The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-11

would be my pleasant duty to get as many foreign appointments for intelligent Arkansians as possible, that they, in the cities ot Europe might so represent our State to those coming to America, that they might come to Arkansas in- stead of going to the far frozen northwest.
 I should do my best to have TO- lygamy, that has so long stained our civilization, extirpated from Utah.
 While I believe in the prin ciples of civil reform, 1 am firmly of the opinion that the administration of Federal affairs can be most ef. ficiently reformed by placing hon. est, capable and faithful Demo- crats in office all over the South.
 The proper regulation of rail- road charges through the combin- ed workings of Congress and the State Legislatures in the inte1es of the entire D eople and without interference with the rights of the roads, is a question in which I feel a deep concern. The gross earn ings of railroads in 1883 were $823, ,OOO, 900 and to earn this inn mense sum, they only employed 100000 hands. The aggregate amount of the stocks and bonds of all onr roads, is S7,O0O, ,OOO, 900, and of this more than half is water. The entire taxable value of rail. road property in the United States is only q, ,OOO,O 900, 900. while con- merce is taxed to yield a profit on he s7 100000, 900. While railroad enterprises are necessary to the complete development of all new countries, and should be encourag. ed by the geople, hold that the Government should require of them their just proportion of tax es, and that the representatives of the people should see to it that they do not make unjust discrimi nation in freights and fares in their own interests. They make good servan ts, but bad masters.
 England, a non-protective conn. try, taxes railroads five per cent on their gross earnings. If the Federal Government could adopt the same mode of taxation, these corporations would pay into the treasuryaiI 100000. nearly as much asthe revenue derived from the i'm ports of iron and steel, cotton and woolen goods combined. This would enable the Government to take the duty of these articles of necessity and thus reduce the cost g of building roads, besides save not less than s25O, ,OOO, 900 annually paid by the people as royalty to the New England manufacturers. I would tavOr any constitutional measure by which the General Government oould accomplish this end.
 | hold that the grant to Congress to lay and collect imposts was in. tended to raise revenue, and does not warrant the fostering and pro. lection of the interest of some to the detriment and damage of oth- CT portions of the country.
 | I believe high protective tariff to be unconstitutional as we'll as wrong in principal. It is de tri. mental to the best interests of tho whole country, and doubly b UT. densome to the people of our sec. ton. The duty on imports avera. ges on protected articles more than forty per cent. It strikes ag- riculturalists with double force. It not only increases the price of the articles the farmer has to buy, but it blocks the road of farm products to the worlds market. Az our manufactured articles are of little importance in the markets of Eu- rope, the law making powers there to retaliats against us for the duty placed by our tarif on their manufactured articles, either place a heavy duty on our farm products or exclude them altogether. The tariff on cotton goods is especially detrimental to those who grow cot. ton, because the tariff lessons the consumption of cotton goods, and of course limits the supply of the rox xv ,natariol consumed 1.-the du-