Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-20
AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.

a Republican Begging Circular Addressed
to Manufacturers Demanding Money for
Campaign Purposes.
The most important document of the Re
publican campaign has been issued. Ii is
not intended for general circulation, indeed
1t is marked .tconfdential:p but the SPRING
field Republican has secured a copy of it,
and gives 1t that publicity which its impor-
tance requires.
The document is signed by James B. Fos-
ter, president of the League Of Republican
Clubs of the United States, who has become
quite widely known through the country in
the last few wet Ks, and is issued from the
headquarters of the league in New York
1t IS addressed to manufacturers and its
purpose IS conveyed in the followingword
We win win this fight if you will do
your share; we want money and we want
it at ance. II may not be of your per-
sonal knowledge, but it is fact, neverthe-
less, that the manufacturers OF the United
States iCie drct mos benefited bg our tariff ldlcs
have been the least willing to contribute to
the success Of the party which gave them
protection, and which is about to engage in
life and death struggle with free trade.
To support his position, President James
2. Foster, of the League of Republican
Clubs, quotes in his circular the words of a
Republican United States Senator from a
State which never had a Democratic Con-
gresham or State officer. These are the
words Of the Republican Senator quoted by
Mr. Foster in this circular:
81 was solicited TO contribute to protec-
tive tariff league, and l replied that if the
manufacturers of the United States IN their
associated capacity were an eleemosynary
institution that would vote to give them a
pension, but that did not propose myself
TO contribute money to advance tho inter-
csts OF men who were getting practically
the sole benefit, or, at least, the most di-
rectly important benefits of the tariff laws
am in favor of protectlon-not precisely
the kind VIC are having, but might be will
/ ing TO keep even that rather than not TO
have any; but l am sure | can get along
without any of il fully as well as the manu-
facturers can, and if they think the Repub-
lican party is going to maintain high pro-
tective corps for their benefit, and that the
men who do the work in that party are go
ing to make up the expenses of a campaign
out of their own pockets, leaving them to
reap the fruits Of tariff policy without any
deduction for political expenses, they are
very greatly mistaken.
:" la fact I haze IL from the best possible
source ttat the manufacturers Of PenIisylUanid,
trho are QOTe highly protected than any body
else, and tClo make large fortunes eUcIp year
tcheh times arc prosperous, practically Oirc
nothing tOloGyd the maintenance Of nc ascend
enoy Of ule Republican purity. OF course
shall not violate what | consider to be a
proper principle of action; but if had my
way about it, would put the manufacturers
OF Pennsylvania under the fire and fry all
the fat out of them. If the Mills Tariff bill
comes to the Senate there will be some
votes cast there which will open the eyes Of
some of these people who have, while gath
erlng their millions, treated the Republican
party as their humble servant"
Mr.. Foster has performed a great public
service. AS the head of the Republican or
ganiZahon, which is counted on to do the
work Of the next campaign, he has pre-
sented the issue very clearly. 1t is this
addressed to manufacturers. You con-
tribute 10 our corruption fund and we viii
protect you in your profits; you make
millions of dollars and you must 'divide,
with the party
But, asks the Albany Argus, where docs the
laboring man come in! The circular does
not throw any light on bis situation and the
way war taxes operate toward him The
Republican party, according to Mr.. Fosters
Senator, maintains "a high protective corpsn
Tor the benefit of " Pennsylvania manufac-
turers who make large fortunes every year
when times are prosperous SO says the.
Republican party in it's confidential circu-
lars" trying TO raise corruption funds. In
its newspapers it pretends that its policy is
TO maintain the wages Of American laborn
The prompt publication of Mr. Fosters
circular all through the country, and cspe-
eially in this State, is the most effective
service to be done at this time Ito the cause