Connecticut western news., 1896-10-29
LETTER FROM DEMOCRAT.
Editor of Netcs

Editor Qf Netcs:
 As have already claimed more of the attention of your readers than I origi- nally intended to. and as doubt not but that in fairness and as matter of news you will report the excellent speech of Hon. H. s. Cummings last week. I will make my letter brief and only reply to "Skeptic" where he con- siders that my statements are lame.
 do not propose to go into a lengthy tariff argument with "Skeptic" as am not writing to convert my Michigan brother on that subject as we agree on the theory .'thst reasonable tariff is good thing. Idiffer here, that don't consider the Mckinley tariff reason able tariff and contend that tariff for revenue only is ample protection to in- dustry. I am firm supporter of the income tax and do not believe in the power of Supreme Court to destroy a measure voted for by so vast N majority of people as did four years ago. A history of the rapidity with which one of the judges of that court changed his mind at the time the income tax ques- ton was submitted to him, will perhaps lessen the criticism with which the plank h the democratic platform re- gardiug the Supreme Court is viewed by republicans.
 "Skeptic" is very right in his state- ment that we only differ as to methods and policy to gain the same end. be- lieve in an income tax to partially SUD- port the government, then in tariff to supply the difference, claiming that this tariff for revenue only can be placed as Q sufficient protection to any industry believe in the free coinage of silver at a ratio of Is to l to make tho silver in the dollar that I have worth as much as the gold in the gold dollar that the cap italist has. I believe in the plank of democracy denouncing the issuance of national bank notes on interest bearing bonds I do not believe in mob rule, and the man is utterly wrong who claims that the democratic party stands fo, it.
 My mentioning Florida as leaving the republican ranks was not slip of the pen, but rather the pen did not slip far enough. Distance may have prevented my Michigan questioner from knowing that at the opening of the campaign eastern republican managers claimed that the gold money sentiment was so strong in Florida that the state would surely go for Mckinley. and even Matt. Quay was figuring it in his bundle of electoral votes, but at the time wrote of it, the republicans had just then con ceded that their claim was gone and Florida would go for Bryan and free silver.
 I am one of the men that can be found who deny that the present business de- tariff Writers of prominence on this question of depression, taking no politi- cal view of it whatever, have not laid its cause to the reduction of the tariff. I claim that it is the result of an over production of goods and too little money in circulation to get them with. I don't 6ud that the importers have been doing a magnificent business while every other liue has been losing. One of my chief objections to high tariff (Republican Protection) is that it stimulates mush- room growth of business. Too many business concerns spring into existence with the Idea in their head that protec- tion assures them a large per cent of profit and after a short life they pro- duce panic, in which they must stop, thus throwing a good many laborers ont of work and producing a business de- pression locally. and when this is the case all over the country, the result is hard times.
 As have already more than written briefly. and as the election will be de. cided one way or the other before your next issue, will bid good bye tc "Skeptic" and your readers, and will keep right on at the occupation of earn ing living, under either sdministrs. tion. DEMOCRAT.