The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-04-23

removals OF fourth-class postmasters
shall be made until the present incum.
bents shall have served four years. or
course. when cause is shown, removals
will be made but the postoffice depart
ment will not consider trumped-up
charges merely for the sake of making
removals
Willard II. Keeny, of Grand Rapids.
has been in Washington several days
on private business in the executive de-
partments. S. Il. Harris and wife. of
Hancock, have been Capitol callers for
several days. Hon. d. A. Blodgett is
on his way back from his Florida trip.
and will pass through Washington dur
ing the coming week.
"Uncle James Monroe and Theron
Giddings, of Kalamazoo. will be in
Washington during the coming week.
"Uncle James" has long been the
trusted friend and political manager Of
the campaigns of julius Caesar Bur-
rows, and the junior senator holds him
in high esteem.
John j. Coon, of Flint, has made a
second visit to Washington to see the
president and urge his appointment to
the position Of consul general to hIeXi-
CO. The Michigan senators have rec
commended this appointment verbally
and in writing. The president, how
ever, has given no indication Of his in
tentions in this case.
Among thn new applicants of the
week came Ransom G. Johnson, of
Flint. who filed a large number Of in
dorsements with the secretary of state.
He wants to be appointed consul gener-
al to Melbourne, Australia. There are
many other Michigan men who want
consulates, but the civil service orders
of President Cleveland have limited the
number of available places and there
will be many disappointments.
During the past week II. Call Joiner.
of Hillsdale, and Eber Ward, of Detroit.
have filed their applications for the pos
ition of appraiser of the port at De-
triot; and there are others
c. F. Kimball, of Pontiac, who was
formerly appraiser, is regarded as
very formidable candidate in this in
stance
Andrew Fyfe, of Grand Rapids. a
prominent gold Democrat, who has
been surveyor of custom, has filed an
application for appointment to that pos
ition. A vancancy will occur on the
18th Of May.
Tax Should BE Fair to All.
Senator Allison of Iowa, who is in
charge of the bill now being formulated
by the senate committee on finance,
says that by whatever name a tax may
be called, it can have no excuse for
its being If it is not fair one-fair to
all. A tax which is imposed upon one
class of producers and which Is not
levied upon another class equally
obliged to help to support the state and
able to pay it's quota of taxation, is an
unfair and an unjustifable tax. In the
making OF tariff the question of fair
ness and impartialty should be the
crucial one.
There are in the United States so
many persons engaged in the sheep
raising industry; there are so many
persons engaged in the cattle-raising
industry. The former have demanded
and received from the ways and means
| committee higher duties on some
grades of wool than have ever been
| conceived by any tariff. In order to
make it possible for those manufact-
urers, whose raw material is wool, to
| continue in business, correspondingly
| high, or so-called compensatory" du-
| ties, are to be levied upon their manu-
| features.
Is Perfectly Fair.
This balancing of duties, as between
| the growers and manufacturers of
wool. is perfectly fair and in strict ac-
| cordance with the primal principle of
taxation, which declares that taxes
shall be uniform and equitable. The
| tax en- v0'' and woolens + rot loss
| fair :" tlt act. because II viii in
| creas, at - per cent the prices
| to the mil Of consumers of every
| article of / clothing, their bedding,
| their carpet heir furnishing. made
| wholly or -. ,iy of wool. This is a
| necessity Cf protection, or, at least, the
| ways and ms committee believe 1t
| to be SO: either Is it less fair because
| the Dinfl,, ariff. in it's present form,
| is not, except incidentally, a revenue,
| but a protective tariff. If it were the
| former instead OF the latter, it would
| tax, or tax more heavily those things
which are universally recognized as be-
1 ing the most appropriately subject to
| taxation for revenue-such things, for
| instance, as tea and coffee, which are
on the free list; spirituous and malt
| liquors, tobacco, raw and manufact-
ured, which are already taxed to some
| degree. Sugar being taxed, so should
tea and coffee be, upon which so low
a duty could be put that while it would
scarcely effect the cost of these table
necessaries to consumers, it would yield
desirable amount of revenue.
| PerniciOus Luxuries.
| An additional tax on those pernicious
1 luXuries-spirits, beer and tobacco
would yield a much larger amount of
| revenue and materially assist in plac-
ing the governments finances upon
wholly satisfactory foundation.
| The Dingley tariff, however, is di-
rectly a protective and only indirectly
revenue measure, precisely as it ap-
pears to be indirectly ust-promoting
measure. Such being the case, why
should not imported hides and skins,
as well as imported wool, be made to
| pay a fair protective duty?
Senator Mantle of Montana, repre-
senting the sheep-raisers of the west,
| has prepared an amendment to the