Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. HIS HARDY ACCEPTANCE The President Writes a Long
 Letter. PR0TEeTI0Nvs. FREE TRADE The issue Defined: More
 Sharply. SOME PRESS COMMENT. The State Election in Maine
 To-Day.

1 Principal Attenti0n-He Says Little I About Free Trade-ssThe Tariff is .
 Tax"-Trusts Denouneed-He is Bit
 serly opposed to the Protective sys I tenn.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The following is
 the full text of the Presidents letter of accep- tance:
 ! WASHINGTON, D. O., September 8, 1888. l To Hon. Patrick A. Collins and others, com Gentlemen-In addressing to you my for ! nal acceptance of the nomination to the presidency of the United States, my thoughts | persistenty dwell upon the impressive rels. tion of such action to the American people, whose confidence is thus invited, and to the political party to which belong, just enter | ing upon 6 contest for continued supremacy. The world does not afford 8 spectacle more
 sublime than is furnished when millions of
 free and intelligent American citizens select \ their chief magistrate, and bid one of their number to find the highest courtly honor and the full measure of public duty in ready sub mission to their will. It follows that 8 can- didatr for this high office can never forget that when the turmoil and the strife that at \ tend the selection of it's incumbent shall be
 heard no more, there must be in the quiet | calm which follows, complete and solemn self consecration by the peoples chosen pres ident of every faculty and endeavor to the service of 6 confding and generous nation of faeemen. These thoughts are intensified by the light of my experience in the presiden-
 tial office, which has soberly impressed me with the severe responsibilities which it in- poses, while it has quiekened my love for American institutions and taught me the priceless value of the trust of my country men.
 It is of the highest importance that those | who administer our government should jeal- ously maintain the rights of American citi- zens at home and abroad and should strive to achieve for our country proper place among | the nations of the earth. But there is no people whose home interests are so great and | whose numerous objects of domestic concern deserve much watchfulness and care. FUNCTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
 | Among these are the regulation of a sound financial system suited to needs, thus seeur- \ ing and an efficient agency of national wealth and general prosperity; the construction and \ equipment of means of defense to insure our | national safety and maintain the honor be- | heath which such national safety reposes; the protection of our national domain, still \ stretching beyond the needs of a centuIy's ! expansion, and its preservation for the \ settler and the pioneer of our mar recognition of the value of American labor; K leading to the scrupulous care and just ap- preciation of the interests of our working men; the limitation and checking of such monopolistic tendencies and schemes as inc | terfere with the advantages and benefits which the people may rightly claim; a gen. erous regard and care for our surviving soldiers and sailors and for the widows and ' orphans of those who have died, to the end that while the appreciation of their services and sacrifices is quickened, the application of their pension funds to improper cases may be prevented; protection against servi1e immi- grafton, which injuriously competes with our \ laborinRmen in the field of toll, and adds to our population an element ignorant of our X institutions and laws, impossible to assimila- peace and welfare; strict and stead fast adherence to the principles of civil service reform and thorough exe- cution of the laws passed for their en- ! forcement, thus permitting to our people the advantages of business methods in the oper- ation of our government; the guaranty to our colored citizens of all their rights of citizen | ship and their just recognition and encour- sgemsnt in all things pertaining to that re- 1ationship; . firm, patient and humane h. dian policy, so that in peaceful relations with the government the civilization of the Indian may be promoted with resulting quiet and safety to the settlers on our frontiers, ' and the curtailment sf public expenses by ! the introduction of economical methods in every department of the government.
 The pledges contained in the platform adopted by the late convention of the Nation al Dsmocrstic party lead to the advancement of these objects and insure good government ! the aspiration of every true American citizen
 and the motive for every patriotic action and effort. In the consciousness that much hes been done in the direction of good government by | the present administration and submitting | its record to the fair inspection of my coun- \ trymen, I indorse the platform thus present. | ed, with the determination that if I am | again called to the chief magistracy there shall be Q continuance of devoted endeavor | to advance the interests of inc entire country | TAXATION.
 Our scale of federal taxation and it's conse- | quences largely engross at this time the at fl tention of our citizens and the people are | seberly considering the necessity of measures
 of relief. Our government is the creation of the people established to carry out their de- signs and accomplish their good. It was founded on justice and wes made for . free, intelligent and virtuous people. It is | only useful when within their control and only serves them we'll when regulated and guided by their constant touch. It is free government because 1t guarantees to every American citizen the unrestricted personal use and enjoyment of all the reward of his toll and of ell his income except what may be his fair contribution to necessary public ex- penses; therefore it is not only the right but
 the duty of fred people in the enforcement of this guaranty to insist that such expense
 should be strictly limited to the actual public
 needs. It seems perfectly clear that when the government, this instrumentality created and maintained by the people to do their
 bidding, turns upon them and through an utter perversion of it's powers extorts from their labor and capital tribute largely in ex-
 cess of public necessities the creature has re-
 belled against the creator and the masters are
 robbed by their servants.
 DEMOCRATIC DoGMAs, "THE CONDITION" ETC.
 The cost of the government must continue to be met by tariff duties collected at our cus- tom houses upon imported goods and by in-
 ternal revenue taxes assessed upon spurious and malt Hquors, tobacco and oleomagarine. | suppose it is needless to explain that all
 these duties and assessments are added to the price of the articles upon which they are
 levied and thus become tax upon all those who buy these articles for use or consump-
 tion. I suppose, too, 1t IS well understood that the effect of this tariff taxation is not limited to the consumers of imported arti-
 cles, but that the duties imposed upon such articles permit a corresponding increase in price to be laid upon domestic productions
 of the same kind, which increase constitutes
 form of taxatienIas certain and inevitable as
 though the amount was annually paid into the hands of the tax -gatherer. These results are inseparable from the plan we have adopt ! ed for the collection of our revenue by tariff duties. They are not mentioned to
 discredit the system, but by way of preface to the statement that every million or ool- ! lars collected at our custom houses for duties on imported articles and paid into the public treasury represent many millions more
 which, though never reaching the national treasury, are paid by our citizens es the in
 creased cost of domestic productions re
 sulting from our tariff laws. In these cir
 l cumstances and in view of this necessary ef
 feet of the operation of our plan of raising
 revenue, the absolute duty of limiting tht
 rate of tariff charges to the necessities of fru
 gal and economical administration of th,
 government seems to be perfectly plain. Int
 continuance, upon pretext of meeting pub ? lie expenditures, of such scale of tariff tax ation as draws from the substance of th
 people a sum largely in excess ot publi
 needs is surely something which . govern
 fnsnt based upon justice, -afd which finds it
 strength and unsel6hness in the faith and trus
 of the people ought not to be tolerated
 Whifs the heaviest burdens incident to tn
 necessities of the government are uncomplain
 ingly borne, light burdens become grievou