The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-04-15
Democratic Governor Of
Ohio is not Pleased
With the Course Con-
eress is Pursuing
DECLARES THAT PRESENT REV..
SION Is A MOCKERY AND TRAY
ESTY UPON JUSTICE ~ MUST
GET BACK To JEFFERSON.

NEW YORK, April 14.-sThe re-
ductions in the pending tariff legisla-
ton form nothing but moekery of
the demand for relief asserted Gov
ernor Judson Harmon. of Ohio. in his
address at the annual dinner of the
National Democratic club at the Ho-
tel Savoy.
He insisted real relief never would
he secured except under a congress
and executive finding 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 eneroachment of special
privilege at Washington. insisting
that the steady tendency since the
civil war has been to exalt the fed
eral government at the expense of
the state, one result being the neg
lect of economy and the embarkation
of the government into extravagant
enterprises.
He instanced the action of the last
congress in appropriating two billion
of dollars and the raising of salaries
of officials in the face of growing
shortage and continued:
Now. instead of seeking methods
of retrenehment. the president and
congress are deyising additional
taxes to exact from the diminished
means of the people and are pro-
posing to issue bonds besides State
officials who would propose such q
course would not dare 10 go home
10 their constituents and would be
forever disgraeed if they should
take it.
The wage earners, for whom
there Is the usual show OF deep inter.
est. are not present or represented in
the pulling and hauling going
on SO as to secure the advantages
professed TO be for them. The in
crease caused by the tariff will mostly
go, as ii has always gone. to make
unnatural profit for the employer
whose solietude for his workmen
does not even take the form of fair
division of the spoils
Some luckless interests whose
pull has grown weaker or has been
overcome by counter pull like the
wood pulp paper trust, may. with
great economy. be annointed with
the oil of sacrifice for the salvation
of the other but the reductions. when
real. will he n mockery of the cry
for relief
1T is hardly fair for the Repuh-
licans. at least. to charge with in
Democratic congressman
.i,.. T.ly In d Rgf
BILE In the last campaign. the Re
publican candidate for president
openly offered a share OF tafiff spoil
for Democratic votes. When special
favors are the order of the day, it is
natural for a representative TO think
he ought to secure Il share for the In
terests at home.
"Why tax the people To build
costly canal and secure ships for for
eign commerce while a tariff system
is maintained TO discourage or kill
foreign commerce except such as con
sists in selling our products abroad
for less price than are imposed on
our own people. What state govern
ment ever committed such folly.
Surely. instead of the union dom
mating the states which compose it,
it would be better far If the states
would require from the central gov
ernment which their people estab-
lished and maintained, strict observ-
anee of the same principles aud prao
tices of economy, fairness and equal
ity of rights and benefits which have
always prevailed in them. This can
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