Wichita eagle., 1888-09-15
REPUBLTCANISM.
TIE the Editor OF the Daily Eagle.

| may De SAID OF nations as OF men. II
| a man runs with an inferior and simply
aims to keep even with him he degrades
| himself, while if ne runs with an equal
there is an eternal strife. A nation that
looks back and sees other nations labor
ing under a system of legislation that
degrades her citizens and makes paupers
of them and drives them from the shores
| of their fatherland and compels them to
seek homes in another country should
accept the adage that forewarned Is fore
armed, and so should it be with the peo-
pie of this country, who pride themselves
with a government that can stand on its
own merits. Yet, in the face of all this,
the Democratic party asks for the suf-
fyage of the American voter to help them
establish system of legislation that will
place the laborer of this country back to
the degraded system of laborers in for
eign countries, and to accomplish its vile
work the leaders of that party resort to
subterfuge by telling US that tariff for
protection is robbery. To the young
men of this country would say do not be
deluded by such false argument,
but study the question for your
selves. If protection is robbery,
why is it that this nation has prospered
greater under protection than other ma
tions under free trade or tariff for reve-
nue. only? Why wasn't that the first law
passed by the first congress after the
present constitution went into operation
in 1889 tariff act and which the next
congress followed up by increasing the
duties? That same congress said in its
preface that it was necessary for the
support of the government, the discharge
encouragement and protection of home
industries.
Why is it that England, who has been
our enemy from the days of Lexington
and Concord, now rejoices over the free
trade message OF Grover Cleveland. If,
as the Democratic party asserts, that the
consumer pays the duty on foreign
goods, why does England prefer free
trade in this country? If she does not
pay the duty what difference would it
make to her if it did not cost her any
thing and the American consumer paid
the duty? What has given foreign man
ufactorles new impetus only that the
foreign manufacturers realize that If the
Mills bill should become law they would
profit by it Just to the extent of the de-
crease of the duty on the goods they i'm
port to this country?
Again the Democratic party deny that
they favor free trade, yet in Cleveland's
message he favOrs a reduction of the
tariff SO that the necessary expenses of
this government shall be met and no
more. Granting for arguments sake
that the expenses should be reduced so
that the internal revenue collected
should meet such expenses he favors do
ing away with the duties on imported
goods to that amount, and now in his let
ter OF acceptance he seems to become
frightened at the surplus and favorS
revision of the tariff to reduce it. Look
ing at it from a common sense stand
point does it not stand to reason that
there will be more goods imported under
a low tariff than there would under a
high tariff. Ii there is $21S, 900, 900 duty
under a AZ per cent tariff, as
natural sequence when you reduce the
tariff to 43 per cent wont there be more
goods imported, and thereby pay a
greater amount yearly into the treasury,
thus increasing the surplus instead of re-
ducing it. Amt there more liquor sold |
under low license than under high |
license, and so there will be |
goods imported under low tariff than a |
high tariff, and to say that protection |
builds up trusts and monopolies is sim
ply pure demagoguery Trusts are not
the result of the tariff from the fact that |
the first was formed in England in 1S4S. |
Two years after she adopted free trade |
Every fair minded man must acknowl- |
edge that the tariff has nothing to do
with the Standard oil trust Because |
here is no tariff on tea or coffee is posi-
i've proof that trusts and mOnopOlieS are
formed without the aid of tariff in any
way.
Which is the heaviest burden on the
people, to raise the revenue for our gov
ernment from a protective tariff or from
the tariff for revenue only under the
English policy, England raised $44S,-
lis. 915 from over four hundred differ
ent trades and articles of daily use to
meet the expenses of her government
which was $403, SOS, 72O from a popula-
ion of 36,500,000 or an expense of
s12.2S per capita. While The
United States for the same
year collected 1871 ,403. 2S7.G6 to meet
he expense of this government which
amounted to 1915, $50. 42S. IL, or an ex
oense of So. "a per capita.
Again the Democratic party claim
that the Republican party is in favor of
free whisky and Grover Cleveland
asserts the same in his letter of accept
ance. There is no right thinking man,
here is no laboring man, that will not
approve of its declaration in any national
platform when considered IN the light
n which 1t was intended. That is the
absolute alienation of either abClishing
.he American protecting system, throw
wide open the doors for all competition
with the labor of this country to compete
even handed with the laborers of the old
world. That is the only alternative
which the addenda presents. We say
when the alternative If ever, that either
he American system of protection shall
20 and that our laDorers be compelled 10
even handed with the pauper
abor of foreign countries or
-epeal of the national revenue tax
We are for the repeal of the revenue tax.
The Democratic party adopted the
platform of 1884 and in that platform
hey said they were for the repeal Of all
var taxes and all internal revenue taxes
ire war taxes, yet they now claim and
-ejoice over the adoption by the Repub
lean party Of this addenda to this reso-
ution: they claim in that we have
brown down the guage of battle. Dare
hey take it up: Will they IN every con-