Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-14

We hold that tariff duties should be levied
for purposes Of revenue, and that taxation
should be limited bv the needs of the govern-
ment honestly AND economically administered
We denounce as disturbing to business the
republican threat 20 restore the Mckinley
law which has been twice condemned by the
people ia the national elections and
which enacted under the false plea Of
protection to home industry, proved a prolific
breeder of trusts and monopolies enrich ed
the few at the expense of the many, restricted
trade and deprived the producers OF the great
American staples OF access TO their natural
markets. Until the money question Is
settled we are opposed to any agita-
ton for further changes in our tariff
laws, except such as are necessary TO max g
the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse
decision OF the supreme court on the income
tax. There would be no deficit In the revenue
but for the annulment by the supreme court
OF a law passed by a democratic congress in
strict pursuance Of the uniform decisions Of
that court for nearly one hundred years, that
court having sustained constitutional
objections to its enactment which has been
overruled by the ablest Judges who bad ever sat
on that bench. We declare that 1t Is the duty
of congress TO use all the constitutional power
which remains after that decision, or which
may come from Its reversal by the court as 1t
may hereafter be constituted so that the bur-
dens Of taxation may be equally and impair
TALLY laid to the end that wealth may bear its
proportion Of the expenses Of government
We hold that the most efhcieat way of pro-
tecting American labor is to prevent the i'm
portstion Of foreign psuper labor to compete
with 1t In the home market, and that the value
Of the home market 70 our American farmers
and artisans is greatly reduced by vicious
monetary system which depresses the prices
OF their products below the cost OF production
and thus deprives them IL the means Of salts
flying their needs.
We denounee the profigate waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppressive
taxation and the lavish appropriations OF re-
cent republican congresses, which have kept
taxes high, while the labor that pays them Is
unemployed and the product OF the peoples
toll are depressed till they no longer repay the
cost OF production. We demand return to
the simplicity and economy which best BELTS
democratic government and a reduction in
che number OF useless officers, the salaries Of
which drain the substance of the people
We denounce the arbitrary interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as a viola
ton OF the constitution Of the United States
and a crime against free institutions, and we
especially object to government by injunction
as a new and highly dangerous form Of OPP
preston by which federal judges, in contempt
Of the laws OF the states ana rights Of citizens,
become at once legislators, judges and execu-
tors. and we approve the bill passed at the
last session OF the United States senate and
now pending in the house relative to contempt
in federal courts and providing for trials by
fury in certain cases OF contempt
No discrimination should be INDUCED in by
the government OF the United States in favor
OF any Of its debtors. We approve Of the re-
fusal Of the Fifty-third congress to pass the
Pacific railroad funding bill, denounce the
effort OF the present republican congress to
enact a similar measure
Recog nizing the just claim Of deserving