New-York tribune., 1895-09-25

o,oo..s has indicated Home Rule in Excise as an
d1csent the Mayor of the city of New-York is
s,nreme in the appointment of Excise Commissioni ni
en1 n9 Of licenses and no others but when there
has been by refusing license an aDus o cn,rt NAV
compel the granting OF the license the state taw
does not permit the great cities to declde we hn
exc and Villages in the State have to GER
tain extent an option regulate the subject a.
detemDne nj whether there shall licenses or no
licenses whatever. through the eieeton oa and I'll
lagos have now virtually local option except III rei-
erence to the sale OF beverages on Sundayi that
II 1t he the law that towns ana villages nav ,i'a .
power IL seems intensely unjust that the electors OF
tie great cities of the State shall not under Hpnle lone
by the State, to decide in some degree what Their
excise laws and sunday laws shall BE- ,rAst As ro rs
troll the management OF the temperance question IN
their own city. as much as voters IN towns owns
City cannot vote for the kind Of Excise
Commissioners 1t prefers. 1t cannot DECIDE DECIDE
ing within narrow limits. the tax thereon The ap-
surdlty of such law Is manifest when according 10
the construction seriously and resolutely insisted
upon In our great cosmopolitan city or New oTk IL
Strong 10 offer In their houses in tie city glass OF
wine on Sunday to any one who may be dining WIN
It cannot mn pTotest ehsr m 0I s Of
the wine forbidden by the State law Nothing less
According to the narrow minded construction con-
tended for at Saratoga last week the statute makes
it misdemeanor for one who on Sunday offers. IN
any one. and inficts fine or imprisonment on one
spirits TO its members without license. and makes
1t misdemeanor to sell in club on sunday with
or without a license. How unnecessary, how ride
ulous such laws must be considered II such con-
newly appointed and hysterical taxing officer,
with more partisan zeal and more desire Tor pub
city than common sense, might in this state sud;
denly take 1t into his head to enforce literally ard
harshly the really obsolete ral-property tax
ae his on @ fS to
all laws. But what would be the feeling in this
submit to Inspection, appraisement, assessment at
fair value, and taxation, every taxable article of
YORK? It might well nigh provoke riot 10 ore
pretends that the New-York tax law is literally
Probably by few voters 20 s A in our State outside the
ranks Of the Prohibition party, with its 10000 or
power OF confirmed sots. habitual drunkards or
unfortunate victims OF alcoholism. can be restored
backward in admitting the evils of drunkenness
asvs nq h ana q Sss
seek Is iesisatior based on facts experience and
ton OF sobriety by the State with proper personal
freedom for those not inemperate. They cannot
tradition which upholds grinding tyranny in the
name OF morality and religion. and yet they would
properly consumed. rapidly turns man or woman
MAINTAIN nsG hs Of orcs rhy n
and towns where they are not desired nor on the
a
nority or hysterical executive officers to ens.ave
the sober members OF either Of the two grea,
drunkenness may be wisely removed, but the legt-
on Sunday should not be driven. as now to satisfy
Itself by illegitmate means The preachers and
reasonable excise law. sobrIety IS very important.
but not more important than IS personal freedom
for sober men to buy. eat drink and do what
pieases them, II 1t does not infringe the rights
OF others.
NETWORK ALWAYS FOR SOUND MONEY.
Not only has the New-York Democracy for the
last twenty years declared itself and thrown its
influence for tariff reform, administrative reform
and currency reform, but 1t has never failed TO
vindlcate sound finance. Ii stood inflexibly by
Jackson in his contest with the Bank" in his
struggle for specie payments. and with Van Buren,
for the Independent sub-treasury against a Whig
National bank. as a regulator of Federal currency
a fiscal agent and a depository OF Government;
money. When a quarter OF century later came
the degradation Of the money of the Constitution
by the injection of legal tender greenback cur
rency the New-York Democracy was loud in con-
form OF 1873 sets forth the rst decision m" of the
supreme Court forbdding the application of the
ment In coin. 1t condemned the Republican green
back imitation bill Of 1874, which President Grant
vetoed under New-York influence. The object OF
the financial portions OF the St. Louis Democratic
platform OF 1876 was TO make the greenbacks in the
New-York Democracy had no hand in the coinage
legislation and greenback reissue Of 1875 nor in
the Treasury bank conrivances perfected by Secre-
tary Sherman on Whig model during the Hayes
Administration.
In February. 1888, It was Democratic President
elect. Mr.. Cleveland. who by timely letter
warned the country that under the working Of the
or parting company" and gave the warning in
Silver Purchase law. II was his Democratic Sec
retary of the Treasury, Mr.. Manning who. in 1885
son law in the interest Of nternstional bmetsllsm
such pmetalllsm to come by what has been aptly
advocated by Democratic leaders in New-York
who also demand the payment and final extermina-
Republican Congress in 1890 had Inserted in men iae
sherman law" the worst features OF legal tender
Treasury bank redemption it was the New-York
Democracy. speaking through Governor Hill in
knell Of the ''cowardly makeshifi" which has
created s5o@oGO Of new sreenbacks driving
which IS the only exportable money We have II
was the New.York Democratic state Convention OF
New-York Democratic state Convention Of FEB
ruary p. 1892. which repeated the denuncia,on
OF the sherman law false pre;ence."
which denuncaton reappeared in the Democratic
National platform as "cowarlly makeshf;" To-
day everybody advocates. in the language OF the
New-lork Democratic platform Of twenty-five
years ago, currency as good as gold"
There may be here and there those who would re-
tain the greenbacks, condemned to continued re-
dempiIon" and the inevitable necessity OF con-
stant efforts to get or keep the gold for that pur-
pose by manipulating the sale OF foreign exchange
but their number grows smaller day by day. II
Congress viii provide New-York with a coin EN-.
bodinent OF our do,ar unit Of value stable and
constant. and provide none other than such coined
Government dollars, ana viii remove hnderng
taxes. New-York can be safely ntrusted wiih
State banks OF our own devising. When Ae con-
slider the vast quantity of mortgage bonds and other
evidences OF debt payable In New-York and having
hfty hundred. and. IL the case of the West
Shore bonds nearly five hundred years to run be-
fore maturity. the stability and constancy o. the
dollar Of payment are OF the utmost Importance.
In large quantities these cvd,nces Of debt only
the word "dolars' is used without any adjective
phrase Of description.
REPLYING To SENATOR SHERMAN.
In recent speech at Springfield OHIO. Senator
sherman has bocn reported as boastng that the
Republican party, during thirty. years OF power.
furnished. for ,he first time. truly American cur
rency," and then coado.nulng the C.evela nd
Administration because. aa he says It has increased
the public debt "oyer si65.Ooo0oo and that increase
viii continue while that party IL IN power"