The Indianapolis journal., 1884-08-20

and imposed taxes ON. luxuries, and on such an.
ticles as may be used or let alone without
inficting want or suffering At this time, and
for many years To come. thaa expenses OF
this government. even when economically ad-
nfnistered, must reach the enormous sum of
over three hundred millions year. Over two
hundred millions OF this amount is deriyed- and
will continue to be, from system of tariff, or
custom house taxation, leVietll on articles inn
ported from other countries and this system
should be framed to seek revenue from the
luxuries and the non essentials of life, and to
foster and promote the interest of the wage
laborers rather than THE interests and pleasures
OF the millionaire and the monopolist The only
otherrelianee for the support of the government
IS the internal revenue system, under which,
during the year ending dune 30 1888 the manu-
facturers of distilled spirits, and of fermented
liquors, together with dealers in the same, paid
into the treasury of the Emitted States the Suu1l
of $9l, ,269 39L If prohibition and consequent
confscation are to ba enacted by the various
States, vast deficit of nearly hundred million
at once takes place in our revenues which
the laborersr Of the country, in
one form or another, will be compelled to sup
ply. Must thereabe higher taxes on sugar, salt,
clothing and all the prime articles of existence,
or must we resort to direct taxatIon to make up
the lossa The greatest and most sacred obliga,
tson resting on this government is the payment
OF pensions to those who preserved its existence,
and to their widows and orphans; and, next i'm
portant is the payment Of interest on our public
debt. The distillers and the brewers of the
United States, and the interest, they create in
trade and market, are paving, and will continue
to pay If wisely dealt with, into the public
treasury an amount sufficient to liquidate the
pension roll or the interest account of each sue
ceeding fiscal year. until the government is out
Of debt and until, hundred years hence, there
will beno more pensioners to pay Every dollar
thus obtahiedst0 defray the JUST obligations of
the governments is derived from legitimate sub
jectlof taxatiOn and to that extent relieves all
other branches of industry.
/ My fellow citizens L have discussed but one
issue tonight, and | shall discuss no other at
this time. have thought it my duty to lay be-
fore you and before the people of Indiana my
VIEWS frankly expressed, upon q great and inn
portant question of domestic policy. I have no
opinions to conceal on this or any other matter
OF public policy, and In due time shall discuss
those other issuesiof a national character con-
tanned in the various platforms of parties.
And now do not know that / can better close
my remarks on this occasion than in the words
of that venerable and ansterH STATESMAN of New
England, John Quincy Adams, uttered in ad
dressing the temperance society of Norfolk
county. Mass. thirty nine years ago. He said
Forget not, L pray you, the,rights of personal
freedom. Selfgovernment is the foundation of
all our political and social institutions, and it is
by self-government alone that the law of tenn
perance can be enforced Seek not 10. enforce
upon your brother, by Legislative enaGtment,
that virtue which, he can possess only by the
dictate Of, his own conscience and the energy of
his own win -