Show No penny should be taken off the present tax on whiskey and tobacco so long as any tax direc or indirect exists on clothing blankets iron steel and other articles of universal use and necessity neces-sity The raw materials which industry uses in manufactures should be made free or as nearly so as possible and the tax on all articles of general use should be cut down as rapidly as may be done without danger The government has no business to collect a surplus That it seems to us is the long and the short of the matter |