Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-10
THAT LETTER /!
Cleveland Relieves Republi-
can Anxiety.
THERE Is NO BACKDOWN IN HIM!
The Whole Doctrine of Excessive
Taxation and Tariff Reform
Summarily Expounded.


Taxation and Tariff Reform
Summarily Expounded.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, September 9.-The fol
lowing is the Presidents letter OF ac
ceptance:
WASHINGTON, September 8, 1888.
Hon. Patrick Collins and others, Committee
GENTLEMEN In addressing to you my
formal acceptance of the nomination to
the Presidency of the United States, my
thoughts persistently dwell upon the inn
pressive relation of such action to the
American people, whose confidence is
invited, and to the political party to
which belong, just, entering upon the
contest for continued supremacy. The
world does not afford spectacle more
sublime than is furnished when the mil
lions Of free intelligent American citi-
zens select the chief magistrate
and bid one OF their number to
find the highest earthly honor and
a full measure Of publicity in ready sub
mission to their will. 1t follows that the
candidates for this high office can never
forget, when the turmoil and strife
which attend the election of its incum-
bent shall be heard no more, that there
a complete and solemn self-consecrating
by the peoples, chosen President, of
every faculty and endeavor to the SER
vice OF confding and generous nation
OF free men. These thoughts are inten-
sified by the light of my experience in
the Presidential office which has soberly
impressed me with the severe RESPONSE
bilities which it imposes, while it has
quickened my love for American institu-
tions, and taught me the priceless value
of the trust OF my countrymen.
RIGHTS THAT SHOULD BE PROTECTED.
1t is the highest Importance that those
who administer our government should
closely protect and maintain the rights of
American citizens at home and abroad,
and should strive to achieve for our
country 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 deserve so much watchfulness
and care. Among these are the regula-
tions of sound financial sys-
tenn suited to our needs, thus
securing an efficient agency of
national wealth and general prosperity;
the construction and equipment of means
of defense to insure our national safety
and maintain the honor beneath which
such national safety reposes; the protec-
ton of our national domain, still stretch
ing beyond the needs OF the country's
expansion, and its preservation for the
settler and pioneer of our marvellous
growth; the sensible and sincere recog.
milton Of the value of American labor,
looking to the scrupulous care and just
appreciation of the interests of our
workingmen the limitation and check
ing of such monopolistic tendencies and
schemes as interfere with the advantages
and benefits which the people may right
fully claim the generous regard and care
for our surviving soldiers and sailors and
for the widows and ophans of such as
have died, to the end that while appreci-
ating their services and sacrifice, the ap-
plication of their pension funds to i'm
proper cases may be prevented; protec-
ton against servile immigration which is
an injury to industry, commerce and
our laboring men in the field of
toll, and adds to our population an ele-
ment ignorant of our institutions and
laws, impossible OF assimilation with our
people and dangerous to our peace and
welfare; the strict and steadfast advance
to the principles OF Civil Service Reform,
and the thorough execution of the laws
passed, for the citizens and people and
soberly considering the necessity of
measures of relief.
THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT.
Our government is a creation of the
people, established to carry out their de-
signs and accomplish their good. 1t was
founded on justice and was made for
free, intelligent and virtuous people.
This is only useful when within their
control, and only serves them we'll when
regulated and guided by their constant
touch. This is free government, be-
cause it guarantees to every American
citizen the unrestricted personal use
and enjoyment of all the reward of hi
toll and of all his income, except what
may be his fair contribution to the nec-
essary public expense. Therefore, it is
not only the right, but the duty of free
people, to enforce this guarantee, and in
sist that such expense shall be strictly
limited to the actual public needs. 1t
seems perfectly clear that when a gov
ernment, like this, instrumentally Gre
ated and maintained by the people to do
their bidding, turns upon them, and,
through an utter perversion of its pow
ers, extorts from their labor and capital,
tribute largely in excess of public neces-
sites, the creature has rebelled against
. the creator, and the masters are robbed
by their servants.
TAXATION AND PUBLIC EXPENSES.
The cost of the government must con-
tinue to be met by tariff duties collected
at our custom houses upon imported
goods, and by internal revenue taxes as.
sessed upon spirituous and malt LIQUORS,
tobacco and oleomargarine. 1 SUPPOSE
it is needless to explain that all these
duties and assessments are added to the
price of the article or articles upon which
they are levied, and thus become a tax
upon all those who buy these
articles for use or CONSUMPTION.
suppose, too, it is un-
derstood that the effect of this tariff
taxation is not limited to the consumers
of imported articles, but that the duties
imposed upon such articles, permit a
corresponding increase in the price to
he made upon domestic productions OF
the same kind. which increase is paid by
all our people as consumers of such
productions, and entering every Ameri.
can home constitutes a form of fax