Show telegraphic NEWS washington sept 9 following is the presidents letter of acceptance washington sept 8 1888 lion patrick A and others committee gentlemen in addressing to you my formal acceptance of the nomination to the presidency of the united states my thoughts persistently dwell upon the impressive relation of such action the ta the american people whose confidence is thus invited and ancl to the political party to which I 1 belong just entering upon i a corf test for a continued supremacy the world does not afford a spectacle more sublime than is furnished when millions of tree free and intelligent american citizens select their chief magistrate and bid one of their number to find the highest earthly honor and f ull fall measure of public duty in ready submission to their will it follows that the candidate for this high office can never forget that when the turmoil and strife which attend the selection of its incumbent shall be heard no more there must be in the quiet calm which follow sa complete and solemn SELF consecration by the peoples chosen presidio president to nt of every faculty and endeavor endear or to the he service of a confiding and generous nation of free men these thoughts are intensified by the light ot of my experience perie peri ace ence in the presidential office which has soberly impressed me with the severe responsibilities which it imposed while it has quickened my love for american institutions and taught me the priceless value of the trust of my countrymen itis of the highest importance that those who administer our government should closely protect and maintain the rights of of american citizens at home and abroad and should strive to achieve for our country her proper place amons among the nations of earth h for there is no people whose home interests are so great and whose numerous objects of domestic concern deserve so much watchfulness ard care among these are the regulation of a sound financial system suited to our needs the securing of an efficient agency of national nacional wealth aad general prosperity the construction st and equipment of the means of defense to insure our national safety and maintain the honor beneath which such national safety reposed the protection of our national domain still strett stretching bing beyond the needs of centuries in its expansion pan sion and its preservation for the settler and pioneer of our marvellous marcellous marv ellous growth the sensible and sincere recognition tion of et the value of human labor leading to ta scrupulous care and just appreciation of the interests of our workingmen the limitation and checking of such monopolistic tendencies and schemes as interfere with the advantages and benefits which the people may rightfully claim generous regard and care for our surviving soldiers and sailors and for the widows and orphans of such as have died to the end that while appreciation of their services and sacrifices i s quickened the application lot of the funds to improper cases may be prevented protection against servile immigration which injuriously competes with our laboring men in the field of toil and adds to our population an element ignorant of our institutions aud and laws impossible of assimilation with our people and i DANGEROUS TO OUR REACE and welfare strict and steadfast adherence to the alie principles of civil service reform and the thorough execution of this the laws our government is the creation of our people established to carry out their designs and accomplish their good it w was as founded on justice and was made for a free intelligent and virtuous people it is only useful when within their control and only serves them well when regu and guided by their constant touch it is a free government because it guarantees every american citizen the unrestricted personal use and enjoyment of all the reward of his toil and of all his bis income except what may be mis his contribution to the necessary public expenses therefore his rot not only the but the duty of a tree tree people in the enforcement of this guarantee to insist that such expenses should be strictly limited to actual public needs it seems perfectly clear that when a government thus dinst instrumentally ru mentally created and maintained by the people to do their bidding turns upon them and through an utter perversion of its power extorts from their labor and ca capital ital a tribute largely in excess of pu public lie necessities t the e creature has rebelled against the creator and masters are robbed by bj their servants the cost of government must continue to be met by a tariff of duties collected at our custom houses upon imported goods and by an internal revenue tax assessed upon spirituous and malt liquors tobacco and oleomargarine I 1 suppose it is NEEDLESS TO EXPLAIN that all these duties and assessment are added to the price of the upon which they are levied and thus become a tax upon all those who buy these articles for use and consumption I 1 suppose it is well understood that the effect of this tariff taxation is ut limited to consumers consumer s of imported articles bye but that the duties imposed on such articles permit a correspond ing ine increase la the price to be made upon domestic productions of the same kind which increase is paid by all of our people as consumers of such productions and entering every american home constitutes a form of taxation as certain ascertain and inevitable as though the amount was finally paid into the hands of the tax gatherer brer these results are inseparable from the plan we have adopted tor for the collection of revenue by tariff duties they are not mentioned to discredit the system but by way of preface to the statement that every million dollars collected at our custom houses for duties on imported articles and paid into the public treasury rv re represent many millions more chic 1 though never reaching the national treasury are paid by our citizens as the increased cost of domestic productions duct ions resulting from our tariff laws under these circumstances and in ia view of this necessary effect ot of the operation of our plan tor for raising revenue the absolute duty of limiting the rate of tariff charges to the necessities of a frugal and economical administration of the governing go government vernin ent seems to be perfectly plain the continuance upon the pretext of meeting public expend tures lures of such a scale ot of tariff taxation as draws from the substance of the people a sum largely in excess of our public needs is surely something which under a government based upon justice and which finds its strength and usefulness in the faith and trust of the people eople ought not to be tolerated while cile the heaviest burdens incident to the necessities of the government are complainingly borne light burdens become grievous and intolerable when not justified by existing necessities unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation and yet this is our condition we bre are annually collecting at our custom house bouse by means of our internal revenue taxation MANY MILLIONS in excess of all legitimate public needs As a consequence there now remains remain 8 in tile the national treasury a surplus of idore more than no better evidence dence could be furnished than that the people are taxed the extent of the superfluous burden indicated dilated by this surplus will be better appreciated when it is suggested that such a surplus alone represents taxation aggregating more mor than one hundred and eight thousand dollars in a country containing inhabitants taxation has always been the feature of organized government hardest to reconcile with the peoples idea of freedom and happiness when presented in a d direct form nothing will arouse popular discontent more quickly ly and profoundly than unjust and unnecessary taxation our farmers mechanics and laborers and all our citizens closely scan the alil slightest increase in the ahe taxes