grades Of men are
duly protected in their legal rights, and that
under no pretext should individual rights be
invaded by Legislation, whether it be the
hollow cry of priceless ballot and fair
count or the interference with mems personal
habits by sump;usry laws invented for po-
liiical ends. 1 think the control of corporate
power by the national government would
tend toward civilization, which wru | de-
ntroy all 20 wers of local s'' -gernm snt-
that great school of the American citizen.
II would transfer the powers That can now
be used Cor self-proteciion in the localities
that experience the evils and have II in their
power TO apply the remedy, when forbear-
snce shall hsve been exhausted, and place
them under the control of the single legisla-
ture at Washington, which would become
the focus of sill of those influences unfavora-
BILE 10 liberty. have ssen too often the
alarming powers Of one or two corporations
over the action Of congress not to make me
dread
THE CONVERSATION OF INFLUENCES
that would be brought 10 bear upon the ma
tionAl legislature when il was supposed 10 be
solely invested with power over toe subject,
and undertook 70 coirol these enormous and
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