Show i democratic PARTY M VOICE OF OUR PRESS fress ON ISSUES OF THE DAY exposed ph posed by an tor tar gorman the abnit Atten At nit tot to 00 att aake robbery the cension I 1 bui athe rel the st louls loate crowd chicago chronicle senator gorman better advantage as a would appear to critic ot of the spendthrift policy of the republican party it if he be did not dot at the same time m put himself in the attitude of at an assa assailant lUnt of the administration when he states on the floor ot of the senate that at the opening of this congress it was informed by the executive that the condition of the treasury demanded economy or else the country would be confronted with th ci coher her an increase of taxation or the sale of bonds he says too much or too little the point upon which the president laid stress was not the relation between receipts and expenditures but the relation between the huge mass of out standing obligations and the gold re ire 1 serve what he be declared to be of the first moment was that congress should take measures at once to correct this relation by providing for the extinguishment of the demand obligations what he said about bonds was that it would be better to issue them for that purpose than to reissue re issue the the demand obligations over oer and over again and then issue bones bonds for the gold with which to redeem them thein again and again senator gorman german may have served his own purpose but bur he did not serve any good purpose by misrepresenting the attitude of the executive on this question in arraigning the republican party for swelling the expenditures in order to provide themselves with wib an excuse for restoring mckinley taxes on imports he gets upon solid ground though even in doing this he must needs have his fling at the administration the naval appropriation bill was waa be fore the senate it contained an item providing for the construction of four more battleships at an a aggregate gre gate cost of or an average of thief and three fourths millions per ship mr gorman german made this his text he did not see the economy of building four of these costly ships when the original recommendation called for only two while the republicans were claiming that the only thing froug with the finances was insufficient revenue to meet the expenditures the republicans were lavishly increasing the latter and at the same time refusing to do anything reasonable to increase the for mer the navy bill well Illus illustrates illustrato trat one branch of the statement it appropriates as mr gorman german said before the election of hamson 14 arrison the ap for the navy averaged ive nver raged aged less les than then they increased to an average of more than 25 now a jump to more than double that sum is proposed or more than double the annual cost of the ar arav nv As to the other part 0 of f the sta statement te that the republicans refused to increase the revenue mr gorman german pointed to the failure to take up the house tariff bill he hl he h l I 1 he republicans responsible as they the had haa the organization of the senate sena and of the finance committee in this connection and in answer to republican senators who claimed they did no not control the committee mr gorman german made maae tins this remarkable statement we warned you that you vou bad not the power to relieve the country and asked you to join us in a non aon partisan measure of relief but our offer was rejected you assumed the ha taste task alone you also knew you were without the power unless you got byoir air for forces ces together you knew there could be no a action and in my judgment this pro p dosal to relieve the treasury y was intended as a failure mr sherman undertook to deny the statement but mr gorman german adhered to it and forced what amounted to an admission that it was true trao that is the republicans refused to enter into an arrangement by which a non parti san TnT revenue 1116 measure could cal ili be secured sec the only conclusion is that they have been insincere from the first in pretending that they were anxious to pro vide ride more revenue the only conclusion sion is that their aim Is i to make the 8 deficit as great as ROs possible sibe hy by swelling the e expenditure and refusing sing to make up SS to the treasury masury sury the lost by the decision against the republican in tome me tax revived by tue cie democrats democrat the to take up the alcohol re ba tax bill the other day clenches clench thi th conclusion and demonstrates c om con ply pl I 1 y the hypocrisy of republican pre wyiona enjoins en jons with respect to relief of the trea treadway dwy no polley policy by cu contract t bract from an exchange the present national revenue law contains a provision that when alcohol is used in the arts or in any medicinal or other like compound the person BO 80 using it upon proof thereof and that the tax has been paid shall receive a resale of the amount of the t tax it was pointed out ont when this was pending that it would open the door to extensive frauds on the revenue but congress enacted it 11 A house home bin repealed this provision without providing for payment or of existing X claims of rebate the senate has ban refused mf to consider the bill bai leaving the claims t to 0 and laying the foundation tor frauds and raids nad oa an the treasury galor gams and now pomes comes an unco jw gald d ana and olli republican 04 and giu V aw honta ita W r thesia the sid irwim Also that I 1 IV z k t aw xa 1 kua I 1 1 1 4 I 1 a been repealed the doat doctrine 4 11 thus stated no matter he H e wl have been the promises or agree agreements