The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-22
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT OURS.
Hon. Jesse Il. Reno, of Owen County,
Ex-State Representative, for Blaine,
lie Leaves the Free-Trade Democracy and
Allies Himself with the Friends
of American Industry.
70 tho Edtor Of Tho spencer republican.

| with the Democratic party a feeling of respect
for the opinions of those with whom l have been
so long politically connected induces me to give
my reasons for so doing especially as l have
been honored by that party with positions of
trust and responsibility,
have become convinced that protection to
all of the diversified industries of this country is
| calculated TO better remunerate labor and, con
! sequently, enable the laboring masses of this
country to enjoy more home comforts and have
more time to inform themselves of
the nature of the glorious institutions
under which we live, and vote more in
diligently for the principles by which they wish
! to he governed. One of the fundamental princ-
Piles of the Republican party is protection to all
! home industries, their statesmen asserting that
! by building up home manufactures they mater-
ally aid the agricultural interests of the country
! in creating home market; and an experience of
| over twenty years has proved the wisdom of the
measure and indicated the truth of their pre-
dictons. For, in those States which are largely
engaged in manufacturing interests, you find
those engaged in farming and horticulture advo
eating protection, and their delegates in Con
gress, Democrats and Republicans, vote for pro
lection, as the free trade Democrats found out
last winter to their confusion.
Tempted by the ineXhaustibe mineral re-
sources of the Southern States capitalists have
put down large plants of manufacturing indus
try in the States of West Virginia Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. and already the people
begin to talk protection, and it is my candid
opinion, if the principle of protection is
tanned by the people of the United States that
i'll the near future there will be large delegations
of congressman sent from the Southern States
pledged 10 their constituents to vote protection
to their home industries. And why not? AS
soon as the people of the South see the change
that the establishment of manufacturing inter
ests among them has wrought, it is an argument
of such a substantial nature in favor of protec
ton that no man who wishes to prosper
and see all his ncighbors prosperous and
happy around him, can long resist. Those OF
their citizens who depend their daily labor
for a living find constant employment at remu-
nerative prices the farmer finds his lands en-
HANGING in value; he finds u ready market for
everything he raises and vegetables that were
hitherto almost worthless. except for home con
sumption, he now sell at price that en-
ables him to buy great many home comforts
which otherwise lie must do without They see
towns and villages springing up as if by magic,
the log cabin giving place to the neat cottage,
railways church and school facilities III conve-
nient proximity; they see their families enjoy
ing home comforts that formerly were monopo-
lized by the great slave-owners of their
country. These changes what pro
duce protection sentiment around the
great manufacturing centers of the
South, as strong as 1t is i'll any of
the Northern States. And, my Democratic
friends, the reason cannot vote with YOU this
year is because believe it to be for the best
terests of the American people that the principle
of protection to the manufacturing interests of
this country should be sustained. This principle
has beer adhered to and faithfully carried out in
all the administrations of the Republican party
for the last twenty years. and no nation! that
ever had an existence on this globe has prospered
in material wealth, and all the elements that
constitute national greatness as our country has
in that time.
Protection to home industries and a sound and
stable system of currency have been two i'm
portant factors in producing this unparalleled
prosperity.
l would respectfully ask all young Democrats
not to believe everything that stump orators
tell them in heated campaign Go to the his
tory of your country and see what kind of
monetary system and circulating medium the
Democratic party had given to the people of the
United States after an administration of fifty
two years, and compare it with the present
monetary system of the Republican party and
you my older Democratic friends who like nv
self. have had some experience in the matter,
how would you like to swap present incom-
parable system of currency (which has been
wholly matured by the Republican partly, every
paper dollar of which is as good as a dollar in
gold, not only in the United States but all over
the globe wherever the flag of com
merce is unfurled, for the wildcat system
given us by the Democratic party previous to
the advent of the Republican party to power!
You all know gentlemen, the utter impossibility
of keeping up the credit of that currency to any
fixed standard. You know that in our local
trading. those who bought and those who sold
We're left without rule whereby to ascertain
their profit or loss and interstate commerce was
sadded with almost insurmounta BILE embarrass-
ments. This irresponsible, fuctuating circulat-
ing medium of the Democratic party had no
specific funds to rest on for it's redemption, and
was calculated in its very nature to emharrass
every species of commerce or exchange. | have
said that finance is one of the bed rocks from
whence political principles spring. Protection
and finance are intimately connected in fact, in
separable; without finance there could be no pro
trla hxyt1 NON Otpra rIn
lican party, in laying duties on
imports makes the principle of protection para
mount. The Democratic party, as political or
ganization, is an enemy to protection, and its
statesmen, i'll levying duties on imports, do so
for the purpose of raising revenue ONLY, treating
the principle of protection secondary or in
cidental question: as the history of the tariff
question during the period in which the Demo
cratic party had complete control of this govern
ment incontrovertibly proves. In all
the long period of time in which the administra
ton of this government was in the hands of the
Democrats they never gave the people pro
tective tariff. Their declarations of principles
i'll all their various platforms, prove to an I'M
prejudiced mind that the ultimate destination of
the Democratic party on the tariff question is
free trade. They plainly declared so i'll 1860,
and IN every one of their platforms since then
where they have mentioned the tariff at all, they
declare they are for revenue only. with the ex
ception of the one adopted at Chicago. July 8,
1884, wherein they pledge themselves to protect
the manufacturing industries of this country by
declaring the party to be in favor of tariff FOR
REVENUE EXCLUSIVELY.
The doctrine of free trade is so antaconistic to
the best interests of the American people that
when we see clubs formed in various localities in
the interest of that doctrine, we are apt to con
clude that some motive other than patriotism is
the moving cause. When Philip King of Mace
don. was seeking to compass the destruction of
Greece, he had in his pay number of Grecan
orators or statesmen. of whom the celebrated
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great zeal urging their countrymcn to adopt tie
foreign policy of Philip; and they at last sue
ceeded in raising party sufficiently strong and
influential to permit the King of Macedon to
pass the straits of Thermopyn unopposed, and
the liberties of Greece fell to rise no more If
the people of this country are simple enough to
administer our government by principles die
tated to them by English journals and states