MOST VALUABLE
ASSET OF NATION
DUTY OF LAWMAKERS PLAIN
6hould Strive to Shelter Industry From
Destructive Competition From For
elgners and Encourage Upbuilding
of New Industries.
The most Imperious obligation upon
any nation Is to find for its people em
ployment at productive Industry. The
fact that two-thirds of the land In Ire
land Hps fallow, that one man In thirty
In the British islands is a pauper, that
millions of people have fled from those
shores, and that England can produce
but three months' supply of food for a
population that ought to be able to
feed itself, is the incontrovertible
proof that her economic system Is
wrong.
Man at work is the most valuable
asset of a tation. An idle man, con
Burning without producing, burns the
candle at both ends, and Is worse than
worthless.
Individuals cannot provide condl
tlons under which productive Industry
may be successfully conducted. The
law-maker must create the conditions.
The development and maintenance of
industry being vital, the duty of the
law-maker Is to shelter Industry from
destructive competition from foreign-
ers and to encourage and stimulate
the upbuilding of new industries.
To permit hostile fleets to batter
down our cities would be less fool
hardy than to suffer Europeans to de
stroy the processes by which our peo
ple earn their bread and enrich the
nation, while they urge it toward In
dependence.
A Fence Around the Garden.
The protective tariff Is In the na-
tu re of a fence around the garden, to
protect the worker and his product
from marauders.
As the population expands and old
industries grow fast, new Industries
must be encouraged so as to draw oft
redundant labor into fresh channels.
Thus in 18S0 we Imported all the tin
plate, of which we are the largest
users In the world. Twice Great Bri
tain throttled un-protected American
ventures in tin plate manufacture. In
the McKinley tariff we put a protec
tive duty on tin plate. In 1891 we
made at home 2,000,000 pounds. In
1905 we made 1,000,000,000 pounds. In
1891 the British maker, having a mo
nopoly, charged Americans $5.34 for a
108-pound box of coke Bessemer tin
plate. In September, 1904, the Ameri
can mills sold the same article for
$3.30 a box.
Who Pays the Duty?
What has that duty cost the Amer
ican consumer? Nothing! He has
saved millions of dollars under the
protective duty, made employment for
40,000 American workmen, and a
home market has been provided for
large quantities of American material.
The history of the beet sugar Indus
try runs along the same lines; so does
that of the pearl button business. For
centuries worthless shellfish have
grown and perished In the mud of the
rivers of the Mississippi valley while
we bought pearl buttons by hundreds
of tons from Europe. We put a protec
tive duty on pearl buttons, and lo! the
valueless mussels In the slime became
sources of wealth, and now we beat
the world on buttons, employ large
numbers of American folk in the man
ufacture and add to the nation's
wealth.
A competent tariff means no will
fully Idle men. A tariff with cracks
In it, a half-tariff, a tariff with no mar
gin for fluctuating prices and chang
ing conditions, must mean Americans
out of work because Europeans do the
work that should be done at home.
Fortunately the nation adheres ten
aciously to the right system.
CHARLES HEBER CLARK,
In Saturday Evening Post..
Opposed to Protection.
Mr. Wilson has proudly boasted that
he Is a Democrat, both by Inheritance
and conviction. That means that he la
unalterably opposed to the system of
protection to American industries as
devised and maintained by the Re
publican party.
Professor Wilson taught the theory
of free trade to his classes in political
economy at Princeton university; he
has embodied his views in print and
has denounced protection from the lec
ture platform and the political stump.
Mr. Taft, on the other hand, has al
ways been a consistent supporter of
the principle of protection and the de
termined opponent of the doctrine of
free trade. The issue between the two
clearly joined.
The question is, Shall the Ameri
can people, favored as they have been
by protection, prosperous as they are
by reason of the benefits of a protec
tive tariff, abandon all these benefits
and risk a rettlrn to the Boup houses
of the Cleveland administration, by
supporting a candidate who, however
he may shine as a pedagogue and an
executive, Is pledged to war against
the protective policy, to the injury of
the manufacturing interests of this
state. That Is the Issue on which the
battle must be fought In this nation;
the Issue on which by an appeal to
the Intelligent voters of this nation.
The Wilson Fall Frost.
The free trade Evening Post publish
es a lot of figures to show wlint would
happen If nil the stntes voted the same
os Vermont In November.
A two-iinil-thrci'-iiinkes five school
boy could fell the free trade Evening
Tost that If till the stales should vole
In 'November the same way Vermont
has voteil Tuft would have the whole
electoral college.
