Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-15
IT SUGGESTS NO RELIEF.
MIR. Bayard Gives His Opinion OF
President Harrison's Letter.

81 Can Discover No Word That Suggests
the slightest Ameiioration or Relief Of
the American People From Their
Present Excessive Taxation, Except
Perhaps When HE Praises the Little
Gimiet-holes Bored by MIR. Blaine in
the Sacred Tariff"
New York World.
WILMINGTON, DEL, Sept. $50 the
editor Of The W0rld.--SIR: Complying
with your request for a comment on the
letter of acceptance Of President IIarri-
son, ! can only say that from its first
line to its last | can discover
no word that suggests the slight
est amelioration or relief of the
American people from their pres
ent excessive taxation, except perhaps
when he praises the little gimiet-boles
bored by Mr.. Blaine in the sacred tariff
of Mckinley, which lets in and out
n feeble trickle of reciprocal relief to
thirsty commerce. There is not bur.
densomc tax upon productive industry
which he proposes to tighten, nor the
weight of which he desires to see more
equally distributed. There is no
obscurity or completely in such cases
that distresscs and embarresses impor.
tuAS anu phhIltS COURTS anu tDuUSBl lot
which he proposes u remedy. To the
amount of tax that reaches the public
treasury he seems wholely indifferent,
but the advantages and profits of pro-
lection to its special beneficiarles he
dilates upon with rapture and prophe
sizes their abundant increase.
The toiling farmer who produces the
bulk OF our exports, the great army of
unprotected consumers, in whose in
creased cost of living the tariff and all
other taxes are mingled, cannot find
even one cold word of passing consider
alton and hopeful promise in this docu.
ment of self and party congratulation
and commentator.
Never did paper more plainly and
lnconScionsly to the writer tell the
story Of Its origin, and that its author
was only the advocate and representa-
tive of II combination of classes uniustly
favored by law, who had advanced him
TO power for their own profit and natu-
rally desired its continuance
do not find anywhere in this letter
the benevolent and dignlicd tone hciit.
ting a man who holds the high Office Of
Chief Magistrate Of our great family of
republics, whose citizens of all parties
are his frllow-countrymcn, and equally
to be credited with desire for its vel
fare, and therefore entitled 10 his re-
spect. But find it rather the letter Of
II partisan, full of carping criticisms,
and unworthy and gross misrcprcsenta.
tons of the political opinions and pur-
poses of more than one-half of the PEG.
pie Of the United States. Itabornds in
sharp impcachments Of motives; appeals
70 the sgltshnGss Of class interests ana
party preiudices, and seems to ignore
the possession by the American people
Of memory Of the events of the last
three years, and be unmindful that no
more decisive popular verdict was ever
rendered than against the obnoxious
men, measures and policies with which
his administration is identified, and
which he now seeks unqualifiedly to re-
new and intensity, than was recorded
by the election Of 1890 and will be
emphasized in November, 1892
i. Il. BAYARD.