The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
All Industries Should Be Treated as Unit
and Protection So Adjusted as to Secure
the Best Results for the Country.
illustrations of the Jeffersonian Sim
plicity Prevailing at the Capital.
lamar Resigns as Secretary of the Interior,
and the President Accepts, but Finds
the Act Tear-Compelling Process.


The Tenth District Representative Discusses
the Tariff In New Fashion.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. This afternoon the
Journal correspondent had a talk with Repre-
sentative Owen, of the Tenth Indiana Districs,
about tariff and the surplus Mr.. Owen Is
man OF original ideas. and he clothes the subject
in new fashion. He said:
"A protectionist believes in levying the tariff
so as to protect American interests. A tariff
reformer believes in levying the tariff not
to protect American interests. He denounces
projections as robbery, and assails all protected
industries. He is therefore insincere in profess
ing to want reform Of the rariff; he is a free
trader masquerading as reformer. We are
surely forming the lines for contest next year
of far-reaching importance-on the side
will be marsnaled the men who stand for the
growth and development Of America and ar
rayed on the other side the tariff ff-reform-
ers and the manufacturers and unemployed
mon of Great Britain. There ought TO be no
question of the result, although the Democrats
even now trying to hedge on the Presidents
message, and Congress is sitting in anticipation
of his sending IN supplement-.
sit was mistake in the President to seek to
array industry OF the country against an
other. This is the very worst kind of sectional
ISM He seeks to incite the farmer that doesn't
grow wool against the farmer that does grow it,
and sets men who not employed in manu-
factures against the men that are The fact is the
farmer who raises wool adds to the price of the
wheat and corn OF the other farmer An en-
ploye in the factory adds dollars every month to
the wages Of the men who are not employed in
the factory. If the reformers succeed they will
find out how sadly true this is, when hundreds
of factories are closed and discharged men are
flooded over the country. The Republican poll
cy is each for all, tho Democratic policy is each
for himself.
Poor Hancock uttered Democratic truth
when he said the tariff is local issue. There is
my friend Sayers. who is dreadfully displeased
with the free wool in the Presidents messages
he says it is ruinous to the farmers. Sayerss
district, in Texas, is full of sheep. Senator
Mcpherson wants free trade throughout the
country, but ssys it is necessity to protect tho
porcelain and pottery workmen of New
Jersey. Pugh, of Alabama, another leading
Democratic Senator. is bold reformer
with an iron-ore attachment. He strikes for
freetrade in every direction except Alabama
There he says iron must not be touched; it
would cripple the development of OF the
greatest industries in the Nation. Dougherty,
Of Florida, demands high tariff to protect his
orange constituents A demand has just come
in from the shirty-fve thousand lumbermsn of
California which puts the Democratic members.
as we'll the Republican members of that
State. for the protection of lumber. The Rhode
Island wooden cloth manufacturers want the
tariff taken off wool, but want the manufactured
articles protected to the fullest extent, while
Beriah Wilkins, who has the largest Dem ocratic
majority of any Ohio Congressman, demands an
;ncraaxe IN the wool tariff. What a mir thew ara
IN
"A partial and selfish view is wholly made
uuate to so great question; the only way to
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dustries OF our country as unit-as one COM
mon industry--:he various branches OF which
ara Ia receive attention as they relate to tbe
Wnoie.
"You would have the President" said, '-act
as thoueh he ware the administrator of an
a,
es'aees
Precisely. Let him administer to the one
interest, the entire estate. You have offered me
new illustration, and | will develop it. Let
the President recognize himself as the admins
traitor of an estate for term OF years, aud let
his administration be such as benefits any great
estate OF varying interests 1t is the duty OF
the administrator of a continuing estate to col
lect only such moneys into the treasury as are
provements. Beyond this its management
should be given to improving the value OF the
estate. Where there are large aud varied inter
ests it requires the exercise of considerable hus-
mess common adjust them to
bring about profitable results TO all. He ought
not to give assistance direct or incidental to
any of its parts that cannot be supported to the
profit of all.
Suppose there are linen factories that cam
not raise the fax and make linen as cheap as
can be bought from neIghboring estate, then
ought
cease. and the needed linen bought in the cheap
est markets. The difference in value be-
tween each piece of linen purchased and what
it would have cost to make it by the estate, is
m much saved to the estate. An administrators
duty in such a case lis clear. IL the adr,inistra-
tor ascertains that he cannot producs linen az