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of doubtful powers In dercgntlon Of the
gent GENT men do do not f need to bo inf iormed
that Judge Gor's action Is unprecedented
even u not clear usurpation OF authority.
| His injunction Is based upon the theory that the
strict registration laws OF South Carolina opcr-
ate to impede or prevent the free and full regis
the State shall not be permitted 10 have Con.
stitutional Convention with delegates chosen
understood that the States themselves we're the
judges OF the propriety of the provisions of such
pressly eHciuded from 70 the privilege Of reeistra-
tion. II is clear that the general Government
cannot revise. condemn, or int. interiors . with
| able or harsh they may be regarded outside of
that State, so long as every eector Is permitted.
tuition of New York recognizes manhood sur
| frage and gives to every elector the undoubted
crate he may be, but the recent Republican Leg
| islaturc-of uneayory memory-has passed an
% practical effect. prevents his voting unless he m
swears to his lliteracy at the time OF his regis
tration. and compulsorily discloses on election
ballot, which he must necessarily do in order to
be enabled to vote according to the system pro
| by indirecton, to disfranchiso classes. why can
| not South Carolna2
THE INCOME TAX DECISION.
THE. most important recent event in our
| national nffairs IL the decision 10y the Supreme
Court that Federal tax on rents or on the In
come OF personal property, laid by the last Con;
among the States according to the census. For
that event should congratulate ourselves and
should should we ef' be that the judgment was reached
through so many trials 20 much argument and
no~ nsy @ n
true have been the mental processes of the
court that is, in national questions ,t, our
through patient deli bera tion, the final Judgment
has been not merely that an 9nconstitntional
not merely that II the tax was an excise as the
Secretary OF the Treasury declared in his an
Generat's Gene office contented il was not laid so is
to be uniform nnd. therefore, unconstitutional:
That Pt IS daeisos has arss brood
of dangerously sociallstic schemes Of taxation
thnt we're teening at the birth; It will promote
T%bs, and a diadem., il, viii Be Eyes p tho
Administration strove with much learning
and vigor to uphold the tax before the court.
and to the court which wns to give Judgment.
Competent arguments from below the bench,
o OF the bs tie @
partial opinions, A Federal income tax wa,
approve, by hay any Maons
garded or tolerated as a Democratic measure.
THE SILVER EsTIoN-1NTERNATIoNAL M
MErALLIsM.
Tho question that is now creating the most
YER question. and of that wish to say q few
words Ii the resolutions adopted by the dele
gates to the national conventions held by each
OF the two great parties in 1892. and the resolu-
in the several State conventions Of 1854, are an
country generally prefer, the bimetallic system
Of coinnge that preMyailed in the United States
ference in that regard between the resolutionsof
the two greater parties: The Republican uses
iican State platforms of 1894 use that Word
more frequently than do otheDemocratic, but both
refer TO free bms.alic coinage Nearly all that
in purchasing and debt, paying power Of the
resolutions is to be discerned, It is in the more
positive tone and temper of some OF the West
parity %nd rssptS doars G de
not see how any fair-minded European, reading
rapts conventon adopted. can m infer that 'e our
voters intend to coin 80 cent silver dollars, to
make hall dollar to be dollar in paying debts.
any State advocate coinage laws which the adj |
voca,es believe will produce silver dollar OF |
who urge an immediate opening of our mints to |
silver on ratio OF 10. really fancy. 80 far as |
States can. alone and unaided. do a, much for |
silver er nov as bimetailic France did from 1903
but their faith in the power Of our country may |
be more intense than is ours. do believe. and |
the principal Governments Of the world COM
bined can on a ratio of l5I3. determine and
coined or unconed silver and gold. Gpon that
belief shall act until 1t is overthrown by facts.
at in so S Gs
repeated declarations OF the New YORK Democ-
rscy az and IA as senator @ by three existing laws
policy. The first Is In the unrepealed part OF he
Bland Allison enactment Of 1878, requiring the
composing the Latin Union. so-c called.
and OF such other European nations as he may
a &C Conference to " adopt common ] S."'rs ratio 10
between gold and silver. for the purpose of es-
between those lose metals That t. is ] bimetallism' nhe
pure and simple. Again. in the sherman enact
herein provided for, the Secretary of the Treas
redeem such notes in gold or silver
fen at boh his ,Sn il being the estab
tain the two metals on a parity with each
other upon tn the present legal ratio or such
metaiiism second time! 1t was was sole Solemn N de- M
claration and, pledge by law that the holder of
the I notes could have for them either gold or
an established policy parity and
the debtor had the discretion but the 'esta6-
iished i policy clause transformed ran the discre-
pealtng the Sherman law declared:
T. United states to continue the OF both gold and
silver as standard money and to coin both gold and
silver into money OF equal intrinsic and eXchangablo
value such qualify TO be secured through international
Insure the maintenance OF the parity n or the
coins OF the two metals and the equal power OF
every dollar at all tmes In and In the paw
ment or debts And 1t Is hereby further declared that
the ef!orts OF the Government should he steadily d.
rected 20 the establishment OF such safe system OF
bmetallism as will maintain at all times the equal
power OF every dollar coined issued by the United
States In the markets and in the payment OF debts
THAT statute was passed by a Democratic
Congress- and approved by a Democratic Presi-
dent. | promoted the introduction Of that
amendment, substantially reproducing the Chi
cago Democratic platform or 1902. 1t pledges
me. Congress. and the country to bimetallism
It was the condition OF the repeal. must be
Intend to bel
Il am not in the counsels of the gold mono-
metallists. but II were. should suggest that
they are prejudcing the cause OF safe and sound
at this moment by nagging over i'm
material incidents, as, for example, whether |
under the Coinage Law of 1902. the silver dol
lar was the unit OF value. The question is i'm
material, since now, under the law OF 1873, a
gold dollar is the unit of value The present
silver dollar, although full legal tender dollar
has not been declared "A unit Of value 1t is
not Of much consequence, and 1t IL useless to
nag our silver people herewith. And
why nag now over what ratio an inter-
national conference can and will adoptY IL
may be 15le. 1t may be IL. There may be no
conference and no agreement. Such nngging
nv 10 UOld tn NJ ha all |