Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-13

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duties. Such q conrse might serious
41yss1lalmst those who employ their
Gepital - th@ enterprises, and when
E0opth ia alarmed, even without
| cause, the result for the time being is
practically the same as though the
FdMdstef1Were real. For this reason,
l7f3Of do, others, it has always been
Fmys !Opfuion that It vas the duty of
LtonGfe8 to proceed carefully and con-
.4efvativ6ly1n legislating on this SUBJ
Eject, having due regard for the large
Interests Involved. In other words,
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,REFQRMATI0N, NOT REVOLUTION.
Hpf The process of reformation must
% Q1sQnfu The power of. taxation is
ll4sed. only Tor its proper purposes.
There must be no step backward, MOI
any deviation from correct principle
and sound policy" The democratic
party u not only ;OppOsedto the prin-
iGiple Of protection of private indus
tiles at the expense ofother industries
equally. deserving, but especially is it
|.QppQeed to- the extent to which this
dQe4lIine has been carried since the
war. During the war, on account OF
the Very heavy tax on our manufac-
4ltett made necessary by the war,
EtDhey. could not possibly have COM
Reteds with outside. manufacturers
unless. an. additional duty was inn
pQsed on foreign. wares. This was
done. and done. properly, but it was
distinctly y. understood on all hands
.that.the. extra duty, then imposed
should b0 removed when the burden
e08 the war on such industries was re-
moved. But though the war taxes
shAyelQng been lessened and removed,
theaeastern: manufacturers and mon
!; op0lista insist that the war tariff shall
! remain. And it has been kept up
yeaEsafter. year to 8 figure that has
produced about one hundred and fifty
millions of dollars per annum in ex-
;eees Of the demand of the treasury.
a duty is placed on many articles SO
high that It is nearly or quite prohi-
i:biti0n, and this does not yield any
revenue to- the government, it's sole
EFFECT being to raisein value the price
lof the article: manufactured in this
country to. the consumer, without
yielding q dollars. revenue to the
government.
: ALL THE PROTECTED INDUSTRIES
Join together and oppose any change
or evena consideration of the subject.
I admit that the democrats are not a
unit on the question, nor are the re.
publicans, but the democrats are by
very large majority in favor of tariff
revision, and the republicans nearly
4 unit against 1t. Mr.. Blaine must
be conceded to be good authority on
the subject In our favor, and I there.
fore quote him. In speech delivered
two years since he said:
w. &c pom every question upon which
parties divide In this country the in
''terest of the people of Maine must
lead them, after a sober second
thought to support the republicans.
BY: the spread of manufacturing in.
.dustries, the growth Of agricultural
interests, the people of Maine become
every year more and more interested
In the maintenance of a protective
tariff. No candid man believes pro.
>tective tariff will be upheld for a
single year if the opponents of the
republican party should come into
,power, and by so much as any voter
In Maine helps to elevate free trade
to power, by so much he aids to inn
peril the manufacturing and agricul-
.tural interests of the state, and no less
so in tile matter Of p.building."
And In a speech a few months ago
he said:
"At the late session of congress a
measure known as the Morrison tariff
bill, designed first to weaken and
ultimately destroy the protective
policy, was resisted by so compact an
organization of the republican MEM
bers that q single vote from New York
and two or three votes from Mime
sofa were all that broke the absolute
unanimity of the party, and was rem
dered still more striking by the fact
that the organs of republican opinion
In New York and Minnesota declared
that these exceptional votes were adj
verse to the wishes of a large major
ity Of those who elected the dissent
ing members"
ON THE OTHER HAND,
the vast majority of the Democratic
members supported the free trade side
of the question, but a small minority
uniting with the republicans found
themselves able to defeat the measure.
The hostility of the Democratic party
to protection has entailed upon tho
country q vast loss.
It cannot BIO necessary to waste
words in the attempt to prove to an
intelligent audience that the Repub-
licans Of the East who direct the party
and control its %cOunsels, favor protec-
tion--.high, oppressive protection--'
and I think it may be said that it is
equally clear that the republicans of
the West would oppose it, if permit
ted. But they have been overridden
and misrepresented. When the re.
~publicans Of the West have taken the
power out of the hands of leaders and
ring-men and elected a man who rep
represents them on the economic
question they soon find that that man
Is by hook or crook cast aside. The
business of the whole country has
been subordinated and compelled to
pay tribute to q few protected monop.
Eollsts. Especially has the business of
the West suffered. And when a cry
has gone UP for revision and reform,
we have gotten it. But how, and in
what? Has the burden been taken off
theneceBarieso flife the daily wants. of
the poor? The tax has been removed
from bank checks, perfumery, hair
dyes, patent medicines, etc. The
people have
ASKED FOR BREAD
and they. have been givan a stone.
On such articles as rice, glass, sugar,
molasees. blankets, ,fannels, hosiery,