HAlffilSOVS Wfmi.
A STUMP SPEECH DISGUISED A3
I A LETTER.
A Bolt! anil I'nbluxhlng Hid for Votes
, Which H Will Not t Mitring Adap
tation of Protection's I'aradoxes rood
Sltili Hoth Cheaper and Dearer.
Preei'lent Harrison's lttr of accept
ance is riinply a stum) epeech in the
fttrtaof an epistle. It is less a docu
ment to elucidate Ms views or to ex
plain bis party's purposes than an at
tempt to gain votes by accommodating
those view and purpose to a hostilo
public opinion, r ,
Foui4 Tears ago Mr. Harrison bad only
oatetnpt for "cheapness." Now he
arrnes that the law passed to increase
prices Las reaUy . lowered them, . The
paradoxes of protection never had a
nore daring: adapter than the president.
According to him the same law has
increased prices to the farmer and made
toodtheaper to the consumer, has low
ered the cost of manufactures by taxing
their raw materials, has enabled the
piodncer to pay higher wnges by reduc
ing the price of his product.
fa one respect only lias Mr, Iltirrison
tbs entire bravery of his bourbonism;
he defends the billion dollar congress
from its initial usurpation to its closing
outrage. - That the people condemned
this congress, and incidentally his ad
ministration, by a majority of more than
1,800,000 is calmly ignored by ttao presi
dent. He says that "a vote of want of
confidence is asked by our adversaries."
aa if that, vote had not been given in 1890
and repeated in 1801. The election this
year is simply" a demand for judgment
upon a verdict once rendered nnd con
firmed. .'
President Harrison's tardy recognition
of Air.. Blaine's action in furcing the par
tial amelioration of reciprocity upon n
bill that had no original saving clause
will hardly atone for his previous action
in claiming all the credit of it. Good
as far as it goes, this sd .called reciproc
ity is still "a Sham," as the Democratic
platform declares it to' be. It untaxes
fcslgners only. It applivs to our poor
est instead our best customers. And
it favors ether countries at the expense
of our owiw
.The president's contention as to the
effect of tariffs on wages is thoroughly
disingenuous, uot to say dibhoiu-st. lie
knows that the duty nnder the JIcKin
ley law in many schedules is more than
the entire labor cost in the nrticles pro
tected, and yet he repeats tho deceptive
claptrap about the necessity of covering
"the differences in wages'" between this
country and Europe. Ho claims that
"protective duties strongly tend to hold
up wages, and are the on barrier
against a reduction to the European
scale," when he knows that the wages
in free trade England are from 30 to 100
per cent, higher than in any protection
ist country in Europe, and that the vari
ations in wages ialh.e same industries
in. different states of onr Union nnder
the same tariff are as great as the differ
ence between the average wages here
and in England.
It is characteristic of this nefarious
system of false pretenses that it should
convert the letter of acceptance of a
president into the dishonest screed of a
special pleader.
The passage upon the force bill will
be variously interpreted, bnt fairly read
It seems to be an abandonment of the
extreme policy embodied in that odious
measure. Two years ago the president
tried to press a force bill through con
gress. He now talks soothingly of a
nonpartisan commission to devise some
scheme for counting the negro census as
Republican votes. He affects to see,
however, in the "new political move
ments" in the south and "the recent de
cisions of some of the state courts" a
hope that "the arbitrary and partisan
election laws and practices which have
prevailed may be corrected by the state,
the laws made equal and nonpartisan
and the elections free and honest."
Such a solution, he says, would be re
ceived with rejoicing by his party the
party of Wanomaker's Pharisaism,
Quay's corruption and Dudley's bribery
inasmuch as "a healthy and patriotic
local sentiment is the best assurance of
free and honest elections."
This is the Democratic doctrine, and
while the smooth sayings of a candidate
cannot be accepted as binding upon his
party it is evident that President Har
rison, like Mr. Reid and the other lead
era of his party, is anxious to drop the
force bill issue. At leant he refrains
from defending it, and definitely sug
gests another and far better method of
settlement.
But, as we have said before, Mr. Har
rison cannot wipe ontthe ltepublican
record; he cannot hide facts with pa
laver. New York World.
The Material Must Sutter.
The poor man has a certain number of
outfits to buy, whether the material be
ijood or bad, and if all wool suits do nut
coma within his means he has to take
tho all cotton and shoddy. When he
iliivera in the keen winter wind he may
or may not take the trouble to trace his
rofferings to its source. Its source,
when he finds it, is in the policy of
'protecting" the manufacturing capital
ist at the expense of the poor the few
it the expense of tho many. Tariff laws
made for revenue only would give the
wor man and his family a practical un
taxed outfit, not for the back only, bnt
tho kitchen, the bedroom and the work
shop. Minneapolis Times.
