The Press., 1894-04-26
Bridgeport corresponence Of The N. Y. World.
 A COMMISSION FAVORED.

America, Mexico and Lower California, has always taken an active interest in politics. For four years he has been legislative representative from Holland, and has been identified with many state reforms. He Is also mentioned promi4 nently as a candidate for governor in the fall elections on the democratic ticket. It Is generally believed that in the contest for this election the nomination will lie between MT. Hicks and E. G. Benedict. Neither is anxious for the nomination, on account of the unsettled condition of the tariff, but probably either will accept the nomination if the interests of the demo- cratic party of Connecticut demand it.
 When MT. Hicks left on his travels last fall congress was just beginning to dis cuss the tariff question, with every pros- pect of speedily settling it. Most of the time MT, Hicks was out of reach of the daily papers, and was surprised on his re- turn to find that congress had done so lit tie. His remarks upon this subject are interesting. To World reporter he said: "I think the Wilson bill is probably as good as can be drawn by politicians. They are swapping iack-knives down in Washington, and it is all, if you vote for my scheme will vote for yours, and this without any regard to the interests of the | taxpayers and the consumers of the | country. Politicians have been fighting | over this tariff question for seventy-five years, and they will probably continue to fight over it for 750 years longer if the people will lot them do it. The tariff
 should be taken entirely out of politics,
 and should be left to the determination
 of board of the most intelligent, non-
 partisan, disinterested men that can be
 found in the country. They should hold
 office for term of ten years, and be paid
 the same as the judges of the United States supreme court, and all interested parties should have right to appear be- | fore them and present their claims, and
 the decision of the board should be final for a given number of years. This Is what the business interests of the country
 demand, and what they will some day
 have in spite of the politicians, for politi-
 clans thrive on tbis tariff issue"
 "What do you think of the income tax ;?
 You are credited with being @ million
 aire."
 ''I think it is the most just and reason
 
 the world, for every nation has it, and, if
 left to the people, would be voted by
 majority so overwhelming that the op-
 ponents would be in & contemptible mi
 nority. I am glad that the democratic
 party has taken up this issue. My only fear is that the republicans will not dare
 to make it 8 party issue.
 "After disposing of the tariff issue con-
 gress ought to adjourn and go home, after
 cutting down the appropriations from fifty
 to one hundred millions at least. The
 people of this country pay more tax per
 head than the people of any nation in the
 world, and have the least to show for 1t. Our army costs practically as much as
 any of the armies of France, Germany, Russia or England, and in comparison
 looks like fly on an elephant. Our navy
 costs us about as much as the navy of
 France or England, and is a picnic party beside the naval armament of those coun- tries. We have the most extravsgant and the most wasteful government in the world. What we need at Washington is
 business mems government. We need
 business man for president of the United , States, and we need more business men in congress and less lawyers. We want more voting and less talking. We want
 business methods applied to the admins | CSIlUR OI Dn6 aTIalES Ol luIS kON6EuLueub. , We are living under system adopted 8 | hundred years ago by few planters from Virginia, and it no more meets the re-
 quirements of the age than stage coach for transporting passengers from New : York to Boston would nowadays. We r want the same business-like methods fin the management of governmental affairs as are applied to vast railroad interests , like the Pennsylvania road or the New 7 York Central, whose annual receipts and . disbursements far exceed those of the United States government prior to the war of the rebellion. 1T asked William H. Barnum once why
 he did not, with all his political influence, ] get some government contracts. He said this United States government would
 make any man dishonest that had any business to transact with 1t. You had to
 go to Washington and lie around the ho- tels for weeks to get contract. Then
 you had to sit in the ante-room of some
 little bureau officer and wait his time for . approving your vouchers; and after you had waited weeks for this man, who worked with no vim and who was green to his business (probably some broken
 down politician), the chances were you would be at last told that the appropria- . ton was exhausted, and you would have } to wait until the next session of congress. t Finally, you would give up in disgust,
 and put your claim into the hands of
 some attorney who had the run of the de- partment. Consequently every contract or had to ask from 25 to 50 per cent. = more than he would of an individual in order to reimburse himself for his time trouble and expense. "The post-office in Hartford cost the . government about $700 ,000 The wealth 8 fest contractor in Connecticut has repeat- , edly informed me that he will build one exactly like it for $3O0,000 So 1t has . been all over the country in everything 3 that the government has attempted to do. . The elevator in the post-offioe in Hart.
 ford has not been running, so l am in formed, for & long time, because the ap. : propriationS were exhausted. . "Ex-Collector Byxbee informed me that 1 he could not get money to buy either g
 broom or a snow-shovel while he was collector of the port in New Haven fol
 four years to clear off the snow from the /, Esidewalks in front of the custom house
 These are only & few of the hundreds and < thousands of instances that are occurring
 every day all over this country (the news r papers are full of them) that show how 8 the entire system of running the business a affairs of this government needs remodel
 ling. s "The hope of this country is that some t day some man like Samuel J.! Tilden will r come to the front, and 1t makes no differ f ence whether he Is democrat or repub : lican. only that he and his party shall re ' Emodel and revise the affairs of our gov o1 ernment, bring order out of chaos, stoI l. corruption and stealing, and prevent tht awful waste of the taxpayers money which, in my opinion, has done more t6 U bring on the present distressing state o B business in the United States than any
 other one thing. Remember always tha-
 every dollar that the government spends l. costs some man one whole days work te
 earn, as a dollar is the average daily h wages throughout the United States ant