Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — A RECORD OF INCAPACITY. [ARTICLE]

A RECORD OF INCAPACITY.

Two thirds of the names in all the lists of pensions granted in this State are “reissues.” The publb may not know it, but every pension agent, and particularly every pensioner whose name is on the list, knows that it means a reduction from sl2 to $8 or $6 per month. Those who make up these lists should classify them as pensions reduced instead of pensions granted. —^ The same contemptible class of toadies who originated duiing Cleveland’s first term, the practice of speaking of the president’s wife as “the first lady in the land”, are now ©ailing the Secretary of State, the “Premier.” Such miserable, anglomaniac flunkeyism never had much prevalence during a Republican administration. It is most digusting and offensive to everyone with any true Americanism in their natures. The New York World claims that because we ship some manufacturers of cotton goods, iron and steel, machinery, leather,' sewing machines, naval stores, mineral oils and manufactured goods to England it is proof that “the United Kingdom takes more of our total exports than we sell to all other countries combined.” Hardly- The bulk of such goods that we ship to England is merely sent there for re-export to other countries, because of the supremacy of the English flag on the high seas and her facilities for reaching the other markets of the world. If our Free-Trade contemporary will only help us in securing Protection to American ships, such roundabout methods of transportation will no longer be necessary.— American Economist. • - .. • •/**

The President’s recent letter to the democratic editors of New Tork extolling the democracy is calculated to invite attention to the results of democratic rule under the Cleveland administration and the last democratic congress. When congress shall meet in December the democratic regime will have been in power nearly three years. When congress assembles the first thing it will be compelled to do will be to pass revenue laws to relieve the treastny from a condition of bankruptcy. When the fiscal year shall end in June the: revenues collected will be nearly $60,000,000 short of the current expenditures. If this deficit is due to the depressed condition of the business of the country it is a condition which came after the democratic policy had been announced. If it is not due to business depression it is the result of the incapacity of the democratic congress and administration. If the Cleveland tariff bill had

been passed instead of the Gorman bill the deficiency would have been larger. Of all the men who have undertaken to devise a revenue system for the United States the Cleveland-Carlisle-Wilson combination have displayed the most astonishing ignorance of the whole subject With the democratic income tax the administration estimated a surplus at the end of the year which ends in June. It is now evident that if its income tax had yielded the 130,000,000 there would yet have been a deficit of $30,000,000. Heretofore the treasury oflicers have been able to make estimates of the revenues which were approximately accurate, but under the Carlisle regime the estimates were wild guesses. Instead of being a tariff for revenue it has proved a tariff for deficit. The Wilson-Carlisle system was the long ago condemned ad valorem method, uncertain in results and always so Tn to fraud as to defeat the aim a tariff law. And yet the Cleveland regime is utterly oblivious of its humiliating failure. Indeed, the President poses as the champion of sound money when, as a matter of fact, all of the distrust which has arisen is due to

the fact that he depleted the gold reserve to meet the current expenses of the government But for the provision of the resumption act of 1875 the treasury would have suspended payments nearly two years ago because of the utter incapacity of the democratic congress to devise the means of revenue. In other departments the same incapacity is manifested. The blunders of the management of foreign affairs are so much the rule that they no longer attract attention or provoke comment. We have lost the respect of other nations. The government even has not the sagacity to show itself the friend of weak peoples who would maintain popular government. Even so small a matter as the inspection of meats for export has ceased to be effective. All the vigor and persistence which is displayed in any direction is in the bureau which has reduced the pensions of 25,000 poor and feeble old men during the past five months. - - Last November the people pronounced judgment oh the democratic regime at the head of which is President Cleveland. Since that time all that it has done has been to make its incompetency more apparent—to emphasize its unfitness to legislate for or administer the affairs of the American people.—lndianapolis Journal.