Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-07


liz public officers are really the people,
and if political promises and profess
sions have any binding sense, failure
to give the relief so long awaited will
be sheer recreancy.
"Nothing should intervene to dis
tract our attention or efforts until his
reform is accomplished by wise and
careful legislation.
"While we should staunchly adhere
to the principle that only the necessity
of revenue justilies the imposition OF
tariff duties and that they should be
limited by strict economy, we cannot
close our eyes TO the fact that condi-
tons have grown up among us which,
in Justice and fairness, call for dis
eliminating care in the distribution of
such duties and taxation as the emer-
gcncies of our government actually
demand.
s,Manifestly, if we are TO aid the
people directly through tariff reform,
one of its most obvious features
should be reduction in present tariff
changes upon the necessaries of life.
The benefits of such reduction
would be paipable and substantial,
seen and felt by thousands who would
be better fed and better clothed and
better sheltered. These gifts should
be the willing benefactions Of 4 gov
eminent whose highest function is the
promotion of the welfare of the
people.
"Not less closely related to our peo-
pies prosperity aud well being is the
removal of restrictions upon the i'm
portation of the
RAW MATERIALS
necessary to our manufacturers. The
world should be open to orr National
ingenuity and enterprise.
"This cannot be while Federal leg
islation through the imposition of
high tariff forbids TO American man
ufactuers as cheap materials IS those
used by their competitors.
ga message has been prepared by
the appropriate Congressional Com
mittee embodying tariff reform on the
lines herein suggested, which wilt be
promptly submitted for legislative ac-
ton. 1t is the result of much patri-
otto and unselfish work, ard / believe
it deals with its subject consistently
and as thoroughly as existing con-
ditions permit. | am satisfied that the
reduced tariff duties provided for in
the proposed legislation, added TO rev.
enue taxation will in the future,
though perhaps not Immediately, pro-
duce sufficient revenue to meet the
needs of the Government.
"The committee, after full consid-
Grafton and to provide against q tenn
porary deficiency which may exist be-
fore the business of the country adj
jnsts itself to the new tariff schedules,
have wisely embraced III their plan
few additional internal revenue taxes,
including small tax on income de-
rived from certain corporate invest
lanents, These new assessments are
not only absolutely just, but easil ?
borne, but they have the further
merit of being such as can be RENTED
without unfavorable busines, disturb
I'hcOS WHEREVER lliC HtCcSSlly lOT tueli
importation no longer exists.
SIN my great desire for the success
OF this measure L cannot restrain the
suggestion that its success can only be
attained by means of unselfish coun-
sci Oh the part of friends of tariff re-
form and rs q result of their willing
ness to subordinate personal desires
and ambitions to the general good.
The local interests affected by the pro-
posed reform are so numerous and so
varied that if all are insisted upon the
legislation embodying the reform
must inevitably fail.
IN CONCLUSION,
my intense feeling of responsibility inn
pels me to invoke for the manifold in
terests of generous and confiding
people the most scrupulols care to
pledge my willingness to support ev-
cry legislative effort for the advance
ment of the greatness and prosperity
of our beloved country.
GROVER CLEVELAND,
Executive Mansion.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 4, 1898