The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-30

Iate OF the great nations OF the past and
study the causes leading to their down.
fall, we must have dark foreboding as
to our future. But 1 am not OF tina t
number who are without hope. 1 hope
the time will come when men will be
as honest in politics as they are in their
private dealings with their fellow men !;
when men of all parties will become
sick of this boodling business and when
it will become nauseating to their higher
moral instinct.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Before the emancipation of the negro
in the south, we often heard the remark
that the nation cannot live half free and
half slave. There is another question
quite as important as the emancipation
of the negro, which is the emancipation
of one.half of our population from the
bonds of political slavery. 1 mean the
right of women to vote. To not permit
them to vote is to tax them without rep.
resentation. The denial of that princi-
pie to us at one time caused war. 1t
is great fundamental principle in gov.
ernment. Woman's influence is great.
If she was allowed to vote, our political
atmosphere would be cleared. Her votes
would bring about the reform of many
evils that now exist. I favor the grant
ing OF females over twenty.one years of
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have.
PENSIONS.
We should hold in grateful remem.
brance the men who fought to save our
Nation. BY their sacrifices we have a
nation which we call the United States
They faced the cannon's mouth, they
placed their lives upon the altar of their
country. Thousands of them went down
to premature graves. Many came back,
MANNED and diseased, to their old homes,
when their services we're no longer need.
ed in the army. Why should not the
government, which these men have
made and maintained, give to them a
certain portion of its revenues I favor
liberal pensions to our old veterans, and
would make that pension vested right
under the government.
THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION.
While We all recognize that the foun-
ders OF our government builded better
than they knew, yet experience has
shown US that our fundamental law is not
without defect. 1t has been amended
several times, and now many think the
time has come for another change.
Should not the President be made in.
eligible to second term? 1t is we'll
known that our people have an irrecon-
cilable prejudice against a third term.
And, on the same principle, why not a
second? When a man is elevated to
this, the highest Office within the gift of
our people, he can have no additional
honor by being reelected. And by
knowing that he can not be reelected,
he will strive to serve the people as best
he can, 80 as to leave as good name
behind him as possible. If we limit a
President to one term, our Presidents
will be the Presidents Of the whole peo.
pie, and will not try to serve party or
faction. 1t will stop all the intrigues to
which some of our past Presidents have
resorted to secure a denomination. 1t
will leave the Chief Executive freer to
act on public questions. There will be
no selling out of offices for future polit.
ical or past political favors. There will
be no more swinging around the circle
any more of prospective Presidential
candidates. In short, there will be much
more harmony in our system of govern.
| ment.
| CAPITAL AND LABOR-AN INCOME TAX.
The increase in wealth ip this country
is one of the marvels of the century.
Great fortunes have been made and cap.
ital is rapidly accumulating in the hands
of few. Labor has not received its
I share of this wealth. And it is but just
that those who have the most of the
VSesASA Va phS SouApAy Saou4O pay ulOSt
of the burden of the government. There
fore, favor an enactment of an income
tax law, that shall be so graded that the
wealth OF the country shall be compelled
to pay its due proportion Of taxes to the
support of the general government.
PUBLIC DOMAIN.
am opposed to large capitalists, and
especially foreign syndicates, taking up
and holding large tracts of our public
| domain to the exclusion of our actual
settlers and paying mere nominal tax.
But I am in favor of taxing all such lands
as high, if not higher, than the best i'm
proved land in the vicinity,
Ola People.
Old people who require medicine to
| regulate the bowels and kidneys will