Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-24 | Page 6 | Local News

It appears to have been already forgotten for-gotten that the omission of a gold plank frdm tho Democratic St. Louis platform was a compromise: that the Income tax proposition was omitted also as compensation. It was a war between the Populist wing of the party and the Cleveland winr, and neither was strong enough to win. Yet. as the Democrats proiose to reduce the-revenue the-revenue by taking off the tariff dues extensively, without making any provision pro-vision such aa an Income tax might provide, for the maintenance of the Government, It has been suggested that Judge Parker might cover this lapse also In his letter, of acceptance. Without doubt, whatever he would de- 1 clare to be Democracy his party would accept as such, It having no opinion of its own on these points. It will be idle for the Democrats to claim that they would reduce expenditures to correspond corre-spond with the lessened 'receipts, for there Is a point lnf economy beyond which' the Government cannot properly .ox safely, go; and, iKjsldea, .the only fault found by the Democratic Representatives Repre-sentatives at the late session with the expenditures was that they were not largo 'enough. They never wanted to decrease, but always tojncrcase the appropriations.