THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER n, 1912.
PAGE SEVEN
ETfffiT iun urru
I UULII1U II I ill
PROSPERITY
Mil Mill III! I III IITI1I11I
nlLIIUHUu I LLL I IIL tl 1 UIl I
ndermlnlnn of the Tariff Will Pro.
duce Untold Stagnation of Business
and Cause Disaster to the Working
man of the Country.
All through this year mills In this
oiinirv in nonnv ir nnr niiirn p.vnrv
Inn nf Tnn.niifnntnr.ft hnvn ho on nri
ii'imi in linn 11 mil nn w i n uinir nriiRrH.
Of what ubo to worry about foreign
nnriR innr nro wanion ni nnmo r rn
ano man regards with Indifference
uu rcti iu ivjtt iuin juuiu iuuiiva
inn no rnn mnirn what immiinn ran
o hnvo to fifiol? fnr niisrnmpr.q in Inn
rn nr J'nrio rr r.alfinttn 7
And why should he bo oxpoctod to
tune stiuriuces iu kci iuui initio nuw
mn up ni 11 n wi inn nn iinnn nn insii-
ah in market for rood a. a marko.t hav
The condition of the railroads tolls
in mi in v rii niir iivi'riuiw nrnHimr
v Ths natlnn'n hiifllnnfto hna nhnnt
r I'rnwn inn rjinncn nr inn rn.u-
The time Is near at hand when, In
lint i :iriK ill H I uuuirv. ui iiiihium
! I 111 I I II 11.1 1 1 rilTtllk:tl WI I Ut! NLIll III1L
sulllclent effort to meet tho require-
!I1IH (II II KH IIL 14a I1U.I1I1III1T fHIIl-
And If Eoruo ono shall say that this
p hup ipr nr inn rnnrr m nr Tin
print. th rpsnlt nf trm nrwrntlnn nf
e mrm. we mav wen bbk. mow can
ill iirnvf. I mil iiriiiiiiKii inn ill nnivn
is of course quite impossible. But
e may declare, with no peril of con-
auiuuuu, ursi, mui a nign uuuu una
least not operated as an obstruc-
n nr n i-iiri-k iinnn nrnsnnniT H n 11
ptllrlnp' InHnarrtna wlttimit hnln frnm
riff nrntootlnn
There is not a single example In
n7 nrnonr uvv Ann narr ni a? v
nv I acl n f t hn Aiit.nnil.mit fma
nni fi t rnnenn n nun rnw tt v .
mine that n. hlirhpr mpanurn nf nrns.
til' UIIIJ JJ u 1 ux III U UI U., UMU I'
- .. -1 . 1. 1 1 .11.1 .1
the very highest prosperity ever
It Ih n. fnlr rnfiRnnflhlo ennnnaltlnn
ey will work towards, or at least,
ev will not obstruct, the continuous
Ings for the nation.
The assertion may be made with
nfldence, an assertion which has for
warrant tuch mournful experience
the past, that a decided change in
e protective system, or even strong
effect to check the development
business rather than to promote It.
How to Check Prosperity.
lAsm n nh n Imn rr nwmr n imi m
ripnrpn nv mill nwnurm Tnn nrn rwi.
railroads which cannot obtain cars
n..rrV. ...I.I. . V. t n U . 1 1 I V. 1
erea mem;
can suggest an Immediate and ef-
ii vm TttTTinnv i a 1 1 uiir-n.TtAnn ad
lOT tno wnrn rr nut rrrtm nn nn
ii mnlro Im nnrfnrf -, a ctao in
me Known mat inero is to do ro-
fi nil thft fllfnoiiltlAfl frnm whlnh
inuiaciurers ana common carriers
now suffering will promptly dlsap
n
ff rtnrrlr hnhfnn MrhlnTi ihav n.
rt thn nnnn fill nimnn I n In V.
lng unablo to meet their ordors. tho
ods will bo fi tacked in the atoro
ijreo iix9 Biaings wui do tinea wun
ople being eagerly bid for by tho
inufacturers, and wages swiftly rls
r, there will bo multitudes of Idle
n In tho streets and In tho soup
uses, and there will be suffering and
d abundance.
t will tin AtrnniTA If tnin nntlrtn
thin a fow years of tho Cleveland
rd times, produced by a foolhardy
nmnt to recast tho tariff in tho In.
