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a great deal of claptrap is written and
talked about the burden of taxation" and
the eyes of the people are kept constantly
directed to the General Government as the
source whence relief must be expected.
This is false and misleading. Almost the
entire burden Of taxation everywhere is
strictly local. and there is where relief must
come in if anywhere.
The taxes levied by the General Govern
ment and by those of the States are almost
nominal, and are scarcely felt by any one
except the comparatively few, such as brew
ers, distillers and saloon keepers, who pay
special taxes. In some States, like Massa-
chusetts and Michigan, the taxation hardly
amounts to more than two cents on 500 of
the real valutiOn of the property. In no
State of the North, except Nebraska and
Nevada does the rate exceed 40 cents on
500 of assessed valuation, which makes an
average rate of much less than 10 cents on
the real value.
This provides for all the expenses of the
State Government, salaries of officials, main
tenance of punitory and benevolent institu-
tons, schools, interest on debt, etc.
The great bulk of the burden of taxation
which every man bears, comes from strictly
local levies by his County, Township and
Municipal Governments to meet the expense
of building cOurthOuses, jails, infrmaries
constructing bridges, streets, roads, water.
works, supporting the poor, and so on.
This is especially true in the young and
growing communities west of the AIleganies
Very many have burdened themselves even
to bankruptcy in an ambitious endeayor tc
give themselves all the appurtenances and
conyeniences Of older communities.
Let any man who is troubled IN regard tC
this problem, prepare his mind for its con.
sideration by an examination of the items
in his last tax receipt He viii find that il
the whole amount of taxes paid his State
and those paid the United States were taken
off his shoulders, it would bring him very
little relief.
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THE WAY TO GET CuRA.

All Americans desire to have Cuba. We
should have the island if for no other rea-
son than to give US command of the Gulf of
Mexico, protect our growing commerce with
South America, and impregnably shield
our southern coast from ravages by hostile
fleets. Cuba is necessary to the security of
the immense Mississippi Valley.
The best way to get Cuba is to raise our
own sugar. The only value of that island
to Spain is as means of drawing from us
an annual tribute of $75,00O0OO In effect,
the palace ring at Madrid has a colony of
100000 serls there, engaged in raising SUI
gar for the United States. The actual rails
ers of the sugar get but little more than
viii keep them alive, and the remainder of
the vast sum goes to stuff the pockets of the
ring and its fayorites. Hordes of these lat
ter are sent out to Cuba to fill the fat offices
there for few years, and return to Spain
wealthy grandees.
Every money making position is carefully
reserved for these favorites and that is what
irritates the native Cubans into making des-
perate attempts to secure the independence
of the island.
five should follow the example of Euro
pean nations and raise our own sugar the
value of Cuba to Spain would be destroyed
at once, and she would be glad to let us
have the island on very reasonable terms
Fully 50 per cent Of the sugar raised there
is now exported to the United States. For
merly from Is to 20 per cent. was sent to
England, but the German beet sugar has
driven il out of that market. In 1879 Eng
land imported ST., 498,82O worth of Cuban
sugar. Six years later this had fallen to
! 81, 400 100, or about one-ffth, the remaining
four-fifths being bought from Germany.
We are consequently the only customer
the Dons now have and they will be in 6
bad way if we attend to our manifest duty
1 Of turning the millions we have been pay.
/ ing them into the pockets of our own farm
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Hon Melbourne II. Ford, Representative Tor tha
