The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-03

llOudllE Oh Inc income TAX. L only Say
that from the ethical standpoint, it
meets with my approval. If you could
see the widow who has less than
$500 painfully vending her way to
the county treasurer's office twice a
year to pay her little pitiful tax for
the support of the government. |
think from the standpoint of ethics
you would agree with me that the men
whose business affairs are protected
by our system of government are the
men who ought to pay our taxes.
There have always been two theor-
les in Anglo-SaXon law; one that a
man charged with the commission of
a crime ought to be tried by jury Of
his peers, and the other that he ought
not to be tried before an interested
judge. Injunctions ought not to indis-
criminately issue.
True, there are doubtless times
when it is necessary to issue tenn
porary restraining order, but so soon
as notice can be given, the merits of
the matter ought to be entered into
and the question determined whether
a permanent injunction should issue
while the facts are yet fresh and cas-
lily ascertainable. A violation of that
injunction is criminal in its charac-
ter. A person arrested for such viola
ton ought to have a trial by jury and
he ought to have an opportunity to be
tried before an impartial Judge.
l have recently been up Salt river in
the territory of Arizona. l went early
to spy out the land, and see whether
| should like il for permanent place
of residence after November. | there
ascertained that the government had
in process of construction a dam,
which in honor of the president of the
United States, is called the Roosevelt
Dam. When this dam is completed it
will furnish a sufficient amount of
water to irrigate the entire Salt riv-
err valley, reclaim 500 900 acres of land
and furnish homes for a half million
Of prosperous, contented and happy
people. How startling the cOmpari-
son between this work begun and the
$500,0O0,000 which we have put into
the Philippines in a vain endeavOr to
reconcile imperialism with democracy.
our waterways is no new thing. We
began most of the things that the Re-
publican party is now talking about.
Much discussion is had as to a water
way from Toledo to Chicago. We be-
lieve in the expenditure of public
money that will lessen the expenses
of transportation for the people and
will furnish facilities for merchandise
and passengers.
OF recent years new system Of
government has grown up in Indiana.
Instead of holding the officer to strict
accountability for the faithful dis
charge of the duties of his office, it
has been deemed wiser in township
and county by the Republican party,
to appoint board of guardians. In its
platform of this year it says that it
will not falter or halt, but will adj
vance the cause OF reform and bet
ter government as fast as the same
can be wisely worked out with the ap-
prOval and continued support of the
people. It cOngratulates the people
that it has enforced the maxim that
public office is public trust and has
always fought for honesty and integri-
ty in every public Office.
If this is to be taken as true in spir-
it as we'll as in letter, it might be we'll
to inquire what reform and better gov
ernment is needed than has been pro-
vided for by the republican party? 1t
has had possession of the state ma
chinery for the last twelve years. 1t
has had every opportunity and every
power to make things just exactly
right. Is there something that needs
reform, and do we require better gov
| eminent in the state of Indiana? II
that is true. then it seems to me that
the way TO obtain it is not by the null
| tiplication of Offices, the large increase
in salaries, the vast expenditures OF
money, but rather in a watchful care
upon the part of the people that the
man who goes into office shall dis
charge his duty.
| If he steals, give him haircut and
striped suit of clothes; if he fails to
do his duty, remove him from office.
The remedy is not in the multiplied
ton of offices and increase in salar-
| les, UuI tIS remedy Is IdIuSi III LIf
man and in the public attitude toward
the administration OF affairs.
The business of this country was
never done upon the currency Of the
| country and it never will be done up
on such a basis. l am not banker
and cannot speak upon SO abstruse a
| business as banking, but I know that
one of the things which ais the pres
ent financial condition of the state
and nation, is the lack Of confidence
= Of the people in the solvency and re
sponsibility of many banks. For a
number of years past the republican
! party has been devoting a great deal
| OF time and attention to the banking
| system. 1t has introduced a number
| of measures looking toward the
Strengthening of the system as il says
| The best that is proposed is denomi,
mated by its champion as a Cyclone
| cellar measure" What is going TO
happen to the people OF this country in
| the way of a financial cyclone none OF
/ us plain citizens know. With the Re