Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-07-27
THAT FAT" CIRCULAR
II is making the G. o. ?. Managers a
Whole lot of Trouble.
IL Is Sent to Arthur L. Lyman a Bos-
ton Manufacturer
Aud EvokeS from Him a Scathiuw
Communication in reply.
4 Mad Manufacturer.

of the Young Mems Republican Clubs.
over which Mr.. Foster, the kid chairman.
preSides, as we'll as the national repubE,
can headquarters, has been in a fernent
ever since last Friday. II seems the
notorious "fat" circulars has besn SAINT
oat IN large lots TO local chairmen and by
them thoroughly distributed. The HOLY
oke chairman had sent one to the Hadley
Manufacturing company. of Boston, and
received in response ssa,hjng letter
from Mr.. Arthur f. Lyman, the president
of that company. This letter the Roly-
oko chairman transmitted to hesdouar.
ters here last week with a request to know
what to do. The letter is as follows;
OFrIoE OF rHE HApLFy CoMrANY.
BoSroN July Is, 1855.
Chairman of the Finance Committee Of
the Holyoke Republican Climb:
DEAR SR-I hav, yours of the I9th
asking for contributions for the repub-
hcan club. | am, of course, deeply inter.
ested in the tariff as regards the Hadlsy
Company, and also in its bearing on
many other cotton auI WOODEN manufac-
lures in which l am interested, but, in
my opinion, the republican members of
congress from New England and the
Hcme Market Club aud the Woolan Manu-
facturers' association have practically
done more harm to the causa of protec,
ton and to the protected $50 calIedl in
dustries of Massachusetts, than the demo
cratic members of the ways aud
means committee. have had occasion
20 see some of the democratic members
of the ways aud means committee, and 20
hear of the plans ana views of others,and
| am convinced that but for the action of
the republican members of congress from
New England and the greater part OF tho
republican manufacturers of New Eng
land we could have had in the Mills bill
satisfactory schedules for
wOoLENs AND COrrONs.
As 1t is, at the request of some mauufac-
turers (republicanl, made through demo
cratic members from Massachusetts, the
democrats of the ways and means com
mittee altered and adyan ced rates ON
some important items, while we were met,
am informed, by republican members
Of the house, saying; leave the sched
uls az tits; il is better for the election"
The republicans now refuse to aid i'll
putting raw materials on the free list and
certainly in New England free raw ma.
terial has boeu considered rs an element
III protection almost as essential IA the
duty on the manufactured article, From
my business experience in both import
ing and manufacturing l am fully aware
of the necessity of protec;ioh for the
maintenance here of certain manafac-
turers, and | very muon regret that 5ho
republican party, with which have acted
from its beginning, has, for political
success, taken position which | consid-
er hostile in It's practical effects to the
protected industries of Massachusetts,.
The democratic members of the ways
and means committee take broad and on
the whole reasonable views of the tariff
question, and while of course they look
at the interest of tho United States as a
whole, they DO not ignore the fact that
many great industries have grown up in
this country under the high duties mado
necessary by the war Of the rebellion
and that it is only fair and proper that,
consideration should be paid 20 their
existence and condition. Neither do
they ignore the fact that the working
people in the protected Industries are
very largely members of the democratic
party. Beside the consideration thnt my
manufacturing interests
HAVE BEEN PUT AT NEEDLESS RISK
by the partisan action of the republicans,
| must also take into consideration the
interests of tho whole country, in which
we are all involved, and cannot feel it
to be right to vote for anyone that can
honestly stand on tho republican plat
form. Most of tho republicans with
whom | have spoken about it have told
me that they had not read it. l can
readily believe that it would be disagree
able reading to republicans who in the
past have in all honesty, desired to have
raw materials and fruit products on the
free list. But the exigencies of practical
politics have forced the party into Il false
position as regards the tariff, and into
many other unwise and dangerous rela-
tions in regard TO the domestic and
foreign affairs of the country. There is
practically no party in this country in
favor of free trade in any reasonable
sense of the term, and it is as unfair to
call the Mills bill free trade bill "a it
is to say that the republicans are in
favor of the free drinking of whisky,
because the manufacturers of protected
articles have for several years in
sisted that all internal taxes should
be paid off, in order that it
on imports. While the Mills bill is not
bill that wholly commends itself TO me,
it is correct, and for the interest of
Massachusetts in many particulars, nota.
bly, in the matter of free wool. Every
manufacturing country in the world of
any consequence except the United
States, bas wool on the free list.
The position that the republican party
has taken makes it well for the country,
as it seems TO Dse, that it should not have
the control of the government for the
next four years. Yours truly,
Arthur i. LYMAH.
The ANARCHISTS STRENGTH.
They Have Increased Fully 100 Per Cent
Since the Haymarket Massacre.