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THE TWO LETTERS.
The Difference Between Tl,en--T,e Rem.
e<lieS They Propose.

The Difference Between Tle.n-Thc Rem.
eties They Propose.
Both of the candidates for the Presidency
have given their letters Of acceptance to
the public. Each discussed the National
issue. Both concede that material reduc-
ton in National taxation is necessary, SO
that revenue receipts may not be largely in
excess of needful expenditures. But there
is difference in the way this object is pro-
posed 10 be accomplished. The Republicans
demand an abolition Of the liquor and to-
bacco taxes as means to that end. The
Democrats, on the other hand, propose that
the tariff shall be the first field forreforma-
tory work. They hold that the people re-
auire relief from excessive and needless
burdens. To this Candidate Harrison,
speaking for the Republicans, responds:
s:Yes. fellow-citizens. we know we are taxed
TOO mach; we know that the Government IS
taking many millions from your earnings,
for which it has no possible use; we Will
give YOU relief-yes. we will cheapen Your
whisky, beer and tobacco
But the Democrats meet the CRY for relief
with very different proposition. Ihey
propose to cut down the taxes on clothing,
blankets end household necessities and OH
goods that all families consume, and tor
lask Of which the working poor are now SUIT
fering because such goods are SO highly
taxed as to be beyond their means.
The working people are not calling for
cheap whisky or tobacco. They desire those
INDISPENSABLE commodities Oh which the lse-
publican party have imposed high dutieH
with tho sole purpose OF fostering n1onopo-
lies. IN addition to this, the policy OF pro-
lection has stimulated production until
many thousands Of working-meu are
thrown cut Of employment by the closing OF
mills and factories. The protection fence
has shut out the manufactures Of Europe,
tas compelled the workers Of Europe to
come inside the fence and compete with
American labor, thus reducing wages unt'l
it meets point equivalent to bare suhslst~
ence Actual substantial relief is denand-
3D. not the insult proposed Of cheap WHISKY
and low-I,riced tobacco. The poor are net
calling for cheap WHISKY, but cheap CLOTH
ing. bats, shoes, blankets, sugar and teas
THIS is the difference,
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PRESS OPINIONS.

The Boston Globe thinks: ''No honest
tariff reform bill win ever conc from taa
Republican party. The collar OF trusts and
znouopolies is rjyeted far toe firmly o., its
neck for that ~
The Philadelphia Record says: s'A]; Taxa
tiou falls upon the laboripg man as lie ultt~
mate place of rest just as our houses cess
uoon the earth beneath them, Whatever Is
expended for any purpose, public Or pr"
vate. labor must replace"
The Cincsnna.ti Enquirer says Of Barr2-
sons letter: 1T really carries TIE can]i-
date off of the Chicago platform; il really
takes him out Of alliance with Mr.. Blaine,
it really proposes to express sort OF desire
to SEQ the tariff; reduced and 70 have truats
regulated'' =
Commenting on the Maine election, the
Boston C1o5s says: &c In any event tao DEM
ccratic position remains Substantially tae
same as it was four years ego. Maine $ 49,
600 Republican majority then did not pre-
vent the triumphant election Of Grover
Cleveland two months later, end 1t will not
now"
The Detroit Free Press, comparing the let
tiers of acceptance, says: elm breyity Mr.
Harrison's letter has the advantage over
President Cleveland's. IN no other point
will it bear comparison with that able
statesmanlike document. The Democracy
could ask for nothing better than to have
the result of the campaign dependent upon
the estimate which thinking, intelligent
men will put upon the two respectively"
The Albany argus says: ga tax levied
upon the entire community, for the benefit
Of few monopolies, is what the Repub-
licans call protecting the industries Of the
cou1try The nottingham who buys
coat pays heavy royalty into the Golfers OF
the wooden manufacturer, and If he manages
to save enough to put up little house Of bis
own he has to contribute two dollars on
every thousand feet Of lumber toward a
rich, insatiate ring. The protection all goes
to the rings, and the people arc stripped to
enrich them. Yet they cali it guarding the
interests of the wage-earners."
The Kansas City Star says: 1.-THE sa-
gacious thing for any political organization
to do is the right thing, If the Senate, even
at this late day, will call a halt on log-rollin2
and report measure which will combine
juC1icious plan of revenue reduction witch
conservative care for industrial prosperity,
it may yet atone in a great measure for the
serious mistakes which it has made IN op.
posing every measure advocated by the
ADMINISTRATION for the welfare of the conn-
try. It remains to be seen Whef her ~ is1ll
be equal to the great oppc1si.l. y ;5 rs
has within its grasp g sttt ::tssasi
tariff question
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" Only a Stop"

