The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-03
MIR. MORTON'S LETTER.
A Mere Boiling Down of the
Harrison Document.
WHOLESALE ENDORSEMENTS
he Approves Everything Past,
Present and Future-M onopelist
Lewis Tariff Experience.

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Lewis Tariff Experience.
NEW YORK, October 2.-Following is
Levi P. Morton's letter. accepting the
nomi nation Of Vice-President:
RH1NEcLIFF. N. Y, Oct. 2, 1883.
Hon. M. M. Estee and others, Committee ::
Gentle1nen:-In making a formal &C
ceptance of my nomination as Republi-
can cand idate for the ce-Presidency,
I desire to express my heartfelt appre-
citation of the confidence reposed in me
by the convention. The duties devolv-
ing upon the Vice-President as presid-
ing officer of the Senate and in certain
contingencies as participant IN the
legislation of Congress, made it proper
that the people should know distinctly
and unreservedly the political views of
candidate who may be presented for
their suffrage.
It fortunately happens that this duty
for myself is easily discharged, by re-
ferring to the principles embodied in
the resolutions, unanimously adopted
by the National Convention. These
resolutions, unequivocal and compre-
hensive in character, reflect my per-
sonal convictions and have my hearty
approval. It's difficult, however, in a
political campaign to fix the popular
attention on more than one issue, and
in the pending election every voter in
the United States clearly sees
THE CONTROLLING QUESTION
8 whether the protective tariff duties
now in force shall be so reduced as to
destroy their efficiency, or whether
these duties shall be retained with such
notifications and adjustments as shall
better adapt them to the great end of
protecting the vast and important in
dustries of the whole country. Tie
Republican platform, while recogniz-
ing the necessity of reducing the
revenue, declares this reduction must
not be made at the expense of
these industries and American labor.
The American people have now en-
loved protective system for longer
continuous period than ever before in
the history OF national government.
The result is, for more than quarter
of century they have realized de-
gree of industrial and financial pros
perity unprecedented in this country,
and never equalled in any other. The
pressing reason given for once again
trying the experiment of the revenue
tariff, without protection as motive or
end, is that the present tariff has pro-
duced, and is producing surplus in
the Treasury. But, is it not easily
within the wisdom of Congress to adjust
the national income to the national ex-
penditures without sacrificing or even
imperiling the industrial system
which has brought untold advantages
to the entire country? Admitting that
the present tariff, by the lapse of time
and large expansion of trade, which
1t has stimulated, nesds revision, is it
not wiser and more patriotic to revise
it with regard to the interests of protec-
ton than with the purpose of lessening
its protective features? These are
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS
which 1nust be answered at the national
polls in November.
For myself as a citizen and as a
candidate, do not hesitate to declare
that from lor oI@ervation [ am an
unWavering fra d of the protective
system. In bu SIS life now extend
ing over forty years, have witnessed
and compared the effect upon the
country of the revenue tariff tending to
free trade, with protective tariff encour-
aging home industries. Under the for
mer the development of the country
has always been arrested, while under
the latter it has uniformly been pro-
noted. To men who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brows, the differ
ence between the two systems is that
of narrowing the chances on one hand
and expanding the opportunities on
the other.
Free trade would open America to
competition with the whole world.
Protection reserves America for Ameri-
cans, natives and adopted. The indus
trial system of the country IS as sensi-
tive as its public credit. a hostile
movement creates distrust on the pub
lie mind and confidence, the only basis
of successful trade, becomes impaired,
capital grows timid, the field of labor
contracted and the pressure for employ
ment inevitably reduces the wages of
all Workingmen.
WITH THE VIEWS OF THE CONVENTION
so firmly expressed in its resolutions
upon all other questions of public
interest, 1 find myself in hearty &C
cord.
In relation to silver and its important
bearing upon the national currency as
well as its connection with and infu-
ence of the prosperity of large sections
of our common country; in it's advo-
cacy of the iudicious settlement of the
public lands; in its policy IN urging
the necessity for better coast defenses
and the duty we owe to the shipping
interests of the Countrywide platform
but repeats the approved principles of
the Republican party.
The Republican platform proposes a