The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-30
For Free Trade. Good Money and the
Income Tax.


Editor The Times: The Harper weekly
editorial. entitled. 1.-THE Merits OF the
Income Tax" that appeared In your col
ufnns last Sunday is, to my mind, at Varl-
ance with lust &c and fairness. a man VINO
has an income should feet so happy that
The would welcome the assessor ana not
regard his visit as an inqulsltoIia'
search into the private a1alrs OF GU
GEMS" Look at list sent you by the COM
missioner of the Revenue. ana you VIII
md ii ''inquisitorial," but, nevertheless,
necessary. and as long as you want
everything taxed you cannot consistently
object TO an income tax Now i shan't
weary your readers with any learned dis
QUESTION upon the subject, but VIII re-
mind you that 1t is a Democratic Dill,
and we should stand by 1t. | VIVA re-
mark also that there are two kinds OF
Democrats one kind approve OF us prlh-
ciples ana measures as those, whleh' IL
enacted into law and enforced In ad-
ministration, bring the greatest degree OF
prosperity TO the country Inc other
kind belong merely because II Is 10 tner
interest to do so. This latter class has
bitterly and persistently fought the Dem
ocratic administration, convicting, to
their own satisfaction, Mr.. Cleveland OF
treason to the party, the country and
the peopIe He vetoed the segnlorage
bill. issued bonds according TO law, and
was guilty of other high crimes ana
misdemeanors. they say. In every IN
stance he received and now has the
hearty approval of millions OF Democrats
and a large portion OF the party press
The President, with rare courage ana IN
telligence, represents the policy taVoreu
by our school of thinkers. 1t IS the same
which controlled the thought and action
han Ea President
nominated and which wrote the pro-
gramme of party promises, which the
people approved when they elected him.
The country IS experiencing extreme de-
preston, resulting from Republican leg
islation of thirty years, and we are
blamed for it all. People will look for relief
wherever promised, and, in their misery
and anxiety, will turn TO that party OF
faction which promises most without
much regard TO whether there IS red-
sonable hope that the promises can be
carried out. They have been told that
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
is the panacea Tor all their ills. Senators
Cameron and Quay are free silver men,
and why? Because they know that free
coinage would Danish gold from circula-
ton, and put the people Of this country
at terrible disadvantage in trading
their products with other countries. The
fluctuations I'm the value OF our money
and high rate of exchange would serve
just as effectually the purposes of the
protectionists as would the Mckinley
BILL which was taken from them. Came
ron wants to be President; he has gotten
down off the currency fence. after riding
II a long time on the free silver side. lie
is the logical candidate of protection; and
free silver and protection go together.
Give us free trade, the Chicago platform
| I'm toto. which Mr.. Cleveland has labored so
hard to carry out. So many people think
free silver will be sent out to them by
express. and all they will have to do will
be to spend it, If true, the millennium is
at hand. Unless, Mr.. Editor. we stop
using so much machinery, and find mar
! kets for our products, great trouble will
come to this land.
JOSEPH II. SHEPHERD.