VDID (Jl 1UI JlUUi D, DUUU1U Uv WlllluK
mako again a venture so ruinous
d dreadful.
uu uruiocuru urBieiu uuBuiuiaiy
1 1 t i ii u nan r nv rnn MTintiinnD i nw
nt np in triA llnltcrl NtntAa in nvnrv
partment of business. Let mo put
fact moro strongly. We have bore,
der that system, the one magnificent
the human race.
0 snail muuuoet wibuuxu 11 our uu-
mn Or nnrikfiHM m ki is ui mini
t to tho policy under which things
mighty havo been dono.
CHARLES HEDEE CLARK.
BEST PAID LABOR
OF THE WORLD
The American Worker Enjoys an
Enormous Advantage Over His Fel
low In Free Trade England.
That labor In America is bettor off
than in any other part of tho world,
n dm Its of no question. The London
Times last year discussed the matter
editorially on tho basis of figures col
lected by tho British Board of Trade:
"Tho workman In America enJoy3
an enormous advantage over his fel
low In England an advantago far
greater than Uio latter enjoys over
tho German or Frenchman, lie earns
moro than two and a quarter times an
much money, and works shorter hours
for It, so that his hourly rto of am
Inge is as 240 to 100, or pretty nearly
twice and a half as much. AjalnBt
that enormous difference In wages
there is something to bo set in the
way of expenditures. Rent Is twlco
as high and food Is about ono-thlrd
higher than In England, but the cost
of living altogether Is only as 152 to
100, or about half as much again. Tho
margin Is clearly large, making pos
sible a command of the necessaries
and conveniences and minor luxuries
of life that is both nominally and
really greater than that enjoyed by
the corresponding class In this coun
try." Tho Times adds that "the advantage
enjoyed by this country in regard to
tho cost of food Is even loss 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 Kngland. It
Is clear that prices havo not risen so
much in re-ccnt years in the United
States as we havo been led to suppose,
and that wages havo risen much moro
rapidly."
It may be objected that the Times
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 tho froo traders. The
British Board of Trade is a branch of
the government, originally created in
tho reign of William and Mary to
watch the American colonics, and to
keep them from manufacturing any
thing England wanted to sell them.
Tho president of the board is a mem
ber of the cabinet, and of course at
present both a Liberal and a free
trader.
The Times goes on to refute the
freo trade assumption that our work
Ingmen are prosperous not because of
protection, but "In spite of It." It says
that "If good results regularly follow
that system, It does not much matter
whether the connection 1b called 'in
spite of or not."
Good results for labor havo invari
ably .followed the protective policy in
America. A Pennsylvania workman,
whose recollections go back to Presi
dent Polk's timefi tells of the days
which followed tho repeal of tho pro
tective tariff of 1842, in a letter to the
Philadelphia Press:
"Work was hard to get Laboring
men received 50 cents a day for twelve
hours' work. My father was a stono
mason. He got 62 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 wo 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 tho workingman.
"When the Whig party elected Har
rison In 1840, and a tariff law was
passed, a number of iron furnaces
were built. I remember one near our
city (Eaaton), 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. Tho best me
chanics were out of work, and had to
go to the soup house. Later on, when
Mr. Cleveland was elected tho second
time (In 1892), wo got another dose
of freo trade. That, many of your
readers remember. A friend of mlno
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 tho
presidency, and to give his party con
trol of congress, will have "to take
his medicine." Tho Democratic candi
date hates protection with a perfect
hatred. He cannot refer to It In his
speeches without losing his self-control.
And his record In Trenton shows
him ready to uso his executive posi
tion to control legislation. Forewarned
Is, or should bo, forearmed.
