The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-17


households recur. they are forced to pay
excessive and needless taxation, while
their products struggle in foreign mar
kets with the competition of nations
which by allowing a freer exchange of
productions than we permit, enable
their people to sell for prices which dis
trsss the American farmer.
As every patriotic citizen TeiOices in
the constantly increasing pride of our
people in American citizenship and in
the glory of our national achievements
aud prOgress, a sentiment prevails that
the leading strings useful to nation in
its infancy may well he to great extent
discarded in the present stage Of AmeTi-
can ingenuity, courage and fearless self
reliance.
And for the privilege OF INDUCING this
sentiment with true American enthusi-
asm, our citizens are quite willing to
forego an idle surplus in the public
treasury.
And all the people know thatthe rate
of federal taxation upon imports to-day
i'm time of peace is but little less, while
on some articles of necessary cOnsump.
tiOn it is actually more than was imposed
Jy the gTevOus burden willingly borne,
at time when the Government needed
millions to maintain by war the safety
and integrity of the Union.
1t has been the policy OF The Govern
merit to collect the principal part OF its
revenues by a tax upon imports, and no
change IN this policy is desirable. But
the present condition of affairs cOnstTalGs
our people to demand that by revision of
our revenue laws the Teceip,s of the
Government shall be reduced to the
necessary expense of its economical ad
,fpE~ ri
be recognized aud obeYed by the peoples
representatives iG the legislative branch
of the Government
READJUsTING THE BURDENS.
In Ieadiusting the burdens of federal
taxation, a sound public policy requires
that such of our citizens as have built
up large and important industries under
present conditions should not be sudden
ly and to their injury deprived of advap-
tages to which they have adapted their
business but if the public good requires
it, they should be content with such
cOnsidera ion as shall deal fairly and
cautiously with their interests, while
the just demand of the people for relief
from needless taxation is honestly
answered.
A reasonable and timely submission
~ SuCll q ucLldiiI SuOuiu Ct1ld Dc
possible without disastrous shock to any
interest; and a cheerful concession some
times averts abrupt and needless action,
often the Outgrowth of impatienCe aud
delayed Justice.
/ Due regard should also be accorded in
ally proposed Teadjustment to the inter-
ests Of American labor, so far as they
/ aTa involved. We congratulate ourselves
4 that there is among US no labOTing class
fixed within uuyielding bounds ard
doomed under all conditions to the mex
oraUe fate CT daily toll, We recognize
in labor chief factor in the wealth of
the republic, and we treat those who
have il in their keeping as citizens enti
tied 10 the most thoughtful regard and
careful attention This regard and at
tentiOn should be awarded them, not
only because labor Is the capital Of Ouu
wOrkiDgmen, justly entitled to its share
. of Government favor, but for the further
and not less important reason that the
lahOring man, surrounded by his family
in his humble home. as q consumer, is
/ vitalIY interested in al! that cheapens
the cost of living and enables him 10
bring within the domestic circle addi-
tinral comforts and advantages.
The relation of the worklngman tC
( the revenue laws of the country and the
manner in which it paIpably Influences
the question of wages, should not be
forgotten in the justIfidble prominence
given to the proper maintenance of the
supply and protection of well paid labor.
And these considerations suggest such
arrangement OF Government revenues as
shall reduce the expenses of living while
It does not curtaii the opportunity foi
work, nor reduce the compensation of
American labor and gTievOusly affect
its condition and the diQnified place il
holds in the estimation o! the people.
FARMERS AND AGRICULTURIsTs
But our farmers and agriculturists-
those who from the soil produce the
things consumed by alI-ar5 perhaps
more directly and plainly concerned
than any other of our citizens, in just
and careful system of federal taxation
Those actually engaged in and more re
mOtely connected with this kind of work
number nearly one half of our pOpuIa
tiOD. None labor harder or more con
tinuously than they. No enactments
limit their hours Of toll, and no interpo
sitiOn of the Government enhances L
any great extent the value of theil
produces. And yet for many of the
necessaries and comforts of life, which
the most scrupulOus economy enable!
them to bring into their homes, and fol
their implements Of husbandry they arr
obliged to pay price largely increased
by an unnatural profit, which, by The
action of the Government, is given to tht
more favored manufacturers. l recon
mend that, keeping in view all thes,
considerations, the increasing and un
necessary surplus of national incom,
annually accumulating, be released K
the people, by an amendment to ou
own revenue laws, which shall cheaper
the price o. the necessaries of life anC
give free entrance to such imported ma
terials as by American labor may b.
manufactured into marketable cOmmod
tiles. Nothing can be accomplished
however, in the direction of this much
needed reform, unless the subject is ap
preached in patriotic spirit of devotion
to the interests of the entire country ant
with a willingness to yield sometime
for the public good
While on the subject of tariff anc
revenue, the President especially direct
the attention of Congress to the recon
mendatiOn of the Secretary of the Treas
ury touching the simplifcation ant
! amendment of the laws relating to th
collection of revenues.
In Lyons county, Ken, a few day
: ago, Sheriff Boyd and a posse attempted {
arrest William and John Morrison for
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