The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-14
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Views of Gov. Hartman on Re-
publican Relief From Ia
riff ExtoTtionS.
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New York. April 13.-"The reductions
in the pending tariff legislation form
nothing but mOckery 10 the demand
for relief" asserted Governor Judson
Harmon of Ohio. i'm an address tonight
at the annual dinner of the National
Democratic club at the Hotel Savoy.
He insisted real relief never would
be secured except under a congress and
executive of the Jeffersonian rules and
treating taxes as a means of public
revenue, and not of private gain.
Governor Harmon protested strongly
against what he termed the growing
encTOachment of special privilege at
Washington. insisting that the steady
tendency since the civil war has been
TO exalt the federal government at the
expense Of the state, one result being
the neglect of economy and the en-
barkation Of the government into ex-
travagant enterprises. He instanced
the action of the last congress in APP
propriating two billions of dollars and
the raising of salaries of officials in
the face of a growing shortage, and
continued:
Additional Taxation.
Now. instead of seeking methods
of retrenchment the president and con-
gress are devising additional taxes to
exact from the diminished means Of
the people. and are proposing TO issue
bonds besides. state officials who
would propose such a course would not
dare to go home to their constituents
and would be forever disgraced if they
should take it.
The wage-earners, for whom there
is the usual show of deep interest. are
not present or represented in the pull
ing and hauling which is going on so
Ae.a- Il
to be for them. The increases caused
by the tariff viii mostly go, as it has
always gone. to make unnatural profits
for the employer. whose solicitude for
his workmen does not even take the
form OF fair division of the spoils.
Merely a Moekery.
Some Iuckless interests whose pull
has grown weaker or has been over
come by counter pull. like the wood
pulp paper trust. may. with great cere-
mony. be anointed with the oil Of sac
rihce for the salvation of the other
but the reductions, when real will be a
mockery of the cry for relief
1T is hardly fair for Republicans at
least 10 charge with Inconsistency
Democratic congressman who take a
hand i'm this selfish scramble. In the
last campaign the Republican candi-
date for president openly offered a
share of tariff spoil for Democratic
votes. When special favors are the or
der Of the day. it is natural for a rep
resentative TO tn nix he ought TO secure
d share for the interests at home.
incompatible Ideas.
why tax the people to build costly
canal and secure ships for foreign com
merce while a tariff system IS main
tanned to discourage or kill foreign com
merce except such as consists IN seilng
our products abroad for less prices than
are imposed on our own people. What
state government ever committed such
folly?
surely, instead of the union dominat-
ing the states which compose 1t, 1t would
be better far if the states would require
from the central government which their
people, esta blished and maintained, strict
observance Of the same principles and
practices Of economy, fairness and equal
itv of rights and benefits which have al
ways prevailed in them. This can never
be under the rule of the Republican
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