ROBERT ELLIS THOMPSON,
In Irish World.
The Percentage Trick.
There has been much talk in tho
Democratic organs of late concerning
tho frightfully largo prcentagoB of
duties imposed by the protoctlvo tariff.
Resort to what has been called "tho
percentage trick" Is a favorio prac
tice with thoso who would mislead tho
plain people. Percentages do not al
ways, by any meanB, indicate prices.
You tell a man that some common
article of necessity bears a duty of
129 per cent, and ho Is stalled and
angry.
He will not reflect that oa percent
ages go up prices may bo going down.
"When tho prlco of tin plato was, say
5 per 100 pounds, a 2V, cents duty
was a CO per cont duty. When tho
price of tin plato docllned to $3. 50 per
100 pounds, the very same duty bo
came a 78 per oent duty.
If stockings valued at $1 a pair had
a sptclflc duty of f 1 add the tax would
b 100 per cent. When (the dutf re
maining fixed) tho price of stockings
fell to 50 cents a pair the duty would
be 200 per cent If tho stockings i
should fall to 10 cents a pair tho fixed
duty would be 1000 per cent.
Tho Important question, of course,
1b not what Is tho percentage of duty
upon stockings, but what do you hivo
to pay for a pair? You can buy to
day in tho great shops two pairs of
good hal hoso for 25 cents, and thero
Is no peril in tho assertion that never
slnco the world was made could you
got, tariff or no tariff, bo good hosiery
for so little money.
Tho reasons arp, first, that tho home
supply because tho Industry had tariff
protection, Is abundant and excellent,
and, second, that tho Americans, sole
ly becauso that Industry (and thore
foro tho lucontlvo) was hero, have In
vented tho most wonderful and pro
ductive knitting machinery.
CHARLES HEBBR CLARK.
The Government and the Farmer.
Thoughtless pooplo sometimes soy
why should the government glvo aid
and comfort, through tho instrumen
tality of a tariff law, to a single clans
of cltlzons the manufacturers?
The aid Is to bo given, of course,
whoro It Is noodml. Builders, lawyers,
retailors and so forth are sufficiently
protected by nature. The manufactur
er gets help where it is required. Tho
farmer, also, let us note, gets it far
moro abundantly whero ho requires it.
Do you evor reflect upon what our
government has done and now does,
for tho Amorlcan farmer?
Millions of farms woro given, years
ago In tho west, to tho farmers abso
lutely without charge. Tho govern
ment never gave a mill to a manufact
urer. Other millions of farms have
been sold by the government, and now
aro selling, at tho lowest of low prices.
The nation maintains an agricultural
department (the manufacturers have
no department), which costs from ten
millions to twelve million a year. This
department not only distributes vast
quantities of seeds, but It Instructs
tho farmers, analyzes their soils, im
proves their animals, destroys at great
cost tho cotton boll worm and Injurious
insects and helps them to stamp out
diseases In plants and animals.
Hundreds of millions are spent In
construction of Irrigation works bo
that poor land may be redeemed for
tho farmors, and In divers and sundry
other ways the American farmer Is
assisted, encouraged, upheld and made
the object of Incessant large expendi
tures. No man may complain of this. It is
well done. That is what a government
la for, to do for tho people the things
that they cannot do for themselves.
Wo are the government The money is
ours. All theso tollers are our breth
ren. All are Americans. Their welfare
is our welfare. The soil feeds every
man of us. The huge expenditure for
tho splendid development of agricul
ture Is an Investment of a common
fund for tho benefit of all.
But If this bo true for the farmer,
why la It not truo for the manufact
urer? Tho farmer, rightly, gets enor
mouB sums of money as a gratuity
from the treasury and he Is the con
stant object of solicitous almost ma
ternal attention.
What does tho manufacturer get?
Absolutely nothing but sholtor for his
business from a powerful foreign
rival, whose highest felicity would be
the annihilation of his American com
petitor. CHARLES HEBER CLARK.