"Yhe Mills bill is only q step" says Gen.
erai Harrison. 'The important question is
not SO much the length of the step as the
direction of it," That amounts to En- admis-
sion that the step is short, and not in itself
menace to any existing industry. But il
is step in the direction Of "free trade in
all competing products" says General Har.
rison. ':Ilis end" he continues, s'1nay not
be reached abruptly, and it's approach may
be- accompanied with some expressions Of
sympathy from protected Industries and
our working people, but it will certainly
come if these early steps do not arouse the
people to effective resistance"
All this simply means, says the CDlcagd
Times. that General Harrison is afraid to
trust the people. He is afraid to give them
taste Of relief from the burdens OF for
1y-seven per cent. war tariff, BECAUSE II they
do get q taste of it free trade will certain.
ly come" But why Will it certainly come il
it i, true. as he contends, that the reduc'
ton now proposed will increase our i'm
ports, and if "less work and lower wages
must be accepted as the inevitable result
of the increased offering Of foreign goods
in our market!"
If the proposed reduction should be made
and the result should be 'sless work and
lower wages" the people would see it,
wouldn't they2 Ane if so. would they be
such fools as to take further steps in the
same direction, with still less work and
still lower wages in sight as the inevitable
results They are not such fools. They
would rather retrace the step already taken
il they should witness the calamltous re-
suits predicted by General Harrison.
The real reason why the defenders Of the
war tariff make frantic appeal to the pes
pie to offer effective resistance to any lie.
duction Of duties is because they know the
calamitous results they predict will not be
experienced; because5 hey know the results
will be so good that the people win insist
upon taking another step and lowering the
tariff so that it can no longer serve as q bul
wark for trust conspiracies, and SO that il
be no more than high enough to afford
reasonable protection.
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POLITICAL CHIN

ssA big Republican majority in Maine, }"
says the Atlanta Constitution, s'is rs much OF
novelty az b1g Democratic majority IN
Georgia.
Kalamazoo Gts:ette; Under the protective
tariff laws Of the Republican party the farm
err buys and sells in a cornered market. It
he actually Compensated th5 situation he
would lsicK the sharpers up into the corner
and Jump upon them. The people have so
far not really comprehenled the situation.
Philadelphia Record: Mr.. Appleton Stur.
gis, who described the gunny~cloth and iure-
bagging trust asia sympathetic movement"
has done something for his countrymen.
This phrase defines the tuu1ult III the breast
Of Georgia darlsey at sight Of a spring
chicken or q sucking pig OF roasting size
within easy reach.
ST. Louis Republic: A few hops more o.
less from Ben Bntler make no appreciabe
difference in the march of progress. Olo
Ben has Aopped more and in more peculiar
ws7s than any man living. It is not worth
while to abuse him for it. AS g. topper he
is ;ncurabie bat as a rare and extraordinary
animal he is always interesting.
Boston Herald: s'My sons,'' said an old
man ca his death-bed III have had great
deal of trouble in my life, but most of it
mover happened" One Of the speakers at
the Democratic ratification meeting in New
York the other night applied this to the Re
publican prophecies Of evil as to the result
Of lowering of taxes, and it brought down
the house.
PHILADELPHIA Times: A bursting treasury,
besides being temptation to jobbers. will
always contain money that is needed in the
channels of labor and trade The Presi-
dent asks that the surplus shall not be
swelled to greater proportions. 1t Isl an
honest plea, besides being an expedient
one. Place the credit for it where it be-
longs.
New York Commercial Advertiser: We
have it on the authority Of an excellent gar
dener that there exists plant known as tho
naother-in.law plant, the peculiar property
of which is that if ore chews small frac~
ton Of its leaf he is incapacitated for talk
ing for nine days. We advise Chairman
Quay instantly to secure quantity of these
leaves and feed them regularly to Blaine,
IngersoL and other Republican Burchards.
The Evansville (Ind.) Tribune says:
ssWhen sewing woman slips on her thin
BILE taxed Is per cent? and threads her
needle taxed Is per cent? with thread
taxed IS per cent? and ships it off with
scissors (taxed IS per cent? and sews
button (taxed Is per cent? on her hus-
bands winter flannel shirt (taxed IS per
cent, she is quite unconscious, in her effort
to get on in the world, how the blessed tariff
bears down upon her. Probably not one
woman in the world ever thinks Of il But
lit is high time she did think Of it, and mako
her husband, who is clothed with the right
to vote, act upon it. High taxation IS tho.
blight Of labor h.
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DOWN WITH TRUSTS.
rho People, With Cleveland as Their
Leader, Will DO II.

