The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-11
REPUBLICAN, RAlLYlNc,

| We hope that Attorney General
Clapp does not know that the utter'
ance imputed to President Cleveland
leg believe In free trade as believe
III the protestant religion is a whole.
CLOTH falsehooi. We sincerely hope
that the General did not know he was
uttering forged clap trap, insulting
to the intelligence of his hearers,
when lib hung one of the telling
points of his speech upon this rotten
peg. President Cleveland has denied
ever having made this statement, in
response to 4 letter from George
Whiteley. Esq, of Philadelphia. a
brother Of our townsman, Hugh
Whiteley. asking him as to the truth
of the report.
Hon. NJ. E. Clapp said he was a
"rank free trader" until this summer
when he read a telegram from the
london Times congratulating some
body or other on Gle veland's nomi-
nation. Our readers must confess
that the conversion of Paul wasn't a
patch on this.
Was not that unkind for Clapp who
is running on the same ticket at
whose head stands the name of VIII.
liam Il. Merriam not to mention or
even hint at the existence of any such
person all night. Nor did Comstock
breathe tie bankers name. They
were both.so busy fighting the war
over again that they forgot for the
moment all about the head and finan-
cial back bone of the State ticket
perhaps.
One of those ''long haired profes.
sors down East who write books about
free trade and don't know enough to
earn their living" ought to get after
Mr.. Clapp,and induct him. as it were.
to the logical conclusion of his pro.
tective tariff theory. His idea of
protection is absolute prohibition.
This means no revenue, and as Mr..
Clapp-in his mind, had already wiped
out the internal revenue taxes, why,
the country must 60 out of business.
In his efforts to knock out one of |
his own straw-men. the eminent gem
tleman admitted that the actual
price Of some commodities was below |
the tariff duty. Calico, he cited,
selling for 4 IL cents yard, with a
tariff duty of S cents. Well, what's
the use of that duty. what objection
can there be to taking it off! None
but that offered by some vampire
trust: "We'n need it to keep out
foreign goods when we begin to over.
produce and combine to keep up
prices"
In all that TRADE against s'demo.
cratic free trade" which proposes to
give US free raw materials used by
our general productive industries and |
to reduce tile tariff to a point yet
above the war tariff, not word was
said of the republican scheme to
allay popular clamor for reduced
taxation-the Senate tariff bill,
which processes to be about to reduce
the revenue some sixty or seventy
millions year.
-
Why don't they quote the Presi-
dent correctly? Here's what he says
in his acceptance letter: 1.-THE cost
of the Government must continue to
be met by tariff duties collected at
our custom houses upon imported
goods, and by internal revenue taxes
assessed upon spirituous and malt
liquors, tobacco, and oleomargarine.
l suppose it is needless to explain
that all these>duties and assessments
are added to the price Of The articles
upon which they are levied, and thus /
become tax upon all those who buy
these articles for use and consump.
tion. suppose. too, it is we'll un-
derstood that the effect of this tariff
taxation is not limited to the consum-
ers Of imported articles, but that the
duties imposed upon such articles
PERMIT corresponding increase in
price to be laid upon domestic pro-
auctions of the same kind, which in.
crease. paid by all our people as con-
sumers of home productions and
entering every American home,
constitutes a form of taxation as /
certain and as inevitable as though
the amount was annually paid into
the hand of the tax gatherer,"
Notice that he says that the duties
imposed upon such articles Imported |
goods PERMIT CORRESPONDING in
crease in price to be laid upon
domestic productions. It is true that |
causes operate to bring down the !
cost of the domestic product below
that sum which the law gives the |!
manufacturers TIE right to levy, but
the tariff IS there all the time. and |
when they get ready for combine. a |
conspiracy, a trust. foreign competi-
tion is made impossible, and they !
have their cherished '.home-market"
by tie throat.
Hall is the man who ought to and |
will be elected. Crossfield is an un.
scr1pulous political schemer who
depends for success principally on
buhdozing methods and .shrewd COM