How a Tariff For Revenue Works.
Imports of all kinds in the twelve
months ending Juno SO, 1912, amount
ed to $1,653,425,174, of which $881,
743,144 were freo of duty, while less
than half, or $771,683,030, wero du
tlablo and competitive articles. Should
the tarlff-for-rovenuo policy prevail,
and tho rates of duty be lowered, the
dutiable Imports would havo to In
crease In quantity to keep tho reve
nue whoro It now Is; and the lower
the duties tho greater would have to
be tho volume of Imports in order to
maintain tho revenue.
Now it would seom clear that tho
present policy of gottlng an average
of about 41 por cent on $771,6S3,030
worth of dutiable imports, or consid
erably more than $300,000,000 of reve
nue, Is a bettor policy than that of
reducing the duty to, say, a 20 per
cent average and being compelled to
doublo the Importation of compotitlve
merchandise in order to get that $300,
000,000 of revenue.
In the latter case we should havo
to Import more than $1,500,000,000 a
year of foreign merchandise that
would take the place of a good deal
moro than a billion and a half of do
mestic production. Think this ovor
and boo whotber a protective tariff on
$771,000,000 of Imports Is not better
than a revenuo tariff on a billion' and
a half dollars' worth of foreign-made
goods.
Millions For Defense.
If It bo worth while to spend hun
dreds of millions ovory year for bat
tleships, In making ready for a gun
powder war which Is likely nevor to
come, why Is It not well to omploy for
our protection our avail ablo law ma
chinery for servico in a commercial
war at this very moment raging tho
world overt
Commerce Is indoed war and mor
cjless war. No tidings could bring to
Europeans a thrill of joy equal to that
which would como to the old world If
announcement should be made that
one-half tho manufacturing power of
tha American nation were wrecked
and ruined and finally forovor wiped
out of existence.
CHARLES HEBER CLARK.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO TJIE 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 PUR
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF
THE CONSTITUTION.
Number Ono.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to articlo
nlno, section four, of tho Constitu
tion of tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, nuthorlzlnc the
State to Issue bonds to tho amount
of fifty millions of dollars for the
Improvement of tho highways of
tho Commonwealth.
Section 1. Bo It resolved bv the
Senate and House of Representatives
of tho Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania in uenerai Assembly mot, That
the following amendment to tho Con
stitution of tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania be. and tho samo Is
hereby, proposed, In nccordanco with
tho eighteenth articlo thereof:
That section four of articlo nlno.
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall bo creat
ed by or on behalf of tho State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
rovenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war,
or to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency In reve
nuo shall never exceed, In tho aggre
gate at anyone tlmo, one million of
dollars," bo amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of tho State, except
to supply casual deficiencies of rev
enue, repel Invasion, suppress Insur
rection, dorend tho State In war, or
to pay existing debt: and tho debt
created to supply deficiencies in rev
enuo shall never exceed, in tho ag
gregate at any ono time, one million
of dollars; Provided, however, That
tne uenerai Assembly. Irrespective of
any debt, may authorlzo tho State to
issue bonds to tho amount of fifty
millions of dollars for tho purpose of
Improving nnd rebuilding tho high
ways of the Commonwealth.
A truo cony of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, articlo three of the Constitu
tlon of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section 1. Be It resolved by tho
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of 'Pennsyl
vania In General Assembly met, That
tne roiiowing is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
in accordance with the provisions of
the eighteenth article thereof.
