The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-09-24

II takes q British steamer TO 20 from
London 10 Buenos Ayers only twenty
three days, while our little sails require
six months TO 90 10 from New York 10
the same place.
Now, wherein is the beauty Of your
system Of protection 10 manufacturers
with . vast surplus for market, without
being able to put 1t on the market foT
want Of the means of transportation
| Have. the British been your secret
partners In this game, or IL il chance, for
the purpose Of demonstrating the faIIacy
Of your protective systemi
\ The farmer and the laborcr, ground
down to want by your brazen-face
fallacy of "protection" look with eager
eyes on anything that NAV give relief
from the misery you are inficting.
| "The marvellous growth Of the country
as an evidence Of republican Wisdom
and statesmanship." am surprised
that you do not include the sunlight aud
the air as emanations from the wisdom
Of your party tenets.
The marvellous growth of the country
u simply the natural result Of the d.
velopment and progress Of the age. Vic
tor Hugo SAY 8, that for 40 years the
human race has not made step that has
not been marked. The sixteenth CEN
tury was the century OF painters; the
seventeenth the century OF writers. the
eighteenth, the century OF philosophers,
aud the nineteenth finds all embodied in
one grand struggle Tor Development"
The political question was shaken
when ieudalism grounded lis arms
when the Mayfiower sailed for the New
World she was freighted with the con-
centrated essence OF new ideas. and the
problem 0fa free government, where man
should be his own sovereign master. was
solved when CORVALLIS surrendered Ills
sword TO Washington. aud no pent up
policy could stay the steady march oi
progress, but onward aud upward was
the course Of destiny.
Slavery in half the states had 10 crnm-
BILE to make way for progress. Your
republican wisdom seems doomed TO be
rubbed from the political trestle-b board
because il has filled the measure of IL
course. and a more expansive policy
must be instituted 10 meet the demand
of the age.
When your party was first organized
| ii most zealously opposed the abolition
of slavery. and early in the war officers
were detailed 70 return fugitive slave.
10 their masters, hut ~ the war progress
ed public sentiment gradually changed
and the republican party was reluctantly J
compelled 10 free all the slaves, because
the people clsmcred for II. The progress
Of the age demanded II, and no sophistry
could avert IL.
With equal persistence does yonr part,
now oppose revision Of the tariff laws
So as TO make them more in couformit,
with the arts and science, with the edu
cation and intelligence Of The people
with the rspid transit Of news aud trans
portation OF gooos. But. like the litils
stone seen by the prophet, more liberia
policy has commenced 20 roll through
tie ates, and soon, ri cta,ty as you
may feeI. your loved system of s'proicc
ton will will be consigned to the regiol
Of fossil forms.
Late statistical reports prove that
three -fourths Of all the exports from the
United States consists sofagricuItural pro-
ducts, whic., have nominally no protec
lection. nor do they ask any, while one.
fourth must be largely protected, which
chaser, for the purpose OF uph0ding q
system which makes II too much Of 4
luxury for the laborer.
You say. II is most important that the
republican party should retain control o
the United States Senate. To An nm
biased mind the question arises. why?
You controlled the senate when mil
lions of the public lands were granted
TO the various railroads.
H You controlled the senate when these
lands were declared forfeited by the peo.
pie representatives. and yet you refused
TO acccde TO the will Of the people.
You controlled the senate when the
people, through their representatives
demanded law prohibiting foreigner,
from holding large bodies OF land ant
converting our place for homes into
European cattle ranches, and you failed
TO hear the cries Of the people.
You controlled the senate when thu
exorbitant rate Of transportation on omI
grain and cattle from the fertile west icf
no margin 10 the farmer, and though rep
rcsentatives fresh from the people asked
the passage Of Regan's bill TO control rail
road freights Ia such q way that the farm
er could save = pittance OF his earn
ings, yet you refused their appeals.
4 You controlled the senate when th'
house bill TO apply the surplus rcvenu,
TO the purchase Of the interest bearing
bonds had passed the house by NOR,
than q two-thirds majority, and Il wa
presented 10 you for approval, aud b!
your manipulation Of Il you made !
imperative, and IN the interest OF Wal
street brokers, and yet you are brszrn
faced enough TO say that 1t Is most i'm
portant that you retain control Of tn
senate.
You say you must use extra cxertiol
TO retain Senator Harrison for the mex
term. What has Senator Harrison eve
done to engraft him 30 firmly in the AZ
fcctions Of the farmers and laboring mel
Of indiana?
What great statcsmanlikc step has h
ever taken 10 grapplc with the financia
or any other problem OF the age?
know Of but one step, aud this wa