The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-10
who has been faithful, able and pru-

who has been faithful, able and pru-
dent.
They invoke an addition to that
trust by the transfer also to the Dem
ocracy of the entire Legislative power.
The Republican party, controlling
the Senate and resisting in both
Houses OF Congress q reformation OF
unjust and unequal tax laws, which
have outlasted the necessities OF war
and are now undermining tho abuud-
ance OF a long peace, deny 10 Tie pe0-
pie equality before the Law and the
fairness and the justice which are
their right.
Thus the cry OF American labor for
better share III the rewards Of indus
try is Stitied with false pretences; en-
terprise is fettered and bound down to
home markets; capital is discouraged
with doubt; and unequal, unjust laws
can neither be properly amended nor
repealed
The Democratic party Will continue,
with all the power cunfided to it, tue
struggle to reform these laws in ac-
cordance with the pledges of its last
platform endorsed at the ballot box by
the SuffrageS of the people.
our land, an immense majority, in
cluding every tiller of the soil, gain no
advantage from excessive tax laws;
but the price of nearly everything they
buy is increased by the favoritism of
an unequal system of tax legislation.
All unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation.
1t is repugnant to the creed Of Dem
ocracy that by such taxation the cost
of the necessarieS of life should be un-
justlfably increased to all our people.
Judged by Democratic principles,
the interests of the people are be-
traYed, when, by unnecessary taxa
tion, trusts and combinations are per-
mitted and fostered, which, while un-
duly enriching the few that combine,
rob the body Of our citizens by depriv-
ing them of the benefits Of natural
competition. Every Democratic rule
of governmental action is violated
when through unnecessary taxation
vast sum of money, far beyond the
needs of an economical administra-
ton, is drawn from the people and the
channels of trade and accumulated as
demoralizing surplus in the National
Treasury.
The money now lying idle in the
Federal Treasury resulting from su-
perhuous taxation amounts to more
than S125, 100000. and the surplus col
lected is reaching the sum of more
than $50 600 600 annually.
Debauched by the immense tempta-
ton the remedy of the Republican
party is to meet and exhaust by ex-
travagant appropriations and expend-
itureS, whether constitutional or not,
the accumuIations of extravagant tax
alton.
The Democratic remedy is to enforce
frugallty in public expense and abrl-
ish needless taxation.
Our established domestic industries
and enterprises should not, and need
not be endangered by reduction and
correction of the burdens of taxation.
On the contrary, fair and careful re-
vision of our tax laws, with due allow
ance for the difference between the
wages Of American foreign labor,
must promote and encourage every
branch of such industries and enter
priseS by giving them assurance Of an
extended market and steady and con-
tinuouS operation.
In the interest of American labor,
which should in no event be neglected,
the revision of our tax laws contem-
plated by the Democratic party would
promote the advantage of such labor
by cheapening the cost of the necessa-
ries Of life in the home of every work
ingman, and at the same time secur-
ing to him steady and remuneratiye
employment.
Upon this great issue of tariff re-
form. SO closely concerning every phase
of our national life, and upon every
question involved i'll the problem of
good government, the Democratic par
ty submits its principles and profess
sions to the intelligent suffrages of the
American people.