Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-03
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. MR. MORTON'S ACCEP TANCE. A Strong Letter On Cam
 paign Issues. GEN. HARRISON TO W0RKINGMEN. A Great Rise Expected In
 Flour. ANOTHER LOD0N HORROR. Many Cases But No Deaths
 At Jacksonville.
ANOTHER L0D0N HORROR.
MIR. moRroN,s ACCEPTANCE.

MIR mORTON'S ACCEPTANCE. He States she Issues ConcIaeIy-The
 Protective Principle Has Vindicated
 ItneIE-HOw Low Tariff Ends in Dis
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 RA1NEcLIFFE, N. Y., October 3, 1888. The Hon. M. M. Estee and others, committee.
 Gentlemen-In making formal acceptance of my nomination as the Republican candi- date for the vice presidency, desire to ex- press my grateful appreciation of the con6- dence reposed in me by the convention. The duties devolving upon the vice president, as presiding officer of the Senate and in certain contingencies participant in the legislation of Congress, make it proper that the people should know distinctly and unreservedly the political views of the candidate who may be happens that this duty for myself is easily discharged by referring to the principles em- bodied in the resolutions unanimously adopt ed by the national convention. These reso- lutions, unequivocal and comprehensive in character, reflect my personal convictions and and have my hearty approval.
 ISSUE CLEARLY DRAWN.
 It is difficult, however, in 8 political cams paign to fix popular attention on more than one issue, and in the pending election every voter in the United States clearly sees that the controlling question is whether the pro- tective tariff duties now inforced shall be so reduced as to destroy their efficiency, or whether these duties shall be retained with such notifications and adjustments as shall better adapt them to the great end of protect ing the vast and important industries of the whole country.
 Ia Dix.- ing the necessity of reducing the revenue, de clares that this reduction must not be made at the expense of these industries and of American labor.
 The American people have now enjoyed the protectiveeystem for longer continuous period than ever before in the history of the national government. The result is that for more than a quarter of century they have realized degree of industrial and financial prosperity unprecedented in this country and never equalled in any other. The pressing reason given for once again trying the old experiment of revenue tariff without pro- tection as motive or end is that the present tariff has produced and is producing sur plus in the treasury. But is it not easily within the wisdom of Congress to adjust the national income to the national expenditure without sacrificing or even imperilling an in- dustrial system which has brought un- told advantages to the entire countrye Admitting that the present tariff by lapse of time and the large expansion of trade which it stimulated needs revision, is it not wiser and more patriotic to revise it with a careful regard to the interest of protection than with the purpose of lessening it's protective feat uresa
 EXPERIENCE HAS INDICATED PROTECTION.
 These are sone of the questions which must be answered at the national polls in Novem ber. For myself, as a citizen and a candi-
 xz l. Al~oA z long observation am an unwavering friend of the protective system. In 8 business life; now extending over forty years, have witnessed and compared the effect up- on the country of 8 revenue tariff tending to free trade, with a protec- tive tariff encouraging home industries. Under the former the development of the country has always been arrested, while un- der the latter it has uniformly been promot- ed To the men who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows the difference between the new system is that of narrowing chances on one hand, and expanding opportunities on the other. Free trade would open America to competition with the whole world. Proteo- tion reserves America for Americans, native and adopted. The industrial system of country is as sensitive as it's public credit. A hostile movement creates dlstrust in the public mind and confidence, the enly basis of successful trade, becomes impaired, new en-
 
 timid, the field of labor is contracted and pressure for employment inevitably reduces the wages of the workingmen.
 TRUE TO REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES.
 With the views of the convention, so frankly expressed, in its resolutions upon all other questions of public interest, find myself in hearty accord. In relation to sil- yer and its important bearings upon the na- tional currency, as well as its connection with an influence on the prosperity of large sections of our common country; in its advo- cacy of a malicious settlement of the public lands policy; in urging the necessity for bet ter coast defences and the duty we owe to the shipping interests of the country, the platform but repeats the approved princi- ples of the Republican party.
 The Republican platform proposes 8 dis tinctly American policy, not one of narrow ness and bigetry, but one broad and philan- thropic, policy that best helps the whole world by the example of 8 great, growing, powerful nation founded on the equality of every man before the law. It is for the American people to develop and cultivate the continent to which in the providence of God they have fallen heirs. They should adopt 8 policy which looks steadily to this great end. With no spirit of narrowness toward other peoples, but rather in the highest interest of all, they should find under their own flag a field of limitless advance in the direction of the improvement, the prosperity and the hap piness of man.