It came early, hut it enme with n
bite to It the Wilson full frost. Bryan
and Parker were both elected In Au
gust and buried under ii snowstorm of
ballots lu November, and Wilson Is
lurrying to the suwo snow pile.
BEST PAID LABOR
OF THE WORLD
The American Worker Enjoys a
Enormous Advantage Over Hie Fel-
low In Free Trade England.
That labor In America Is better ofl
than In any other part of the world
admits of no question. The Londoc
Times last year discussed tho mattei
editorially on the basis of figures col
lected by the British Board of Trade
"The workman in America enjoy
an enormous advantage over his fel
low in England an advantage fat
greater than the latter enjoys ovei
the German or Frenchman. He earns
more than two and a quarter times ai
much money, and works shorter houn
for it, so that his hourly rate of earn
Inge Is as 240 to 100, or pretty nearly
twice and a half as much. Against
that enormous difference in wages
there Is something to be set in the
way of expenditures. Rent is twlct
as high and food is about one-third
higher than In England, but the cosl
of living altogether is only as 152 tc
100, or about half as much again. The
margin is clearly large, making pos
sille a command of the necessaries
and conveniences and minor luxuries
of life that is both nominally and
really greater than that enjoyed b
the corresponding class In this coun
try."
The Times adds that "the advantag
enjoyed by this country In regard tc
the cost of food is even less than It
looks. A workman living on the
American scale pays only 25 per cent
more for his food in the United States
than he would in England. It
is clear that prices have not risen sc
much In reecnt years In the United
States as we have been led to suppose,
and that wages have risen much mor
rapidly."
It may be objected that the Time!
Is now fighting for a return to pro
tection In England, and gets comfort
out of the figures for that reason. Yes,
but the figures were collected and
furnished It by the free traders. The
British Board of Trade Is a branch ol
the government, originally created in
the reign of William and Mary tc
watch the American colonies, and tc
keep them from manufacturing any
thing England wanted to sell them
The president of the board is a mem
ber of the cabinet, and of course al
present both a Liberal and a free
trader.
The Times goes on to refute the
free trade assumption that our work-
ingmen are prosperous not because ol
protection, hut "In spite of It." It says
that "if good results regularly follow
that system, it does not much mattei
whether the connection is called 'in
spite of or not."
Good results for labor have Invari
ably followed the protective policy in
America. A Pennsylvania workman,
whose recollections go back to Presi
dent Polk's timefl tells of the dayf
which followed the repeal of the pro
tective tariff of 1842, In a letter to tb
Philadelphia Press:
"Work was hard to get. Laboring
men received 50 cents a day for twelve
hours' work. My father was a stone
mason. He got (12 cents. I was eleven
years old. I worked In the cotton fac
tory thirteen hours a day, and re
ceived $3 a month. I remember well
how economically we had to live. I
got one pair of shoes a year. During
the summer season I had- to go bare
footed until frost came. This was the
general condition of the workingman.
"When the Whig party elected Har
rison In 1S40, and a tariff law was
passed, a number of Iron furnaces
were built. I remember one near out
city (Easton), which had fairly started
when the Democrats elected James K.
Polk (in 1844). They cut down the
tariff. The furnace was shut down,
When James Buchanan was
elected, we had (In 1857) the worst
panic I ever witnessed. The best me
chanics were out of work, and had to
go to the soup house. Later on, when
Mr. Cleveland was elected the second
time (in 1892), we got another dose
of free trade. That, many of your
readers remember. A friend of mine
said to me: 'How is it that this is the
first time In twenty years that I was
out of work?" I told him he voted for
it, and had to take his medicine."
Every workingman who helps this
year to elect' Governor Wilson to the
presidency, and to give his party con
trol of congress, will have "to take
his medicine." The Democratic candi
date hates protection with a perfec'
hatred. He cannot refer to It In his
speeches without losing his Belf-con-trol.
And his record In Trenton shows
him ready to use his executive posi
tlon to control legislation. Forewarned
Is, or should be, forearmed.
ROBERT ELLIS THOMPSON,
In Irish World.
What the Workingman Gets.
The deposits in the savings banks
represent a part, and only a p-t, o!
the surplus, over and above the living
expenses of the earnings of the mai;
who works for wages.
Under the much maligned and much
misrepresented protective tariff sys
tem we have procured in forty years
from 18o0 to 1900, the following re
suits for the American workingman:
In that time the number of wagf
earners In American mills incrcav.sd
four times;
The wages paid In American njhli
increased seven times;
The number of deposits In savings
banks Increased ten times;
The amount of deposits in savings
banks increased sixteen times.
