The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-07-16
Especial Dispatch to the New York Tines
SPEAKER BLAINE ACCEPTS THE RE-
NOMISATION.
Ills Address or Aceeptance-The New
Democratic POlIey-fhe ExperI-
ment ia Maine.

N0AISATI0N.
Ills Address OF Aceeptance-The New
Democratic POlIey-The ExperI-
ment ia Maine.
AUGUSTA, Me-, July 6.-Speaker
Blaine accepts his denomination n
Congress in long letter, which will
be made public tomorrow, mainly de-
voted tc the consideration Of the pOr-
tiOn of the platform of the Democrat
ie party of the State adopted at the re-
cent convention, denouncing the pro-
tective tariff, and declaring for free
trade and an unfettered and unrestrie-
ted commerce, and the letter Of ae-
ceptance of its candidate for Governor,
Mr.. Titcomb, in which he intimates
his endurance of the lowest form of
revenue tariff only until We shall be
educated up to the idea of equal, direct
and therefore moderate, taxation for
the support of the Government, and
"until this idea shall be brought into
practical operation" Speaker Blaine
believes that this startling dogma is
| in sympathy with more impressive
movements TO be made elsewhere, and
I 10 nE5L LlIOn II OQl III D1dluE AL EXs
pertinent on public opinion, and so
should be met. The issue proposed,
he observes, is not the old and famil-
lar one between those who advocate a
tariff for protection and those who
wish duties imposed only for revenue.
1t is assumed that all tariffs are more
/ or less protective, and the demand is
| for free trade, pure and simple, absO-
Lutte, and without qualification. What
would be the effect of such a policy.
For some years past, to deal in round
numbers, the Federal Government
has been collecting q revenus of $500, :
/ 000, 900, Gne-third from internal taxes,
two, thirds from Irfff duties. Under
| free trade, with an unfettered and un-
restricted commerce, 500, 900, 600 in
gold coin now obtained by tariff du-
ties would have to be obtained by di-
rect taxation or by a system of tx
eises," which might prove even mure
oppressive than direct taxation Itself
BY direct taxation Names share OF
this would be something over s., 250,-
600 in gold coin, the constitution re-
quiring the tax to be levied in DropOr-
ton to population, and not according
to wealth. Ii the direct tax were
avoided heavy internal taxes would
inevitably be levied on all manufac-
lures; and, INDEED, upon ali the pro-
ducts of the field, aud the forest, the
ship yard and the quarry, and every
form of industry would be burdened
and borne down by the exsctiOns of
the taX-gaiherer, and these grievOus
haIdships would be imposed on our
own people, in order that foreign coun-
tries might have the benefit of our
markets for their products without
duty and without tax.
Speaker Blaine then pass TIA con-
sideratiOn of the proposed Reciprocity
Treaty, to which the other question
tends. "Ihis treaty, like its illustrious
predecessor" he says, maintains the
reciprocity all Un one side. The first
treaty, which was terminated in 1866,
inflicted upon the State of Maine, dur
ing the eleven years OF its eXistenes, n
loss of $50, 900, 900 1t gave the Cana
dians the control in our own market
of certain leading articles in terms far
more favorable than our own people
had ever enjoyed. Under the prOpOs-
ed new treBty the ship-building and
commercial interests of the Uulted
States, reviving so prOsperOusly of
late, and just recovering from the ter
rible blows dealt by British built eruis-
ers during the war, are again to be
struck down by giving advantages,
hitherto undreamed OF, to the ships of
the very power that inflicted the pre-
viOus injury. The form of reciprocity
here proposed lacks every element of
the seductive title by which it is
sought to commend it To our people.
What is it =? Why simply this: That
If the United States will agree to adj
NIT certain Canadian products free of
duty, Canada, in turn, will agree to
admit certain American fabrics free
of duty. But the class of men to be
benefited, and the class TO be injured,
in the United States are entirely dis
tinct and separate, having nothing in
common, either in locality, industry,
or investment. To compensate the
surrender of one interest in this way
by the advancement of another has
no more element of reciprocal justice
i'm it than for a to take q pair of horses
from B, because G. took possession of
AS yoke of oxen belonging to ID.
Thus Canada gets the advantage both
ways, while the United States, for a
possible enlargement of petty trade,
consents to subordinate and sacrifice
an interest that represents our dis
tinctive nationality, in all climes and
upon all seas, an interest that has CIV
en- more and asked less of the govern
ment than any other which falls un-
der the legislative power of the gov
ernment, and which asks only to-day
to be left where the founders Of the
Republic placed it nearly century
ago." Against the whole policy of
adjusting revenue questions by the
treaty-making power, Mr.. Blaine de-
sires to enter on behalf of his cOnstit-
uents an emphatic protest. Let each
country decide thequestion of frevenue
for Itself, Independently, and avoid
the "lOg-rOlling" feature of q treaty in
which it will inevitably happen that
certain interests will be sacrificed in
order that others may be promoted. /
Let US simply place Canada on the
same basis as Otner foreign countries,
taxing her products or admitting them
free according to our Judgment of the
interests of our revenue and the pur-
suits and needs of our people, always
bearing in mind that In governmental
as in family matters, ''charity begins
at home" and that che that provideth
not for those of his own house is worse
than an infidel." In conclusion,
Speaker Blaine points with pride to
the economical work of the Republi-
can party through Congress, and ends
as follows:
Faithful in all its great trusts, with
achievements grander and nObler than
were ever wrought by any other pO-
liticaI organization, able and ready to
reform abuses in its own ranks and to
correct the wrongs of Others, the Re-