WILSON WOULD REPEAL ALL
PROTECTIVE TARIFF LAWS.
The following Is taken from
an address delivered by Pro
fessor Woodrow Wilson before
the tariff board in 1882, showing
his view then on the question
of the tariff and the distinct an
nouncement of his position as
a free trader, opposed to all
tariffs except merely for the pur
pose of raising revenue:
"But the danger of Imposing
protective duties Is that when
the policy is once embarked
upon It cannot be easily receded
from. Protection is nothing
more than a bounty, and when
we offer bounties to manufactur
ers they will enter into indus
tries and build up interests and
when at a later day we seek to
overthrow thiß protective tariff
we must hurt somebody nnd of
course there Is objection. They
will say, 'Thousands of men will
be thrown out of employment
and hundreds of people will lose
their capital.' This seems very
plausible; but I maintain that
manufacturers are made better
manufacturers whenever they
are thrown upon their own re
sources and left to the natural
competition of trade."
• »*•»»»
"Protection also hinders com
merce Immensely. The English
people do not send as many
goods to this country as they
would If the duties were not so
much and" In that way there Is
a restriction of commerce and
we are building up manufactor
ies here at the expense of com
merce. We are holding our
selves aloof from foreign coun
tries in effect -and saying, 'We
are sufficient to ourselves; we
wish to trade, not with England,
but with each other.' I main
tain that it is not only a per
nicious system, but a corrupt
system.
"By Commissioner Garland:
"Q. Are you advocating the re
peal of all tariff laws?
"A. Of all protective tariff
laws; of establishing a tariff for
revenue merely. It seems to me
very absurd to maintain that we
shall have free trade between
different portions of this country
and at the same time shut our
selves out from free communica
tion with other producing coun
tries of the world. If It is neces
sary to Impose restrictive duties
on goods brought from abroad it
would seem to me as a matter
of logic, necessary to Impose
similar restrictions on goods
taken from one state of this
Union to another. That follows
as a necessary consequence;
there Is no escape from It."
HAS CHANGED AS CANDIDATE
Woodrow Wilson's Bpeeches Now
Those of Office Beeker.
Scattered among the platitudes of
Dr. Wilson's speech of acceptance are
some truths. None Is more significant
than this:
"We stand in the presence of an
awakened nation, Impatient of partisan
make believe."
Following which he makes believe
that he Is telling the voters of the coun
try his position on the campaign Issues.
No one has yet been able to determine
from a reading of the speech precisely
what that position is. Some slight en
lightenment comes from time to time
in his later utterances, like, for ex
ample, the declaration the other day
that Tammany is to be safe from his
assaults; but none of it is satisfying.
Dr. Wilson, in the preconvention
days, was represented to the country
as a scholarly gentleman, too lofty of
mind to practice the wiles of the pro
fessional polltlolan, too earnest In the
cause of good government to be aught
but frank and fearless In his expres
sion, too unselfish to put private ambi
tion above the public weal, too idealis
tic In oharacter to truckle to the forces
of evil In the nation.
But how singularly he has masked
all of these qualities since William
Jennings Bryan forced his nomination
At Baltimore.
There la no difference, save in the
purity of the English, between his
speeches and the speeches of the pro
fessional office seeker of the worst
period in American politics. He steps
puasy footed over all the large ques
tions of the day. He exhibits a sus
piciously broad tolerance for all ele
ments In the body polltlo, even the
elements which, te nominate him, Bry
an found it expedient to denounce by
name In the convention. There is
none of the rugged frankness of ut
terance that characterized his writings
in the days before he was Inoculated
with the virus of political ambition.
He Is proving over apt as an advanced
student of practical Dolltics.
It is not a pleasant nor a heartening
exhibition he makes of himself. The
right Blinded cttlsen can feel nothing
but sadness in contemplating a man
of education and culture so Intent
-upon partisan and personal victory
that he sacrifices those Ideals of truth
and honesty for which he has always
stood to fawn upon and honeyfugle
the roters.
Dr. Wilson m a candidate Is not In
character with the Dr. Wilson that
was pictured to us prior to the Baltl
more convention. This "awakened na
tion, Impatient of partisan make be-
P&rre," detects the difference.
PRGPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO TILE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TE(D TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVHI OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Common wealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
Issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the improve
ment of the highways of the Com
monwealth.
