The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-09-07

EHRoRs or THE PREslpBeeT.
Excsrpts from Mr.. Biainess Forth
coming Article on CIevelan6re
Tariff Message.
NEW YoRK, Aug. a-The September
number Of the Amersoap Mogasfss con-
tanning the promised contribution by
James g. Blaine on THE Presidents
Error and one from Governor Fors-
ker, OF Ohio, on 'sTarif and Labor" =
overdue. The potency Of Mr.. Biaine1s
name has been the cause Of the weeks
delay, rs the publishers have been de-
luged with orders for the magazine
which has severely testedthsir pres f.
tcilities. There was much difiN1ty II
securing Mr.. Blaine's consent to pre-
pare an article for the magazine. He
has always been aycrse to that means n
reaching the public ear. As an orator
be has persistently and consistently
claimed that he required all his varied
material for use on the stump. His f.
nous message from PARIS In December
last so far broke the ice Of his purpose
that when be found the request Of the
editor seconded by the National COM
mittee and numbers of eminent Repub-
~licans, he yielded reluctant consent
This has not detracted from the force Of
his article or his interest in his argu-
ments, because whatever he undertakes
he throws into it his whole soul and
ability. An advanced sheet was pro-
cured to-day. Mr. Blaine takes for bis
text two paragraphs from President
Cieyeland's famous message to Congress
in December last which, he says, contain
some remarkable statements and curious
assertions. The paragraphs alluded TO
by him are as follows:
sBy the last census IL Is made 10 appear that
ali iinds Of indastrisa. t.Ssc2as are empioysd
y. pers ss5ses ssrgiee e:ssi,sss o x ssom sle sOn zee
employed in trade and transportation, and
S1rsse ana alSS c INNING = J FoP 1resent purpooes.
however, the last number given shou4dbe con-
siderabiy reduced. Without attempting to
4 euuWtEHLf III II VIII DC EUuSSu6A L4H& EMEE6
should be deducted from those which Il In
cludes 555.l &3 carpenters and joiners, zss,4f
milliners, d~ress-makers, and seamssreeses.
esses, i0s:s1s mason, 1874 butchers 4 Loo b.
kers, 22,0S3 plasterere, and 4,e91 engaged In
manufacturing agricultural implements,
ing s.eaz,o ss persons employed In such mssn-
featuring industries as are claimed to be bene-
flied by a high tariff"
Mr.. Blaine summarized the Presi-
dents argument as ar assertion that
those persons not employed In what
may be termed protected industries
have no interest in a protective tariff.
He asserts that a slight analysis will
serve to show that the President il
wholly IN error. By way of proving this
error he takes up n after another of
the classes of skilled mechanics men,
toned by the President as not interest
ed in protection, and inquiries where
they will find work if the protected sys-
tenn is destroyed or impaired to the con-
sequent arrest and impairment Of all
business enterprises. His argument is
that every class placed by the President
in the list of persons not affected by the
tariff would be Immediately Influenced
TO their disadvantage by the general and
specific arrangement of business enter
prises that would follow any successful
attack on the system of protection.
Strangely enough the President neg
lects." SAYS Mr.. Blaine in following up
his argument, "elther from design or
oversight, to notice what effect the seri-
GUS reduction of the tariff would have on
the 1,8l0,256 men employed in transpor-
tation, viz: on the railroads, coastwise
vessels, river steamers and barges, ca
nal. wagon, and stage lines. These va
ried ways of transportation represent
an investment of thousands of millions
of dollars of American money and give
employment to nearly 100000 of men
whose earnings support 100000 OF peo-
pie. Whatever impairs American man
ufacturing strikes at the great transpor-
tation interests. Iron ore admitted free
from Spain, coal admitted free from No
va Scotia, wool admitted free from AUS
tralia, all favor British ships at the ex-
pense of American railroads. The fur
ther the President goes In the direction
of the doctrine laid down in his message
the more direct and the more deadly is
the assault on the whole organization of
American industries.
alt might have proved advantageous to the
President, as it would have assurediy proved
an accurate official inquiry to be made into
the close connection OF the transportation TO
the manufacturing interests. and how both in
turn turn, are rsd inolss1in ply 1 grass n wIda a das e,s ag pncse
The very figures which the President Q7opes
prove the immense home market which the
farmers have in the United States. In round
numbers over I 100000 are engaged In agricul
ture, while nearly 100000 are engaged in 9th
er industrial pursuits, and constitute, with the
families dependent upon them. an enormous
that home market Is a boon to the farmer,
while its diminution would be his direct and
irreparable loss"
Mr.. Blaine thinks President Cleveland
might wisely have inquired how many
of the unaffected classes were called to
their several employments In conse-
quence of the general prosperity of the
country, brought about by protection.
He suggests that if these inquiries had
been once started the President would
certainly have been compelled to take
into consideration every class of labor
ers in the country as directly or indi-
rectly benefited by the tariff, and he in
Inmates that new impressions might
have been formed by the President af-
ter such an examination of the unity of
labor's demands and interests. He con-
cluded by saying that the Presidents
recommendations as to q reduction of
tariff strikes q far more yer blow at
labor than at capital, and that its effects
if enacted into law would be baleful in
giving capital an ~exasperating control
over labor, such as now pervades where
free trade is complete.
In many respects Mr.. Blaine's article
is a repetition of his statement at the
New York serenade, that the tariff ques-
ton is, from skin to core, and from core
back to skin again, a question Of labor
and wages. In CONCLUSION he gives
Mr. Navalaud eradit for OOoo1 lufou.
tions' with a delicate irony that suggests
the old saw which tells of pavements in
Hades. at Is not asserted" he says,
'that the President consciously designed
or attempted this result, but the votes of
the country must hold him responsible
for the obvious effect of his official re-
commendation. They have neither time
nor inclination to question motives"