Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-09-24
RESOLUTIONS of the two Parties Dodge
vile VS.. Mineral Point.

vention was held a week before that
which put Warden upon the Con-
gressonal course. 1t published an
explicit and satisfactory set of reso>
buttons, for which see our first page.
The topics taken up are as follows
Resolution Preservation of this
Union.
2-Encouragement of foreign inn
migration.
3-National faith and public econ
omy.
4-ProtectiOn TO all citizens.
5-Tariff laws should favor the la
| borer.
6-Endorsement of Grant and Will
son.
The Mineral Point Convention pass
ed set of resolutions. ignoring all
these points except one They may be
summed up thus:
Resolution l endorses Greeley and
Brown and their platform, "particu-
lary the proposition to submit to
the people in the several Congress.
ional districts the important question
of Tariff"
2-Down with Tariff monopoly.
3-TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY.
4-Dodgeville Tariff resolution so
ambiguous as to "merit our uhquali-
fed condemnation"
5-Insinuates Mr. Barber is bribed
by Eastern monopolists, to keep up
high Tariff.
6-Reform. Honesty and Tariff.
So Tariff alone is the nightmare
that disturbs the dreams of our Lib
eral friends, and they propose to max e
a feint on that false issue, under
which to wage furious contest for
official spoils. This justiGes US in
giving some attention to the above
resolutions and their probable author
the Honest Miller"
|. The Baltimore and Cincinnati
platform treats the subject of tariff
thus: Revenue should be raised with
out interfering with the industry of
the people; and siuce different sec.
tons UiU differ on Free Trade and
Protection, let the people discuss it
in their own districts and decide it
in Congress by the votes Of their
congressman. This is statement
which to the Western farmer means
Free Trade, to the eastern capitalist
Protection. This is highly ambigu-
Gus and, in the words o! the Mineral
Point resolution, "merits our unqual.
flied condemnation
But Warden's committee at Min
eral Point failed to understand this
Tariff plank, aud endorsed it as "the
proposition to submit 10 the people the
question of Tariff" They got SO
muddled that they thought it meant
we were all to vote on the separate
articles of import, and hold town
meetings to say what goods should
come into New York duty-free, and
what rates should be paid on lead
quinine, silks, wine, wool, &C.; in
stead of which it SIMPLY proposes
that the people shall discuss Free
Trade, as they always have, and let
a majority III Congress decide, as it
was from the beginning, is now, and
we hope ever shall be.
2 They "declare their opposition
to all So called Protective Tariffs, that
tend to create monopolies and bur-
den the people of the West" Yet
their idol, Greeley, has used all the
power of the leading American Jour
nal, for twenty years TO preach up
"Protection to American Industry
by high duties on imports, and to
create monopolies in the eastern man
ufacturing states and raise the prices
paid by the western farmer. And
now the way these reckless conspir~
ators for Office "declare their opposi-
ton to Protection" is by worship
ping the great head-center of Pro-
lection Pshaw who believes that
this issue is more than a sham, to
give them at least one subject TO
howl over, to disguise their greed for
Office
B. Resolved, that we are in fa-
vor Of a tariff FOR REVENUE ONLY"
That is,give US list of duties on i'm :
ports that shall yield a revenue to
the government, and not protect any
branch of American Industry. That
is just what they claim. In other
words,put high duties on things which
we cannot produce and must buy,
such as coffee. inda.rubber, silk
spices, dye stuffs, foreign drugs, tim
plate, &c, and make the people pay
a high price on them without any re-
turn whatever; but admit free. of du.
ty all that class of goods which can
be produced abroad cheaper than
here; so that !he American miner of
lead, coal or iron, or the American
weaver or workman of whatever
kind, must compete directly against
the pauper labor Of Europe and Asia.
See what their sham issue of Tariff
has led them into
Here they plainly differ from their
National Platforms, which "demand
a system that will not unnecessarily
interfere with the industry of the
people" That is, not suddenly in
augurate Free Trade system that
will cripple any great manufacturing
interest SO as to either lower the
wages of laborcrs or stop American
mills entirely. If wool is worth 25
cts. a pound in England, the present
tariff adds to its price so that the
Grant County farmer receives 361
cts. by way ofprotectiCn or encour-