Amendment 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, exten
sion, or impalrinc of liens:
"Regulating the affairs of coun
ties, cities, townships, wards, bor
oughs, 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 alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge com
panies, except for tho erection or
bridges crossing streams which form
boundaries between this and any
other Stato: ,
"Vacating roads, town plats,
streets or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, grave
yards, or public grounds not of the
State:
"Authorizing tho adoption or legi
timation of children:
'.'Locating or changing county
seats, erecting new counties, or
changing county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or
villages, or changing their charters
"For the opening and conducting
or elections, or fixing or changing tho
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
counties, cities, boroughs, townships,
election or school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating tho practice or Juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence In, any Judicial proceeding
or Inquiry beforo courts, aldermen,
justices of tho pcaco, sheriffs, com
missioners, arbitrators, auditors,
masters In chancery, or other tribun
als, or providing or changing moth
ods for the collection of dobts, or the
enforcing of Judgments, or proscrib
ing tho effect of Judicial sales of real
estate:
"Regulating tho fees, or extending
tho powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of tho peaco, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating tho management o!
public schools, tho building or repair
ing of school houses and tho raising
of money for such purposes:
"Fixing tho rato of Interest:
"Affecting tho estates of minors or
persons undor disability, except after
due notlco to all parties in interest.
to bo recited in tho special onact-
ment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and
forfeitures, or refunding monoys log-
ally paid Into tho treasury:
"Exempting property from taxa
tion:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining
or manufacturing.
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, lenowlng or oxtendlng tho
charters thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, as
soclatlon or individual any apodal
or exclusive privilege or Immunity, or
to any corporation, association or in
dividual tho right to lay down a rail
road track.
"Nor shall the General Assembly
indirectly enact such special or loca)
law by tho partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or
special acta may bo passod:
"Nor shall any law bo passed
granting powers nnd privileges In
any caso whern thn ernntlnir of
such powers, and nrlv'leces!
snail navo been provided for by gen
oral law, nor whoro tho courts havo
Jurisdiction to grant tho samo or glvo
tno roller asked for." so as to road
as follows:
Section 7. Tho General Assembly
shall not paBS any local or special
law authorizing tho creation, exten
sion or Impairing of lines:
Regulating tho affairs of count ns.
cities, townships, wards, ooroughs,
or scnooi districts:
Changing the names of narsons or
places:
Changing tho venue in civil or
criminal cases:
Authorizing tho lavlnc out. onen-
lng, nltorlng, or maintaining roads,
highways, tsreots or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge com
panies, except for tho erection of
bridges crossing streams which form
boundaries between this and anv oth
er State:
Vacating roads, town nlats. Btroots
or alleys:
TJnlnf Inw in rr, o t ,t 1
...III.IUQ fcv VU.UUtUl ICS, ,1(1,W(lIUO I
or public grounds not of tho State: I
Authorizing tho adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats.
erecting new counties or chanclnc
county lines: ;
Incorporating cities, towns or vll-i
lages, by changing their charters:
tor tho 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-
ougn limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or scnooi districts:
Changing the law of descent or
succession:
Regulating the practice or Jurls-
iction of, or chancing tho rules of
evidence In, any judicial proceeding
or Inquiry beforo courts, aldermen,
Justices of the peace, sheriffs, com
missioners, arbitrators, auditors.
masters in chancery or other trib
unals, or providing or changing
mothods for the collection of debts.
or tho enforcing of Judgments, or
prescribing tne effect of Judicial sales
of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peaco, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or re
pairing of school houses and the rais
ing of money for such purposes:
Fixing tno rate of Interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
duo notlco to all parties in Interest,
to Do recited in the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for-
f -Itures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but tho legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labor,
and make provision for tho protec
tion, wenaro ana saiety of persons
employed by the State, or by any
county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village, or other
civil division of tho State, or by
any contractor or sub-contractor per
forming work, labor or services for
the State, or for any county, city.
borough, town, township, school dis
trict, village or other civil division
thereof:
Ci eating corporations, or amend
ing, 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
Individual 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 gener
al law; but laws repealing local or
special acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law bo passed grant
ing powers or privileges In any case
where tho granting of such powers
ana privileges shall have been pro
vlded for by general law, nor where
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
tho samo or give the relief asked Tor.
