Evening journal., 1897-03-23

porYerSlOn OF that sovereign power to EN-
ploy it as a means of enabling favored
classes TO levy unjust charges upon the
great body of the people. We believe that
after contributing his proper share toward
the maintenance of the government every
citizen of this republic is entitled to the
full possession and enjoyment Of all he
can honestly earn, and we deny the right
of congress to make or enforce any regu.
lation which requires one man to give any
part of his honest earnings toward encour.
aging the enterprises or encourage tho for.
tune of another.
The Sugar Bounty Clause.
"No man. however blind he may be.
would defend a system of taxation under
which the government first collected the
money and aftorward distributed it among
its fayorites 1t is true that the tariff act
Of 1890 ventured to this extent in dealing
with the sugar growers, but the disap-
proyal of that policy was so overwhelming
and so bitter that the advocates Of protec
tion have been forced to abandon IT, and
they have not dared TO incorporate any
provision for a direct bounty in the pres.
cut bill
"Wo are unable, however, to perceive any
difference in collecting money and distrib
uting it among the protected industries and
a law which enables these industries to
collect the money directly from the people.
If the government has the right to levy
taxes upon the people for the purpose OF
inducing men to establish Improbable in.
dustries or industries which can only be
made profitable by compelling the con
sumers of the United States to pay exor-
bitant prices for their products, then the
bounty system is more direct and less
complex way Of attaining that end and
at least has the advantage Of directness and
simplicity.
says IL Encourages Extravaganza.
Under the heading, 1.-The Bill Encour-
ages Extravaganza, " Mr.. Bailey says in
parts
1T follows as a matter of course that a
bill based upon vicious principle must
be injurious in its effects, and perhaps no
bill could be more pernicious than the ex-
travagance which the bill encourages. The
tabulated statement embraced in the re-
port of the committee shows that the bill
is expected TO raise Sl13, 900, 900 more rev
enue than was collected in customs duties
during the last fiscal year, and yot, as Is
shown by the same report, the difference
between the governments receipts and
disbursements during that year was only
10000, 600. 1t is well known that the i'm
portations Of last year were smaller than
usual, owing to the general depression
that existed in all circles, but oven sup
posing that importations hereafter can be
kept at level with the impurtations Of
1896 the bill viii collect from the people
moro than $50, 900, 600 annually above the
requirements ot our present extrayagant
and wasteful appropriations.
''Breeds Pernicious Tendcncies.p
It may be, however, that the majority
should not be aTraigned for their open en-
couragement Of extravaganza, because it
cannot be surprising that gentlemon who
think that taxes are not burden should
feel that money derived from taxation
ought to be lavishly spent. Nothing could
better Illustrate the vice Of the protective
system than the fact that there Lows from
1t as a direct consequence the habit of
treating the expenditure of public money
as a benefit rather than as a burden to the
people IL would be cause enough for com
plant if the burden were the only result
of the extravaganza, but in free govern
ment extravaganza breeds tendencies of
the most pernicious character 1t not on.
" teaches the people TO look to the gov
ernment for the promotion of all kinds Of
enterprises, whether for pleasure or for
profit, but il makes them impatient against
public servants who believe in economy
and who believe that public moneys are a
trust fund to 10 jealously guarded
Claims II Fayors Trusts.
1.-THE Bill Fosters trusts IS another
headline, which is explained as follows:
'lf the system of unnecessary taxation
charlottesville because of the extravaganza
which it encourages, it is still moro so on
account of the trusts which it fosters and
promotes. 1t is not more certain that pro
lection encourages extravaganza than it
is that it breeds unlawful combinations OF
capital Indeed, protection is justified up
on the avowed theory that competition
should be restricted.
"True enough, it assumes the patriotic
pretense that foreign competition ough
not to be permitted against our homo IN
dustries, hut they little understand tn
selfshness Of human. nature, and especial
lv they little understand the scliishness O
the human nature which relies upon To
favoritisrn of the law 10 increase its toI