Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-04

ct the present stage of our progress, how the
 bond of the government made with the peo-
 pie has been kept and performed. Instead
 of limiting the tribute drawn from our citi-
 zens to the necessities of it's economical ad-
 ministration, the government persists in ex- acting from the substance Of the people
 millions which, unavailed and useless, lie
 dormant in its treasury. This fragrant in
 justice and this breach of faith and obIigs-
 tion add to extortion the danger attending
 from the legitimate channels of business
 Under the same laws by which these results
 are produced the government permits many
 millions more to be added to the cost of liv.
 ing of our people and to be taken from our
 consumers, which unreasonabIy swell the
 profits Of small but powerful minority.
 The people must still be taxed for the sup
 port of the government under the operation
 of tariff law, but to the extent that the mass
 of our citizens are inordinately burdened bes,
 yond any~useful publ1ce purpose and for the
 benefit of favored few, the government un-
 der pretext of an exercise of it's taxing power
 enters gratuitously into partnership with
 these favorites to their advantage and to the injury of vast majority of onr people.
 OPPRESSIVE LAWS.
 This is not equality before the law; the existing situation is injurious to the health of our whole body polite. It stifies in those for whose benefit it is permitted all patriotic love of country and substitutes i'm it's place selfish greed and grasping avsrice. Devotion to American citizenship for its own sake and for what it should accomplish as motive to our nations advancement and the happi- ness of all our people, is displaced by the assumption that the government, instead of being the embodiment of equality, is but an instrumentality through which especial and individual advantages are to be gained. The arrogance of this assumption is unconcealed It appears in the sordid disregard of all but personal interests in the refusal to abate for the benefit of others one iota of selfish advan- tage through efforts to control legislation and improperly influence the suffrage of the people. The grievances of those not includ- ed within the circles of these benefciaries when fully realizsd will surely arouse irritation and discomfort. Our farmers long suffering and patient struggling in she race of life with the hardest and $unremit- ting toll will not fail to see in spite of mis- and misleading fallacies that they are obliged to accept such prices for their products as are fixed in foreign markets where they compete with the farmers of the world; that their lands are decling in value, while their debts increase; and that without compensating fa- vor they are forced by the action of the gov ernment to pay, for the benefit of others, such enhanced prices for the things they need that the scanty returns of their labor tail to furnish their support or leave no mar gin for accumulation.
 Our workingmen, enfranchised from all delasions and no longer frightened by the cry that their wages are endangered by just revision of our tariff laws, will reasonably demand through such revision steadier em- ployment. cheaper means of living in their homes, freedom for themselves and their children from the doom of perpetual servi- tude and an open door to their advancement beyond the limits of laboring class; others | of our citizens whose comforts and expendi- | lures are measured by moderate salaries and fixed incomes will insist upon the fairness and justice of eheapening the cost of neoes- saries for themselves and their families. When to the sel6shness of the benefciaries ! of unjust discrimination under our laws | there shall be added the discontent of those | who suffer from such discrimination we will | realize the fact that the benefcent purposes | of ouI government, dependent upon the pas ,riotism and contentment of our people are | Communism is hateful thing \ md menace to peace and organized govern \ nent; but the communism of combined caps tai and wealth, the outgrowth of over-ween- | ng cupidity and sslfshness which insidiously | lndermines the justice and integrity of free \ institutions, is not less dangerous than the \ of oppressed poverty and toll, | which, exasperated by injustice and discon- ent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel | ,f rule. He mocks the people who proposes | hat the government shall protect the rich, | and that they in turn will care for the labor- | ng poor. Any intermediary between the | people and their government, or the least | delegation of the care and protection the \ government owes to the humblest citizen in \ he land makes the boast of free institutions \ glittering delusion and the pretended boon | # American citizenship shameless imposi- ion.