Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-13

peace, but little less while upon
some articles of necessary consump-
ton it is actually more than was i'm
posed by the grievous burden will |
ingly borne at a time when the gov
eminent needed millions of dollars |
to maintain by war the safety of the |
Union.
1t has been the policy of the gov
eminent to collect the principal part
of its revenue by tax upon imports,
and no change in this policy is de-
sirable if the present condition of af-
fairs constrains our people to demand
that by revision of our revenue
laws the receipts of the government
shall be reduced to the necessary ex-
pense of its economical administra-
ton; and this demand should be
recognized and obeyed by the peo-
pies representatives in the legisla-
tive branch of the government.
In readjusting the burden of fed
eral taxation, a sound public policy
requires that such of our citizens as
have built up large and important in
dustries under present conditions
should not be suddenly, and to their
injury, deprived of advantages to
which they have adapted their bust
ness; but If the public good requires
it, they should be content with such
consideration as shall deal fairly and
cautiously with these interests, while
the just demand of the people for
relief from needless taxation is hon.
estly answered.
A reasonable and timely submits
sion to such a demand should GER
tainly be possible without disastrous
shock to any interest, and cheerful
concession sometimes averts abrupt
action, often the outgrowth of impa-
thence and delayed justice.
LABOR.
This relation of the workingman TO
the revenue laws, and the manner in
which it palpably influences the ques-
ton of wages. should not be forgot
ten in the justifiable prominence CIV
en- to the proper maintenance of the
supply and protection of we'll paid
labor And these considerations
suggest such an arrangement of gov
eminent revenues as shall reduce the
expense of living while it does not
curtail the opportunity for work, nor
reduce the compensation of Ameri-
can labor and injuriously affect its
condition and the dignified place it
holds in the estimation of the people.
But our farmers and agriculturists
those who, from the soil, produce
things consumed by all-are perhaps
more plainly concerned than any 9TH
er of our citizens in a just and care
full system of federal taxation. Those
actually engaged in, and more re-
motley connected with this kind of
work, number nearly one half of oul
population. None labor harder OF
more continuously than they. Nc
enactments tighten their hours and
no lnterposition of the government
enhances the value of their products
And yet, for many of the necessaries
and comforts of life, which the most
scrupulous economy enables them te
bring into their homes, and for theil
implements of hushandry. they ars
obliged to pay price largely increas.
ed by an unnatural profit which, by
the exaction of the government, is
given to the more favored manufac
turer.
THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Less space is devoted to the silver
question this year than last, but hi:
opposition to compulsory coinage il
unmodified. The diffele nce in thu
bullion price of the standard dollar
94H cents-when first coined and it.
bullion value-79 cents-on the 30tl
of last November, certainly does no
indicate, he says, that compulsor,
coinage by the government enhances
the price of that commodity or Sc
cures uniformity in its value. He ha
seen no reason to change the view
expressed year ago on the subject O
compulsory coinage and again urge
its suspension on all the grounds con
tanned in his former recommends
tons, reinforced by the increase o
our gold expectations during the pas
year, and for further reasons that tn
!, more this currency is distributed, tn
greater becomes the duty to protec
; it; than we now have an abundanc
t for all our needs and that there seem
but little propriety in building vault
! to store such currency, when the onl
pretense for its coinage is the neces
t sity of its use by the people as a Gil
) culating medium.
: PENSIONS.
every patriotic heart,' he says
t "responds to tender considerable
for those who having served the
. country long and well, are reduce
e to restitution and dependence, NJ
: as an incident of their service. bl
e with advancing age or misfortune
t We are all tempted by the conten
i plation of such condition to suppl
: relief, and are often impatient of tt
: limitations Of public duty. Yieldin
a to no one in the desire to indulge th
feeling of consideration, I came
e | rid myself of the conviction that