The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-10

has removed 10, 900. Out of thirty-fhree minis
tiers abroad the President has removed
changed thirty-fwo, a large proportion OF whom
are men distinguished in the war against the
Union Out of Sc, 600 places he has removed or
changed A. 060 and out of the 43, 600 there are
not fifty Republicans among the appointees- No
wonder thu witty but cynical Mr. SteArns. one
of these appointess. says: Civil-service reform
received no aid from any public man TO amount
TO anything until the advent of Mr.. Cleveland
But it is the civil service that turns ont all the
ms and puts in the outs This is the kind
of civil-ssrvice reform practiced by Mr. Cleve-
land. and yet he is sxtolled by gentleman who
places civil-service reform above all other OBJ
iects of public policy.
1.-The other ground named to justify this
euloey is tho recent message of the President
recommending that all taxes now existing on
home products be continued and that duties on
imports be largely reduced The inevitable eff
the expense and loss of home market, and
especially to reduce the wages OF all engaged in
Industries compsting with foreign production
The message creatss alarm among business men
at home. and gives joy and hope TO every mar
ket in Europe. have had occasion recently to
answer this message, and do not care 20 repeat
our friends in the League. Mr.. Lowell SAYS.
Never before has Pandora's box so full of the
germs of infectious decentralization been offered
to to any people as our growing surplus
This is not true. surplus is
great deal better than deficit And
bss, bsss surp,us Is -, mot new has ha.
enablsd Us to perform the magnificent feat of rap-
idly reducing the public debt policy which
man of Europe. Mr.. Gladstone said TO me
twenty years ago that this was great = VIC
tory as success in war. This growing surplus
WAS bequeathed TO Mr. Cleveland by his prede-
cessors. and applied by them TO the pay
ment of debt and to repeated reductions OF
taxes. IL is the rational and steady result of
our increase in wealth and population, growing
out of the policy Of protection TO home indus
tries. Our friends may be surprised that the
surplus revenue did not stop with the election
os Democratic President, and perhans It viii
if his advice followed Certainly it will if he
checks the prosperity which enables us to i'm
port goods and pay taxes
but why Is not this surplus applied to the
payment or purchase of the public debit Whose
fault rs it that it accumulates in the treasury
Plainly the fault of Mr. Cleveland. whose Sec
reSsry OF the Treasury is authorized to apply
this surplus. at any time to the reduction OF the
public debt. If be had followed the example OF
his predecessors, he would. weekly or monthly.
without proclamation noise. have purchased
and retired the public debt under the plain pro-
visions of existing law. But if the President
preferred to reduce the surplus by the reduc-
tion of taxation. why did he not apply to Con-
gress to diminish taxation without disturbing
home productiona know that at any time in
the last Congress taxation could have been re-
duced, but tor the desire of the Speaker of the
House and the President to strike at home
industries rather than to reduce taxation.
A maicrity of the House. though democrats,
would have passed in hour bill reducing
taxation if it had been permitted by the Speaker
to vote upon reduction of internal rather
than external taxes, and to-day if tho House is
not packed to defeat its will. bill 60 make all
the reduction recommended by the President
could be promptly passed. But the truth is. tho
Presiden. and the controlling elements of his
party are determined to use the exigeucy which
he has created to force Congress to reduce
taxes in their way, so as to strike dangerous
blow at domestic industries and it is be-
cause of this that he receives the high eulogy
of Mr. Lowell
again, Mr. Lowell SAYS that the two great
narta ia COn0 a. nyIr1y Inv n
That with thsm it is struggle between the ms
and outs and that each appears to make use
of the same unworthy tricks for its own advan-
tags. Each had an abundance OF aces in its
sleeve and each was divided on the great ques-
tons OF vital interest Now, as Mr. Lowell has
never been q member Of Congress, and 1 have
for many years, must say that during all that
time 1 have never seen the game played with
in the sleeve This is igment of his i'm
agination. The truth is that Mr.. Lowell,
though distinguished literary man, has
perception of the interests and business of this
great Republic. of the men who, like you.
develop its resources He cannot APP
preciaie, as you do the benef-
cia results of the policy Of protection to
the millions of our countrymsn whose bread
up and supported alone by wise restrictions upon
foreign competition. His af6nltes for what he
calls the mother country are so strong, and his
doemas, acquired from school books, fixed
that be cannot distinguish between the inter-
ests of q new, great and growing country, and
the ideal policy OF his fnncies and dreams He
neither did nor can throw any light upon the
economic questions in which you interested.
He demonstrates this in his little speech be-
blanu' that it is worth quoting He says that at
free-trads meeting In England he
irritated by the assumption of some Of the
speakers that it would bo excellent thing
for England if the free-trade doctrine should
prevail in America. When he tells he got
up and said that those persons in England who
expected that the adoption Of free trade here
would be profitable to them were greatly mis-
taken, 1 can imagine the smiles of satisfaction
of the great English merchants Who have spent
so much money to get > foothold ia our homo
market, at this delusion of the American min
istsr.
..I wish to speak OF this distinguished citizen
to him the memorable language psed by Whit
tier the great poet of Massachusetts, who still
lives among you honored and beloved by all. OF
Daniel Webster, the great statesman of Massa-
chusetts, who in a critical moment disappointed
his friends and constituents.
..Revile him not-the tempter hath
A snare for ALL
And plying tears. not scorn and wrath,
"And now cali your attention to the remarks
made By a fellow Senator, with whom I do not
agree in politics, yet for whom / have sin
cere respect. Senator Morgan does refer to the
worlds trade and Iaments that the trainers of
the Constitution prohibited export tax on
domestic productions He says 20 other gov
ernment has found it wise or sxpsdient thus to
limit its sovereign power and thus 20 deny it.
self the power to take care of it's people even in
times of emergency He says also that we
could have derived incalcuable wealth by levy
ing duties on the expectation Of cotton. yellow
pine and lumber This is the key OF his pcliti-
cal opinions. He sincerely believes IN the wis
dom of tax on exports. and he believes in the
provision of the confederate constitution, that
no duty tax imports shall be laid to pro-
mote or foster any industry Whatever you
may think of tax exports common among
nations in the dark ages, and now repudated by
nearly every civilized government in the world.
you cannot question his sincerity or honesty.
But it does Seem to me that it is scarcely neces-
before n Boston audiauce. diacugS the
wisdom OF ths policy of the trainers of the Con-
stiturion in prohibiting all duties exports
and allowing without limit or restraint duties
on imported goods. Senator Morgan in his
place in tho Senate expressed = doubt whether
the vast development of the internal iron and
coal resources of Alabama q blessing TO
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