These remarkable facts conclusively
prove that wages are Increasing and
the worklngman's surplus Is steadily
enlarging.
There is further and very remark
able proof of this statement:
From 1800 to 1907 the population ol
the United States Increased from
thirty-one million to eighty-six mil
lions or two and three-fourths times.
From I860 to 1907 the savings
banks deposits Increased from $150,
000,000 to $3,500,000,000 or twenty-four
times.
In the presence of these notable
positively accurate figures, what be
comes of the contention that "the rich
are growing richer while the poor are
growing poorer?"
CHARLES HEBER CLARK,
In Saturday Evening Post.
FOOLING WITH
PROSPERITY
RAILROADS TELL THE STORY
Undermining of the Tariff Will Pro
duce Untold Stagnation of Business
and Cause Oitaeter to the Working'
man of tho Country.
All through this year mills In this
country in nearly If not quite every
line of manufacture have been so
gorged with business that they have
been much behind with their orders,
Of what use to worry about foreign
trade when you cannot make all the
goods that are wanted at home? No
sane man regards with Indifference
export business for the country at
large; but If a Massachusetts niaa
can sell In New York more fabrlci
than he can make what impulse can
he have to seek for customers In Lon
don or Paris or Calcutta?
And why should he be expected to
make sacrifices to get that trade? How
can you expect him to agree that the
tariff behind which he finds an Insa
tiable market for goods, a market hav
ing actually riotous prosperity shall
be cut and amended and patched and
cobbled so that there shall be a bet
ter chance to push American goods
across the seas?
The condition of the railroads tells
the story of our overflowing prosper
ity. The nation's business has about
outgrown the capacity of the raM
roads of the country which has half
the railroad mileage of the world.
The time is near at hand when, la
some parts of the country, to double
the railroad trackage will be still not
a sufficient effort to meet the require
ments of a swift expanding com
mere e.
And If some one shall say that this
stupendous prosperity produced under
the shelter of the tariff Is by no
means the result of the operation of
the tariff, we may well ask, How can
you prove that proposition? To prove
it is of course quite Impossible. But
we may declare, with no peril of con
tradiction, first, that a high tariff has
at least not operated as an obstruc
tion or a cheek upon prosperity, and,
second, that no nation under heaven
ever suceecded in building up manu
facturing Industries without help from
tariff protection.
There Is not a single example in
history; actually not one. Is It pru
dent to try experiments with thl
amazing prosperity? And, particularly,
may I ask of the out-and-out free
trader, What reason have you for pre
suming that a higher measure of pros
perity may be procured by the adop
tion of methods directly opposed to
those under which we have attained
to the very highest prosperity ever
achieved by human effort?
It Is a fair reasonable supposition
that, if we simply let conditions alone
they will work towards, or at least.
they will not obstruct, the continuous
movement towards better and better
things for the nation.
The assertion may be made with
confidence, an assertion which has for
Its warrant such mournful experience
In the past, that a decided change In
the protective system, or even strong
menace of such a change, will have
the effect to check the development
of business rather than to promote It.
How to Check Prosperity.
Do you wish to know how to put an
end to the embarrassments now ex
perienced by mill owners who are be
hind with their orders, by employers
who find the supply of laborers short,
by railroads which cannot obtain cars
enoueh with which to move the freight
offered them?
I can suggest an Immediate and ef
fective remedy for all such troubles.
Let. the word go out from an au
thoritative source that Congress In
tends to make Important changes In
the tariff. And, particularly, let It be
made known that there Is to be re
vision of Important duties downward,
and all the difficulties from which
manufacturers and common carriers
are now suffering will promptly disap
pear.
Send the tidings over the land to
startled and indignant people that the
tariff barrier behind which they con
duct their peaceful pursuits is to be
undermined, and instead of the mills
being unable to meet their orders, the
goods will be stacked In the store
rioms and the wheels will be Idle.
Instead of the railroads finding cars
scarce the sidings will be filled with
empty cars. Instead of the working
people being eagerly bid for by the
manufacturers, and wages swiftly ris
ing, there will be multitudes of Idle
men In the streets and in the soun
hoiiBes, and there will be suffering and
listress where now there Is comfort
nd abundance.
It will be strange If this nation,
within a few years of the Cleveland
hard times, produced by a foolhardy
attempt to recast the tariff In the In
terests of foreigners, should be willing
to make again a venture so ruinous
and dreadful.
The protective system absolutely
ustifles .'tself by the conditions now
enstlag a the United States In every
department of business. Iet me put
the fact mew strongly. We have here,
under that system, the one magnificent
economic success thus far achieved
by the human race.
