Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
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BY THESE YE SHALL BE JUDGED
LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE LEAD
ERS OF THE TWO GREAT PARTIES.
PRESIDENT CLEvELANDs LETTER.
WASHINGTON, September 8, 1888

NV thoughts are persistently upon the i'm
pressive relation of such action to the
American people, whose confidence is thus
invited, and to the political party to which
I belong, just entering upon contest Tor
continued supremacy. The world does not
afford a spectacle more sublime than is
furnished when millions of free and intel
lipent American citizens select their Chief
Magistrate. and bid one Of their NUMBER
to find the highest earthly honor and the
full measure of public duty in ready sub
mission to their will.
It follows that candidate for this high
Office can never forget that when the tur-
moil and strife which attend the selectlon
of its incumbent shall be heard no more,
theSaf lust be in the quiet calm which
Nmplete and solemn self-consecra,.
Q peoples chosen President OF
" and endeavor to the service
and generous nation OF free-
thoughts are intensified by
my experience In the Presl-
:, which has soberly impress
-efsn. h the severe responsibilities
which it imposes, while it has qulckened
nv love for American institutions and
taught me the priceless value OF the trust
of my countrymen.
It is of the highest importance that those
who administer our government should
iealously protect and maintain the rlgnts
of American citizens at home and ABROAD
and should strive to achieve for our coun.
trv her 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 de-
serve so much watchfulness and care.
Among these are the regulation OF
sound financial system suited to our needs,
thus securing the efficient agency OF ma
tional wealth and general prosperity the
construction and equipment of means OF
defence to insure our national safety and
maintain the honor beneath which such
national safety reposes the protectlon OF
our national domain, still stretching be-
yond the needs of century's expansion,
and its preservation for the settler anu
pioneer of our marvellous growth; SEN
sible and sincere recognition OF the value
of American labor, leading to scrupulous
care and just appreciation of the interests
of our Workingmen; the checking of such
monopolistic tendencies and schemes as
interfere with the advantages and Dement'S
which the people may rightly claim
generous regard and care for our survlv-
Ing soldiers and sailors, apd for the widows
and orphans of such as have died, to the
end that while appreciation of their SER
vices and sacrifices is quickened, the appll-
cation of their pension fund to improper
cases may prevented protection against
servile immigration, which lnJurlously
competes with our laboring men IN the
field of toll, and adds to our population an
element ignorant of our institutions ana
laws. impossible of assimilation with our
people, and dangerous to our peace ana
welfare; strict and steadfast adherence
to the principles ofcivil service reform and
the 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 all their rights of citizenship and their
lust recognition and encouragement in all
things pertaining to that relation a firm,
patient and humane Indian policy so that
in peaceful relations with the Government
the civilization of the Indians may be
promoted with resulting quiet and safety
to settlers on our frontiers, and the curtall-
ment of public expenditures by the intro
duction of economical methods IN every
department of the Government.
The pledges contained in the platform
adopted by the late Convention of the
National Democracy lead to the advance
ment of these objects and insure good gov
ernment-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 government
bv the present Administration and sub
mitting its record to the fair inspection OF
my countrymen, / endorse the platform
thus presented, with the determination that
if I am again called to the chief magistra,
cy there Shall be continuance of devoted
endeavor to advance the interests OF the
entire country.
Our scale of internal taxation and its
consequences, largely engross, at this time,
the attention of our citizens, and our peo-
pie are soberly considering the necessity OF
measures of relief Our government is
the creation of the people, established to
carry out their designs and accomplish
their good. 1t was founded on justice and
was made for free, intelligent and virtu-
Gus people. 1t is only useful when within
their control, and only serves them we'll
when regulated and guided by their con-
stant touch. It is a free Government, be-
cause it guarantees to every American cit
izen the unrestricted personal use and en-
joyment of all the reward of his toll and
of all his income, except what may be his
fair contribution to necessary public eX-
but the duty of free people, in the en-
forcement of this guarantee, to insist that
such expense should be strictly limited to
the actual public needs. 1t seems perfect
ly clear that when the Government this
instrumentality created and maintained
by the people to do their bidding, turns
upon them. and through an utter perver-
sion of its powers, eXtorts from their labor
and capital tribute largely in excess OF
public necessities, the creature has rebelled
against the creator, and the masters are
robbed by theirservants.
The cost Of government must continue to
bemet by tariff duties collected at our Gus
tom houses upon imported goods, and by
internal revenue taxes assessed upon splr-
ituous and malt liquors, tobacco and oleo-
margarine.
I suppose it is needless to explain that
all these duties and assessments are added
to the price of the articles upon which
they were levied, and thus become tax
upon all those who buy these articles for
use and consumption. suppose, too, that
it is we'll understood that the effect of this
tariff taxation is not limited to consumers
of imported articles, but that the duties
imposed on such articles permit CORES
ponding increase in price to be laid upon
domestic productions of the same kind,
which increase, paid by all our people as
consumers of home productions and enter
ing every American home, constitute a
form of taxation as certain and inevitable
as though the amount was annually paid
into the hand of the tx gatherer.
These results are inseparable from the
plan we have adopted for the collection OF
our revenue by tariff duties. They are
not mentioned to discredit the system, put
by way Of preface to the statement that