The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-10

| in opposition to intrenchment upon the
| reserved rights of states throughout
odious federal election laws, some pro-
posed and others then existing; 1T
voiced the general demand for dis
continuance of the unWiSe and indie
| feasible financial system Of silver bull
| lion purchased by the government, in
istead of the coinage contemplated by
| the constitution, a system equally
! hindrance to the return to bi-metallism
/ as well as menace to sound and
stable currency; it manifested desire
| for a better administration of public
affairs, greater economy in government
tai expenditures and the eXaction of
higher official standard in the execu-
| ton of public trusts; it demanded a
more safe, dignified and consistent for
eign policy; and it condemned that
abuse or perversion Of the taxing
power of the government which is
projections sake alone, and declared
| in favor of tariff for revenue"
He then took up the foreign policy
! of the administration, saying: cit is
not denied some mistakes have oc-
Cured. Our foreign policy, especially
that relating to Hawaii, it must be adj
united, has not met the expectations Of
the people. A sense of humiliation
prevailed when the project for the res
| toration of a deposed monarch was I'M
folded by the administration and graft
! flcation ensued when its abandonment
or failure was reluctantly announced
influenced largely by an aroused pub
| lie sentiment
Thinks it a BIunder.
THAT unfortunate contemplated pol
icy was a blunder, and a blunder is
sometimes worse than a crime 1t was,
! however, the natural consequence
which might well have been antici-
pated from that other mistake in plac-
ing the department of state in charge
of Republican statesman, distin-
guished and estimable though he may
be- whose views have always been
] identified in opposition to the Demo-
cratic party, who was without SYM
pathy for his traditions and purposes,
and whose political convictions upon
the disputed public questions of the
/ day, if changed at all, are carefully
concealed.
1T is to be regretted that the presi-
dent should not have been able to find
IN his own party some honored states
man in whom he and his party could
have placed confidence, one of Demo-
cratic instincts and training. whose
management of foreign affairs would
! have reflected credit upon the country,
and would have avoided the promul-
gated un-American policy-departure
was sought to be forced upon an I'M
willing people. In this view of the
situation, our opponents must accept
some share Of the responsibility of
plumbers committed in our foreign af-
fairs.
Tn other respects the present adj
lministration of our government affords
Iscant grounds for just criticism"
Federal Election Law.
a Of I
election law as a fulf1llment of the
party's pledges, and a triumph for the
Just doctrine of state rights, and en-
/ dorsed the repeal of the Sherman law.
Coming then to the main question
the tariff reform-he said that pro-
vision should be approached with cir
cumspection and with a realizing sense
of the changed condition of the coun-
try.
An extreme reduction of tariff duties
al time when the treasury was
swollen with a surplus of a hundred
million dollars, when the country was
reasonably prosperous and when all
our industries were in operation and
when all our workingmen were en-
| ployed, assumed a different aspect and
| presented different question when
proposed now with a large and grow
ing treasury deficit instead of a surplus
staring us in the face, with our in
dustries paralyzed, our manufactures
closed, our working men idle, and fol-
lowing upon the heels of one of the
most disastrous financial panics in our
history.
What was safe and prudent and
wise then, it would be criminal folly to
attempt now. The present was no
time for partisanship and Democrats
and Republicans alike should strive to
solve existing problems in a spirit of
broad patriotism.
In the face of the prostration of
private industries" he continued, land
in the presence of such a paralysis of
general business as the treasury deficit
attests and prolongs, this bill as framed
by its authors and as passed by the
House sought to double the deficit by
discarding customs revenue and to fill
the void with an income tax
Tackles the Income Tax.
The rest of his speech was given UP
to the income tax question and his
opening words defined his position in
unequiVocal and forceful language.
Against such a scheme" he said
unnecessarily ill-timed and mische-
vious-suddenly sprung upon the
country in the hour of it's distress, un-
Democratic in its nature and socialistiC
in its tendencies-I enter the protest OF
the people of the state of New York
They utterly dissent from any proposal
to get revenue for the general govern
ment by taxing incomes. Their dissent
is practically unanimous and alto
gether inplacable.'
He intimated that the tariff bill was
constructed on lines laid down by the
I administration; that it was an anomal-
Gus state of affairs when the president
should be able to give Congress infor-
nation as to what had occurred in a
committee of the House. He said:
"In these later days the distinctions
between the functions and prerogatives
of the executive department on one
hand and the legislative department on
the other do not seem to be always
observed. The truth is the first infor-
nation which Congress had of the al
legged details of the proposed bill was
in the message itself.
But the strangest part of this un-
precedented proceeding was in fact that
at the very date Of the message, to wit.
December IA, 1893, neither the full COM
mittees of ways and means nor the
Democrat members thereof had
agreed upon any income tax or upon
other internal taxation.
THE sen or senator from Indiana
Mr. VOORHEES,, calls this allegation a
noisy and resounding charge. Let me
tell him it is not half as noisy as the
constant vituperations we hear or
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