Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-21
wCLHVELAND'S LETTER.
His Opinions on Federal Taxation
and the Surplus Revenue.
He IS NOT FOR FREE TARIFF.

Adjustment of the Revenue Law to En-
courage Employers of Domestic Labor
Comments of the Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The following is
the presidents letter of acceptance:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 1883.
To Hon Patrick A. Collins and others,
committee, etc.
Gentlemen: In addressing to you my for
NAL acceptance of the nomination to the
presidency of the United States, my thoughts
personally dwell upon the impressive relation
of such action to the American people, whose
confidence is thus invited, and to the political
party to which l belong, just entering upon a
contest for continued supremacy.
The world does not afford a spectacle more
sublime than is furnished when millions of
free and intelligent American citizens select
their chief magistrate, and bis one of their
number to find the highest earthly honor and
the full measure Of public duty in ready sub
mission to their will 1t follows that a can
didate for this high Office can never forget
that when the turmoil and the strife which
attend the selection of its incumbent shall be
heard no more, there must be in the quiet
calm which follows a complete and solemn
self-consecration by the people-chosen presi-
dent of every faculty and endeavor to the
service of a confiding and generous nation of
free men
These thoughts are intensified by the light of
my experience in the presidential office,
which has soberly impressed me with the sew
eral responsibilities which it imposes, while
It has quickened my love for American insti-
tutions and taught me the priceless value of
the trust Of my countrymen. 1t is of the
highest Importance that those who administer
our government should jealousy protect and
maintain the rights of American citizens at
horne and abroad, and should strive to
achieve for our country her proper place
among the nations of the earth; but there is
no people whose home interests are 50 great,
and whose numerous objects Of domestic
concern deserves so much watchfulness and
care.
Among these are the regulation Of a sound
financial system suited to our needs, thus
securing an efficient agency of national
wealth and general prosperity, the construc-
ton and equipment of means of defense, to
insure our national safety and maintain the
honor beneath which such national safety re-
poses the protection of our national domain,
still stretching beyond the needs
of a century's expansion, and its preser-
walton for the settler and the
pioneer of our marvellous growth; a severe
and sincere recognition of the value of Amer
lean labor; leading to the scrupulous care
and just appreciation of the interests of our
working men; the limitation and checking of
such monopolistic tendencies and schemes as
interfere with the advantage 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 such as have died, to the end that,
while the appreciation of their services and
sacrifices is quickened, the application of
their pension fund to improper cases may be
prevented; protection against a seryile inn
migration, which injuriously completes with
our laboring men in the field of toll. and add
to our population an element ignorant of our
institutions and laws, impossible of assimila-
ton whit our people and dangerous to our
peace and welfare; a strict and stedfast ad-
herene to the principals of civil service re-
form and a thorough execution of the laws
passed for their enforcement, thus permitting
to our people the advantages of business
methods in the operation OF their govern
ment; the guaranty to our colored citizens of
oil their rights Of citizenship and their just
recognition and encouragement III all things
pertaining to that relation; a firm, patient
and humane Indian policy, so that in peace
full relations with the government the civil
zation of the Indians may be promoted with
resulting quiet and safety to the settlers on
our frontiers; and the curtailment Of public
expense by the introduction of economical
methods in every department of the govern
ment
The pledges contained in the platform
adopted by the late convention of the national
democracy 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 has
been done in the direction of good govern
ment by the present administration and sub
hitting ITS record to the fair inspection of
my countrymen, l indorse the platform thus
presented, with the determination that if
am again called to the chief magistracy, there
shall be a continuance of devoted endeavor to
advance the interests of the entire country.
Federal Taxation
Our scale Of federal taxation and its conse-
quences largely engross at this time the at
tention of our citizens and the people are
soberly considering the necessity of measures
of relief.
ouT government II Nv Itdlipn IN IIt w
pie, established to carry out their designs and
accomplish their good. 1t was founded on
justice, and was mad for a free, intelligent
and virtuous people. 1t is only useful when
within their control, and only serves them
well when regulated and guided by their
constant touch. 1t is a free government be
cause it guarantees to every American citi-
zen the unrestricted personal use and enjoy
ment of all the reward of his toll and
Of all his income, except wat may
be his fair contribution to necessary
public expense. Therefore it is not only the
right, but the duty of a free people, in the
enforcement of this guaranty to insist that
such expense should be strictly limited to the
actual public needs. 1t seems perfectly clear
that when the government, this instrumental
ity created and maintained by the people toe
their bidding, turns upon them, and through
another perversion OF its powers, EFFORTS
from their labor and capital tribute largely
in excess of public necessity, the creature has
rebelled against the creator and the masters
are robbed by their servants. Tn cost OF
the government must continue to be met by