The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-25

81, 500 OOO but while the platform does not so
state in terms it so states by insinuation and
suggestion, which is the most unjustihable and
cowardly species of falsehood and IL fully
proves by assertion that the Democratic man
ayers knew when they adopted their platform
that IL was both untrutnful and unfair.
The Legislature of 1881, as i have before said,
appropriated for the two succeeding years 81
6,45s, but that LEGISLATURE provided in its levy
bill for the raising of only S5,50)0O0. The DEM
ocratic notion OF economy was TO stop the flow
OF money into the Treasury but at the same
time 10 open wider still the sluice-wnys by which
that money was to flow out. II you add 20 the
S5, 800 900 levied by the Legislature OF 1885 the
revenue derived from the Illinois Central Rail
road Company and from the fees OF the state
officers amounting in all TO about SsO0,0JO for
two years, you will find there would still be
balance of about 81 50),OOO unprovided for in the
levy OF 1885. That is TO say, the Democratic
Legislature OF 1885 appropriated about 81. 10000
more than il made provision TO pay and but
for the fact that large amount OF taxes which
had been tied up by inlunctions happened 70
be about this time paid into the Treasury, and
for the further fact that thcre was working
balance in the Treasury. part OF which surplus
was the sum of S52j 00J levied by the Legisla-
ture OF 1888 TO complete the State House. the ap-
preparation of which lapsed through the failure
! of the necessary vote OF tho people, the State
Government could not have run upon the amount
allowed il until the next regular meeting OF the
Legislature. The LEGISLATURE of 1887 was COM
PEELED 10 increase. not the amount of its appro-
priations but the amount OF tax levied and,
although no more revenue was raised than was
actually needed, Republicans are now arraigned
would-be Democrats reformers.
The falseness OF this charge can be made APP
parent in another way. The appropriations
made by the last two Legislatures exceed tn SO
made by the two preceding ones by about = 50),-
| 90. The items that so TO make up this increase
are es follows S70J0O), or about that sum. TO
| the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy, Ill. ;
| 100000 20 rebuild the insane institution at
| Anna and $1,000 for rebuilding the State
Normel school, located at Carbonate, both OF
said institutions having been destroyed by fire.
| There have been other additi nal expenditures
| incurred, such, for instance, the appTopra-
tion made Tor the'establshmt ut of ap Industrial
| Home for the Blind $4,000 to the Logan monu-
ment fund. and the increased approprat ION
made to penitentiaries and + form school
amounting to about 100000, rendered necessary
| by the amendment 10 the constitution prohibit
| ing the contract-labor system in those institu-
| tions. No could nationally question the
| propriety of these additional appropriations.
Whether the amendment TO the constitution
| prohibiting contract labor in penal institutions
| be wise or rnwise, the people have adopted it
and the inmates OF those institut ons must be
manta ned
/ have great faith in the good sense as well as
in the honesty of Illinois people and il they do
not rebuke the Democratic managers for their
| hypocrisy in this matter then L have been great
! ly mistaken in my estimation Of their intelli-
Gence and character.
1t is u favorite resource OF Democratic politi-
clans 20 seek TO set of an immediate apparent dis
advantage resulting from protection against
large ultimate benefits, and relying upon the ig
norance and short-sightedness which sees only
the affairs of to-day and takes thought for the
morrow so-called Democrats statesmen have
always arrGigned protection laws taking
money from the pockets of one class 70 be put
| into the pockets OF another class. One would
not know from reading the Presidents message
| or Democrats platform but that a protective
tariff Is n device solely for the protection OF the
| individual and not for tho whole people From
such documents one not otherwise acquainted
with the subject would necessarily infer that
those engaged in manufacturing are to-day ac-
cumulating fabulous wealth at the expense
OF the other classes OF our people, The Pres-
dent does not even suggest the fact that there
! is nothing at all TO prevent any person among
our sixty million of population from engag ng in
any manufacturing enterpris. promising lar Q
rewards. Money IL plenty in the market TO be
loaned at per cent. and even less rat. III
manufacturing enterprises promise 20 capital
such large rewards under what the President il
pleased 70 term our vicious and illogical" tariff
| laws, why will capitalists who are certainly as
shrewd aud far-seeing as the President himself
| loan their money ut 4, and per cent? / am
ready 20 say now that II II be true that pro-
lection Is for class and not the whole nation as
n nation then am not in favor OF IL. Pr, tection
for the country and not Tor any individual or
! ella IL the end To be attained, AMI with this
kind OF protection all articles tina by reason Of
| our natural advantages and resources and
should be manufactured in this country will in
evitably and ninly, through tho influence Of
! lowest price ut which they can be
manufactured at homs. and this, say, is as low
! any patriotic American should ask 10 buy
them. Experience has taught us that in the
manufacture o, many articles that should be
and now are produced in this country we cannot
| compete with European manufacture, aud par
ticu arly with the manufacture OF England
The moment we allow our home manufactures
TO be broken down tho so-called "monopolies'
and trusts" upon which the free-trader loves TO
descant are only removed to the other side Of the
| Atlantic Ocean. We would I'm that event soon
learn by sad experience as has been learned by
several countries trying the experiment, that we
| would be required TO pay more for the manufact-
ured articles than they cost under the policy OF
protection
II DIR. Cleveland really believes the Treasury
surplus 20 be such n daddy foe of national pros
perity how does IL happen that he did not men
tion the subject sooner i think can answer
this question. Tho surplus troubles tho Presi-
dent and his party far less than the protective
character Of the tariff law now in force. The
surplus Is only a convenient scafecrow over
the shoulder Of which the President strikes al
the industrial system OF the United States.
There was plain law upon tho statute books
under which the President had power 20 dispose
OF the surplus revenues at any time he saw ut.
In OF & the President says Let us look out
for the surplus, and tho industries OF the ooun