The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-03

rne1r sale ana permitting an 1ncreasen and
steady production with the allowance OF
abundant profits.
"True to the undeviatins course of the
Democratic party, we will not neglect the
interests of labor and our workingmsn. In
all efforts to remedy existing evils. we will
furnish no excuse for the loss of employ
ment or the reduction of the wage of honest
toll. On the contrary, we propose in any
adjustment or our revenue laws TO concene
such encouragement and advantage to the
employers of domestic labor as will easily
compensate for any difference that may, eT-
ist between the standard of wages which
should be paid to our laboring mon and the
rate allowed in other countries. We pro-
pose, too by extending the markets for our
manufacturers to promote the steady en-
ployment of labor, while by cheapening the
cost Of the necessaries Of life We increase
the purchasing power OF the workingmans
wages and add to the comforts Of his home. !"
From the tariff question the President
which he says:
'.The platform adopted by the late Nation
al Convention of our party contains the fol-
lowing declaration:
'Judged by Democratic principles the Interests
OF the people are betrayed when. by unnecessary
taxation, trusts and combinations are permitted
and fostered which, while unduly enriehins the
few that combine, rob the body OF our citizens oy
depriving them as purchasers of the benefits Of
natural competition"
"Such combinations have always been con-
demned by the Democratic Party. The
declaration Of its National Convention IS
sincerely made, and no mem'er OF our party
M b. Nund S s1sans es Fess sns
vices to wrong the people. Under various
names they have been punished by the COM
mon law for hundreds Of years. and they
have lost none of their hateful features be-
cause they have assumed the name OF trusts
instead of conspiracies. We believe that
these trusts are the natural offspring OF
market artiticially restricted; that an in
ordinately high tariff, besides furnishing the
temptation for their existence, enlarges
the limit within which they may operate
against the people, and thus increase the ex-
tent Of their power for wron2doing. With
an unalterable hatred of all sIlch schemes,
we count the checking Of their baleful opera
tions among the good results promised by
revenue reform.
"While we cannot avoid partisan misrep-
resentation our position upon the question
of revenue reform should be so plainly
stated as to admit of no misunderstanding.
We have entered upon no crusade OF free
trade. The reform we seek to inaugurate ls
predicated upon the utmost care for estab-
iIsueu INDUSTRIES ana enterprises, jealous
regard for the interests OF American labor,
and q sincere desire to relieve tho country
from the injustice and danger Of a conli-
tion which threatens evil to all the people
Of the land. We are dealing with no mag
mary danger. Its existence has been re-
peatedly confessed by all political parties,
and pledges Of remedy have been made on
all sides"
After attacking the Republican party for
its position in regard to tariff bill, and
asserting that the National Republican plat
form offers the people free tobacco and
free whisky, the President concludes as fol-
lows:
"With firm faith in the intelligence and
patriotism Of our countrymen, aDd relying
upon the conviction that Misrepresentation
will not influence them, prejudice will not
cloud their understanding, and that menace
will not intimidate them, let us urge the peo-
Piles interest and public duty for the vindica-
tion Of our attempt to toinaugurate righteous
and beneiceut reform
uGRovER CIEVELANnn