It M ill Help Ktevenaon.
The greatest cry of ltepublican organs
against Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic
candidate for the vice presidency, teems
to be that ho turned down Republican
postmasters to put Democrat in their
places. What advantage can be expect
ed through raising such a cry it is hard
to see unless It is the desire to keep tho
prejudices of those Republican office
holders alive and thus prevent them
from jolntng the popular tide that is
flowing this year toward the Democ
racy. Easton Argus.
TAXATION.
An Arrttrntn Analysis of Its True Pnr
pour. To seek to make taxation, which is a
fit contrivance only for raising revenue,
an instrument for effecting some ul
terior purpose, bo it ever so just and
legitimate; to seek to use it for the at
tainment of any other advantage than
tho obvious one of raising money, is to
lose sight of a futidatneutal principle of
every free government and to forbid all
expectation of recognizing any other
basis for the exercise of this great
sovereign power of the stato than expe
diency, which in turn will depend upon
the actions, passions imd prejudices of
legislators, who may not be the same in
any two successive legislative assem
blies. Such a perversion of principle,
furthermore, reaches its climax of ab
surdity in practice when its immediate
beneficiaries claim to lie the only proper
persons by whom the incidence and
amount of taxation can be intelligently
determined, a claim that is practically
equivalent to the assumption that privi
lege should take precedence of right in
the theory of government.
The idea of using the power of taxa
tion for other purposes than that of ob
taining revenue for defraying the neces
sary expenditure of the government was
one hostile At the outset to all the beliefs
and hubita of thought of the American
people; was totally incongruous with the
social and political system which they
Instituted nnd expected, and was reluc
tantly admitted nnder the idea that the
industries of a new country might need
some temporary stimulus and assistance
at the outset. It was not until after our
late war that anybody ventured to open
ly maintain or defend the proposition
that protection was other than tho inci
dental and not the main object of the
exercigeof the taxing, iower, although
this perversion of principle . was tacitly
recognized by the iiuxeitiou and con
tinuance of taxes which' had for their
intent or resulted in a prevention of the
raising of revenue. David A. Wells in
September Fornm.
Nbrnku'a Uovoruor.
The Democrats of 2s ebraoka have nomi
nated as their candidate for govemur
that eminent philosopher nnd tariff re
former, J. Sterling Morton, whose career
while in congress attracted national at
tention to him. If Mr. Morton shall be
elected governor
of Nebraska he
will bo in a iosi
tion to adminis
ter the nffairs of
the state in a sat
isfactory man
ner, for he has al
ready held the of
fice once. His ro
noraina tion is
therefore nil the
t ' - more of a comtdi-
J. stk rliso morton. ment, as it shows
that after one trial the people of his state
still want him; Mr. Morton has fre
quently been called the "Father of Ar
bor Day' for the reason that it is in
great measure due to his efforts that the
growth of artificial groves has been so
carefully looked after in Nebraska. Mr.
Morton has lived in Nebraska ever since
he was twenty-two, at which time he
was married to a lady to whom he had
become engaged at sixteen. He was
born In New York state in 1832 and
graduated from Union college in 1854.
The Milk In the Cocoanut.
If Republican platforms lay down
precise rules for laying duties," Repub
lican lawmakers should conform to
them. If difference of labor cost is to
be the rule we want a self ad justing
tariff that will remove some of the
bounty when wages go down. Why did
they not give the president the power to
issue a proclamation to reduce the tariff
as wages are reduced? It would be just
as safe as giving him the power to tax
or nntax the people on sugar, coffee,
tea and hides whenever in his judgment
any foreign country is not trading fair.
Somehow these legislative powers are
conferred on the president only for the
purpose of increasing the burdens of
taxation, not to lighten them. Louis
ville Courier Journal.
The Force Itlll flutter.
The force bill plotters looked forward
to the time when southern election offi
cers would not dare to declare a Demo
crat elected to congress, and when every
southern Democrat for a month or so
before and after a congressional election
would feel as uncertain of his liberty as
a Russian nihilist, knowing it to be in
the power of federal spies and detectives
to cause his arrest, after which he would
be tried before a jury of "tried and true
Republicans'' and perhaps sent to a
northern prison. Florida Times-Union.
PrnpomUnt rti'pul)licun.
The Republican press is evidently
worked up over the dark prospect that
confronts its party. The outlook is so
dismal that it seems to be necessary to
charge the Democratic party with the
most nefarious designs on tho govern
ment. Everything that is lovely is cred
ited to Republicanism and, all that is
pernicious is charged to tho Democracy.
And still the prospect doesn't grow
brighter. Strange Binghamton (S. Y.)
