The San Francisco call., 1898-06-23
THE LATEST BRYANISM.

l \NI approaching election IS trying get rid of
 Bryanism by dropping the silver issue and adopting platform of opposition to the alleged imperialism of the Republican policy, and another set is seeking the same end by the very diff ferent of advocating territorial extension an unlimited scale, there remains considerable fac ton of the party still devoted to Bryanism, which, finding the silver issue improbable, IS endeavoring to make capital for the party out of the revenue bill
 The scheme of this faction is to represent the bill unjust imposition of burdens upon the poor and thus array class of citizens against another by appealing to such preudices against the rich as may exist among the envious and the thrtess It IS scarcely necessary to say the yellow Examiner belongs to this faction It has already begun to denounce the revenue bi and if it arouse class antagonisms among the people and weaken the popu- lar support given the administration in the prose cution of the war it will be gratifed
 In editorial yesterday it sad "The burden of the war revenue falls heaviest on people in mod crate circumstances, the poorer classes" In maintenance of that theory it asserted "out of S323oooo which is expected to be collected in San Francisco under the provisions of the new law S2I35ooo will be paid tea, beer, tobacco and four Waxing indignant it asked: "On what principle can tax four be justified when at the same time
 
 In this tumble there are misrepresentations of all kinds. The revenue to be raised from San Francisco is nothing like the amount asserted by the Examiner Its estimate that branch of the subject IS as wild any campaign roorback ever uttered. That how ever, IS minor matter It is not the amount to be raised but the of raising that involves the proposed antagonsm of the poor to the rich which forms the essential feature Of the Examiners cam paign.
 On that point it IS to be noted first that the yellow raving the flour tax is one of misrepre- sentaton. There is tax flour itself. There is a tax of cents barrel on mixed four" but that IS rather tax on the mixture than on the four Four barrel Is not too much of an imposition adulteratons which constitute such an imposition on the public The principle which the tax is justified is that the people have right to be pro- tected from dishonest manufacturers who sell food supplies under fraudulent titles
 The tea tax of 10 cents per pound is one which has long been advocated by the tea importers them selves as a protection against the importation of adulterated teas For long time past there have been imported into this country class of cheap deleterious teas, made up partly of poor tea leaves and partly of other substances The only cheap teas of pure quality that come to our market are some exported from Japan and these form but small part of the great mass of the cheap teas sold here The tax imposed by the revenue bill will shut out the deleterious articles by making 1t unproftable to inn port them, since the tax will be as heavy upon the cheap stuff as upon the better grades. The tax is therefore, in the nature of pure food law and will be like the flour tax, benefit to the American home
 Taxes beer and tobacco are justified by all precedents of all nations It is worth noting more over in this connection that all these taxes upon flour, tea, beer and tobacco are parts of the free trade system of taxation and not of the protective system. They Democratic and not Republican They have been adopted to meet the exigencies of the and should be Loyalty supported by patriots he Examiner, however, desires Bryante cry for the coming campaign and distorts the war revenue bill to that end Seeking arouse against the Gov ernment all the dscontented classes, from extreme socialists to extreme anarchists, it shouts for an income tax and clamors against the President Con- gress and the Supreme Court in wild screed that is almost traitorous in its vainy