Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
THREE GREAT SPEECHES.
FREE TRADE PALACES NET WITH
STERN FACTS.

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man and congressmen Mckinley and
Gon Before the Boston Home Market
Club.
The last meeting OF the Boston Home
Market club was the occasion OF three no
table addresses by Senator Sherman and
Congressman Mckinley, Of Ohio, and
Congressman Goff, Of West Virginia
Senator Sherman spoke first.
He began by thanking the club for the
enthusiastic greeting given him. he de-
scribed the name Of the organization IS
"a creed in itself-home market for home
prodsctions;'' contrasted the greatness Of
the home market with the comparative
uuimportance of the foreign market and
expressed his wonder that gentlemen OF
education were willing TO endanger the
greater in behalf of the less. He added:
can excuse such professors as Mr..
Sumner and Mr.. Perry, whose theories
exclude love Of country and rest only upon
the universal good Of man. The most
distinguished professor OF this school OF
philosophy that know of Is Mrs. Jellyby.
who devoted herself to the good VI man
kind. and especially OF Africa, to the
neglect of her house, her husband and the
little Jellybys.
When you invited me TO speak at the
Home Market club I learned that there
was another club in Boston, called the
Massachusetts, Tariff Reform league. and
that its members had . banquet here re-
Gently, at which there were many distin-
guished guests and speeches. So nat
urally thought that here, at least, might
find a statement of the benefits Of the
foreign market and what Is meant by
tariff reform" carefully read all
these speeches, and confess my surprise
to find so little on economic questions af-
fecting our home indussy, and 50 much
about politics. II is ike Falstaff's bill OF
fare-so little bread and so much sack.
Take Mr.. Lowell, for instance, gen.
tleman for whom / have always enter
tanned the highest respect. He is known
as an accomplished writer, e man OF cult
ure and taste, welcome representative
Of this country at the English court He
was the president of the occasion, and
gave tone and direction to it. find but
very little about the tariff in his remarks,
but a good deal about Mr.. Cleveland.
He says:
Personally, confess that feel my
self strongly attracted TO Mr.. Cleveland
as the best representative Of the higher
type of Americanism that we have seen
since Lincoln was snatched from u.s."
Thus Mr.. Lowell, who has been honored
by great party with its confidence and
trust, places Mr.. Cleveland above Grant,
the great soldier of our country; above
Hayes, who certainly gave to the country
pure and excellent administration, and
Mr.. Lowell, himself above Garfield, one
Of the most accomplished Of American
statesmen. and above Arthur, in every re
spect a model gentleman and prudent
and able president.
Now, for what has Mr.. Cleveland been
distinguished to justify this eulogy, Two
things. First, for the promise Of civil ser
vice reform, and he has practiced the most
general, sweeping removals In the public
Offices since the government was estab-
lished. The other ground named TO JUS
tify this eulogy Is the recent message Of
III president recommending that all taxes
now existing on home products be contiD-
ued, and duties on imports be largely re-
duced The inevitable effect of this policy
is to increase importations at the expense
and loss of our home market, and espe-
cially to reduce the wages of all engaged
in industries competing with foreign pro-
AAANoo~A-~
among business men at home and gives
JOY and hope TO every market in Europe
have had occasion recently 70 answer
this message. and do not care to repeat it
here, but wish to reply to other remarks
of our friends in the league.
Mr.. Lowell says:
Never before has Pandora's box %
full Of the germs Of infectious demoraliza-
ton been offered to any people as our
growing surplus"
This Is not true. A surplus Is great
deal better than deficit. And this sur
plus Is not new; it has been growing since
the close of the war. 1t has enabled Us
10 perform the magnificent feat of rapidly
reducing the public debt, a policy which
has excited the admiration Of the greatest
statesmen Of Europe. Mr.. Gladstone said
to me twenty years ago that this was as
great a victory as our success In war.
This growing surplus was bequeathed to
Mr.. Cleveland By his predecessors, and
was applied by them to the payment OF
debt and the repeated reduction OF taxes
It is the rational and steady result Of our
increase in wealth and population grow
ing out Of the policy Of protection 70 home
industries.
But why is not this surplus applied to
the payment or purchase Of the public
debts Whose fault is it that it accumu-
lates in the treasury Plainly the fault
of Mr.. Cleveland, whose secretary Of the
treasury is authorized TO apply this sur
plus at any time to the reduction Of the
public debt. But II the president prefers
to reduce the surplus by the reduction OF
taxation, why did he not apply to con-
gress to diminish taxation without dis
turbing home production, I know that
at any time in the last congress taxaticx
could have been reduced but for the desire
Of the speaker OF the house and the presi-
dent TO strike at home industries rather
than to reduce taxation. A majority Of
the house, though Democratic. would have
passed in an hour a bill redu. .rg taxation
if it had been permitted by the speaker to
vote upon a reduction Of internal rather
than external taxes; and today, II the
house is not packed to defeat its will, a bill
to make all the reduction recommended
by the president could be promptly passed
But the truth is, that the president and
the controlling elements Of his party are
determined to use the exigency he has
created to force congress to reduce taxes
IN their way, so as to strike dangerous
blow at our domestic industries: and it Is
because of this that he receives the high
eulogy Of Mr.. Lowell.
A HARD BLOW AT THE TARIFF.