ments of a past congress when they nave have once been accepted and acted upon pon u by the people they should be adhered to by all succeeding congresses according to this doctrine the most t odious system of bounties and taxes for private revenue could be fastened upon the country in perpetuity that will not do no c congress can bind a future congress to lo an economic policy if a congress attempts to bind its successors to a bad policy such su as the policy of taxing all the people to enable a few to live in palaces it is the duty of the very next nest congress to rip that robbers contract up the bick back if the government actually receives something either in services or cash for which a congress agrees to pay a stipulated sum or sums subsequent con pressess gres sess are justly bound to the performance for mance of the contract but government gets nothing in exchange tor for a bounty or for a protective tariff tax nor does it deprive the citizen of anything when it says it will relieve him of thia the tax on a certain article if he uses it for certain specified purposes durpos there is no repudiation therefore ya repealing a bounty a protective maxur tax fir such a rebate enactment as that contained in the act of 1894 no congress has a right to create a favored class and place it beyond the reach of future congresses not even by employing the form of solemn contract PL pension alon BIU safe chicago chronicle pension bill is safe anxiety of thousands of old soldiers is relieved A chicago republican organ Is delighted to make this announcement in a very loud type the implication Is that the enemy has been in hot pursuit of the ho old soldiers and that thanks to a patriotic republican house he has been intercepted and repulsed the purport of the bill is sufficiently explained by the remark of representative that it will relieve the anxieties of old soldiers all over the country who have seen their fellow pensioners deprived of beir pensions unjustly and arbitrarily by trie tie officials official 1 I of the pension bureau that explains sufficiently the animus of the bill and the motive for introducing and pushing it at this time the purpose is to make people believe that pensioners are deprived of their pensions unjustly and arbitrarily by the officials effir bals of the administration and so re the democratic party and democrats in the house are weak enough to vote for the bill knowing this thi to be the purpose every man of sense knows that there is not a word of truth in the charge that men are unjustly and arbitrarily deprived of their pensions some effort has been made e to purge the rolls of frauds who never did a thing to earn a pension this effort has not been made arbitrarily but lawfully it Is ie a wanton insult to the head of the pension bureau who was a faithful soldier a and nd is an honest man to insinuate that he has ever dropped a name arbitrary arbitrarily ly f from ron r the pension rolls or willfully expunged pung ed one that ought to be there or had a ngat to be there under the laws the republicans in congress can gress know this perfectly atly they are at the old game which has ben been worked repeat i edly slnar sanc the people began to get tired of the republican party in of looting the treasury in the name of patriotism for party advantage As long ago as 1871 when the pension charge was general garfield whose committee had charge of the subject declared that the maximum had been reached and that from that timp time forward a progressive de crease in the charge was to be expected other ex army officers in congress and general grant who was then president expressed themselves to the same effect garfield and grant declared that the laws were liberal and at the time no dissent from this thie view was expressed by any one by the charge had fallen below but the republicans were losing their grip and set about making themselves sold with the ex soldiers the year following fol lowing 1878 the charge increased to round figures next neu year it jumped to by and by it was discovered that political fences could be mended by voting more money for pens pensions I 1 ons pens pensions ions to men wh who 0 left the service sounder than they entered and the charge mount mounted ed in 1893 1993 to that year the total was swollen by the payment oi of arrears to a large amount and the charge has dr dropped 0 aped back to about a year or enough lo 10 cover the entire cost of f the united states standing army for nearly or quite six years there is no reasonable excuse for this but once more congress is finding something to do for the ex soldier and more to do tor for the republican party and democrats are as assisting slating in the business from cowardly fear of being misunderstood it if they da d 3 what they know ought to be done and take a firm stand against any further raiding of the treasury upon the false pretense of patriotism britsch prosperity with rree free trade boston globe next fall the high protection stumpers stampers will be warning their beloved fellow citizens agal against free trade england yet great creat britain beleaguered beleaguer ed by all the protective prote cuve powers of the earth and having no protection of her own dvm with which to defend herself shows up a years account 41 ot prosperity that is the envy enty of ny many nations it win will be incumbent upon the extremist in protective matters matte to explain this showing next fall none of the republican journals are now at man Dulig to account I 1 tor for it ahe jac t li ahat I 1 1 G tain has been idu wa t I 1 e 1 t 1 i anding at t aitor I 1 44 i ai s 0 7 41 r I 1 1 |