Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-09-19
Extracte From harvIson'S loteoe.

Extracte From HarvISon'S IoteOs'
 The letter of acceptance of General
 Bejamin Harrison is too lengthy to be
 given in full in onr columns, but we
 quote fron 1t below some of the saiient
 points. He places quIetus on the cit
 repeated and now thread bare worn as-
 sertion that he favored Chinese lmmi-
 grafton by the following unmistakable
 language:
 'We should reselutely refuse to per.
 init foreign governments to send their
 paupers and criminals to our ports.
 We are also already under duty to defend our civil position by excluding
 alien races whose ultimate assimilation
 with ours IS neither possible or desirable.
 The family has been nucleus of our
 best immigration, and the home the
 most potent assimilating force in our civilization. The objections to Chinese immigration are distinctive and con- elusive, and are now SO generally ac- cepted as such that the question has passed entirely around the stage of ar- guments. The laws relating to this
 subject would, if should be charged
 with their enforcement, be faithfully executed. Such amendments or fur ther legislation as may be necessary and proper to prevent invasion of he laws and to stop further Chinese imni- grafton would meet with my approval. The expression of the convention upon this subject is in entire harmony ' my views.
 On the tariff question he IS outspoken. logical and conclusive in his utterances tearing the "tariff reform" mask from the democratic party and exhibiting 1t in its true light of free-trade and says
 "The republican party holds that the protective tariff is constitutional. whdfe- some and urCessa:y We do not offer . fxed schedule but principle. We will revise the schedule and modify the rates but always with an intelligent provision as to its effect upon domestic production and the wages of our... working people. We believe n to be one of the worthy ot- jects of tariff legislation to preserve the American market for American produc- CTS, and to maintain tAe American scale of wages by adequate dicriminati ng duties upon foreign competing products. The effect of lower rates and larger i'm portation upon the public revenue is con- ,ingent and doubtful, but not 50 is the effect upon American production and American wages. Less work and lower wages must be accepted as the inevitable result of an increased offering of foreign goods m our market. By way of . recom- pense for this reduction in bis wages, and the loss of an American market, it is suggested that the diminishing of work ingmen's wages will have an increased purchasing power and that he will be able to make up for the loss of home mar ket Our workinsmen have the settle ment of this question in their own hands. They now obtain higher wages and live more comfortably than those of any other country. They will make choice of the substaptial advantages they have in hand and the deceptive promises and forecasts of those theorizing reformers. They will decide for themselves and for the cOun. try whether ths protective system shall be continued or destroyed"
 In reference to the surplus in the treasury, he says:
 "The surplus now in the treasury should be used in the purchase of bonds. The law authorizes this use of it. and if il IS not needed for current or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the banks in which it has been deposited, should have the advantage of its use by stopping the interest on the public debt. Al least. those who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the fear Of , monetary stringency. thus produced .o coeroe public sentiment on other. questions"
 In reference to election frauds he gives no uncertain voice hv saying:
 "Our civil compact is a government by | and the law loses its sanction md the maghsate our respect when thls compact is broken. The evil results of ,lection tsauds do not expsnd themselves ipon the voters who are robbed of their -ightful influence in public affairs. The or community, or party that D practices or cennives at election frauds lave suffered irreparable injury, and will ooEer or later realize that to exchange he American system of majority rule for he minority control is not only unlawful nd unpatriotic, but very unsafefor those 'ho promote il. The diskanchisemen single legal elector by fraud or in IS crime too grave to be egarded lightly. The right of every ualified eleotor to cast one free ballot nd have 1t counted must not be ques- oned. Every constitutional power hould be used to make this right secure nd punish frauds upon the ballot. Our olored people do not ask special leRis- ltion in their interest, but only to be lade secure in the common rights of ,eir citizenship" I arfaeid's Speech ln tho Mouse
 tn 1878.
 l believe that we ought to seek that oint of stable equilibrium somewhere ,tween prohibnory tariff on the one md and a tariff that gives no protection , the other. What's that point of stable :, Iuilibriuul In my judgment it is this: :
 rate SO high ibat foreign producers lnnot flood our markets and break q
 r.