The senate should be brought back into t...

The senate should be brought back into touch with the people. Why should wealth not be taxed for national revenue ? An incorae tax is sure to be a part of the national system in the near future. Protection according to Bastiat should write over the halls of legislation this motto: "Whoever has influence here, may have his share of the legalized pillage." This country produces $5,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. Where are the people to come from to consume these goods, if the republican idea of a home market is to prevail ? During the six years David B. Hill was governor of New York, he never made a peep against the income tax law of that state. Why is he so bitterly opposed to an income tax now? Echo answers, why ? The majority in the senate should adopt a rule limiting debate. The long winded talks and readings from various books which opposition senators are preparing to fire off, will change no vote in the senate or outside. What the peeple want is the passage of the tariff bill at once. The less talk the better they will be suited. A constitutional convention for the State of New York will convene on May 8. It will be coniposed of 175 members. This convention should have met, according to constitutional mandate in 1887, but the republican legislature refused to obey the constitution because a democratie governor would not allow the passage of a scandalously partisan measure. Government is established for the purpose of protecting the person and property of its subjects. It should receive its support, therefore, from its subjects in proportion to the amount of protection afforded. Some are advantaged by government only to the extent of being protected in person and ability to make money, while others are directly benefitted through laws which discriminate in their favor, such as the protected manufacturers and sugar producers and others. No tax possessing a higher degree of justness can, therefore, be devised than an income tax which measures with exactness the benefit the government has been to its subjects. The income tax should by all means be an important source of government revenue. The democratie party stands pledged to a reform of the tariff in the interest of revenue only. If the bill now pending in the senate is the most practicable embodiment of that principal obtainable at this time, it is the duty of every democrat to support the measure on the final vote. That it does not please each individual senator in every particular, is not sufficient reason to excuse any for voting against it. The party ís under the most imperative obligations to the country in this matter and it must meet those obligations or stand discredited before the people. The final vote on this bilí will be a vote for or against the democratie party, and no other possible interpretation can be placed upon it. Any democrat, therefore, who votes against the bill will vote to vitiate the hard earned victory of 1892, and cast the party out of power. No more important words of wisdom and patriotism have been uttered in raany a day than those which feil from the lips of Archbishop Ireland in a recent address before the Loyal Legión, of New York. The prominence, known abihty and genuine Americanism of the Archbishop, together with his influential official relations with a large portion of our foreign born population, give to any words of counsel from him upon matters pertaining to the proper relations and duties of naturalized citizens the deepest significance. That he sees from the standpoint of the broadest and most patriotic Americanism, the true relations of foreign ers who assume American citizenship, cannot be doubted. He says: "This country is America; only they who are loyal to her can be allowed to live under her flag, and they who are loyal to her may enjoy all her liberties and rights. Freedom of all religión is accorded by the Constitution ; religión is put outside state action, and most wisely so; therefore, the religión of the citizen must not be considered by voter or executive officer. The oath of allegiance to the country makes the man a citizen; if that allegiance is not plenary and supreme, he is false to his profession; if it is he is an American. Discriminations and segregations, in civil or political matters, on lines of birth place, or of race or language - and, I may add, or of color - is unAmerican and wrong. Compel al! to be Americans, in soul as well as in name; and then let the standard of their value be their American citizenship. The so called "conservatives" in the United States senate are but "herring" protectionists in disguise, the meanest, breed of all. They say they are in favor of a protective tariff equal to the difference between the wages paid here and foreign wages, which is the doctrine of the republican platform pure and simple. They leave the people in the dark also as to what foreign wages they mean. Perhaps they mean the wages of Canada and Australia which are practically the same as our own. They may mean the wages of England which are a little less, or the wages of Germany or Italy, or even of Egypt or India which are from eight to twelve cents a day. They fail to teil the people what the difference of wages is in these different countries in proportion to the amount of work done. fhey do not explain either how they will make up the difference between the lower wages paid here in the coal mines and the wages in the only countries which compete with us in coal. Perhaps they would put a premium on imported coal. Then how are they to distribute this difference to the laborers? Were any of them ever known to pay their workmen a dollar more than they were obliged to on account of the extra profits accruing on account of the government favoritism? All such talk to the effect that protection gives to labor better wages and must be retained for the benefit of labor is mere vaporing to deceive the unwary. The only way to protect labor is by the methods adopted for the protection of manufacturers, viz., by laying a tax upon foreign laborers who would come here. The "conservatives" should remove their disguise, go over to the party where they belong and become at least honest protectionists.