Flfth Michigan District in Congress, was a Mid
shipman in the Navy during che latter part Of the
war, and learned his seagnanship from Rear-Atrni-
raj Chen Captain} stephen b. Luce. who f. ma
great authority upon that subiecs SIR Ford Is
Chairman Of the Congressional Committee that Il
now IN New York investigating the subject Of pau
per and criminal immigration.
Naj-Geo. Robert @. scheuck, ex- Minister 70 Eng
land Is spending the Summer at YORK Harbar. on
the 9l"ine Coast, close BY the New Hampshirs Iins
The Oakland (STd.) Rspt.5liean Of a recent date
notices the improved health OF the gallant old vet
cram, Gen Benjamin F. Kelley. who is spending
the Summer at the Glades Hotel with his charming
wife and family. This VIII be good news to the
old hero's many friends.
Gen. Clinton b Fisk, the Prohibition candidate
for President has come out squarey for protection.
Hon. r. W. Townshend. Chairman Of the Mill
tary Committee, says that the bill to erect statue
OF Gen Hancock In Washington VIII be reDored %
the House favorabIy this session.
Comrade J. J. Bowen Salem, No, sends uz a
neat pamphlet containing the admirable grafton
delivered by Prof II. @. Long at salem lass
Memorial Day AZ the services conducted At that
place by Salem Post No. 12s, Departments Of Mis-
souri,, GAR Il is one Of the best addresses We
have read, and comrades who desire a COPY uighs
send to Comrade Bowen for one.
Hon. John 7. Stone, OF Council Bluffs. Iowa "a =
prominent candidate for Attorney General Of thu
State Of Iowa on the Republican ticket He enlist
ed IN Co F. 18th Iowa. in October, 1851, and served
In the ranks for over year, passing through Ihs
non-conmlssioned grades TO Second Lieutenantcy
Of his company, and was made an Aid on the stlfT
Of Gen. Beikuap, showing conspicuous gsllantry
on many battiefelds. After the war he entered tha
field OF politics, was elected to the state Leeisa-
ture, and was twice elected to the Speakership q
that body. He IS now a prominent lawyer Of Coun-
ell Bluffs, and should he receive the nomination
would make a splendid officer.
Gen. Ayers family have gone to Narraganssts
Pier.
Sophia Jane Richardson, 3th Pa Reserves
Daughter Of the Regiment, 1884, This Inscription
upon gold medal worn by a PitEsburg girl means
she was the regiments war baby and was born
IN camp Jan. a. 1854
Mrs. z Florence Barker, who Is second to no
other woman IN the country in the amount Of good
and effective labor she has performed in building
up the Womans Relief Corps and caring for the
veterans in other ways, has gone with her husband
Col Barker, to spend August in a pleasant retreat
at Bar HaFbor.
Hiram Smith, jr., Commander Department. OF
Missouri, has been confined to his bed with rheu-
matte fever. He is now much improved, bat IN
able to leave his room.
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CAPT. J. G. BURROWS, of Michigan, is a
persistent thorn in the side of the soldier
haters in the House of Representatives. He
wants a day set apart for the consideration
of general pension legislation, and ne is
determined to have it. Owing to the atti-
tude of Speaker Carlisle and the controlling
portion of the Committee on Rules it has
been impossible to secure this, because they
will not give the House chance to vote
upon the proposition to fix day for this
business. OF course there is always some
soldier-hater ready to object to any arrange
ment for the purpose of considering pen
sion legislation. Capt Burrows awhile
ago decided to fight the enemy with his own
weapons, and he has been steadily Directing
to any motion to alIot day for any pur-
pose unless the consideration of pension leg
islation is included. This has proved fatal
to a number of pleasant little schemes of
soldier-haters, and they are in state of
mind over it. They have expOstulated with
him and piled him with entreaties, but he
remains obdurate. He will object just as
long as they do, and they must come to his
terms, or no committee viii get a day for its
pet measures again this session.
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TO BEGIN NEXT MONTH.

