The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-12
HERE IT IS.
The Democratic Platform OF
1884,
And the Extracts From President CIeys.
lands Message by Which 1t 10
To Be interpreted.


In order to explain the full force Of the
democratic platform just adopted at st. Louiss
the tariff plank of 1884 in full and the sugges4
tive extracts from the presidents message on
the tariff are given below:
THE TARIFF PLANK OF 1884.
The democratic party is pledged to revise the tariH
In spirit of fairness to all interests But in making
reductions in taxes II is not proposed to injure any
domestic industries, but rather TO promote theft
healthy growth. From the foundation of this GOV.
eminent taxes collected at this customhouse have
been the chief source offederal revenue Such they
must continue to be. Moreover, many industries
have come to rely upon legislation for successful
continuance, so that any change of law must be al
every step regardiul of the labor and capital thus
involved. The process of the reform must
20 subject In the execution to this plain dictate Of
justice-all taxation shall be limited TO tho requie
ments of economical government. The necessary
reduction In taxation can and must be effected
without depfiving American labor of the ability to
to compete successfully with foreign labor, and
without imposing lower rates of duty than will be
ample to cover any increased cost of productions
which may exist in consequence Of the higher rats
OF wages prevailing i'll this country. Suficient
revenue to pay all the expenseg
OF the federal government economically
administered, including pensions interest and princis
pal OF the public debt Jean be got under our presens
system OF taxation from customhouse taxes ON
fewer imported articles bearing heaviest on articles
OF luxury, and bearing lightest articles of neces.
sity. We, therefore, denounce the abuses of the
exist ng tariff; and subject to the preceding mtar
lions, we demand that federal taxation shall be
exclusively for public purposes and shall not exc
coed the needs of the government economically
administered.
FROM THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
When we consider that the theory of our institu.
lions guarantees to every citizen the full enjoymen
OF all the fruits OF his industry and enterprise with
only such deductions may be his share toward
the careful and economical maintenance of the gov.
ernmen which protects him. il is plain that the exc
action of more than this Is ndelensbie extortion
and culpable betrayal of American fairness and
justice
1t must be conceded that none of the things sub
jeced to internal revenue taxation are, strictly
speaking, necessaries. There appears to be no JUST
complaint of this taxation by the eonsnmers OF
these articles, and there to DO nothing so well
ablet TO bear the burden without hardship to any
portion Of the people. But our present tariff laws
the vicious inequitable and Illogical source of un-
necessary taxation. ought to be at revised and
amended.
Those who buy imports pay the duty charged
thereon into the public treasury, but the great
majority of our citizens who buy domestic articles
OF the same class pay sum at least approximately
quail to this duty to the home manufacturer
1t is not proposed to entirely relieve the country
of this taxation. 1t must be extensively continued
as the source of the governments income.
and in readjustment of our tariff
the interests OF American labor, engaged
In manufacture, should be carefully considered as
well as the preservation of our manufactures 10
may be called protection or by any other name, but
relief from the hardships and dangers of or present
tariff laws should be devised, with especial precau-
ton againsti imperiling the existence of our manu-
featuring interests. But this existence should no
mean n condition which, without regard TO the
public welfare or natural exigency, must
always insure the realization of immense profits
instead of moderately profitable returns.
But the reduction of taxation demanded
should be 30 measu as not to necessitata just
fly either the loss of employment by the working
man the lesseninR of his wages; and the profits
still remaining 10 the Manufacturer after necessa-
ny rebdjustment should furnish no excuse for the
sacrifice OF the interests OF his employees either in
their opportunity TO work in the diminution Of
their compensation. MORGAN the worker in manu-.
factories fail TO understand that while high tariff
Is claimed to be necessary to allow the payment Of
remunerative wages, II certainly results In very
large increase in the price Of nearly all sorts of
ufaotures which In almost countless forms. he needs
for the use Of himself and his family.
The farmer and the agricuturist, who manufao.
ture nothing but who pay the increased price which
the tariff imposes upon every agricultural Imps-
ment, upon oil he wears, and upon all he uses and
owns except tho increase of his hocks and herds
and such things his husbandry produces from the
SOIL is invited to aid In maintaining the present
situation and he Ii told that O high duty on i'm.
ported wool Is for the benefit of those who
have sheep to shear in order that the price of their
wool may be increased. They, Of course not re-
minded that the farmer who has sheep Is by thie
scheme obliged, In his purchases of clothing and
woollen goods to pay tribute TO his fellowfarme,
as well as to the manufacturer and merchant.
When the number OF farmers engaged in wool
raising is compared with all the farmers In the
country and the small proportion they bear to our
population ia considered, when It Is made apparent
that In the case of large part of those who own
sheep the benefit Of the present tariff on wool 10
illusory; and above all when 1t must be conceded
TINT the increase OF the cost Of living by such
tariff becomes q burden upon those with moderate
means, and the poor, the employed and unemploW
ed, the sick and well, and the young and old-and
that II constitutes tax which with relentless grasp
Is fastened upon the clothing Of every man. woman
and child in the land, reasons are suggested why
the removal reduction Of this duty should be i'd.
cuded In a revision Of our tariff laws
Under our present. laws more than four thousand
articles are subject to duty Many of these do not
In any way compete with our own manufacturt2
and many hardly worth attention as subjects Of
revenue considerable reduction can be made 10
the aggregate by adding them to the free list The
taxation OF luxuries presents no features OF hard
ship but the necessaries of life used and consumed
by oil the people, the duty upon which adds TO the
cost of living In every home. should be greatly
cheapened.
The Simple ana pam uuly winch we owe the
people "a to reduce taxation to the necessary exc
penses of an economical operation Of the govern.
ment and TO restore 10 the business Of the county
the money which we hold ia the treasury through
the perversion Of governmental powers. Those
things can and should be done with safety to all our
industnes without danger TO the opportunity foa
remuneratiye labor which our workingmen need,
and with benefit to them and all our people, ~
oheapening their means OF subsistence and increa@
ing the measure Of their comforts.
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