The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-31


that these taxes have taken away youl
necessity tor higher rates of tariff OF
imports. That distinctly deny. / say
to-day, that the revenues OF
ms government ought not t.
exceed two hundred and fifty
millions of money. | say that there /.
no constitutional authority in the in.
s;rument to take from The pockets OF
the people one dollar in excess of the
amount necessary to economically ad-
minister public affairs. PROLONGED and
Vociferous applause.
1T MUST BE AN IMPOSITION, THEN.
In addition / will say that there is nc
excuse, no right or reason, for any such
taXation; so that whether we look at #
! from ~ legal standpoint or
as a question of policy the
time has come when internal taxation
should be entirely repealed. Vocife-
rous applausel. The very approach in
the tariff law to what is termed by
some
FEVENUR TARIFF LAW
Will increase and not diminish the rev
enuo. The Republican party seeks to
cont nue. this taxation; and for what
purpose? Their candidate for pres
ldent, during the late campaign,
made plain what heir object was. rhev
wanted to raise this hundred millions
of dollars and more for the pur-
| pose Of distributing it among the
states of tho union, and it is
q remarkable fact, when YOU come to
consider II, and tigure out the prop
| oSlVon, That each state would
have chat which they bear-the pre-
else numerical relations to the
amount forced from the people Of the
state. l am free to say, that although
utterly unconstitutional from be-
ginning TO end, though it is, |
I'm almost willing to submit to such a
| proposition, II did not know u more
fatal objection. My main objection
j. that il would forever
make the states Of this union
the dependents of the federal authority,
and destroy that relation which should
| be between the states toward the union,
and utterly wipe out the rights
OF the people OF the
states, which are the ground
work o. our institutions of freedom, the
rights and liberties f the citizens.
A STRICT CoNsrRUCT!oNIST.
! Now | believe that the sooner
we 60 back to the strict CON
strustiOn of our concttutiou, the
| better it will he for the
American people. Prolonged applause
| am of the opiuion, therefore, thai
! the duty of the Democratic partv
! is to follow strictly in the line
of its history, from Jefferson down, and
require that there should not be a
loose and free construction of
! that instrument. tho constitution,
In the enactment of federal law, and
that there should be that
e'oSe and strict construction of
our constitution which Jefferson,
Gallatln, Nj Olson, Monroe, Gen. Jackson
and Mr.. Polk insisted unnn, and i'm
their public conduct adher, d to.
RANDALL's REVENUE X FORM,
Now, having =, lid to you that [ want
10 get clear of the internal revenue tax.
alton, you have rational right to
ask IN what way | would collect
the public revenue would transfer il
or remit the raising of the revenue
to the approved mode of
collecting IL from duties put upon
imports. While We concede the fact,
and while the Republican party CON
coded the fsct, aud so does the Demo
cratic party in It's platform
assert, that the present tariff needs
revision, there is great dispute among
the people of The country as 70
N what way these changes should
be made. For one, | am free to
say | have never been able
to find in the con- titution
OF the United States any power which
gives To congress the right to levy
duties Tor the sake Of
protection. In other words, I have
never heen able, with great study, to
ma aJuslitcation for a revenue tax TO
accomplish protection for the sake of
protection, and yet we have people i'm
ene United States that advocate tl'at
course believe such legislation
would promote monopolies, would
result ia class legislation, which !,
during the period Of my public life have
always resisted We have
THREE SETS OF THINKERS
in our country at this time. One
class wants prohibitory high
tarin dutvi another class seeks
To- nave Tree trade established, and a
third class, to which claim to belong.
want duties TO he levied on articles
nt import SO that when they
como in competition with those
manufactured in our country
they shall have such duty placed upon
them rs viii result in preventing their
Importation. BY this equalization the
money invested in manufactures in this
country VIII not be injured aud
| the labor of the United States he saved
T
paup labor in Europe has reaahod
Norlierous aud prolonged applause
Ana so long rs have the
rlght to stand in the councils
OF the union, | will never, hy
any word, act or deed, impov,rish the
| revenues of the producing class Ia
the United States and helm
to reduce II to the IN SCRABBLE condition ~
/ European ptuper LABOR. | wish o. say
that the moment we resolve To collect
our revenues through the agency OF the
tarlu thal moment YOU secure
such lowing Ot duty upon foreign pro
duee That We VIII bring no injury
the same aztec IN the United States.
Nnu at NE tell you now, IT. Is u mere
mater oi arithmetic, u SUM that any
budy can do.
the conclusion Of Mr.. Randa!rs
speech had not reached tho HERALD
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