The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-08

Enthusiastically Ratified by His Par.
ty-A Plain, Straightforward State.
ment Of the Position OF the Party aud
Candidate-No verbosity nor Darker.
ing Of Meaning-He Stands Firmly
: Upon the Platform and Defends II.
GRAY GABLES, MASS, September 26.
The following is the letter of accept
ance of Hon. Grover Cleveland, made
public to- night.
To Hon. W. l.. Wilson and Others,
Committee, etc.:
GENTLEMEN:-In responding to
your formal notification of my nomi-
nation to the Presidency by the Ma
tional Democracy, l hope ] may be
permitted to say at the outset that
continued reflection and observation
have confirmed me in my adherence
to the opinions which l have hereto
fore plainly and publicly declared
touching the questions involved in
the canvass.
This is time, above all others,
when these questions should be con-
sidcred in the light afforded by So
Der apprehension of the principles
upon which our government is based,
and clear understanding of the re-
lation 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 ascertain
ed and by which the justice and
honesty of every political question
can be judged. Ifdoctrines or theo-
ries are presented which do not sat
isfy this test, loyal Americanism
must pronounce them false and mis-
chievous.
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
structure of our plan of rule that fail
ure to protect the citizen in such use
and enjoyment, or their unjustifiable
diminution by the government it.
self is a betrayal of the peoples
trust. We have, however, undertak-
en- to build a great nation upon a
plan especially our own. To main
tain it and to furnish through its
agency the means for the accomplish
ment of national objects, the Ameri-
can people are willing through fed
eral taxation to surrender a part of
their earnings and income.
TARIFF LEGISLATION PRESENTS
a familiar form of federal taxation.
Such legislation results as surely in
a tax upon the daily life of our peo-
pie as the tribute paid directly into
the hand of the tax gatherer. We
feel the burden of these tariff taxes
too palpably to be persuaded by any
sophistry that they do not exist, or
are paid by foreigners. Such taxes,
representing a diminution of the
property rights of the people, are
only justifiable when laid and col
lected for the purpose of maintain
ing our government and furnishing
the means for the accomplishment OF
its legitimate purposes and functions.
This is taxation under the operation
of tariff for revenue. 1t accords
with the professions of American
free institutions and its justice and
honesty answer the test supplied by
a correct appreciation of the princi-
Piles upon which these institutions
rest. This theory of tariff legislation
manifestly enjoins strict economy in
public expenditures and their limi-
tation to public uses inasmuch as it
exhibits as absolute extortion, any
exaction by way of taxation from
the substance of the people beyond
the necessities of careful and prop
er administration of government.
Opposed to this theory the dogma
is now boldly presented that tariff
taxation is justifable for the express
purpose and intent of thereby pro-
noting especial interests and enter.
prises. Such a proposition is SC
clearly contrary to the spirit of our
constitution and so directly enconr-
ages the disturbance, by selfishness
and greed, of patriotic sentiment
that its statement would rudely
shock our people if they had not al
ready been insidiously allured from
the
SAFE LANDMARKS OF PRINCIPLE.
Never have honest desire for national
growth, patriotic devotion to the
country and sincere regard for those
who toll, been so betrayed to the sup.
port of a pernicious doctrine. In its
behalf, the plea that our infant in
dustries should be fostered did ser
} vice until discredited by our stal.
: wart growth; then followed the ext
gencies of terrible war, which made
our people needless of the opportuni
ties for Interior schemes afforded by
their willing and patriotic payment
of unprecedented tribute; and now
after a long period of peace, wher
our overburdened countrymen ask
for relief and restoration to full en-
joy ment of their incomes and earn.
ings, they are met by the claim that
, tariff taxation for the sake Of protec
ton is an American system, the con
tinuance of which is necessary in or.
der that high wages may be paid tt
our working men and home market
be provided for cur farm products.
These pretences should no Longer
deceive. The truth is that such 8
system is directly antagonized by ev
cry sentiment of justice and fair
ness of which Americans are pre-em
inently proud. 1t is also true thai
while our workingmen and farmers
can least of all of our people, defend
themselves against the harder home
, life which such tariff taxation de
crees, the workingman suffering from
the importation and employment o
pauper labor instigated by his pro
fessed friends and seeking security
i for his interests in organized coop
Grafton. still waits for division o.
the advantages secured to his EN-
ployer under cover of generous so
licitude for his wages, while