rho People, With Cleveland as Their
Leader, Will DO II.
The mischievous character Of the Repub-
icsn proposition for a prohibitory tariff was
never explained more concisely and COM
rieto]y than III this passage Of Cleveland's
Letter Of acceptance:
aThey 1.-THE Republicans declare also
mat there should be revision Of our tariff
lows as shall tend to check the importation
st such articles as are produced here. Thus
III proposing to increase the duties upon
such articles to nearly or quite prohibit
CRY point, they confess themselves willing
10 travel backward in the road Of clviliza-
zion and to deprive our people of the
markets for their goods, which can only be
gained and kept by the semblance, at least.
- I'm interchange of business, while they
abandon our consumers to the unrestrained
oppression Of the domestic trusts and COM
s,laations which are in the same platform
yerfunctorily condemned"
That the pretended condemnation to
which the President alludes as merely per-
sunctory is absolutely insincere. is proved,
sa9s the New York Star, by the course Of
the Repu blican party no less than by the
declarations Of its authoritative expounders,
suol as James G.. Blaine They pretend to
eaido the trusts only in order that they may
deceive the people into granting to them
power to administer the government Of the
country solely in the interests Of the trusts.
Tha: fAvo,itism to these oppressive rob-
Der bands is as ]ttle warranted by legal
precedent as by just principles Of politics is
expressed with perfect logical clearness in
she Presidents observation, which COM
bines the dignity Of 6 judicial deliverance
with the convincing force Of statesmanike
reason:
"Such combinations have always been
condemned by the Democratic party. The
declaration Of it's National convention is sin
serely made, and no member of our party
will be found excusing the existence or be-
Hitting the pernicious results Of these de-
vices to wrong the people. Undc; Ua'tous
Hnsacs t'uE have been a'u',iss~d BY the common
tar for hundreds Of gears, und they haze lost
xcy.s Of their hateful features because they huve
ossts,ned the name Of trusts instead u co~spiro-
s1es. We believe that these trusts are the
natural offspring of a market arti6cially re-
stricted; that an Unfortunately high tariff,
besiGes furnishing the temptation for their
existence, enlarges the limit within which
they may operate against the people and
thus increase the extent Of their power for
wrongdoing."
What wonderfully lucid expression Of
souud law as well as sound politics is that
contained in the sentence we have italicized !
Tee verdict Of the people will be the death
OF the trusts at tho hands Of the second
Deznocratic Administration under the guild
saoe Of Grover Cleveland.
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Democratic Record ON Pensions.

The largest annual increase Of additions
to the pension roll in the history OF the bu-
reau is shown in Commissioner BlacS's re-
port for ths fiscal wear ending June 30. 1t
appears that duripe<e resident Cleyeland's
Administration, Dip TO that date, 1869 spe-
cial pension acts were signed, being only
633 less than were signed by Presidents
Lincoln, johnson, Graut, Garfield and Ar
thur and under Mr.. Hayes, sN combined
This difference has been materially de-
creased during tue past two months. and
there is every prospect chat before presi-
dent Cleveland completes his first Adj
nainistration he will have signed far more
pension bills than all the Republican Presi-
dents put together. There has been so
much Misrepresentation about the pension
vetoes Of the President that q glance at the
record is interesting.
II appears, says the Albany Argus, that
the total number Of those private bills
vetoed was 1911, and Of these seventeen were
allowed by the Pension Office S17,249 more
than Congress was willing to grant tl.enl
twelve were vetoed ou account CT 6esert.on,
two because they were duplicates, seven on
account Of suicide, two because tho de-
pendent fathers had abandoned their sons
in infancy, seventeen pending in the PEN
sion Office and ono hundred and twenty
one because the soldiers disability was III
20 wise due to the service. There was an
increase Of 1852, $40 In the average annual
aggregate of pensions, and the total
amount paid cut fer pensions waa twenty"
one and half per cent. OF the total gross
income Of the Government during the year.
General Black asked the military comm and.
ers Of the various departments for snggeR.
tions TO improve existing excise laws. ano
the majority of the commanders expressed
the opinion that there was DO need of inl"
provement. When to tnis is added tbs fact
that pensions are now settled without de-
lay or expense to the pensioners, and tha9
ths cost attending Disbursements is less
than four per cent. Of the total expenditure
of the Pension Bureau, the thorough aud
patriotic management of General Black Is
incoatestibly demonstrated.
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Wh1c1, Shall 1t BE?

