The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-11
aovERNMENr OF, By AND FOR THE
PEOPLE.

GOVERNMENT OF, BX AND FOR THE
PEOPLE.
Government by the people should be
for the people. A government run by
end for rings, trusts and combines is not
by and for the people, except to rob
and plunder them. And herein is the
danger in popular government as all
history shows, Those in possession Of
power as agents Of the people for q
brief time, are too apt to consider only |
their own and others emolument rather
than justice and the general welfare.
"If self the wavering balance shake, tits
rarely right adjusted"
The schemers and advocates of meas.
ures comforting valuable privileges take
care to give them good names and cover
them up, like the cat in the meal tub.
Taxation to favor individuals or classes
is called protection" though it is
bounty to those favored, and robbery
of the mass Of the people When in
1890 the Mckinley tariff was enacted,
raw sugar was admitted free, but refined
sugar imported had to pay duty. Our
own sugar growers demanded that pro.
lection on the raw article continue, but
the Mckinley act provided otherwise
by giving the home growers bounty
out of the public treasury. This bounty
ran up to twelve millions or more q
year. The Wilson bill in 1898 dropped
all this, and the Dingley law did not re-
| vlve it last year. Was not this bounty
feature of the Mckinley law an acknowl-
edgement that protection means bounty
and nothing elseP People only use the
refined article and tnat was taxed, of
course
1t should not be forgotten that sugsr
is as profitable a crop as wheat or cotton
these days, why then give sugar grow
ers bounty? Why rob those who
grow wheat, cotton, corn, etc to give
10 those who grow sugar? And why
should the gentlemen of the sugar trust
get the opportunity of compelling our
people to pay more for tie sugar they
refine thar we would need to pay for
the same article from abroad If admit
ted free2 II this whole matter we're
submitted to direct vote Of the AmeIi-
can people, 1t would soon be settled
and settled right.
The foregoing reference illustrates the
wrong and robbery under the sweet
terln "protectiop. Evidently, the peo-
pls generally are not protected in their
equal rights Of person and property. 1t
is clear when some get more by their
tricks of law, others get less. "a plain
and simple government that shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread
0 it has earned" was Thomas Jefferson's
idea.
Equality of rights is natures plan,
And following nature is the march of man. u
The objects and purposes in estab-
! lishiug this system of government are
e well expressed in the preamble to the
Constitution: "We, the people Of the
=; United States, in order to form more
t perfect union, establish justice, insure
!. domestic tranquility, provide for the
It common defence, promote the genera
! welfare and secure the blessings Of lib
! erty to ourselves and our posterity
Q do ordain and establish this Constitu
8 ton OF the United States Of America"
J. 1t was this Constitution that consti
4 tuted the government under which We
g live. This notable document, the fun
9 damental law Of the land, is worthy o.
s our careful study. There were many
able men engaged in preparing the in
!. strument, and they did noble and en-
h during work. James Madison hes beer
= called the father of the Constitution
J. and he, no doubt, performed leading
s part, and he was an honest and able
# man. There were many other mem
}, bers of the convention, however, abl'
o and seryiceable, who did good work
This convention of 1887, which met II
Philadelphia, and over which Washing
It ton presided, had no guide, but lik'
u wise nen they studied the situation anC
d wrought out an immortal document.
q is ever century since the government
o organized hereunder went into opera
g ton, and results vindicate the perform
3 ance. All honor to the memory Of tn,
Il builders, for they builded WE'LL