The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-12-05

Inc message Dy fREsIDEAI CLEfE'
LAND was quite lengthy. 1t is as mes
sages run, an liable document" but
there is a scarcity of recommendations.
He throws his soul into his talk on tariff,
and unqualifedly tells what he believes,
which is of course in the nature of a re
commentator. The important part of
his tariff talk reads:
After a hard struggle tariff reform is
directly before US. Nothing so impor-
tant claims our attention, and moth
ing so clearly presents itself as both an
opportunity and a duly an opportunity
to deserve the gratitude of our fellow
citizens, aud duty imposed upon US by
our oftrepeated professions and by the
emphatic mandate of the people. After
full discussion, our countrymen have
spoken in favor of this reform, and they
have confided the work of its accomplish
ment to the hands of those who are SOL
EMMY pledged to it. If there is anything
in the theory Of a representation in pub
lie places of the people and their desires,
if public officers are really the servants
of the people, and if political promises
and professions have any binding force,
our failure to give the relief so long
awaited will be sheer recreancy.
Nothing should intervene to distract
our attention or disturb our efforts until
this reform is accomplished by wise and
careful legislation. While we should
only the necessity of revenue justiies
the imposition of tariff duties and other
federal taxation, and that they should be
limited by strict economy, we cannot
| close our eyes TO the fact that conditions
have grown up among us which, in JUS
tice and fairness, call for discriminating
care in the distribution of such duties
and taxation as the emergencies of our
government actually demand.
A measure has been prepared by the
appropriate congressional committee en-
bodying tariff reform on the lines herein
suggested, which will be promptly sub
mitted for legislative action. 1t is the
result of much patriotic and unsellsh
work, and I believe it deals with its sub
| ject consistently and as thoroughly as ex
listing conditions permit. | am satisfied
that the reduced tariff duties provided
for in the proposed legislation, added to
existing internal revenue taxation, will
in the future, though perhaps not imme-
diately, produce sufficient revenue to
meet the needs of the government.
On the subject of pensions he boldly
charges fraud and all the rascality pos
sible. Hear him:
The discovery having been made that
many names had been put upon the
pension roll by means Of wholesale and
gigantic frauds, the commissioner stop
ped payment upon a number of pensions
which seemed to be fraudulent or unau-
thorized pending a complete examina-
ton, giving notice to the pensioners in
order that they might have an oppor-
tunity to establish, if possible, the justice
OF their claim, Notwithstanding the ap-
parent evidence. am unable to under.
stand why fraud in the pension rolls
should not have been corrected with
thoroughness and vigor. Every name
fraudulently put upon these rolls is
a wicked imposition upon the kindly
sentiment in which pensions have their
origin.
A fraudulent pensioner has become a
bad citizen every false oath In support
of a pension has made perjury more
common and false, and undeserving pen
sioners rob the people not only of their
money but of the patriotic sentiment
which the survivors of a wal fought for
On the preservation of the union, ought
to inspire. Thousands of ~neighborhoods
have their well-known fraudulent pen
~sioners, and recent developments by the
bureau establish appalling conspiracies
to accomplish pension frauds. By no
means the least wrong done is to brave
deserving pensioners, who cert ainly
ought no to be condemned to such asso-
citation.
Those who attempt in the line of duty
to rectify these wrongs should not be &C
cused of enmity or indifference to the
claims of honest veterans.
And yet with these thousands of frauds
in all the neighbOrhoods, we see nothing
for detecting and hunting down the ras
Gals. We see no intimation that the
purging should hastily begin, But still
it should, though your UNCLE GROVER
wiIl.not point the way.
BUILD HIM A MONUMENT.
Mr. J. VAN ALIEN deserves a monu