Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-22

WASHINGTON, July Following is
Logan's letter accepting the nomination:
WASHINGTON Cd. c., July 10, 1884.
DEAR Sir; Having received from you,
on the oath of June, the official notifica-
ton of my nomination by the National
Republican Convention for Vice-PreSident
of the United States, and considering it to
be the duty of every man devoting himself
to public service to assume any position to
which he may be called by the voice of his
countrymen, l accept the nomination with
grateful heart and a deep sense of its re-
sponsibilities, and if elected, shall en-
deavor to discharge the duties of the office
to the best of my ability. The honor, as
is well understood, was not sought by me.
That it was rendered by the representatives
of the party in manner so tiattering Will
serve to tighten whatever labors l may be
called upon to perform.
Although the variety of subjects covered
in the very excellent and vigorous declara-
ton of principles adopted by the late Con-
vention prohibits, upon an occasion calling
for brevity of expression, that full elabora-
ton of which they are susceptible, | avail
myself of party usage to signify my appro-
val of various resolutions of the platform
and to discuss them briefly.
PROTECTION TO AMERICAN LABOR.
The resolution of the platform declaring
for the levy of such duties as
to afford security to our diversified
industries and protection to the rights
and wages of labor, to the end that active
and intelligent labor, as well as capital,
NAV have its Just award and the laboring
man his full share in the national pros
perity, meets my hearty approval. If there
be a nation on the face of the earth which
might, if it were a desirable thing, build a
wall upon its every boundary line, and
DENY communication to all the world and
proceed to live upon its own resources
and productions, that nation is the
United States There is hardly a legiti-
mate necessity of civilized communities
which cannot be produced from the extra
ordinary resources of our several States and
Territories. with their manufactures,
D
This circumstance, taken in connection
with the fact that our form of Government
Is entirely unique among the nations of the
world, makes it utterly absurd to institute
comparisons between our own economic
systems and those Of other Governments,
and especially to attempt to borrow systems
from them We stand alone in our circum-
stances, our forces, our possibilities
and our aspirations. In all sue
cessful Governments it is prime
requisite that capital and labor should
be upon the best of terms, and that both
should enjoy the highest attainable pros
perity If there be a disturbance of the
lust balance between them, one or the other
suffers. and dissatisfaction follows, which
is harmful to both. The lessons furnished
by the comparatively short history of our
own national life have been too much over
looked by our people.
THE TARIFF.
The fundamental article in the old Dem
| ocratic creed proclaimed almost alb
solutely free trade, and this, too, no
more than quarter of century
ago The low condition of our ma
tional credit, the financial and business
uncertainties and general lack of prosperity
under that system, can be remembered by
every man now in middle life Although
in the great number of reforms in
stituted by the Republican party,
| sufficient credit has not been pub
| licly awarded TO that OF tariff reform,
| its benefits have nevertheless been felt
throughout the land. The principle under
| lying this measure has been in process OF
| gradual development by the Republican
party during a comparatively brief period
of its power, and to-day portion of its an
| tiquated Democratic opponents make UNI
willing concession to the correctness
of an equitably adjusted protective
tariff by following slowly in its
in the rear. The principles involved
is one of no great obscurity, and can be
readily comprehended by any intelligent
person calmly rejecting upon it. The
political and social systems of some of our
| trades with competing nations have created
working classes miserable in the extreme.
| They receive the merest stipend for their
daily toll, and, in great expense
Of the necessities of life, are deprived
of those comforts of clothing, housing
and health-producing food with which
wholesome mental and social recreation
! can alone make existence happy and desir-
able Now, if the products of those coun-
| tries are to be placed in our market along
lean capitalist must suffer in his legitimate
profits. or he must make the American
| laborer suffer in his attempt to compete
with the species of labor above referred to
in substantial reduction of pay
| There can be no compenSating advau-
tageS for the American labOrer, because
articles of daily consumption which he was.
with the exception of articles not produced
in the United States, and easy to be pro-
| vided for, as tea and coffee, are grown in
our own country, and would not be affected
in price by the lowering of duties. There
fore, while he would receive less for his
labor, the cost of living would not be de
| creased. Being practically placed upon
pay the European laborer, our own would
be deprived of the facilities for educating
and sustaining his family respectfully. He
would be shon of the proper opportunities
for self-improvement, and his value as a
citizen charged with portion of the obi
| cations of government would be leSSened.
The moral tone Of the laboring class would
suffer in turn with the interests of capital.
and the well-being, orderly citizens in gen
eral would be menaced, while one evil
would react upon another until there would
be general disturbance of the whole com
munitv The true problem of good and stable
Government is how to infuse prosperity
among all classes Of people-the manufac-
turer, farmer mechanic and laborer alike.
Such prosperity is preventive of crime, is
security to capital, and the very best guar
antee of peace and happiness. The obvious
policy of our Government is to protect both
capital and labor by the proper imposition
of duties. This protection should extend
to every article of American production
which goes to build up the general pros
perity of our people.
THE WOOL INTEREST.
The National Convention, in view of eer-
tain dangers menacing the wool interests
of the United States, deemed it wise to
adopt a separate resolution on the subject
of its proper protection. This industry is
a very large and important one. The neces-
sary legislation to sustain this industry
upon a prosperous basis should be eS-
tended. No one realizes more fully
than myself the great delay and diff
Guilty of adjusting the tariff so nicely
and equitably as to protect every home in
dustry, sustain every class of American
labor, promote to the highest point our
great agricultural interests, and at the same
time to give one and all the advantages
pertaining to foreign productions not in
competition with our own, thus not only
building up our foreign commerce, but
taking measures to carry it in our own
bottoms. Difficult as this work appears
and really is, it is susceptible of accom-