assessed upon their lands and other property and demand good reasons for such increase and yet there seems to be a disposition in some quarter to regard the ary volume of ins insidious insl dous idous and indirect taxation visited u upon on the people by our present resent rate of oi tariff duties with indifference Indi gerence if not with favor the surplus revenue now remaining in the treasury not only furnishes conclusive evidence of unjust taxation but its existence constitutes a separate and independent menace to the prosperity of the people this vast accumulation of idle funds represents that much money drawn from the circulating medium of the country which is needed in the channels of trade and business it to is a great mistake to suppose that the consequences which follow the continual withdrawal and hoarding by the government of the currency of bf the people are not of immediate importance to the mass of our citizens and only concern those engaged in large financial transactions in the restless enterprise and activity which a free and ready money among the people produce is found the opportunity of labor to find employment and that impetus to business and production W which aich bring in their train prosperity TO OUR CITIZENS in every station and vocation new ventures and new investments in bust busi ness and manufacture the construction ot of new and important works and the enlargement of enterprises already established depend largely upon obtaining money on easy terms with fair security all these things are stimulated by an abundant volume of circulating medium even the grain of the farmers remains without a market unless money is forthcoming for its movement m ent and transportation to the seaboard the trot first results of a scarcity of money among the people to is the exaction of terms for its use and an increasing distrust and timidity 9 followed by refusal to loan or advance on any terms investors refuse all risks and decline all securities and in the general fright money still in the hands of the people is persistently hoarded boarded it is quite apparent that when this perfectly natural if not inevitable stage is reached the depression in all business and enterprises will as a necessary consequence lessen the opportunity for work and employment and reduce the salaries and wages of labor instead of their being exempt from the influence of the immense surplus lying idle in the national treasury our wage earners and others who rely upon their labor for support are most of all directly concerned I 1 in n the situation others seeing the approach of danger may provide against it bat it will find those depending upon their dally daily toil for daily bread unprepared dependent and de fenceless such a state of affairs does not nor present a case of idleness resulting from disputes between laboring men and their employers pl but it produces an absolute and enforced stoppage of employment and wages in reviewing the bad effects of this accumulated surplus and the scale of tariff rates by which it is produced we must not overlook the tendency toward GROSS AND scandalous LOUB public extravagance which a congested treasury induces nor the fact that we are maintaining without excuse in a time of profound peace substantially the rate of tariff duties imposed la ir time of war when the necessities of government justified the imposition of the weightiest weight iest burdens upon the people diverse plans have been suggested tor for the return of this accumulate i 1 surplus to the people and the channels of trade some of these devices are at variance with all rules of good finance some are delusive some absurd and some b betray tray by their reckless extravagance the demoralizing influence of a of money upon the judgments of individuals vi while such efforts should be made as are consistent with public duty and sanctioned by sound judg to avoid dauge dauger r by a useful disposition of the surplus now remaining hinline inline treasur yit isi is evident Levident that if it it its a distribution were accomplished another accumulation would soon take its place if the constant now flow of redundant income is not checked lat at its source by a reform in our present tariff laws we do not propose to deal with ith these conditions by merely attempting to satisfy the people of the truth of abstract theories nor by alone urging assent to a political doctrine Wet we present resent to them propositions that the they I 1 a are re unjustly treated in the extent of the present f federal taxation that as a result a condition of extreme eitrem danger exists and that it is for them to demand a remedy and that defense and safety promised in the guarantees of their tree free government we believe the same means which are adopted to relieve the treasury of its present surplus and prevent its recurrence would cheapen to our people the cost of supplying their daily wants both of these objects we seek in part to gain by reducing the present tariff rates upon the necessaries of life we f fully ally appreciate the importance to the country of our domestici industrial enterprises terp rises la in the rectification of existing wrongs their maintenance and prosperity should be caret carefully ally and in a friendly spirit considered dered even suet such as by reliance upon present revenue arrangements kave have been invited or encouraged should be fostered I 1 ABRUPT AND RADICAL CHANGES which might endanger such enterprises and injuriously affect the interests of labor dependent upon their success and continuance are not contemplated or intended but we know the cost of our domestic manufactured pro products duets is increased and their price to the consumer en by the duty imposed upon the raw material used in their manufacture we know that this increased cost prevents the sale of our productions at foreign markets in competition with those countries which have the advantage of free raw material we know that confined to a home market our manufacturing operations are curtailed their demand for labor irregular and the rates of wages paid uncertain we propose therefore to stimulate our domestic industrial enterprises by uee ing from duty imported raw materials which by the employment of labor are used in our home manufactories manu factories thus extending the markets for their sale and permitting an increased and steady production with an allowance of abundant profits true to the undeviating course of the democratic party we will not neglect the interests of labor and our working I 1 in g men in all efforts to remedy existing evils we will furnish no excuse for or re action of wages ot of honest toil on ribe he contrary we w a propose in any adjustment of our revenue laws to concede such encouragement and advantage to employers of domestic labor as will easily compensate tor for any difference that exists between the standard wages which should be paid to our laboring men and the rate allowed in ot other h e r coun countries trie S we propose too to by extending markets for our manufactures fac tures to promote tile the steady employment of labor while by cheapening the cost of the necessaries of life we increase the purchasing power of the work ingmans wages and add to the comforts of his hie home before passing from this phase of the question I 1 am to express the opinion that while the interests of labor should be always sedulously regarded in any modification of our tariff laws an additional and more direct and efficient protection to these interests would be afforded by the restriction and prohibition of the immigration or importation of laborers from other countries WHO upon n our shores having no purpose or intent of becoming our fellow elti citizens or acquiring any germ aDent interest in our country but who crowd every field of employment with unintelligent labor which ought not to satisfy those who make claim to american citizenship the platform of our party contains the following |