The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-07
Aliseellanrnits.
Cle7eland'S Letter Of Acceptance.


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GRAY GABLES, MASS, Sept. 60
The following is the letter of Grover
Cleveland accepting the nomination
as the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent of the United States:
TO Hon. Vim. l.. Wilson and Others
Committee, Etc.-Gentlemen In re-
spending to Your formal notification
of my nomination to the presidency
by the national Democracy. | hope
may be permitted to say at the outset
that continued reflection and obserya.
ton have confirmed Inc in NV adher.
ence to the opinions which | have
heretofore plainly and publicly de-
clared touching the questions involved
in the canvass.
This is the time above all others
when these questions should be con-
sidered in the light afforded by a
sober apprehension of the principles
upon which our government is based
and clear understanding of the rela-
ton it bears to the people for whose
benefit it was created. We shall thus
be supplied with test by which the
value of any proposition relating to
the maintenance and administration
of our government can be ascertained,
and by which the justice and honesty
of every political question can be
judged. If doctrines or theories are
presented which do not satisfy this
test loyal Americanism must pro-
nounce them false and miscellaneous.
TARIFF FOR REVENUE.
The protection of the people in the
exclusive use and enjoyment of their
property and earnings concededly
constitutes the especial purpose and
mission of our free government. This
design is so interviewer with the struc-
ture of our plan of rule that failure to
protect the citizen in such use and en-
joyment, or their unjustiiiable diminu-
ton by the government itself, is be-
trayal of the pc pies trust
We have, however, undertaken to
build great nation upon a plan es-
pecially our own. TIC maintain it and
to furnish through its agency the
means for the accomplishment of ma
tional objects, the American people
are willing through federal taxation
to surrender Il part of their earnings
and income.
Tariff legislation presents familiar
form of federal taxation. Such legis-
lation results a. surely in a tax upon
the daily life of our people as the
tribute paid directly into the hand Of
the tax gatherer. We feel the bur-
den of these tariff taxes too palpabIy
to be persuaded by any sophistry that
they do not exist, or are paid by for
eigners.
Such taxes, representing Il diminu-
ton of the property rights of the peo-
pie, are only justifiable when laid and
collected for the purpose of maintain
ing our government, and furnishing the
means for the accomplishment of it's
legitimate purposes and functions
This is taxation under the operation
of tariff for revenue. ltaccords with
the professions of American institu-
tions, and its justice and honesty
answer the test supplied by correct
appreciation of the principles upon
which these institutions rest.
This theory of tariff legislation
manifestly enjoins strict economy in
public expenditures and their limita-
ton to legitimate public uses, mas
much as it exhibits as absolute extor-
ton any eNaction, by way of taxation,
from the substance of the people be-
yond the necessities of a careful and
proper administration of government
DOGMA OF PROTECTION.
Opposed to this theory the dogma is
now boldly presented that tariff taxa
ton is justifiab!e for the express pur-
pose and intent of thereby promoting
especial interest and enterprises.
Such proposition is so clearly con-
trary to the spirit of our constitution
and so directly encourages the dis
turbance by seliishnesS and greed of
patriotic sentiment that its statement
would rudely shock our people it they
had not already been insidiously al
lured from the safe landmarks of prin-
ciple Never have honest desire for
national growth. patriotic devotion to
country and sincere regard for those
who toll been so betrayed to the sup
port of pernicious doctrine. In it's
behalf the plea that our infant indus
tries should be fostered did service
until discredited by our stalwart
growth then followed the exigencies
of terrible war, which made our
people needless of the opportunities
for Interior schemes afforded by their
willing and patriotic payment of I'M
precedented tribute, and now, after a
long period of peace, when our over
burdened countrymen ask for relief
and a restoration to a fuller enjoy
ment of their incomes and earnings,
they are met by the claim that tariff
taxation for the sake of protection is
an American system, the continuance
of which is necessary in order that
high wages may be paid to our work
ingmen and a home market be provid-
ed for our farm products.
DECEPTIVE PRETENSES.
These pretenses should no longer
deceive. The truth is that such a
System is directly antagonized by
every sentiment of justice and fair
ness, of which Americans are pre-
eminently proud. 1t is also true that
while our workmen and farmers can,
the least of all our people, defend
themselves against the harder home
life which such tariff taxation DEGREES
the workingman, suffering from the
importation and employment of pat
per labor instigated by his protested
friends and seeking security for his
interests in organized cooperation,
still waits for division of the advan-
tages secured to his employer under
cover of a generous solicitude for his
wages, while the farmer is learning