Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-13
GREENBACKERs FOR HARRISON.
DIR. Leonard of Indiana Gives Reasons
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DIR. Leonard of Indiana Gives Reasons
for support of the Republican Ticket.
DR.. II. u. Leonard, who has for many
years been the leader of the Greenback
party in Indiana, and its candidate for Gov
ernor, has come out squarely for Harrison
and protection, and is seeking to carry his
party with him. He has been identified
with the National party since 1869, and in
expressing the views that he now enter
tains he desires it understood that he does
not reiinquish the position that be has
maintained in more than thousand lee
tures, and in a great number of printed
articles in relation to the Importance of
paying the nations obligations in strict
accordance with the spirit and latter in
which those obligations were created, and
the protection at the same time of the ma
TONS money.
REASONS FOR HIS SUPPORTING HARRISON.
To my mind" he said, few DAYS
since, no argument can be stronger in
favor of protection than the protection of
our money. Every shipload of goods re-
ceived from abroad causes our money, gold,
to be sent back in return. Continue this
policy, and the inevitable result will be
that gold at once becomes more valuable.
glide apart from each other and deeper
and darker becomes the chasm of our
woes. Gold becomes scarcer in the paw
ment OF English manufactures, and in the
same relation II becomes dearer in Amer
lea. Lsnd deprecigtes. the now busy marts
of trade in this country are clothed in
sackcloth and mourning, tramps are null
tiplied, and the walls of American laborers
are heard everywhere. England becomes
the mistress of cur financial interests. rs
she is wherever her poison vine of free
trade has been allowed to fasten itself on
the body polite
Every importation Of English goods.
the product of cheap labor, must take the
place of just so much OF the production of
American labor Necessarily, therefore.
the power Of American labor to produce
money must in the same ratio be reduced.
1t IS burning the candle at both ends by
shipping our gold aud reducing the power
o. the American worker to earn money. |
can imagine of no scheme more certain to
invite financial ruin, destroy the equilib-
rum of our currency and supplant an ap-
parent surplus by deficit.
WHY HE Is = REPUBLICAN.
There is no surplus so long as we have
a dollar of outstanding interest bearing
debt. That debt, largely held by foreign
power; SnOuIu De anticipated ana p21Q lust
IS fast as our revenues accumulate Instead
OF enacting 4 policy which breaks down
our great system of internal revenue and
the source Of our prosperity by striking at
the primary source of our wealth, viz: the
wage worker
Holding these views, cannot but look
with deep concern upon the insiduous
efforts of the advocates OF free trade, how
ever much it is sugar coated, believing that
the protection of American industries is
the protection of the life blood of the nation
money. / shall most cheerfully support
Harrison and Morton for the highest posi-
ton in the gift of the American people. l
ask a candid unpreiudiced consideration
and reconstruction of the reasons here set
forth by nv old frienos, and warm friends,
with whom ! have heretofore been asso-
cieted"
The important significance OF Dr. Leon
ards support OF General Harrison Is indi-
catei IN the simple statement thst in 1884
the vote OF his party in Indiana, when he
was s candidate for Governor, was s $40,
largely more than enough to overcome the
Democratic plurality of 6531, and it is safe
to estimate. as DR.. Leonard himself states,
that fully S5 per cent. OF those Nationaiists
are, for the reasons that he sets forth, in
sympathy with the Republican party this
year.