We have decided that We viii begin next
month the great story Of Col. Thomas ".
Knox, previously announced, which we are
sure every one Of our readers VIII find of
SURPRISING interest. Col Knox, who is the
most successful writer Of boy stories in the
world, says Of it: I would be unwilling to
say it is the best story ever wrote, but I
am sure I have never written better one"
It's narrative of true occurrences and
thrilling incidents, told in the happiest
manner. Every member of the family viii
be deeply interested in it
Do not fail TO renew your subscriptions
promptly. for you cannot afford to miss the
opening chapters.
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the enterprise to make the long journey to
our shores. So, when they came, they were
at once assimiIated by us, and became among
the best of our citizens
Now everything is different. Great steam
ship lines have made the voyage across the
Atlantic hardly more than a trip on ferry
boat. Europe is relatively nearer us than
Counties in the same State were 30 years
ago. These lazzaroni are brought from Italy
| to New York for about what first class ticket
from New York to Buffalo costs. Where
formerly the immigration consisted Of whole
families of skiIlfuI artizans or thrifty farm
ers, leaving lands of which they had been
valuable citizens to make their homes in one
which offered them much larger opportuni-
ties it is now largely made up of the refuse
of communities, caught in the drag-n of
some sharp contractor, and brought across
the ocean at from Sc to $13 head
We did well when we prohibited Chinese
immigration. We should go farther, and at
once, and put an effectual stop to our coun-
try being made the dumping ground for the
ignorance, the filth and the vice of Europe.
Heaven knows we have enough of our own
poor, ignorant and vicious to provide for,
! educate and reform.
We want our land, our resources, our
wages and employment for our own people
for our own sons and daughters. We did
not struggle to build up this country, we
did not fight terrible war to preserve it
from destruction in order to make it a good
feeding-ground for Iocust-like swarms OF
Bohemians, Poles Italians and such. We
labored, suffered, dared and fought to make
it home for ourselves and heritage for our
children, and it is but just to ourselves and
to our descendants that we keep it for our
selves and them.
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AN attempt is now being made to show
that the rise in sugar is due to the machina-
tions of the Sugar Trust. This is not at all
true. The rise is due to the fact that few
years ago Germany, in her desire to control
the sugar market of Europe, went too far
and pushed her sugars into the English
market at prices which broke down the
Spanish producers. She saw her mistake,
curtailed her production, and as conse-
quence sugar is going up. We do not doubt
that the Sugar Trust would be only too glad
to enhance the price of sugar if it could, but
that is beyond its power. The price is
regulated by things outside. of its control.
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THE COUNTRY CANNOT DO TOO MUCH.
The fears of some gentlemen that the
country is in danger of doing too much for
the veterans is absurd.
If every dollar that is now stored up in
the Treasury were distributed among the
veterans and heirdependent ones, and every
dollar of the surplus revenue was paid ont in
pensions, il would still be but small return to
the veterans for what they did for the coun-
try, and the sacrifices they made for her. All
this money would not repay them even for
the wages and the money-making opportuni-
ties they sacrifced-tO say nothing of more
important considerations-to save her from
destruction.
Every man who enlisted and shouldered
his musket made an actual donation of
money to the Government, which was greater
in proportion to his means than a donation
Of 100000 would be to one of our millions
Of rich men. If he was a fairly skilled me-
chanic he was receiving from 81 to 81 a
day, which maintained him in comfort and
surrounded him with his family and friends.
As the war progressed wages increased, I'M
til they finally became double what they
were when Fort Sumter was fred on. TAX
ing the lowest rates a day-and the great
mass of them received more than this-he
got $50 a month. He gave this up in order
to accept S13a month from the Government.
Adding IN his rations and clothes at what the
Government valued them, he still only got
about $3.50 a month, 50 that he absolutely
gave the Government for the privilege OF
helping it out of its distress at least $3.50 a
month, OF nearly two-thirds of his property.
His donation was in one sense as great as
where a man worth 100000 gave 100000 OF
1t to the Government. If he served three
years he actually gavethe Government 81 $50
In wages. This is the lowest estimate that
can be made. OF course a farmer or any
other competent man gave up just as much
/ if not more-than a mechanic Now, as
there were 232O,272 men who served
an average Of three years, it is clear
that the men who fought the battles OF
the country actually donated to her in sac
riiced wages the enormous sum of 1882
So, 200, or more than four times as much as
the entire sum that has been paid for pensions
since 1861
We have left out of the calculation the
fact that the money in which the soldiers
were paid rapidly deprecated, until instead
of receiving S13 month, the soldier re-
ceived in actual value less than Sc. Taking
this into account it would swell the total up
beyond $4,000, 900, OOO or almost tfUs times the
amount paid for pensions!
These are facts which everybody can IN
derstand, and nobody can deny.
In the face of them how preposterous it is
to talk of over-paying the veterans!
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-08-02

