The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-09-14
ARE you CANDID /?

We appeal 10 fair minded, candid repnb
licans to lay aside party prejudice long
enough 10 settle this question aAre you
candid !" II so, thcn tell us why. after
reading the following passage from Presi-
dent cleveiands message, you should ever
again call II u free trade message
1T Is not proposed to entirely relieve the
country Of this taxation. II must be ex-
tensigeiy continued as the source Of the
Governments income and In a readjust.
ment OF our tariff the interests Of Ameri.
can labor engaged In manufacture should
be carefully consldered,as we'll rs the pres.
efyation Of our manufacturer. II may be
called proteetion,or by any other name, but
relief from the hardships and dangers Of
our present tariff laws should be devised
with especial precauilon against imperiling
the existence OF our manufacturing inter.
ests. But this existence should not mean a
condition which, without regard 10 tie pub
lie welfare or a national exigency ,must al
ways Insure the realization OF immense
profits instead Of moderately profitable re-
turns"
oh, We !. bat you say that Cleveland
recommended that wool should be put on
the free list, therefore he Is free trader
But, II you are candid and determined TO
deal fairly and honestly with yourself you
cannot call the message that recommends
putting one or half dozen articles on the
free IIst free trade one while II puts 1000
articles on the tariff or dutiable list. If
you arc canuid and honest in tl,e belief
that cieveiand's message Is a free trade
one, then we can easily prove that the re-
publican party has been free trade party
for long years. Read the following ex.
tracts candidly and honestly, and then say
eandidly and honestly what you think Of
them
Republican National Platform, 1868 at
Is due to the labor of the nation that taxa.
ton should be equalized and reduced as
rapidly as the national faith will permit"
Republican National Platform, 1884 /:
"The republican party pledges Itself to
correct the inequalities OF the tariff and TO
reduce the surplus"
James g. Blaine. June 10, 1868 "Dur-
Ing the entire war, when we were seeking
everything on the earth, and In the skies,
and in the waters under the earth, out OF
which taxation could be wrnng, Il never
entered Into the conception Of Congress 10
tax breadstuffs never. During the most
pressing exigeneies of the terrible contest
In which we were engaged, neither bread
stutis nor lumber ever became the subject
Of one penny OF taxation. Now, as TO the
article Of lumber.I again remind the House
that there has never been tax upon this
article say that wherever the Western
frontiersman undertakes 10 make for him
self home, to til the soil, TO carry on the
business of life, he needs lumber for his
cabin,h he needs lumber for hts fence, he needs
lumber for his wagon or cari,hc needs lum-
bcr for his plough, he needs lumber for al
most every purpose IN his daily life.
President Grant. Annual Message, De-
cember. 1874: Those articles which en-
ter into our manufacturers and are not pro-
duecd at hcme. II seems 10 me, should be
ture which we produce n constituent part
OF, but do not produce the whole, that part
which We do not produce should be enter
cd free also. | will instance fine wools,dyes,
etc. These articles must be imported 10
form part of the manufacture of the high
CT grades OF WOODEN goods. Chemicals used
as dyes, compounded in medicines, and used
In various ways IN manufactures, come un-
der this class. The introduction, free oi
duty, OF such woods as we do not produce
would stimulate the manufacture of goods
requiring the use of those We do produce
and therefore would be benefit 10 home
production.
President Grant, Annual Message, De
CENTER, 1875: "Many duties now collect
ed, and which give but an Insignificant re
turn for the cost of collection, might be re
mittcd, and TO the direct advantage of con
snmcrs at home. / would mention thos
articles which enter into manufactures @
all sorts. All duty paid upon such article
goes directly to the cost Of the article whe
manufactured here, and must be paid for b
the consumers. These duties not onl
come from the consumers at home, but AZ
as a protection to foreign manufacturers {
the same completed articles in our own an
distant markets"
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, 1888
"The hours of labor in the Lancashire mil
are 50, in the Massachusetts mills 90 p'
week. The hours of labor in the mills
the other New England States, where u
wages are generally less than In Mass
chusetts, are usually GO to 90 per wee
Undoubtedly the inequalities in the wag
of English and American operatives a
moro than equalized by the greater ef
, cheney of the latter and their longer hou
of labor
A dispatch to the Cleveland, o., PM