The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-13
GROWERS EYES,"
He Accepts the Nomination of the Dem
ocratic Party.

fish all of Cleveland's letter of accep-
lance which was given out Monday
morning but our space is too limited.
Here are its main features.
Tariff reform is made the dominant
issue of the campaign. On this SUBJ
ject Mr.. Cleveland says: "The cost
of the government must continue to
be met by tariff duties collected at
custom houses on imported goods by
internal revenue taxes assessed upon
spurious and malt liquors, tobacco and
oleomargarine. Unnecessary taxa
ton, and yet this is our condition.
We are annually collecting at our
custom houses and by means of our in
ternal revenue taxation, many mill
lions in excess Of legitimate public
needs. AS consequence, there now
remains in the national treasury sur
plus of more than one hundred and
thirty millions of dollars. No better
evidence could be furnished that the
people are exorbitantlv taxed. The
extent of the burden indicated by this
surplus will be better appreciated
when it is suggested that such surplus
alone represents taxation aggregating
more than one hundred and eight
thousand dollars in country contain
ing fifty thousand inhabitants"
Speaking Of home manufacturing,
he says: Abrupt and radical changes
which might endanger such enterpris-
es and injuriously affect the interests
Of labor are not contemplated or in
tended, but we know the cost of our
domestic manufacturing products is
increased and their price to the con-
sumner enhanced by the duty imposed
upon the raw material used in these
manufacturing. We know that this
increased cost prevents the sale of our
productions at foreign markets incom-
petition with those countries which
have the advantage of free raw mate
rial and confines them to q home
market. Our manufacturing Guerra
tions are curtailed, the demand for la
Dor irregular, and the rate of wages
paid uncertain. We propose there
fore, to stimulate our industrial enter
prises by freeing from duty the i'm
ported raw material, which by the
employment Of laborers, are used in
our home manufactures, thus extend
ing the market for the sale and per-
hitting an increased and steady pro-
duction, with the allowance of album
! dant profits"
| Or the labor question ne says ssTrue
to the undertaking course of the Dem
ocratic party, we will not neglect the
interests of labor and our working
men. In all efforts to remedy existing
evils We will furnish no excuse for the
loss OF employment or the reduction
of the wages OF honest toll; ON the
contrary, we propose in any adjust.
ment Of our reueDue lava to coneede
! such encouragement and advantages
to employers of domestic labor as will
easily compensate for any difference
that may exist between the standard
of wages which should be paid TO our
laboring men and the rate allowed in
other countries. We propose too, by
extending the markets for our manu-
facture, to promote the steady employ
ment Of labor, while by cheapening
the cost of the necessaries OF life we
increase the purchasers wages and
add to the comforts of his home"
He closes the letter with the follow
| ing on internal revenue taxation
"Our people ask relief from the un-
due and unnecessary burden of tariff
taxation now resting upon them, =
They are offered instead free tobacco
and free whiskey. They ask for
bread and they are given a stone.
The implication contained in this
party declaration that desperate meas
ures are justified or necessary to save
from destruction or surrender what is
termed our protective system should
confuse no one. The existence of
such system is entirely consistent
with the regulation of the extent to
;; which it should be applied and the
| correction of its abuses.
Of course in a country as great as
ours, with such wonderful variety
of interests, often leading in entirely
different directions, it Is difficult, if
not impossible, to settle upon a per-
feet tariff plan. Blt in accomplish
j.,
the necessity of which is so obvious
that | believe we should not be con-
tent with a reduction of the revenue,
involving the prohibition of importa-
tions and the removal of the internal
tax upon whiskey. 1t can be better
and more safely done within the lines
of granting actual relief to the people
in their means of living, and a5 the
same time. giving impetus to our do
nestle enterprises and furthering our
national welfare. IF misrepresenta-
tions of our purposes and motives are
to gain credence and defeat orr pres
ent effort in this direction, there
seems to be no reason why every en-
deavor in the future to accomplish
revenue reform should not be likewise
attacked and with like result. And
yet no thoughtful man can fail to see
in the continuance of the present bur-
deus of the people and the abstrae-
ton by the government of the cur
reney of the country inevitable dis
tress aud disaster,
All danger will be ayerted by
timely action. The difficulty of
applying remedy will never be less,
and the blame should not be laid at
the door of the Democratic party if
it is applied too late.
With firm faith in the intelligence
and patriotism of our countrymen,
and relying upon the conviction that
Misrepresentation Will not influence
them, prejDdice viii not cloud their
understanding, and that menace will
noS intimidate them, let us urge the
peoples interest and public duty for