Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-02
SENATOR EDmUNDs, LETTER.

SENATOR EDm UNDSs LETTER.
 The New York Sun craftily said that Sea- ator Edmunds was not making speeches in this campaign, and that the fact was attract ing public attention as evidence that he wss not much interested in the election of Gene ral Harrison. Senator Edmunds writes to the Sun to correct the false impression made by it's statement. He says that he is and has been ever since General Harrison's nomina- tion earnestly and, according to his strength and capacity actively in favor of his election.
 And he gives some reasons why General Har- rison should be elected which are worth tine careful attention of every voter. They are as follows:
 1. personally know him to be of great
 abilities, of pure and upright life and of the
 most vigorous and aggressive uprightness
 and independence, both as & man and as 8
 Republican, and therefore believe that he
 will administer the government in the full
 vigor of the principles of the Republican
 party.
 g. He was gallant soldier-his flashing
 sword in the front of the battle-and in the
 gloomy rear of retreat was heard his voice of constancy and of courage.
 3. He is of the people and for the people the defender of justice and of equal rights for all.
 4. He is 8 sincere believer in the employ ment of American labor to supply American productions for American consumption. D. He is not victim of the delusion that affects the present administration-that the customs duties are tax on the consumers of imported goods, and he knows that the off, cisl and printed records of the government show (as is the case of tea and coffee put on the free list" some years ago and in the case of the so-ealled reciprocity with Canada) that l the duties taken off of such importations did l not benefit our people by diminishing the
 price they paid for their purchases, but did ! benefit the foreigneronly.
 6. He knows that every foreign made arti- cle, from shoe pegs and shoes to locomotives l and ships, used in our country, by just that ! much deprives the American worker of the opportunity to earn bread for his family. 2. He knows that 8 nation is only a large family, the members of which are bound to help each other by united and reciprocal la- bor.
 8. He knows, therefore, that the declaration of the President in his message to Congress ! that customs duties are purely and wholly 8 I tax, is a grave error, and that to give Ameri- l can labor an opportunity to win bread Amer | jeans must, as brothers in one family, em- ploy the labor and use the products of each other.
 9. He will not, as the present adminstra- | tion has done, enter into discussions and | a8EocIucutb Wltu Euklhuu III IO sO- called free trade with Canada and the putting of Americans on 8 worse footing in British ports than the British have in our own. 10. He will not even for one day tolerate the official presence of foreign minister, from whatever country he comes, who under. takes to interfere in our elections even if that minister thinks that his election or his party will work to the advantage of that ministers i country, as the present administration has done.
 to the principles of true civil service reform 1 and amendment the cover for receiving and refusing to make public, or even refusing to l communicate to the Senate, ,affidavits or other ! testimony (often perjured) against any holder of any office, as the present administration l has always done.
 l 12. He will not select to execute the office: | of public trust larger proportion of erimi' nals, disreputable and incompetent persons \ than have been so selected by all the admin istrations added together of the hundred yeari of the existence of this government, as thif l administration has done.
 l IS. He will not point out to his country
 men the danger to free elections and to really democratic government dangerous as it really | is) of President being 8 candidate for re l election, on account of his immense power o patronage, and then permit all his chief off cers and their subordinates to become often l sive partisans and exhibit pernicious acsiv tty in promoting his reelection, nor will h'
 allow heavy levies of money to be made upoI
 all, even the humblest, of the servants O
 the government to accomplish 1t. as th
 present administration has done and is do ing.