Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-08-17

revenue sfiei6nt for anvernme tai
needs and % napre, md N,ch riff
settled by som item men 10 an e4aal
and fair manner would give al the
protection necessary for the rising in
dustries Of the country. Then all the
internal taxes should be abolished and
the hoTdes of revenue collectors and
officers could be discharged, and this
enormous fund Of republican election
managers would be removed. These
are war taxes, and they can all now
be dispensed with. If any should be
retained, whisky can probably stand
it better than any other American
production. ] am so anxious for a
reduction of the burdens of the peo-
pie that / should have advised our
friends in Congress, had ] been there,
tosupport the tax reduction onmatches,
bank deposits. &C., as a beginning,
just as we voted to make quinine duty
free, without waiting for a general re-
duction Of the tariff. You see by the
advance in price Of matches since the
Congress adjourned that our friends
not only gave the people no relief but
enabled the monopolists to lay more
grievous burdens on them.
Again, we should denounce the
extravagance of the republicans and
not help them in their Prohigate raids
upon the treasury.
The expenses Of 1888 I see figure
up. as appropriated for, the neat SUN
OF 1926, OU0, 900 in round numbers.
as against $2l5,O00,00O, or about
$50, OO0, COO more than last year
Now, at a time when the people are
crying out for relief, it seems to me
the height Of wickedness to spend
their money with such recklessness.
The Democrats should have held up
these expenditures 10 the reproach Of
the republican party, but / regret to
see that in making up the $4,000
600 of the river and harbor bill they
had a large part and lot in its enor-
nifty. denounced these river and
harbor bills when they were only
e, 1000, 600 in size, and I should have
raised my voice against this bill and
voted against it with Bayard and
Pendleton had been in the Senate
Baltimore does not need any COM
binations to get proper fostering care
from the government. The harbor
there is as important to national COM
merce as any on the coast, and it Is the
duty of every Congressman to In.
crease its facilities for the collection
of revenue from customs for .he sun
port OF the government. So of the
contemplated canal; it is a national
work Of vital importance to the Wes-
tern and Northwestern States, and it
can stand upon its own merits, with
out being tied to the Hennepin or
any other proposed public improve
ment. 1t can be made apparent by
proper argument and the display Of
facts that the people of the West and
South are to be more benefited by its
construction than the people of Mary
land. So that these national projects
can be in no way injured by bold
and uDceasing warfare against the
waste Of public money in local and
unconstitutional improvements. If
these questions had been handled an
they were in the Forty-third Con-
gress, and We promised, as we did in
1874, to reform these wasteful expen-
ditures, the next Congress would be
overwhelmingly demOcratic-a result
which ! believe can yet be accom-
plished."
Have yOu anything to say about
local politics p
Not much. ] know but little of
what is going on IN that regard. The
Judicial nominations will absorb pub
lie attention. think the people are
in favor Of the retention of honest
judges. Honesty and experience are
two of the most important elements
to make good misi pri~s Judge. II
he goes wrong in judgment, his error
Is soon corrected in the appellate court
but If he il q rogue, he can do
an immense amount ofiniury which
q higher court cannot correct
Our judges have been singularly
acceptable as men. The rotation
OF them from court to court has not
worked as o. well if they had been
retained in the court where each
showed his peculiar fitness. The ex-
perience in equity, in common law or
criminal practice does not avail so
much under this rotary process, and
it would be better if, after the next
election, the judges should be assigned
to the respective courts, and If shown
to have special aptness for practice in
those courts, they should be kept
there permanently. The mere fact
that judges are nominated By politi-
cal bodies does not make them par
tisans, and the judges elected since
1867 have shown themselves emf
nently free from partisan bias.
think they have earned the good
opinion Of the majority Of the people.
OF course, | speak Of the whole body
OF the Supreme Bench. But whoev-
er may be nominated by the demo-
cratic convention will be elected. No
name has yet been presented as like
ly to receive democratic support
which indicates that any improper
candidate viii be nominated. The
city is largely democratic and the
primaries will be fairly conducted, and
the experience of the people with a
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