St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-09
The Presidential Election.

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Both the two great parties have now
had their national conventions. They
have issued their platforms and nOmi-
mated their candidates. 1t remains now
with the people to decide which party
to support.
The Republican party is proud of its
history, and in its platform remembers
with enthusiasm such names as Lincoln,
Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Logan, Conk-
ling, etc. This is very natural, and if
the issue of the coming campaign would
be the one of 1S60-1S70 the Norden
would have no choice-it would now, as
of yOre, defend the true national Re-
publican principles. But every intelli-
gent reader knows that the issue of this
year is of different nature. The QueS-
tions now are not the preservation of
the Union or the emancipation of the
negro.
The questions of the past are once for
all settled, never to be taken up again.
In this campaign we will fight the issue
of to-day. We are confronted with the
rariff question. The Norden has for the
HaSt three years delivered leading edi-
torials on the subject, and our readers
are well acquainted with our position
on that point. There is surplus in the
treaSury-a surplus of more than $780,
100000. A reduction of the revenues of
khe government is absolutely necessary.
Norden is of the opinion that the
>axes on the necessaries of life ought to
Sc reduced, not those on tobacco or
xrl,i I,@
Aur manufacturers need as high a pro-
section as the present protective tariff
affords them-a protection that forces
the consumer to pay so per cent more
ior every article he needs.
And this royalty paid by the coll
sumer goes not to the government, but
almost exclusively in the pockets of the
manufacturers and monopoliStS.
Relating to this point the Republican
national convention speaks as follows:
1--WE are uncompromisingly in favor
of the American system of protection.
We protest against its destruction, as
proposed by the president and his party.
They serve the interests of Europe; we
will support the interests of America.
We accept the issue and confidently ap-
peal to the people for their judgment.
The protective system must be main
tanned. Its abandonment has always
been followed by general disaster to all
interests except those of the usurer and
the sheriff. We denounce the Mills
bill as destructive to the general bust
ness, the labor and the farming inter-
eStS of the country, and we heartily IN
dOrSe the consistent and patriotic action
of the Republican representatives in
congress in opposing its passage.
"We condemn the proposition OF the
Democratic party to place wool ON the
free list, and we insist that the duties
thereon shall be adjusted and main
tanned so as to furnish full and adequate
protection to that industry.
"The Republican party would effect all
needed reduction of the national reve-
hue by repeating the taxes on tobacco,
which are an annoyance and burden to
agriculture. and the tax upon spirits
used in the arts and for mechanical pur-
poses; and by such revision of the tariff
laws as will tend to check imports of
such articles as are produced by our
people, the production of which gives
employment to our labor, and release
from import duties those articles of for
eign production Except luxuries) the
like of which cannot be produced at
home. If there shall still remain a
larger revenue than is requisite for the
wants of the government, we favor the
entire repeal of internal taxes
rather than the surrender of any part of
our protective system at the joint be-
hest of the whisky trust and the agents
of foreign manufacturers"
Stronger could the convention not
have spoken for the few favored and
against the many who have to work for
their living.
The party is against every reduction
whatsoever; condemns the Mills bill as
one which will destroy the industries of
the country-although every intelligent
citizen knowns it to be a very moderate
bill, that only reduces little the ridic.
ulOuS high war tariff.
TO make it plain: The Republican
party proposes to reduce the surplus
1t will do it in the following way: II
will remove the tax from tobacco and
revise the tariff so as to practically pro
hlbit the importation of every article
manufacturedin this country. This last
named tax would then exclusively ben
eft the manufacturer All articles that
are not manufactured in this country
should be put on the free list. This is the
only tax paid into the United States treas
ury. If this should not reduce the surplus
sufficiently, then away with all internal
revenue-that is, free whisky-rathel
than lower the protective tariff This
is the Republican platform on the most
important issue of the day.
On the other hand, the president ant
the Democratic party have declared il