Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-02

OF Representative, nt tho Twenty-hitn
Anniversary of the Young NJ ems Demo-
cratic Club. saturday Night.
Hon. John Sharp Williams Of Mis-
sissippi one of ihe foremost Demo
Gratis Of the country and the minority
tves, made am able address 400 the
Twenty fifth anniversary exercises of
the Young Men Democratic Club, 100
this city. ON Saturday evening. am
which he explained the injustice of the
present tariff laws and denounced all
kinds Of governmental and individua
graft lie also announced that the
ISSUES of the next campaign. from %
Democratic standpoint, would bc put
ting down corruption. fighting the
trusts and general revision of the tariff.
In his opening remarks Mr.. Williams
said that he started TO rcfor tO Della
ware as the Little State and the
fact that she was small, he said, could
not be denied but he referred TO her
as the Great State Of Delaware " In
addressing himself To- follow Demo
Gratis. he said he did not refer TO
politicians who stand pat. 80
A good Democrat, he said, was a man
who could not afford TO stand pat
but must be up and doing all the time
Neither could he afford TO be too radical
or two conservative, except whore ne
ccssity called for radicalism or con
scrvatism.
In referring briefly 10 the great graft
exposures of the last few months. Mr.
Williams declared that they were
outward and visible signs of an in
ward spiritual rOttenness.
Tie declared that there was munici-
pal utility graft, trust graft. and graft
In the Public Land Government De
partment and diplomatic service. He
pointed out that the Cincinnati investi-
cation, which was resulting i'm the
bringing of two officials To hook showed
70 wonderful state of affairs in banking
methods. The country's IS money, he
said, was being loaned TO banks with
out interest upon the prcteXt OF de
posits. The banks, he said, were lend
ing the money out TO their customers
and were collecting interest upon such
loans.
The speaker compared the Trust
magnate, who knocks upon tho doors
of the committee rooms of Congress,
10 the smaller corporation man who
enters the Town Council chamber and
tries 20 have ordinances enacted
for the benefit of his company TO the
dctriment Of the public He said that
every corrupt politician has q tempting
and COrrupting scheme at the other
end, and that his central idea was Ia
mould legislation and the execution of
the law ON lines the purpose of which
was business profit.
They are prostituting law to pur
poses of private advantage, instead of
/ holding the government sacred TO It's
sole right and purposes protection
/ of life and limb, protection of property,
equal opportunity in the pursuit o
happiness. national defence, and ma
tional enlightment and education,
| said MIR Williams.
1.-THE taxing laws are oitoner prosti
tutcd than an other - declared the
speaker and the moment that YOU ar,
guided boy any other motive than pun
lie necessity, by any other puprosl
than "a public purpose. I'm laying tax
i'm determining what 20 tax, how to ia'
it, or how much and the moment yol
forget that the right to tax at all pro
goods only from need of "a revenue fo
honaiide governmental needs; the mo
ment Nou allow the taxing power I'M 10
application to be- swayod by the con
sideration of either tearing up or tear
ing down Johns business or Tom
business, that moment YOU huvc opencl
wide the door Of graft. You have ac
customed men TO entertain the corrup
and corrupting thought that the gov
crnmcnt may take from all TO onric
some, that government is TO he use
to furnish revenue for some Of IL
citizens boy collecting directly OF In
, directly revenue from all Vet thi
/ is professionalism the fixed America
policy.
Under such conditions there is n
wonder that there is graft In the grant
ing of valuable franchises, depositin
, | of public moneys and the granting
charters. Protectionism is the moth,
on graft and is also the mother
socialism.
i eff tax be Indirect, still tax.
ought to bear as nearly ass possible ,
all consumers in proportion to the "a
T. paying ability of each.
"Only enough tax should he leviC
to raise the revenue necessary TO ru
the government, with a little over Il
D unfurseeable contingencies The minu
q you consider any other advantage,
y any other necessity, or any other prof
. than governmental advantage, necessi
g OF profit. you are on the wide. unstah
3 waves of conflicting theories and co
e hicting interests
4 I'm speaking of the tariff laws. NJ
3 Williams said IN part:
q The spirit of the system iniec
x everything and instead of he manufa
3 turers asking for equal opportuniti
z they all want some special adyantag
x 10 Is not a square deal and the car
3 are stacked against competitors. lf d
q false pretence that the goyernme
\ taxed consumers 10y tariff in order
3 raise the wages in certain industri,
were true and 10 is an enormous lie
what would 10 mean
n "Ought a government To take.
n taxation. out of one mans pocket
dollar, say, 90 add TO the wage
q another man boy raising the price
employer gets for his protect
products. the theory being that d
employer gives his laborer part Of D
law increased prOiitss
Suppose this was the sincere pu
fssttr.xFe pa~n.rrno-