Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GEN. HARRISON ACCEPTS. His Letter A Model Of Sound
 Common Sense. \ COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENT. He Does Not Dodge lm-
 portant Question. SUICIDE OF 4 YOUNG GIRL. Maine's Plurality IncreaS-
 ing Beyond 2O,OOO.

1Mtb11O 1uA dA1UJ AAOA Ctb6A
 ing Beyond 2O,OOO.
 GENERAL HARRTsON,s LETTER. A Protection Document from First to
 Last-The Issue Sharply DraSvn-He
 Discusses the questions at Isaues
 Competing Foreign Products, the
 Surplus, Pauper and Chinese Amna.
 grafton, Ballot Frauds, Territorial
 Government, Trusts, Pensions, Civil
 Service, Temperance and Foreign
 Relations.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Sept 1.-The following is General Harrison's letter accepting the Re- publican Presidential nomination:
 INDIANAPOLIS, nd.,a September il. Hon. M. M Estes and others, committee:
 GENTLEMEN-When your committee visit ca me on the 18th of July last and presented for the presidency of the United States by the Republican convention, promised as soon as possible to communicate to you more formal acceptance of the nomination. Since that time, the work of receiving and address ing almost daily large delegations of my fel low citizens, hes not only occupied my time, but has in some measure rendered it neees- sary for me to use this letter as 8 medium of communicating to the public my views upon the questions involved in the campaign. appreciate very highly the confidence and re- spect manifested by the convention and &C., cept the nomination with feeling of grati- tude and full sense of the responsibilities which accompany it. It is 8 matter of con- graduation that the declaration of the Chi caao convention upon the questions tn at now attract the interest of our people are so clear and emphatic. There is further cause of congratulation in the fact that the convention utterances of tain or contradictory can now be judged and interpreted by executive acts and messages and by definite propositions in legislation.
 THE ISSUE STATED.
 This is especially tr1e of what is popularly known as the tariff question. The issue cannot now be obscured. It is not contest between schedules, but between wide-apart principles. The foreign competitors of our market have with quick instinct see how one issue of the contest may bring them ad- vantages, and our own people are not so dull as to miss or neglect the grave interests that are involved for them. The assault upon our protective system is open and defiant. Pro- lection is assailed a unconstitutional in law, or as vicious in principle. and those who hold
 
 absolute elimination from our tariff laws of the principle of protection.
 THE MILLS BuE-ITs OBJECT.
 The Mills bill is only step, but is toward an object that the leadeIs of Democratic thought and legislation have already in mind. The important question i5 not so much the length of the step es the direction it takes, l judged by the executive message of Deceu- Der last, by the Mills bill, by the debates in r 1akf Democratic party will, if supported by the country, place the taEiH laws upon purely revenue bcs:s. This is practical free trade, fires trade in the English sense. The legend upon the banner may not be 'free trade. /" It may be the more obscure motto, s'tariH reform" but neither the banner nor the in- scription is conclusive, or. indeed, very in- portent The assault itself is the important fact.
 THE TARIFF.
 Those who teach that the import duty up- on foreign goods sold in our market is paid by the consumer and that the price of the domestic competing article is enhanced to the amount of the duty on imported arti- eles, thst every million of dollars collected for customs duties represent many millions more which do not reach the treasury, but are paid by our citizens es the increased cost of resulting from the tariff laws-may not in tend to discredit in the minds of others our system or leFSAnB uuues on couPoAAAs AoH- eign produets, but it is clearly alrec3y discredited in their own. We cannot doubt, without impugning their integrity, that if free to act upon their con- victions they would go revise our laws as to lay the burden of the customs revenue upon articles that are not produced in this eoun- try and to place ur on the free list all eom~ peting foreign products.
 did not stop to refute this theory as to the effect of our tariff duties. Those who ad- vance 1t are students of maxims and not of markets. They may be safely allowed to cali their project ''taI.h reform" if the peo- ple understand that in the end the argument eompels free trade n competing products. This end may not be reached abruptly and it's approach may be accompanied with some ex- | pressions of sympathy for our protected inc | dustries and our working people, but it will \ certainly come if these early steps do not | arouse the people to effective resistance. The Republican party holds that protective tariff | ia constitutional, wholesome and necessary. We | do not offer affixed schedule, but princi- ' pie. We will revise the schedule, modify rates | but always with an intelligent provision as | to the effect upon domestic production and \ the wages of our working people. Less work and lower wages must be &C., | cepted as the inevitable result of the in- creased offering of foreign goods in our mar
 ket. By way of recompense for this reduc- \ ton in his wages and the loss of the Amsri- \ can market, 1t is suggested that the dimin- ishsd wages of the workingman will have an uadiminished purchasing power, and that he will be able to make up for the loss of the home market by an enlarged foreign market. Our workingmen have the settlement of the question in their own hands. They now ob- tain higher wages and live more comfortably than those of any other country. They. will make choice between the substantial advan- tapes In hand and the deceptive prom \ wfn of
 CTS. They will decide for themselves and for the country whether the protective sys
 tenn shall be continued or destroyed.
 BUGBEAR IN THE SURPLUS.
 The fact of treasury surplus, the amount of which is vsriously stated has directed pup lic attention to 6 consideration of the meth. ods by which the national income may bes
 be reduced to the level of wise and necessary ! expsndlture. This condition hal
 been sie.sd upon by those wht
 are hoRtile to protective custom duties, a al I adyantaQeous base of attack upon our tariff laws. They have magnifed and nursed thu
 surplus, which they affect to deprecate, seem
 ingly for the purpose ef exaggerating the evi in order to reconcile the people to the ex
 trems remedy they propose. A proper re duction of the revenue does not necessitat , | and should not suggest the abandonment o ? impairment of the protective system. Tn r methods suggested by our convention vii \ not need to Dc 9xnAu1S6Q III OEucE tO enSc !. | the necessary reduction. We are not hkel , ! to be called upon, think, to make presen j choice between the surrender of our protec ! tive system and the entire repeal of the inter j. nal taxes. Such a contingency in view of th b present relation of expenditures to revenue { remote. The inspection and regulation c 2 l the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine important and the revenue derived from it r not so great that repeal of the law need er ter into any plan of revenue reduction. A : to the surplus of bonds, the law outdoes thi t use of it and, if it is not needed for curren i, appropriations the people and not the banl r in which 1t has been deposited should hay s the adyantsoe of its use by stopping interei
 upon the public debt. At least those wh . needlessly heard it should not be allowed
 use the fear of @ momentary stringency
 thus produced to coerce public sentimel upon other questions.
 PAUPER IMMIGRANTS.
 i. Closely connected with the subject of Il l. tariff is that of the immigration of foreiG 7 laborers under contracts of service to '0 | -.-e..-, .S h.~a The law now in force Y,r,