We shall manifest wisdom If our un
remitting purpose shall be to hold
fast to the policy under which thlnis
to mighty have been done.
CHARLES HEBER CLARK
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO TUB CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL, OR REJECTION, BY TILE
GENERAL, ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF TILE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVTH OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
Issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the Improve
ment of the highways ot the Com
monwealth. Section 1. Be It reBolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In General Assembly met. That the
following amendment to the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same Is hereby, pro
posed, In aevcordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof:
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State In war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency in rev
enue shall never exceed, in the aggre
gate at any one time, one million ot
dollars," be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies or rev
enue, repel invasion, suppress insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, In the aggregate
at any one time, one million of dol
lars: Provided, however, 'mat the
General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to Issue
bonds to the amount ot fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of improv
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT McAFEE,
. Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House ot Representatives
of the Commonwealth ot Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following Is proposed as an amend'
ment to the Constitution ot the Com
monwealth ot Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions ot the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven,
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: "Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of Hens:
"Regulating the affairs ot counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughB, or
school districts:
"Changing the names of persons or
places:
"Changing the Tenue In civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
lng, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
incorporating ferry or bridge compan-
leB, except for the erection ot bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation ot children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
"Granting divorces:
"Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughB, townships, elec
tion of school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating the practice or Juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any Judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen,
Justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the effect
of Judicial sales of real estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or repair
ing ot school houses and the raising
ot money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties In Interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment: "Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, asso-
Ancients Used Glass Mirrors.
That the ancients did not exclusive
ly use mirrors of polished metal, as
generally believed, has Just been
proved by the finding of a number of
small glass mirrors In a graveyard at
Laihach, Austria. They are said to
date from the second or third cen
tury. Revised Edition.
"Know thyself," Is advice frequently
given, but If you want to maintain
your self-respect know as little ot thy
self as possible.
elation or Individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or immunity, or to
any corporation, association or indi
vidual the right to lay down a railroad
track.
"Nor shall the General Assembly in-
directly enact uch special or local
law by the partial repeal ot a genoral
law but laws repealing local or spec
ial aots may be passed:
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor whore the
courts have Jurisdiction to grant the
same or give the relief asked for."
so as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons ot
places:
Changing the venue in civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, higu-
wavs. streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or in
corporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and other Mates
Vacating roads, town plats, Btreets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public erounds not of the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting ol
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
Mon or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or suc
cession:
Regulating the practice or Jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence In, any Judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, Jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, musters
in chancery or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of Judicial sales ot real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
lic schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of lntorest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties In interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labor,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety of persons employ
ed by the State, or by any county,
city, borough, village, or other civil di
vision of the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or Immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly In
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a special
law; but laws repealing local or Bpec
iau acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked tor,
A true cop of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT MCAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,
proposing an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania,
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (If the
Senate concur), That the following Is
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof:
Section 2. Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All Judges elected by the electors of
the State at large may be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections for Judges of the courts
for the several Judicial districts, and
for county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be held on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday of No
vember In each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of all
the 'members of each House consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always be held In an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 3. All Judges elected by
the electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for Judges ol
the courts for the several Judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward, bor
ough, and township officers, for regu-
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lar terms of service, shall be held oa
the municipal election duy; numely,
the Tuesday following the first Mon
day of November lu each odd-numbered
year, but the General Assembly
may by law fix a different day, two
thirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such elections shall be held in
an odd-numbered year: Provided fur
ther, That all Judges for the courts
of the several Judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end In an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices until the first Monday of
January In the next succeeding even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one ot article nine ot tho Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
State and Houho of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following Is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions ot the
eighteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the sume class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
lng the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly muy, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for publlo purposes,
actual places ot religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and institu
tions of purely public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class ot subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall bo levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
Bubjoct of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places ot burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and Institutions of pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Bo it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of tho Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania In Gener
al Assembly met. That the follow
ing Is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution ot Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Article IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide for the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
ot a municipality, within the meaning
of section eight of article nine ot the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or of
this amendment, If the net revenue
derived from said property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same is constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay Interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or it the Biild obligations shall
be secured by Hens upon the respec
tive properties, and shall Impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities of counties shall Issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for
the Interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said properties
shall have been completed and In op
eration for a period of one year: And
said municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said Interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
of one year. Any of the said munici
palities or counties may incur indebt
edness In excess of seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, ot
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, If said Increase of
Indebtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, In such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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