The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-05

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 requires saloons to be closed within oer-
 tain hours. Maladministration grants
 absolution from the requirement for
 money. Law afiirms the right of the
 public to unobstrueted streets and
 payements. Maladministration sells
 out that right for money. Law issues
 permits for signs and the like on uni-
 form conditions for money or charges
 money for issuing them. Law pays
 its police and hremen wages and
 pensions. Maladministration expects
 them to make the citizens they serve
 also pay them for their ordinary work.
 Law provides for police and fire ap-
 pointments by competitive tests. Nal
 administration guarantees the requi-
 site forgery. perjury and false persona
 ton to meet those tests for money.
 Law provides for promotion for cause.
 Maiadministration holds promotion
 like appointments for sale. The sale Of law in every case is based on principles that may correctly be called business principles. The matchmaking is impar- tialiy and inexorably levied. Its period
 ical payment Is infexibly eXacted
 The bribery is the same in all cases of like nature. There are no privileged ex- bly, in money to avoid the embarrass-
 ment of running accounts of checks. EFFECTS AND REMEDIES.
 The evil has been exhibited. What of
 the effect? And what of the remedy?
 The direct effect is to create anarchy
 and to multiply anarchists. If the cap-
 ital of the few, through contributions to
 both parties, can corner the necessa-
 ries of life, the wrath of the many
 should be visited on institutions made,
 by perversion, the channel for such
 wrong. On the other hand, while plu-
 tocracy Is fostered in the schedules,
 populism is fed with riders and amend
 ments. An income tax in time of peace
 is bottomed on the theory that thrift and saving is rightly footed when law
 is set to the work of inquisition and ra- pine. Resentment at bounties to trusts stimulates the masses to socialism or angers them against all government. An income tax is meant to offset this by telling the poor that extra burdens have been levied on tfie well to do, be- cause they are well to do The tax Is punishment on the qualities that pro- duce income in order to appease the qualities that do not. That property should be taxed all admit. That the yield of property when mixed with brains, should be taxed also is against the morals and the logic of taxation. It is double taxation, where rightly 1t should be single. From double taxa tion to confiscation the path is straight. Confiscation, 1t should be, if property is the crime which those aver, to please whom the income tax Is laid. The con- sequence of the sale of law in the ad- ministration of 1t is also to create an- archy and to multiply anarchists. When administration becomes crim- inal, rebellion becomes righteous. When glance is broken. If these evils were not redressible, if these effects were not terminable, capital as corruptor and government as blackmail machinism should deservedly perish from the earth. Better the impartial nihilism of the chaos of all law than the conversion into contemporary results, if those re- suits were universal and lasting. They are not universal. They will not be last ing. Most of the states are weir govern ed, bad as the legislation of their con- gress is. In not all of the cities Is ad- l sub-sold to confederate | crime and backmailing business Where these wrongs are, revolt is already | rriv@ nfr.fh fh,rkf most stirred by the wickedness of the fact than by the materially injurious character of them. The conscience of the nation Is moving 1t more than its losses. The conscience of the metropolis Is more keenly alive than its pocket. nerve. The political processes of sane people, slow to anger, but capable of in finite indignation can be trusted for re- forms and punishments.
 There can and should be no redis- of its resources. But there can and must be rectiflcation of standards md of estimates. The duties of wealth must be enforced as we'll as it's delights It's origin and it's credentials must be hose of honesty and of honor-not hose of oppression, corruption, theft md cruelty. Infamous riches must yield only an infamous rating. Law must be made as general and as just IS air and sun. Government must give nature, in whose economy neither fa- nor caprice has play, a chance Q work with and for men, and men a ,hance to work on the free line of the mother of us all Then will rule be for III and privilege for none. Equality of benefits and equality of burdens will assure that sense of equality of rights md equality of opportunity with which nen will be content to work out their 'arying lots, feeling that differences not arbitrarily made by power, on the mo- ion of corruption, can be borne because hey can be surmounted. The blood 'oison attacking the system which lames July the Fourth as its birthday 5 due to the purchase and sale of law. is that which is making classes and masses among us. It is that which will nf1ame masses to destroy classes, if it e not itself destroyed, and it Is against hat which new revolution of con- cience and new declaration of inde- should be declared and ef- ected, by sons in whom should be dead either their fathers faith nor their athers' fire. l;
 SENATOR P1ATT's SPEECH, t
 Following is the address of Senator }. H. Platt: II The Fourth of July is an occasion ( o%h So~ ,o.ase,-. r.-l a. .