St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-03
MORTON'SC Chin MUSIC
Millionaire Levi Rises to Re-
mark That He Is q
BarkiS.
He Accepts the Republican
Vice Presidential Nomina-
ton With Thanks.
The Republican Platform
Swallowed at a Gulp and
Without Grimaee.
Moneybags Has the Nerve
to Offer Advice to
Muscle.

NEW i OltA. OCl. 81 OllOhlliS 10
Levi P. Morton's letter accepting the
nomination for vice president, made
public to-day:
Hon. NJ. NJ. Estee and Others, Com
mittee-Gentlemen: In making formal
acceptance ofany nomination as the Re-
publican candidate for the vice presi-
dency, | desire TO express my grateful
appreciation of the confidence repoSed
In me by the convention. The duties
devolving upon the vice president as
presiding officer of the senate, and in
certain contingencies a participant in
the legislation of congress, make it
proLer that the people should know dis
tinctiy and unreservedly the political
views of the candidate who may be pre-
scented for their suffrages. 1t fOrtu-
nately happens that this duty for myself
is easily discharged by referring TO the
principles embodied in the resolutions
unanimously adopted by the national
convention. These resolutions, une-
quivocal and comprehensive in char
acter. reflect my personal convictions
and have my hearty approval. 1t is
difficult, however, in a political CAM
paign, to fix popular attention on more
than one issue, and in the pending cleo
ton every voter in the United States
clearly sees that
THE CONTROLLING QUESTION
is whether the protective tariff duties
now in force shall be so reduced as to
destroy their efficiency, or whether
these duties shall be retained, with such
notifications and adjustments as snail
better adapt them to the great end of
protecting the vast and important in
dustries of the whole country. The Re
publican platform. while recognizing
the necessity of reducing the revenue,
declares that this reduction must not be
made at the expense of these Industries
and of American labor. The American
people have now enjoyed the protective
system for longer continuous period
than ever before in the history of the
national government. The result is
that for more than 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 expert
ment of a revenue tariff without protee-
ton as a motive or end, is that the pres
ent tariff has produced and
IS PRODUCING A SURPLUS
in the treasury. But is it not easily
within the wisdom of congress to adjust
the national income to the national eX-
penditure without sacrificing or even
imperilling an industrial system which
has brought untold advantages to the
entire country? Admitting that the
present tariff, by lapse of time and the
large expansion of trade which 1t has
stimulated, needs revision, is it not
wiser and more patriotic to revise it
with a careful regard to the interests
of protection than with the purpose
of leSSening its protective features?
These are some of the questions which
must be answered at the national polls
in November. For myself, as a citizen
and as a candidate, do not hesitate to
declare that from long observation l am
an unWavering friend of the protective
system. In business life now extend
ing over forty years, have witnessed
and compared the effect upon the cOun-
try of a revenue tariff tending to free
trade, with a protective tariff encour-
aging home industries. Under the
former the develO pment of the
country has always been arrested, while
under the latter it has uniformly been
promoted. To the men who earn their
bread by the sweat of their browS the
difference between the two systems is
that of narrowing chances on the one
hand aud expanding opportunities on
the other. Free trade would open
America to competition with the whole
world. Protection reserves
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS,
native and adopted. The industrial
system of a country is as sensitive as its
public credit A hostile movement
creates distrust in the public mind, and
confidence, the only basis of successful
trade, becomes impaired. New enter
prises wither in the bud, capital grows
timid, the field of labor is contracted
and pressure for employment inevitably
reduces the wages of all wOrkingmen.
With the views of the convention so
frankly expressed in its resolutions
upon all other questions of public
Interest, / find myself in hearty accord.
III relation to silver and its important
bearing upon the national currency, as
well as its connection with and influ-
ence on the prosperity of large sections
of our common country: in its advocacy
of a judiciOus settlement of the public
lands policy: in urging the necessity
for better coast defenSes and the duty
we owe to the shipping interests of the
country. the platform but repeats the
approved principles of the Republican
party. The Republican platform pro-
poses
A DISTINCTLY AMERICAN POLICY,
not one of naTrOwneSS and bigOtry, BIZ {
one broad and philanthrOpic-a policy
that best helps the whole world by the
example of a great, growing, powerful
nation, founded upon the equality of
every man before the law. 1t is for the
American people to develop and cult
vate the continent to which in the
providence of God they have fallen
heirs. They should adopt a policy which
looks steadily to this great end. With no
spirit of narrOwness toward other peO-
piles, but rather in the highest interest
of all, they should find under their own
flag a field of limitleSS advance III the
direction of the improvement, the pros
uerity and the happiness of man. Very
respectfully yours, LEVI L. MORTON.