The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-14

asst platform. Endorsed at the ballot box by the
suffrages of the people. OF all the industrious
freemen of the land, an immense majority, in
cluding every filler of the soil, gain no advan-
tage from excessive tax laws; but the price of
nearly everything they buy is Increased by the
favoriG.sm of an unequal system of tax legis-
lation.
All unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation.
1t is repugrant to the creed of Democracy that
by such taxation the cost of the necessaEies of
life should be unjustiGably increased to all our
people. Judged by Democratic principles. the
interest of the people are betrayed when. by
unnecessary taxation, trusts and combinations
are permitted and fostered. which, while en-
riching the few. combine to rob our citizens by
depriving them of tue benefit of natural com
petition. Every Democratic rule of govern
mental action is violated when. tn ough unnec-
essary taxation. a vast sum of money. far be-
yond the needs of an economical adminislra-
tion. is drawn from the people and the chan
nels of trade, and accumulated q denoraliz-
ing surplus in the National Treasury. The
money now lying idle in the Federal Treasury,
resulting from superfiuous taxation. amounts
to more than $32s 900 900. and the surplus col
lected is reaching the sum of mora than $50.
00O 600 annually. Debauched by this immense
temptation the remedy of the Republican party
| is to meet and exhaust by extravagant appro-
priations and expenses, whether constitutions
| OF not. the accumulation of extravagant taxa
ton. The Democratic remedy is to enforce
| frugality in public expenditures. and abolish
| un oecessary taxation Our established domes-
| tic industries and enterprises should not and
need not be endangered by a reduction and
| correction of the burdens of taxation. On the
| contrary, fair ana careful revision of our ta1
laws. with due allowance for the differ ence
between the wages of American and foreign
labor must promote and encourage every
branch of such industries and enterprises. by
| giving them assurance of an extended market
| and steady and continuous operations.
In the interest of American labor, which
should in no event he neglected, the revision
our tax laws contemplated by the Democra' il
party, tend to promote the advantage of suci
labor bv cheapening the cost Of necessaries G
life in the home of every workingman. and u
the same time securing to him steady and re
munerative employment. Upon this question
of tariff reform closely concerning ever.
phase of our national life. and upon ever!
question involved in the problem of good gov
ernment, the Democratic party submits it
principles and professions to the in'elligen
suffrages of the American people.
Hon. PATRICK A. COLLINS, VIII
was the presiding officer of the 81
Louis convention, in former years we
an Ohio man, having been brought u
in Cuyahoga county. He is recogniz
ed as the foremost American of Irisl
birth and lineage.
! THE New York Star MARBLES
: Listen to the loud hosannes,
, See the fluttering bandanas y
1T is hardly expected that the Re
publican papers will continue thei
, complimentary illusions to the sol
Roman"
a MoNoPoLIEs and Trusts are not i
the line of the Cleveland and THU
r man boom.