SOME indication of how the free wool clause
of the Mills bin viii work may be shown
by the effect of the reduction of two to three
cents pound made by the tariff bin of 1888
The figures wiz interest the American
sheep raiser. In 1882, before the reduction,
we imported 7O,575,OOO pounds. In 1886,
after the reduction, we imported 100000 900
pounds. In the former instance our wool
growers furnished sol per cent of all the
wool we used, while after the reduction q
little less than 20 per cent.
If the slight reduction of 1888 worked 50
clearly to the disadvantage of the American
farmer and therefore to the benefit Of his
foreign competitor, how much win the for
mer be damaged and the latter benefited
by Mr.. Mills's proposition to take the tariff
off and throw the door wide open to the
New Zealander and the Boer of South
African
We shall be glad to give space to Mr..
Mills's answer to the eonundrum.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-08-02
UNDESIRABLE IusuGRANTs.

The Congressional investigation of the
Italian and other immigration is revealing
some startling facts.
A deluge Of ignorant, brutalized lazzaroni
is being poured upon our shores from the
coasts Of the Mediterranean. Thoroughly
yillainous padroai are gathering up and
shipping here the scum of the population
there-the drift-wood and sediment Of cen
turtles of brigandage, piracy and tyrannical
misgoyemment All the vicious elements,
which have been thrown out of their natural
vacations Of brigandage, piracy and snug
Cling by the improvement in the admins
tIation of the law in Italy, have suddenly
set in a strong tide toward our shores.
They do not come as most Of our ilnmi-
grants in the past have come-God- fearing,
law-abiding industrious men and women
who come to make their homes with US and
be a part of US, to work and fight by our
sides for the upbuilding of the Nation. On
the contrary, they know nothing and care
nothing for the United States, except that it
is rich and offers chances for making or
/ getting money. They regard it in the same
light as the caterpillar does green leaf
as something to be devoured If possible for
their own benefit. For its people, its in
stitutions, It's history, its fortune, they care
no more than they do for those of Kam-
schatka. Their only thought is as to what
they can make out Of it. Those Of them
who are really industrious laborers have
been in the habit Of regarding 10 cents a
day as liberal wages. A few years work
here at our wages-they living in the mean
while as meanly and filthy as a Chinese
cooly-wiu give them what they have been
in the habit Of considering fortune They
can 20 back to their own poverty-cursed
land and pose as men Of wealth.
All accounts represent the manner of If
Of these people in New York, Philadelphia;
and elsewhere where they have colonized a,
vile and filthy beyond description. They
sink to a lower depth than any other peopl
who have come to this country in any nun
bers. A nest Of them becomes at once a fou
social ulcer.
The question which every thinking nal
at once asks himself is, Why should W
allow this contamination of our communit,
with the sewage of Southern Europe or O
any part of Europe? Why not make tn
restrictions against immigration much NOR
stringent than they are, so as to shut o.
these streams Of pollution?"
Il 1t is true that it was once our proud boas
that we offered this land as an asylum and
home for the poor and oppressed of al
the nations of the earth" Until recen
years we have had no reason to regret tina
we opened our hOspitable doors to the strug
Cling people Of the world. Our own coun
try was enriched by contributions from th
i best blood of Europe. But the situation ha
greatly changed since then. Then we wer
comparatively difficult of access, and onl
4 those people came TO US who had SINGER
Z love of liberty and our institutions; VIII
desired to share our fortunes. and who ha
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THE RIGHT wAY-

The free-traders hold out great allure
ments of gaining the access to the markets
Of the world for our wooden manufactures
if we will consent to remove the protective
duty on wool If they are so anxious to get
into foreign markets the best way to go
about it would be to follow the example of
other nations in promoting their manufac-
lures, aud make a rebate on exported wooden
manufactures equal to the duty on wool.
This would accomplish the desired result
without destroying our own fOcIys and
herds. But to common-sense people it would
seem that before starting off on a chase for
the elusive markets of the world" we take
care of our own home market. We imported
last year SIG, 351, 80 worth of raw wool, and
$44, 235,243 worth of manufactured wool
$GO,586, 613 in all, which in quantity and value
greatly exceeds any trade we can hope to es-
tablish abroad If, instead of sending that
! $50, $685. 13 across the seas last year, we had
paid it to our people, the country would
have been much richer and times vastly
better.
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THERE is something charmingIy practical
and simple about Haytian politics. Presi-
dent Solomon wants to continue in office, so
he calls up, one after another, the gentle
men who have chance of beating him at
the polls, hands each check for $4,000, and
informs him that if he is found on the island
after certain date he will probably be shot.
The gentleman takes the hint, the money,
and his departure. This is much more eco
nomical than conducting campaign with n
large barl.
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AGAIN come distressing reports of de-
struction by freshets in the Ohio Valley. 1t
is the penalty we are paying for stripping
the mountains of West Virginia of their
natural covering of timber. The evil will
continue and increase from year to year as
those nights become barer. The only remedy
is for the United States to convert the whole
State of West Virginia into National park
and timber preserve. It would pay the Gov
eminent to do this, just as it pays France
and Germany to make great tracts of mount
ain lands into timber farms; but it will not
be done-at least in this generation.
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THE sugar question is of vastly more i'm

THE sugar question is of vastly more i'm
pOrtance than the revival of our shipping
Nothing viii benefit the country more than
putting all the sugar money in the pockets
of our farmers, while reviving our shipping
will be of benefit to comparatively few. The
competition between different countries for
the carrying trade of the world is so sharp
that it is almost everywhere conducted at a
loss, which has to be made up by bounties
Let us attend first to the great need of build
ing up our home markets. Our shipping
will revive speedily enough when we have
need of it.
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1.-THE WORLDS WAYS
Visited by National Tribune's
Representative.
A SERIES OF INTERESTING LETTERS

In accordance with orr desire to provide
the readers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
with the highest grade Of entertaining and
instructive matter to be found anywhere,
we have made an arrangement with Mr.
Frsnk G. Carpenter, the talented newspaper
man, for series Of letters from Japan,
COEea, China Malay, India. and elsewhere
In the Far East These letters viii be-as
al who are familiar with Mr. Carpenters
writings know-bright, breezy, and full Of
fresh facts. Hewill keep away from the usual
hackneyed routes Of travel, see things with
his own eyes, and tel in his OWL way what
be sees. The letters VIII be furnished ex-
clusively to THE EArIoSAL TRIBUSE, and
10 other paper viii have them. They will
be profuseiy illustrated from photographs
taken 10y Er. Carpenter with his own camera.
They VIII, besides being interesting TO every
body, be very valuable TO the children in
teaching them in pleasant way about the
people IN those far-of lands, with their
babits and customs Mt. Carpenter sails
from San Francisco this month, and we car
expect the letters to begin IN a few weeks.