Leader.
A Tusk IutlteU.
The recent terrible labor-capital war
faro throughout tho country shows in a
very bad light tho happiness and pros
perity of tho protected American labor
er. What with tho great Pennsylvania
riots, tho New York strike and the
bloody east Tennessee wurfaro to ex
plain, those upholding existing govern
mental methods have a task indeed be
fore them, Houston Daily Post.
Let Mr. McKlnlejr Answer.
As Mr. McKiulcy claims to be a good
lawyer, well read in the constitution, he
ought to think matters over and tell tho
public whether it would not be just nnd
lawful to deny public protection to
every industry thBt has organized itself
as a trust or monopoly. Surely the peo
ple ought not to be forced to protect
public roblMjrs. St. Louis Republic.
REED ON EXTRAVAGANCE.
The Ka-t':r nnd Ills Humorous Clutrite
Agulnt the llou1.
Ex-Czar Reel Is something of a hu
morist i:i his way, and lie has seldom
been mow humorou than he is now in
accusing the Democratic house of "ex
travagance," because with a Republican
senate and a Republican president
against it it could not repeal tho sugar
bounty act, tho steamship subsidy net
and such like acts passed by tho Reed
congress with the delilicrate intention
of increasing tho expenditures of the
government and making the increase
permanent.
The Reed congress aud tho Harrison
administration have run the annual ex
pense for pennons nlonc p to f 140.000,
000, so that with this and the (10,000,000
a year for sugar bounties we have a
permanent expense of $150,000,000 a
year altogether aside from what are
projrly the ordinary expenses of gov
ernment. Under the disability pension bill and
other pension acts now in oeration the
annual expense for pensions will in
creiwo for some years to come. It will
reach at least $1.V.000,000 a year. The
sugar bounty will bo repealed as soon
as the Democrats elect a president and
a majority of the senate. Until then it
remains with the other permanent
charges imposed on the conntry by the
most scandalous congress the country
ever had.
With a Democratic senate these per
manent charges can be greatly reduced.
When Mr. Cleveland is inaugurated
ho will certainly renew the practice of
that strict economy which characterized
his first administration and resulted in
tho surplus which Harrison has dissi
pated. In the meantime Harrison is responsi
ble before the country for the increased
expense of his radical administration.
Ho is costing the conntry a round f 100,
000,000 a year more than Arthur cost it
Whero is the Republican who will say
that Harrison is wortli this much more
for the country? It may be that we are
to have another Republican president
in the future. If so, Ut us get one who
costs less aud is worth more for the
money. St. Louis Republic.
Sowing the Wind and Reailiii the Whirl
wind. Chicago Times.
Which FaUehood Shall We Ilelleve?
Republican organs are now busily en
gaged in telling their readers that the
reason why the wages of the ironwork
ers are being reduced is because the
price of iron has fallen, owing to the re
duction of the tariff on iron. At the
same time they tell ns that the prices of
woolen goods, tin and other products
are reduced because the tariff has been
increased. It is just such idiotic and
false arguments as these that are caus
ing the sensible people to vote against
the Republican party. The people are
not fools if the editors of the Repub
lican organs are. Bristol (Pa.) Ob
server. Benefloeoee of MeKlnley's Tariff.
Is Mr. McKinley explaining to the
Jersey people how imports have in
creased when he promised that his bill
would check themT It is appalling to
see how Americans stick to imports
when they ought to buy nothing bnt
what is made by home monopolies.
Things will never be right nntil ire
adopt the Chinese policy completely and
make a tariff that is absolutely prohibi
tive. As it is now nearly every Ameri
can who has the money to do so appears
to prefer buying importations rather
than the home product Lonisville
Courier-Journal.
The Bonth It fttlU Solid.
We do not lielieve that Virginia or
any other southern state will go for the
third party, or that enough votes will be
drawn from the Democratic ranks by
that party to give any such state to the
Republicans. There will no doubt be
considerable talk and some bluster, but
when southern white men come to the
polls in November, and consider that
they are in reality voting either for or
against the force bill, they will be very
apt to take no risk, but cast their ballots
squarely for Democracy, white rule and
free elections. Richmond Times.
Only the CapltalUt Gets Protection.
Where does the "protection" como in?
The American workman certainly gets
nouo. . The. capitalist gets it all. He is
permitted to filch money from the pub
lic in the form of exorbitant prices for
his products, and not satisfied with that
he must bo allowed to rob his workmen.
Just now, too, this high tariff protec
tion includes a contribution of some
hundreds of thousands of dollars from
tho people of Pennsylvania to pay the
expenses of tho stato militia while pro
tecting tho Carnegio mills. Rhode Is
land Democrat.
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