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Cut Off The Sugar Tax

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Senator Voorhees proclaims that the surplus reverme of about $30,000,000 which it is estiniated the finance committee's bill will yield has "no terror" for kim. This is perhaps not strange. The average congressman shares Colonel Fred Grant's notion that "a surplus is much easier to handle than a deficit. " The congressional way of handling a surplus is to spend it. So far from having any "terror" for these statesmen, a good fat surplus is viewed with heart warming satisfaction. But the people take a different view. Thcy Lalicve, a i the Democratie platform ■::o Xii 'v cl ■ il d, that "unneoessary taxatic-i is nnjust tr-xaticn. " They beiieve.with a Democratie leader, that the best place and the inly just place for every dollar uot ueeded for the expenses of the goverument ecouomioally administere'l is in the pockets of the men who earned it. A small excess in the revenues is a prudent provisión. A large surplus is a wrong to taxpayers and a standing temptation to extravagance in congress. Nothing helped more to gain power for the Demócrata in 1884 than the enormous surplus collected under Republican taxation. Nothing gave greater f orce to President Cleveland's plea for tariff reform than his insistence upon the correotion of this injustice. Thirty millíons would be far too large a surplus. The senate should avoid it by cutting off the sugar tax which its committee most unwisely added to the house bill. - New York World. The Egyptians moved greafc masses of stone without the aid of machines. Large blocks were drawn up inclined planes of earth or stone. Sometimes 500 men were required to draw one block into its proper position. Charlotte, complaining of boarding school, said: "The worst of all was nothing to eat between meals. Why, auntie, from breakfast to dinner you just had tostarvel" New Zealand has set apart two islanda on which hunting and trapping are fci-bidden.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News