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The production of pig-iron, according to...

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Day
23
Month
March
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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The production of pig-iron, according to the Iron Age, increased about 11,000 tons each week during February. The Chattanooga Tradesman reports that forty-two milis and furnaces resumed operation in the South during the past two weeks. The only reason the country has had for some time for thinking that the Hon. David B. Hill belonged to the dominent party was his famous assertion "I am a democrat," but since by the words of his own mouth that statement has been proven false,he should revise it by inserting "republican" in the place of "democrat" and then take a "sneak" over onto the republican side. Every idle workman should bear in mind that he is idle under the operation of the very law which was declared to have been framed for his protection. The folly of such claims, when the flood-gates of all Europe are thrown wide open to emigration, whereby a half dozen paupers are sent hither to scramble for the single situation to be filled, should be apparent to all thinking men. The result of the present system of proUcied American industry is to compel workingmen to pay an enhanced price for all manufactured goods which they consume while competing for work in a labor market thrown wide open to the world. The disadvantages to labor under such a system are too apparent to need further comment. The Grand Ledge Republican, one of the most hidebound of the g. o. p. organs of the state, comments as follows upon the present State administration at Lansing: Ricta and Pattengill, the head and tail to the party, are all right, but the bowels - vvell, they seem to be boweJs in every seuse of the word. The Hon. Stanley inay be able to explain without a wink of the other eye, but we sincerely doubt it. Anyway, we will wait and see. Probably the organ is right in its estímate of the characters of the functionaries now infesting the capital, but one would think there was but a mighty small grain of comfort in such a such a situation after all. It will be remembered that Sodom and Gomorrah were in a not much worse condition when it was deemed necessary to send them into innocuous desuetude. That the Lansing crowd is fairly rcpresentative of the party that sent them there no one doubts. Therefore since vox popali, vox dei, further comment is superfluous. Last Tuesday the supreme court handed down a decisión sustaining by an unanimous vote the action of Cov. Rich in removing the three state officials, Jochim, Hambitzen and Berry for gross carelessness in the performance of their official duties whereby an adverse vote of more than 11,000 on the constitutional araendment increasing each of their salaries was changed to an affirmative vote of about 1,800. There is much satisfaction in this to the people. They now know that the language of the constitution means just what it says and that it is so plain as to prevent even the lawyers who are always ready to raise all sorts of technical questions for "revenue only" from defeating justice and fastening upon the people a set of unworthy officials who should have stepped down and out without the necessity of an appeal to the court. The decisión establishes, once for all, the fact that than are constitutional means provided whereby the people may rid themselves of derelect and crooked efficials when the legislature is not in session. In view of the language of that document it seems strange that any other claim could have been seriously entertained. That the .effect of the governor's action and the decisión of the court will be wholesome there can be no question. There will probably be no further attemps at falsifying the will of the people in election matters for some time to comë; and those who in future are honored by the people with positions of trust will be apt to administer their offices with an eye single to the public interests. Vh en the ways and means committee of the house of representa tives first began to discuss the question of an income tax as a means of raising a part of the government revenue, it was attacked on all side. It was dubbed a war tax, a penalty on thriít, a premium on failure, an inquistorial tax, class discrimination, every thing, in fact, except the most equitable and just tax that can be laid, and undoubtedly the wealthy opponents of the measure in their frenzy over the prospect of having a tax law which would cause them to pay their fair share of the government revenues, would have called it that had they thought of the term. It was declared that the democrats were mad, that they could never carry such a load, and that its enactment into law would sound the death knell of the party. Every possible effort was made to keep it' out of the tariff bill, but it went in; hot speeches were hurled against it in debate and a strong effort was made to defeat it, but it ran the gauntlet of the house with a majority of 135, or 71 more than the bill itself received. It was then claimed the senate would strangle it, but the sub-committee of the ffnance committee of that body have agreed to it, and today it is conceded to be the strongest feature of the bill, and if the tarilï reform measure ever becomes law, the income tax will be a feature of it. That it is a most popular measure there can be no doubt. The rich who under republican methods of taxation have been exempted from paying their just part of the government burdens, it is true, are "agin" it, but the people are for it. It is not only popular in the ordinary sense, but it carries with it a degree of justnesst unknown to our national system of taxation. It should be approved by every citizen who acknowledges the necessity of government and the obligation of citizens to contribute for its maintenance according to the benefits received.

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