Now the question is, SHALL the people be
believed from the tax alone or shall they be
relieved from both tax and tribute! The
clerk oe the Ways and Means Committee
estimates that tho amount of tariff taxes
remitted by the Mills bill is about $4,000
ooc {S49, $40, 24o.7 5). Taking Secretary Villas
estimate that the tribute is five times the
tag. the relief afforded by the Mills bill
would be: taxes, $50, 00o 600; tribute, $780,
0oO.ONo: total, 1900, 100000. A reduction OF
$4,000, 600 IN the whisky tax would save
consumers Just $50, 000, 600 and no more.
The relief Of the Mills bill is $25O, 600
7nc:e; and it is relief from first to last on
articles Of necessity, while whisky, apart
from its limited use in medicine, can hard
IL bs classed as an article Of necessity.
secretary Villas does not go into the calcu-
fation, but he states the principle.
Which do the people prefer, asks the Chi
oago Times, relief to the extent of $5oOO0,-
600 or to tho extent Of $500 000,0O0a If the
$3.50, 100000 Of tribute were for the benefit Of
people who work for wages, consumers
ought to be willing to submit to the exac'
ton. But, as Mr.. Villas points out, it is tho
employer who handles and sells the products,
sud not the man who works for wages, VINO
collects the tribute everv time. lie handles
the money. Does he divide with his enl-
pIoyesl Not unless he is compelled to, and
shere is nothing in the tariff laws to comoel
him to hand over one cent Of the tribute to
his hired worknen. If he divides with any
body it is with the politicians and hirellng
writers and stump speakers who can help
Aira to hold on to the good thing he has by
influencing elections and the action OF Cor
If~ ~ n
high-tarif7 Senator of the United States for
tbs statement that he doesn't divide even
with such useful people unless he is put
under the frsr and has the "fat'' fried
eat of him.
Dc the people want to go on contributing
he $3.50, 900 Of tribute stopped by the
Mills bill to employers who will not con-
tribute to the political expenses OF main
tanning the system which enriches them I'M
less they have thess fat" fried out Of them by
fref
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AS MATTERS STAND.
The Tariff Discussion Started by Glove
land Finds the Republicans Without

The Tariff Discussion Started by Glove
land Finds the Republicans Without
Leaders or Champions.
AS matters stand, the starting Of the
tariff discussion by President Cleveland
has caught the Republican party without
leaders Or champions Of any description.
We are not indulging in any ordinary cam
paign sheer at Mr.. Blaine when we say that,
rs far as we can see, his ignorance of eco
nomical subjects is in a man Of his age and
experience .omething remarkable. OF
course it is possible that be knows more
than he pretends to know, but we have In
common decenoy to assume that his blum
ders and explanations and retractions are
honestly made, or, in other words, that
when he is or the stump he is doing his best.
But from the day when he threatened
Europe with the Won eance Of the disbanded
armies Of the United States If it did not be-
have handsomely towards American silver,
down to the day when he made the blacks
Of the South reduce white wages at the
North to thirty cents day, and when he
filed the savings banks OF Massachusetts
with fabulous amounts Of WorEln g-1ne1s's
economies, and '.:plastered" England all
over with trusts, he has been necessarily
either making mistakes about matters OF
fact, or showing il some way that he does
not understand the free-trade theory, and
therefore can not answer it.
There is, for instance, in not one OF his
speeches the smallest sign that he knows
what is the now generally accepted theory
Of the source of wages and of the condi-
tions Of their rise and fall. If he had any
knowledge on the subject, he would long
ago have attempted to explain how it is
that flee-trade England pays higher wages
than protectionlst France or Germany or
Russla--an oversight almost like that Of a
General WHO encamps iu hostile territory
without outposts.
OF General Harrison's economical equip
ment there is even less to be said than Of
Mr.. Blaines. He frankly admits that the
whole subject is Greek to him. He knows
about education and the domestic affections,
but about the tariff he is lost in innocent
wonder. and yet says the New York Post,
these two gentlemen are the Republican
leaders in the tariff debate, and they have
no followers or supporters. There is hardly
another speaker or editor in the party who
has thus far shown himself capable Of a
tariH argument without abuse Of England
and the free traders. The situation is a
very odd one, and, so far as we know, has
nc parallel or precedent.
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Fres. Raw Materials.