Section 1. Be it resolved 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 accordance 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 bebail' of the State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel Invasion, uuppreas 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
grate at any one time, one million of
dollars," be amended so as to read a.£
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the SL'te, except
to supply casual defleienc.' js of rev
enue, repel invasion, supp .ss insur
rection, defend the State In war, or to
pay existing debt; and the uebt 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 Stale to issue
bonds to the amount of 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 of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of thy Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of 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
io WB: —
"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 or
places:
"Changing the venue in civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or a leys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of 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 of 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, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating the practice or juris
diction of, or chauging 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 BChoo.s, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
of 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
I elation or lndlvldae 1 any special or ex
| elusive 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 such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts 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 where 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
sMll not pass any local or special law
authorizing tho creation, extension or
in pairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
; S' liooi districts:
Changing the names of persons or
; places:
Changing the venue In civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
j altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, 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 any other State.
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
Authorizing tho 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:
/or the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
p.ace of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting now 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 k cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion 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, masters
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
: feet of judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
j 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 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; 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, town, township school
district, vil'age, or other civil dl
i vision of the State, or by any contract
' or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
i any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
| civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
1 renewing or extending the charters
j thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
[ elation, or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
: to any corporation, association, or In
dividual the right to lay down a rall
! road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly ln
! directly enaet such special or local
law by tho partial repeal of a general
! law; but laws repe..ling local or spec
| ial acts may be passed:
i 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
] vlded for by general law. nor where
' the courts have jurisdiction to grant
i the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
I 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
alther a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections for judges of the courts
tor the several judicial districts, and
I tor county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
aext following the first Monday of No
vember in each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
ax 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 of
the court* for the several Judicial dl»
utMt u< tor oounty, city, ward,
I'ough, aud township officers, for regu
lar terms of service, snaii i>~ ...»
iho uiunlclpul election day; namely, tlie
Tuesday next following the lirst Mon
day of November in each odd-n'auiber
oa year, but tlio General Assembly
may by law fix. a different day, two
thiids of all tlie members of each
House consenting 1. .c-to; Provided,
That such elect ic.i.i sua 1 be lieid in
aii odd-numberi.u .. a; provided fur
ther, 1 That ail i'or the courts
of the several judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
ieiins of office end in an odd
numbered year, *..nii coniinue to hold
their offices until die lii sst Monday of
January in the next eeunig even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 8.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine ol tlie Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
| taxation.
Section 1. lie it resolved by the
Senate and House ol 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 tlie provisions of the
eighteenth article Lheieof: —
Section 'I. Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"AH taxes lliall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
ing the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or hold lor
private or corporate profit, and institu
tions of pure:>- public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes sliall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
subjects 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 of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, aitd 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 the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of 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 lor the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
of section eight of article nine of 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 if the said obligations shall
be secured by liens 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 havß 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, of
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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M else he would not advertise it.
B You are safe In patronizing the
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A Frost.
"Have you purchased your new car
yet, Mrs. Noorich?" asked the visitor.
"No, Mr. Smithers, I ain't. I can't
make up iny mind whether to get a
gasoline car or a limousine car. May
be you can tell me—does limousine
smell as bad as gasoline?" inquired
the lady.—Harper's Weekly.
Marking Keys.
If you have a number of keys in the
stable, shed, henhouse and si ch build
ings, that look and feel about alike,
put wooden tags on thein, with one
notch for tho stable, two notches for
the henhouse, etc. You can tell at a
glance, then, or by feeling them If It
is dark, which key is the right ono.
Put Away Small Things.
Get rid of small wisdom and great
wisdom will shine upon you. Put
away goodness and you will be nat
urally good. A child does not learn
to speak because taught by professors
of the art, but because it lives among
people who can themselves talk.—
Chuang Tzu.
The Fool's Guardian.
Fortune has been considered th©
guardian divinity of fools; and, on this
score, she has been accused of blind'
ness; but it should rather be adduced
as a proof of her sagacity, when she
helps those who certainly cannot help
themselves.—C. C. Colter.
Labeling Foods.
Many otherwise good housekeepers
are very indifferent about labeling.
They trust to their memory as to
what is in each jar or package, and
sometimes with disastrous results. All
stores should bo plainly labeled.
Then and Now.
"Sometimes I feel sure," said "nil
kins, "that I once sat on a throne and
waved a scepter." "And now," re
marked his cheery wife, "you are go
ing to stand on the back porcli and
wave a rug beater."
From Recent Books.
"It takes but very delicate shadings
to mark evolution in the friendship of
women—because women are so sel
dom friends."—"The Unknown Wom
an," by Anne Warwick.
No Small to It.
Doctor's Wife (as patient departs)
—Mercy! What a monstrous man.
Wants treatment for obesity, I sup
pose. Doctor —No, he complains of
pains in the small of his back.
Erosipn Losses.
In thirty-five years England has lost
8.G40 acres by erosion, but this has
been more than made up by the new
land which has formed during that
time.
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