The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-11

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their political arguments. To try and
deceive the people in reference to re-
publican candidates and republican
platforms Is their ideal of the proper
way in which To conduct political
campaign. just at present, great
portion of their stock i'm trade is futile
attempt to prove that Gen. HARRISON
is opposed to the laboring man and
that the republican platform is in favor
of free whiskey.
They point to Gen. HARRIsoN's vote
on the anti-Chinese immigration meas
ure rs proof of the former assertion,
and to the revenue plank in the repub-
lean platform as proof of the latter.
The plain truth in regard to the Chinese
matter is that Gen. HARRISON main
tanned that the bill restricting Chinese
immigration was in conflict with the
treaty made with that country, and he
favored keeping our treaty obligations,
even though the other party were a
heather nation and, perhaps, would
prove powerless to compel this nation
to keep its plighted faith And the
general was right about the matter; n
new treaty had to be negotiated before
the measure could be adopted, a fact
which his opponents conveniently sup
press when they try to prove that he
favored unrestricted Chinese immigra-
ton. The position of the republican
party on this question, position which
their candidate endorses as unre-
servedly and rs heartily as even the
residents of the Pacific slope them
selves, is fairly and unequivocally set
forth in the following plank of the
platform:
1--WE declare our hostility To the in.
PRODUCTION into this country of foreign
contract labor and of Chinese labor,
alien TO our civilization and our consti.
tuition; and we demand the rigid en-.
forcement of the existing laws against
it, and favor such immediate legislation
as will exclude such labor from our
shores"
AS TO the claim that the republican
party is in favor of free whiskey, but
the most casual reading of the tariff
plank of the Chicago platform is needed
to convince anyone that it is utterly
baseless and untrue. The plank reads
as follows:
THE republican party would effect
all needed reduction of the national
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
tobacco, which are an annoyance and
burden To agriculture, and the tax upon
spirits used in the arts and for mechan
zeal purposes, and by such revision OF
the tariff laws rs will tend to check
imports of such articles as are produced
by our people, the production of which
gives employment To our labor, anC
release from import duties those arti
cles of foreign production Except lux
uries) the like of which cannot be pro
duced at home. If there shall still
remain larger revenue than Is requi
site for the wants of the government
we favor the entire repeal of interna
taxes rather than the surrender of any
part of our protective system at tn,
joint behest of the whiskey trusts ano
the agents Of foreign manufacturers.
First, the republican party woult
effect reduction of the revenue by
repeating the tax on tobacco and OF
| spirits used for mechanical and scien
tific purposes.
Second, it would revise the tariff law,
in the interest of American manufac
turers and American laborers in such
way as To check the importation o.
such articles as come into competitor
with home production.
1t is only after having done all thi,
and then finding "A surplus of revenue
a thing that would be very unlikely t.
occm-that the republican party would
repeal all internal revenue taxation
rather than ruin the country by al
abandonment of the protective system
The democratic party coddles tn,
prohibition party, party organized
expressly in opposition to the liquor
traffic, a party that demands the repea
of the whiskey tax outright and a
once, and in the same breath rails a
the republican party as being in favor
of free whiskey because it would, il
event of a remote contingency, abolish
the same taxi
And what if the whiskey tax shoul,
be repealedy There would be no NOR,
spirits used than there is to-day. But tn,
great whIskey rings, trusts and monop
olies that have been built up by reason
of it would be broken down, and tn,
taxation, regulation or suppression OF
the traffic would be relegated to tn,
states, where it properly belongs. 1t i,
by no means clear that the prohibition
lists are not wise in demanding its re
peal, and that such measure would
not prove beneficial to the cause o.
temperance and sobriety.
That the republican party is not in
favor of whiskey, either free or taxed
is evinced by the fact that the following
resolution was unanimously adopted a.
a part of its declaration of principles:
"The first concern of all good govern
p,ant il tho yirfua and Soht.iatv of Oh.