The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-19
The Civil Service and the RepubIi.
can Party. s,q rs
citizenship Of the Republic Must
BE the safeguard Of Him
T7e who Wears IT,
The South Needs Capital and Occu-
patton, Not Controversies.
PoIygamy Can Never Receive Ma.
ti0nal Sanction or Protection.
The Pablic Lands For Actual Set
t5 tiers and Citizens.

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AuoUaTA. Me July 1s.-Following ia the
letter Of Mr.. James G. Blaine to Chairman
John B. Henderson, and tho committee
appointed by the Republican National
Convention to notify him OF his nomins.
ton:
AUGUSTA, Me July Is, 1854.
The Hon. John B. Henderson and others OF
The Committee, etc etc: -.
GENTLEMES:-In accepting The nouina.
ton for the Presidency rendered me by
the Republican National Convention, I beg
to express o deep sense Of the honor which
is conferred aud Of the duty which is i'm
posed. l venture to accompany the &C.
ceptance with some observations upon the
questions involved in the contest t-oues.
tions whcss settlement may affect the fu.
tnre OF tho Nation fayolabIy or unfayor.
ably for long series Of years. q s, Z.
z In enumerating the issues upon which
tho Republican party appeaIa for popular
support, the convention has been singular.
ly explicit and: ielicitous. It has properly
given the leading position to TIE industrial
tariff on imports. On that question the
two political parties are radically in con.
hics. Almost the frat act OF the Rspubli-
cans, when they came into power in 1861,
was the establishment Of the principle OF
protection to American labor aud to Amer.
lean capital. This principle the Republic
can party has ever since steadily main
tanned, while on the other hand the Dam.
ocratic party in Congress has for fifty
years perslstently warred upon it.
Twice within that period our op-
ponents have destroyed tariff ar
ranged ior protection, and since the close
of, the civil war, whenever they have con-
trolled the House Of Representatives, hos.
tile legislation has been attempted-never
mora conspicuously than in their princi-
pal measure at the late session Of Congress.
(. THE TARIFF QUESTION. st,q
Revenue laws are in their very nature
subject to frequent revision in order that
they made be adapted to changes and mod,
i6cations OF trade. The Republican party
is not contendiDg for the permsnency oil
any particular statute. Tbs issue between
the two parties does not have reference to
epeciGc law. It iB far broader and ia,
deeper. 1t involves q principle Of wide
application and beneAceut influence
sgaiust a theory which wa believe to be uu.
sound in conception and inevitably hurt.
ful in practice. In tho many tariff re-
visions which have been necessary. for the
past twenty.three years, or which may
hereafter become necessary, the Republican
party has msintained and will maintain the
policy OF protection 10 American industry
while our opponents insiat upon a revision
which practically destroys that policy. The
| Issue is thus distinct. well defined and una
yoidable. The pending election may deter.
,atus the iate OF protection for generation
The overthrow of the policy means large
aud permanent reduction in the wages o.
the American labares, hesdes involving
the loss of,vast amounts Of Ameriosu capt
tal invested In misunderstanding enterprises
The value Of the present revanue sya!em tc
the people Of The United States is not .
matter Of theory, and I shall aablhit nc
argument 10 sustain It. l only invite At
tenticn to certain facts Of official secora
which seem 10 constitute demonstration
In tho Ceusus OF 1850 All effort wsa made
for tho first time in our history, to obtain {
valuation OF all the property In tha United
States. The attempt was IN largo degtel
unsuccessful. Partly from lack Of time
partly from prejudice among, many wht
thought tho inquiries foreshadowed new
scheme Of taxa.iop, the returns were In
complete and unsatisfactory. Little more
was done than to coasoldato the loca
valuation used in tho States for purposes o
asseasment, and that, IS everyone knows
differs widely from complete exhibit o
all the property. .sit NJ G;S +, ~
IN the CsnsuB Of 1860, however, th,
work was done WAS great thoroughuess--
the distinction between ''assesaed" valu'
and "t.us"I value being carefully observed
The grand result WAS that the true value
Of all the properly in the States and Terri
tories (excIuding slaves amounted to four
teen thousand millions of dollars (Sl4 600,
000, ,0G0Sf This aggregate was the net resul
Of the labor and the savings Of all tn,
people within the area OF the United
States from the timo the first Britist
colonist landsd in 1907 down to the yea,
1890. Il represented the fruit OF the toi
OF two hundred and fifty years. + "A 4 Z, IA; s5
Alter 1850 the buniness OF the countr,
wa encouraged and developed by a Pro
tectiye Tariff. At tho cnd OF twenty year
the total property of the UHisad States, q
returned by the Census Of 1850, amounted
to tho enormous aggregate of fo,ty.ion
tbonsantl millions Of do!lsra III 900 900,
0 o0). Thiu great,re was attained, moi
withdrawing hefact that couatlets mill
ions had In the interval bseu wasted i,
tho progress OF bloody war. It thus sp
raa,a that while chr population be.wee
1850 aud 1850 INCREASE sixty percent, III
aggregate property pf the country increase
} two hundred and fourteen perez nt-showin
! q v,atly anhancai uealth mr. m min amnn