Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-27

division of IL among the states. MI biaihe
is in hearty accord with the scheme ana
John sherman has gone 50 far as to deiend
the unnecessary taxation, asserting 'hat
the people are willing to, pay II.
1 want to SOY that the provision alioW
ing internal revenue taxation was only |
passed with tho proviso that 1t should 90
used in case of war, and every vestige Oh
IL was swept away after Jefferson's time.
The excess of revenue OF last year was
tO6, ,O0O, 900. and lot II be remembered that
tho payments into tho sinking fund are
much larger than required by law. Mr..
Blaine tayors the retention OF tho Internal
revenue because 1t maintains 4o,Ooo 10
publicnn officials costing the country
81, ,000, 900 annually.
His idea Is to levy all tho taxes on
whisky and tobacco. Our idoa ~ that tno
whole internal revenue system should DO
swept away. Whom Blaine insists on its
continuance he is favoring tho permanent
establishment of one Of the most grasp
ing monopolies. Look ut tho Whisky
Ring. 1t came to Congress to dictate log
islatiou in its interest, and tho laws con-
cerniug that product have been created oy
il. So also with tho match monopoly.
Look at your tariff on tobacco. Great Ian
caster county could not compete with
tho large wheat growers OF tho
West and sho turned her atsen'
tion to the cultivation OF the leaf.
Hor annual product is twice that OF tho
state OF Connecticut, is as much as al tho
rest of her owu state combined, ana fonn-
sylyania has only Virginia and Kentucky
ahead OF her in tho raising of this great
staple. Yet you caunot grow tobacco ana
sell it to your neighbor. 1t must go
through the hands of an United States
officer, to whom is given tho right in his
own discretion to ransack your house and
open your books. This license system Is
the petlicst and most annoying under
which a free people ever Sroaned.
We want al. .hese laws wiped ou.. We
want a tariff levied on the foreign products
that come iato the United States. am
not going to say that there ID a constitu-
tional warrant for protection per 50, .Dut
duties should be SO limited lis to MI tho
gap between tho homo price and foreign
price, SO that home labor may not suffer.
l regard the Chicago platform In this ro.
spect as enc OF the most business like
documents that has ever emanated from
any party.
The speaker declared that 1t was the
greatest Of evils to have an overtowing
| treasury. Bat the evil becomes greater
| when the surplus is distributed among the
| states. You thus mako thu latter depen.
dents of the federal government. IL Is not
safe to permit the federal govsnment to
| do what the state eau do as well nor Is 1t
proper to allow either to do that which can
| be better donS by the municipal govern
ment. Mr.. Blaine proposes in the surplus
| distribution scheme TO give Pennsylvania
s., 900, 600 as hor share. Singularly enough,
| it is Just the cost of the state government.
/ II she receives this sum from the federal
administration, she becomes it's stipen-
diary, federal restrictions would cease and
| Capitalization would come.
We are told that the $3.50 900, 900 oil
surplus is necessary. Why there are from
s2o0, 600, coo to s225, 600, 900 that win
never be called for. Tue Republicans
concede that there are slj0, ,000. 900 in the
treasury vaults against which there is not
q single demand. They say they are
anxious TO maintain the credit Of tho gov
crnment The trade dollar, containing
420 grains Of silver, was made by them no,
eqral in value to tho Bland dollar, which
was less valuable by Z. grams. A
Democratic House passed bill for the
redemption of the .rade dollar, but Re.
publican Senate killed it. Again, We are
told that the Democratic party is not the
friend Of the navy. There have been ap-
porpriated since the war for naval purpo-
ses 800 900, 600. This amount has been
expended by Republican administrations,
aud Democratic Congresses since the wal
have given nearly as much 20 the navy q,
their Republican predecessors. The navy
has been manned and otfioered by as gooc
and gallant Democrats as ever breathed
What then is the cause of it's failure?
tell you in all soberness, the creates
enemy of the lavy Is its civil admin istra
tiou at Washington.
| The Republican party has given away
since the war 300, ,OO0, coo acres of the pub
lie lands. The last Democratio House
made a great effort to recover this los
domain, and it succseded only 10 the ex.
tent of passing bills to be defeated by ;
Republican Senate. And it will Away
be 80 until the great power of Demo
cratic president is thrown into the seal
to hasten the work Of reform. France
mighty power to meet all the financial de
mands upon her arises from the fact ths
she is a nation of small farmers. Franc
has many millions Of land owners, whil
, Great Britain has only 100000. Th
methods OF France in this respect ma
, well be copied by the United States.
II And in conclusion l ask you to elec
, Cleveland and Hendricks, because they ar
, honest and clpable. / do not care T.
criticise the candidates of the oppOsitio,
, personally, but know that onrs do no
I suffer by comparison. We want Republ
can officials to remember that Office is
trust and not perquisite. But the onl
. remedy for tue growing evils is chang
> of administration, and it cannot come to
q quickly fos the honor aud prosperity {
r the country.
o SPEECH FROM MR.. HENsEL.
: w. U. Hensei being called for took th
o stand amid loud applause. He said b
o came here tonight merely to introduc
J. his friends, Lamberton and Randall, to b
Q old neighbors, He knew of no moral 9
9 obvious as that furnished by q contrast {
the public services Of Samuel j. Randa
|. and James q. Blaine. or the latter tn
J, New York Tribune, the leading Republica
: newspaper, had said: "He has held
z conspicuous place in public life for man
:. years, and never urged any measure G
reform nor at any time protested againl
>, the enactment OF bad laws nor corruI
administration of the government" N
a such criticism can be found anywheI
q against Mr.. Randall. During his entir
: public career his official acts have bee
4 marked by purity, and he has been th
;. earnest friend Of economy and reform,
v he has been an earnest leader again
= . every form of corrupt legislation.
a Mr.. Hensel held in his hand the platforr
Of the Republican national convention