A truo copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Socrotary of tho Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amondmont to section
threo of articlo eight of tho Con
stltutlon of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be It resolved by the
House of Representatives of tho Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (If the
Senate concur), That the following
Is proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, In accordance with tho
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof:-
Section 2. Amend section threo of
article eight, which reads as follows
"All Judges elected by tho electors
of the State at large may be elected
at olthor a general or municipal elec
tion, as circumstances may requlro,
All tho elections for judges of the
courts for the several Judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward,
borough, and township officers, for
regular terms of service, shall be
hold on tho municipal election day;
namely, tho Tuesday next following
tho first Monday of November 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 consenting thereto:
Provided, That such elections shall
always bo hold in an odd-numbered
year," so as to read:
Section 3. All Judges elected by
tho eloctors of the Stato at largo
may be eloctod at olther a general
or municipal election, as circum
stances may requlro. All elections
for judges of tho courts for tho sev
eral judicial districts, and for county,
city, ward, borough, and township
officers, for regular terms of service,
shall bo held on tho municipal elec
tion day; namely, the Tuesday next
following the first Monday of Novem
ber in each odd-numbered year, but
the General Assembly may by law fix
a different day, two-thirds of all tho
membors of each House consenting
thereto: Provided, That such elec
tions shall bo hold In an odd-num-b
red year Provldod further, That all
Judges for tho courts of tho several
Judicial districts holding office at
tho present time, whoso terras of of
fice may end In an odd-numbered
year, shall contlnuo to hold their of
fices until the first Monday of Janu
ary In tho next succeeding ovon
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
ono of article nlno of tho Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Bo It resolved by tho
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia in General Assembly met, That
tho following Is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of tho
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in
accordance with tho provisions of
the eighteenth articlo thereof:
Section 2. Amend section ono of
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: "All taxes shall bo uniform, upon
tho samo class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of tho authority
levying the tax, and shall be levied
and collected undor general laws;
but tho General Assembly may, by
general laws, exempt from taxation
puDiic property used for public pur
poses, actual places of religious
worship, places of burial not used
or held fnr nrlvntp nr nn.nnrn t
profit, and Institutions of purely pub
lic cnarity, so as to read as fol
lows: All taxes shall hn linlfnrm iinnn
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority
levying the tax, and shall be levied
and collected under general laws,
and the BUbtfct nf tnrntlnn mov ha
classified for tho purpose of laying
graaea or progressive taxes; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
nronertv used fnr nnhlln nnrnnaoa
actual places of religious worship,
places or ouriai not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and In
stitutions of purely public charity.
A truo 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.
Be it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
General Assembly met, That the fol
lowing is proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
In accordance with the provisions of
the eighteenth article thereof:
Articlo IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or
which may hereafter be issued, by
any county or municipality, other
than Philadelphia, to provide for the
construction or acquisition of water
works, subways, underground rail
ways or street railways, or the ap
purtenances thereof, shall be con
sidered as a debt of a municipality
within tho 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 period of five years,
either before or after the acquisition
thereof, or, where the same is con
structed by the county or munici
pality, after the completion thereof,
shall have been sufficient to pay In
terest and sinking-fund charges dur
ing said period upon said obliga
tions, or if the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon tho respec
tive properties, and shall Impose no
municipal liability. Whero munici
palities of counties shall issuo obli
gations to provide for the construc
tion of property, as herein provided,
said municipalities or counties may
also Issue obligations to provide for
tho Interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said proper
ties shall have been completed and
In operation for a period of one
year; and said municipalities and
counties shall not bo required to levy
a tax to pay said Interest and sinking-fund
charges, as required by sec
tion ten of articlo nine of tho Con
stitution of Pennsylvania, until after
said properties shall have been oper
ated by said counties or municipali
ties during said period of ono year.
Any of tho said municipalities or
counties may Incur indebtedness in
excess of seven per centum, and not
exceeding ten per centum, of the as
sessed valuation of tho taxable prop
erty therein, If said Increase of In
debtedness shall havo been assented
to by three-fifths of tho electors vot
ing at a public election, In such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A truo copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of tho Commonwealth.
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