Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-30
COMMUNICATIONS.



To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
All unnecessary taxes, stamp duties and
license laws are anti-Democratic and espe-
cially to tax one industry at the expense of
another. The $49 that grocery dealers are
called upon to pay next Monday morning, in
order to prosecute their business, is nothing
more or less than a swindle on the part of
the general government.
Imitation butter, or oleomargarine, as all
grades are now known in law, is a legitimate
article of commerce, and affords a cheap and
wholesome substitute for the farmers rancid
product fit only for cart grease.
President Cleveland and the national Dem
ocratic House of Representatives are special
partners to fraud in declaring that more
revenue is needed, for the title of the bill is
'sfor the purpose of raising revenue" and for
that reason is originated, through the infu-
ence of the President, in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The present surplus in the United States
treasury exceeds the enormous sum of seven
ty millions of money, and no more honest
taxation is necessary.
The correct title of the bill as passed by
the national Congress and signed by Presi-
dent Cleveland should be can act entitled
an act to secure the farmers vote of the En-
pire State for Grover Cleveland in 1888, at
the expense of nearly every dealer in gro
The agriculturists and dairymen of New
Haven county are also interested in this mat
ter. 1t takes ten quarts of milk to make
one pound of butter, and many farmers pre-
fer to sell this product instead of making
butter. The action of the President and the
Democrats in Congress has enhanced the
present price of butter, so that the hard
working New Haven county farmer really
gets a less price for his milk. Three -fourths
of the farmers il New Haven county buy all
the butter they use.
In this connection it can be said that it
would be just consistent to put govern
ment stamp-with picture of President
Cleveland on the same-on every lined or
picked egg that is sold in Connecticut, for
they come in direct and sharp competition
with the fresh product of hens in New
Haven and vicinity and also through the
State.
The police regulations of the several States
and Territories are sufficient to regulate the
sale of all farm products without the inter-
ference of President Cleveland and Congress.
Connecticut is already provided with a
stringent State law, and salaried official
with deputies to look after and prosecute
those guilty of fraud in the sale of oleomar-
garine This all that is necessary.
A Layman's View.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
Is there not too much time spent in de-
batting the old and new theology in splitting
hairs on doctrinal points, for no man, no
conclave of ministers can, by searching, find
out the Almighty to perfection. Religion is
more of the heart than of the head and I
cannot but think debates on doctrine I'M
profitable. And is there really any new the
ology in the minds and hearts of men? l be-
lieYe not, but think the people have been in
advance of the preachers for ages past. l
have better opinion of the world and hu-
man nature than some men seem to have. I
have had three-score- and ten years expert
ence with the world and mankind, and the
conviction is forced upon me that both are
badly slandered. In looking back over
my life and my opportunities to learn
human nature 1 think l see a
hundred times more good than evil in the
world l have been among strangers, but
never was without friend. Had I been in
sore distress, I cannot recollect one person in
all my life that I would not have appealed to
with confidence for help. The Lord our God
reigns in more hearts than the pharisaical
few seem to think. Then let US all pray in
faith ''Thy kingdom come, oh Lord, in all
the earth-in every human heart" Let our
theology include this, that the Lord helping
us we will so live that the world shall be
the better and not the worse that we have
lived herein.
MAY the Lord increase the faith and en-
large the hearts of the children of men, and
let our motto be 'faith, hope, charity-love
to God and love to men," for love is the full
filling of the law.