The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-30
A REMEDY BAnAs TnE DISEASE

has a right to demand and enforce, If 1t
is not promptly conceded.
A REMEDY A. BAnAs TIE DISEASE.
We find the following in the Washing
ton Post of Wednesday last
Despite the fact that ne was reelected
TO Congress from the Twenty-fifth Penn
sylvania district by the big plurality OF
l2,O0D votes, or about three times what he
received in 1892 Congressman Thomas W.
Phillips does not take q partisan view OF
the recent election, but is more con-
ccerned with some important problems OF
legislation which he thinks American
craftsmanship will have TO face in the
near future. At the Normandie last even
ing Mr.. Phillips said:
Il have long been an advocate Of plan
to take the tariff out of politics
non-partisan commission of experts should
be appointed to deal with this subject
1t rs too bad that ave should be torn TO
pieces periodically over this tariff, and
| that our business interests should suffer
| from such constant agitation. No Euro
pean country is so unwise. But, after
| all, the tariff question and the free silver
| que stion are but minor Issues. There
must be something else done TO meet the
! changed condition of the times, and to
| conserve our agricultural and industrial
| interests, which have been suffering for
/ a long period Ihe people are discon-
| tented and restless; they see vast for
tunes piled up by a few men. and gi
| gantic corporations levying tribute on the
| whole country. \ million of men have
| been out of employment. Now, Is there
| not danger OF day when this vast army
| of the unemployed will no longer refrain
| from sackiug banks where gold Is stored
| up and stores full of clothing and bread
| stuffs? They will argue that as their
| labor created all that wealth. why should
| they not get a share of it.
| Herbert Spencer says that an industrl
al revolution is pending in America. as
Ill ID 1sglya 20 h.
| ture with forebodings of evil. ] agree
/ with him. The prospect is gloomy in the
| extreme. Something ought to be done,
/ and quickly. i'm the way of wise liberal,
| up-to-date legislation, that will get us on
the right track as government and
| keep. us there. The truth is our legis-
| latiOn does not meet existing conditions.
| Laws that answered well enough one
| hundred and eighteen years ago, when
| the nation was newly born. are antiquated
| now. We have progressed in everything
else and Jagged behind in statesman
! ship. else single corporation would not
| have been able 10 pile up S50.G0.0D0 in
| few years. from the natural product of
! two or three counties in my State. and
| imposed tax upon the people worse than
! the taxes OF ESNpt, or more eXacting than
| any despot ever levied on his serfs
| There must be a halt TO this kind OF
| thing, or else revolution. The Ameri-
| can people are brave and patriotic. and
! ought to be intelligent enough to find
| remedy. In recognition Of the fact that
| our laborlng men and agriculturists
| should have fair play, l would suggest
| that commission, COMPOSED Of an equal
! number of these two classes with q like
| representation of business men, be au-
! thorzed by Congress to formulate some
| plan Of legislation. and recommend the
| enactment Of Such statutes as would be
! ant to bring relief, and do exact justice
| among all citizens. This seems a praC-
teal step in the right direction. and I
| oTrect to advocate some such measure.
| for il is something that cannot longer be
| dFaVed with safety"
When a man Of this ones prominence
and position talks in this way ii will
not do TO pooh pooh what he says. He
! must be reasoned with and taught bet
| ter.
What would Mr.. Phillips have his COM
mission to do? His complaint is that
some men have an unreasonable pro-
portion Of the country's wealth. Would
be have his commission TO devise plan
for taking away from these men part
Of what they have and distributing 1t
amongst the others?
If he would do this where would he stop
after he once made a beginning? If he
justified his commission in taking from
George Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt
a part Of what they have. does he think
that those who are behind him would
be content TO stop with despoiling these.
merely because he. Phillips, thought that
meme others should be included? Does
he not know that II the principle that
private property shall be respected is
once invaded, the invasion will never
cease while there are one thousand dol
| lars held together? If he does not know
this he knows very little of human ma
ture
The property these men have acquired
was acquired under the laws of the
! land. They were infamous laws. we ad-
nit, hut they were the laws. You can
not disturb them in the possession of
the property they acquired under these
| laws, for If you DO you will destroy all
the foundations upon which society rests.
But you can prevent anything Of the
| same sort happening In the future. These
| fortunes were accumulated through the
effect of protective tariff laws, that tax
| one American for the benefit of another
| Americans pockets. and through the
| National Bank law, that concentrates
all the rights and privileges of banking
| In the hands Of the rich men, who live
in the great commercial centres. and
| proscribes all other Americans and de-
MES them the inestimable privilege or
using their credit in their business. These
two laws make all the other Americans
1 pay taxes to the rich manufacturers and
| the rich bankers and preserve In the
manufacturers hands a monopoly OF
manufacturing, and in the bankers
hands monopoly OF banking
| Let Mr.. Phillips concentrate his ef-
| forts upon the attempt to repeal both
| these laws. If he would end the condl-
ton that so shocks him and all other
| right-thinking men.
/
There are now ib6 packs of foxsounds in
I,.,nlnrd LII Of harrlArs and sexenfeen