Silk is q luxury; it is an article OF wearing
apparel used by the rich.
Raw silk is on the free list; manufactured
silk pays an import duty OF SO per cent,
while the wooden dress goods, weighing
four ounces or less per square yard, pay 81
per cent. In other words, a woman buying
u wooden dress at 81 cents pays Al cents
tax, while the woman buying a silk dress at
81 pays 50 cents tax.
But with free raw materials the silk ia.
dustry hourishes.
Quinine was formerly taxed, as well as
the bark from which 1t was made Quinins
was placed on the free list and the bark
vas placed on the free list, and the Ameri-
can production Of quinine has increased
without any dinliuution Of wages.
Hides were placed on the free list fifteen
years ago, but leather, the product Of hides,
is still taxed. We have increased our ex-
ports of leather and leather goods five hum
dreG per cent. since the repeal Of the duty
On hides, and if leather, too, were on the
free list our exports would exceed Two per
cent. Of the product which Mr.. Mckinley
complains about to-day.
Possessing the best machinery and the
most skillful labor in the world for making
shoes, our shoe manufacturers are prevent
ed from controlling competitive markets,
because of the tariff on certain kinds OF
leather and the tariff on findings which en-
ter into tue fabrication of shoes. English
manufacturers getting German and French
calf skin free OF duty have an enormous adj
vantage.
The Mills bill leaves the leather duty uu-
touched.
With all these practical evidences Of the
value of free silk. free bark, free hides, why
should the laboring man fear to put wool on
the free list!
The man dependent on bis daily labor for
his daily bread is, Of all others, interested
in the free list.
If labor is free why should not wool be
free from import duty :-Loutsvils Courier.
Ef1lL11
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How It Works.

Rich Manufacturer Well how did you
s.lcceed at. Castle Garden?" Secretayv--
sFinely. Engaged twenty Hungarians, fiji
teen Poles, seventeen Italians, eighteen Bull
garians, sixteen Russians, end a miscel
laneous collection whose nationalities
didn't stop to ask" Rich Manufacturer
ssGlorious! That will end the strike in my
factory. Now take this check over to the
5pparesident.of the Hgh:Iariff League for the
Protection Of American Labor. - iladel.'
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a Healthy Warrior:

Tie soucitude manifested by the Repub'
lcan press concerning Judge Thurman's
health bears the evidence OF strained quail
i1y. The OLD Roman is not half so infirm as
they would like him to be. The remarkable
yisor and vitality the old gentleman is dis
PLAYING in the way he gets around over the
country and is knocking the spots out OF the
protection vagary is really what worries the
Republicans. They found a rnomentary
comfort in that little spell Of cholerarn1orbus
which Frustrated Judge Thurman in New
Y orl,. but it was only momentary. Ihe
next day the Old Roman was out IN tuu
.,s..llor, and has been at the front OF the bat
tie ever since. The fact is that Judge
Thurman is distressingly healthy, so farfas
Sc interests Of the Republican party are
,a,ne e.ned.- ST, Paul Globs. "a. yE5. 5:s
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& CASE OF OvER-rRODUCIION AND
BAD JUDGMENT.

Puck Ito overstocked dealer III dummies)
wy satever induced you to suppose, Mr. Ed
nunds, shat the great American bird
gould be frightened by your intensely false
wld futile nitations when he has never yes
shown himself afraid OF tbs original article?
.-E4cE
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The Only One.

General Harrison enjoys one rare distino-
ton which no one will seek to wrest from
him.
He is the only man who ever reached
the high position Of candidate Tor the
Presidency who was willing to make nus can.
.vrass an denial Of the invincible truth that
the consumer pays the ta ec
rs Ersn Ja,rnes q. Blaine, whose devotion to
stha nrntactad interests sisgvery strong, never
EfSll ne S,ach "a u stedoe