Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-14

iavs, may not intend to discredit in the |
ties on conpetius for<1an producss, bot il h |
'Iearly sIready discredfied In their own. The
Republican party holds fhat Q protective
tariff 10 constitutional wholesome and neces- |
sary. We do not offer fixed schedule. but |
principle. We win revise the schedule. |
modify rates, but always with an intelligent
provision as to the effect upon domestic
products and the wages Of our working peo-
pie. We believe it 10 be one Of the worthy
objects Of tariff legislation to preserve the
American market for American homes, and
maintain the American scale of wages by
adequate discriminating duties upon foreign
competing products. The effect of lower
rates and larger iuportations upon the public
revenues 10 contingent and doubtful. but not
90 the effect upon American products and
American wages. Less work and lower
wages must be accepted as the inevitable re-
.ut of an increased offering of foreign
goods in our market.
II would be difficult to make a more
fair and conclusive answer to the long
and labored effort of Cleveland in his ac-
reptance manifesto, and Of Democratic
editors and orators, to prove that then
tariff plans and policy do not lead logi-
ally and inevitably to Free Trade.
On the question of the national surplus
Hr. Harrison speaks with cOmmendable
| directness. No one can misunderstood the
meaning Of hia language:
"The surplus now In the treasury
-hould and can be used in the purchase
use OF il, and if il is not needed for curreni
or deficiency appropriations, the people and
not the banks IN a1hieh II has been dtposiftd
should hare the adrantage If its use By
stopping the interest upon the public debt
AT least, those who needlessly hoard II
'hould not be allowed TO use the fear of a
monetary striDgfncy thus produced TO coerct
| public sentimen Mt upon other questions.
| Cleyeland's talk about the burden of the
surplus, while he Is distributing $50, 000,-
600 Of it in national banks without inter.
est, aiiording large opportunities for the
Democratic electioneering fund to be i'll
creased, sounds singularly when contrasted
with the patriotic common sense Of the
Republican candidate. His letter on the
Civil Service is equally frank and honest
or one thing the country may be assured
he will never be found contributing $40,
900 Of his own salary to obtain his re
election, politically advertised as com
mand to vast army Of office-holders t,
follow his example. The name and thu
word Of Benjamin Harrison are guarantee
against such astounding exhibitions o
hypocrisy and dupicity as have SO Otter
been repeated by the Buffalo adventurer
The principles, the character and the in
tentions Of the Republican and Democrats
parties and their respective candidates ar
clearly reflected in the two document
which have just been published to tn
: Nation. The American people as jur,
will decide upon them in the light of pas
experience and existing facts and interests
and In their own hands they have tn,
power Of executing their honest verdict
Circumstances, events, the universal agen
cies of popular intelligence, never so ac
tive and powerful as to-day, render it i'm
possible for the Democratic party to hedg,
or even to secure "a Scotch verdict. Th
astounding fraudulent Tariff profession
of 1914 and 1884 cannot be successful,
practiced in the present political campaign
J The people are informing themselves as t.
the relative merits Of Protection and Ere
Trade as never before.