St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-22
MEN AND MEASURES.

When we get to a poiut where any
tariff measure can lay US low, We would,
better stop Dragging about our great
ness.-Buffalo News. y
No taxation without representation is
a fine principle, but income taxation
would be likely to cause mlsrepresenta-
ton at least.-Philadelphia Times.
Mr.. Bland might extract considerable
fun from a free coinage bill, and just at
this particular time such amusement
would do no harm.-Washington Post.
The tariff reviserS propose to reduce
the duty on laundry soap. but what the
average man wants is a reduction in the
price OF laundry work.-Baltimore
Herald.
An income tax and lower tariffs
would hi the Carnegies of this country
fore and aft. 1t would compel them to
pay taxes instead Of collecting them
st. Joseph Gazette.
If Mr.. Voorhees, really has presidential
aspirations, we respectfully suggest that
he could not do better than to place
Hon. Isaac Pussy Gray in charge OF his
boom. indianapolis News.
Mr.. Depew told an English inter-
viewer that both houses of congress
would be Republican next year. and the
interviewer jotted it right down just as
II Mr.. Depew knew it.-Boston Herald.
Possibly Thomas Bracket Reed is so
much the fayorite son OF Maine that she
does no. feel like giving more than SIS
toward monument for the fayorite son
who Is no longer aliYe.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Even some of the most ardent advo-
Gates Of tariff reform, and earnest sup
porters of the Wilson bill in the main,
regard the substitution of adj valorem
for specific duties as mistake, as OPEN
ing the door to system Of wholesale
frauds.-Baltimore Herald.
There is something pathetic In the
solicitude which Tom Reed manifests
regarding the deficit which he did so
much to create. Can it be that he is
suffering from remorse of conscience,
ana is trying to make amends?-Detroit
Free Press.
The house bill for the repeal of the
federal election law has been reported
favorably In the senate, and there is no
reason why it should not speedily pass,
thus fulfilling another pledge of the
Democratic platform.-LouisYille COu-
rier-Journal.
The government must not only stand
guard over the lands, the houses, the
railroads, the franchises from which in
come is derived, but it must stand guard
over the profits of enterprise and invest
ment-over the income ltself.-Mem-
phis Commercial.
There is not single Democratic MEM
Der OF congress who was not sent there
with explicit instructions TO reform the
tariff. Not one OF these men can afford
to Ignore the instructions of his cOnStit-
uentS In order TO favor special Interests.
New York World.
Cleveland's Hawaiian policy and VIII
sons free trade blu are the only two
things bearing an American label which
are received with unboupded demon
STATIONS of approval in England. The
fun of it is, though, that they are Amer
lean only in name.-Philadelphi Press.
IAN income tax is so English, you
KNOW" sneers Pennsylvania. So it
is. And it is very erediIable to John
Bull that he makes his millionaires pay
their share OF taxes. All taxation should
not be placed upon the people who are
not rich.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The new tariff cannot hurt the coun-
try. 1t is lower than the Mckinley rate,
but it is not as low as the tariff of our
prosperous days before the war. The
false clamor about its menace to indus
try Will alarm no one who is familiar
with the history of our country.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Peanuts, it is announced, Will remain
on the dutiable list in the Wilson tariff.
This will win the support of the North
Carolina representatives, whose con-
stituents are largely engaged in raising
peanuts, and Of the senior senator from
New York, to whom the Introduction of
peanut politics IN this state Is DUE
New York Tribune.
The system or imposing a special tax
on people who have incomes of a GER
tain amount merely because they have
those incomes is obviously class legisla-
ton, and is wrong in principle; worked
as the income tax is i'll England by lazy
chancellors Of the eXchequer, who
Iaised by its means the sums great or
small that are required to meet unusual
expenses, it is positively infamous
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