The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-24
sh....AM IN BOSTON.

l Sh6ssssSAN in 00S ONs
| Remerhs Of NE Ohio ssnatsr Before the
| Home Market Club Of the Hula Clear
| DenaIs,oa oa the B~ne f1ts ~ Protection d
Americas Labor-Ja,m~s Russell Lowell
Taken - Tasb.
BcsroS. Feb 1O-A banquet was given
| BY the Boston Home Market Club to Sen
| ator John sherman and Others last evening.
| After the applause with which he wa
| greeted had subsidized. the Ohio statesman
said:
| GRNrIHaHx: I have. nrst OF all 70 thank
| you for the hearty reception you have given "a
| . stranger from distant State: bus stranger
| akin to you BY many ties Of association. and,
more than ALL by hearty sympathy with you
In the line OF public policy which has done
| more than any other TO develop the resources
and to promote prosperity to our common
country.
like the name of your club, for Il is . name
that describes your principles: II 10 creed In
itself; home market for home productions II
has the flavor Of patriotism. When you use the
word home" you do not mean your household,
your business, not even Boston or Massachu-
sets, but your whole country from ocean to
ocean, from Canada TO the Gulf Of Mexico. .
, When you invited me to speak to the Home
Market Club, learned that there was another
club in Boston called the Massachusetts, Tariff
Reform League. and that its members had a
banquet here recently at which there were
many distinguished guests and speeches. So /
naturally thought that here, At least, 1 might
find q statement Of the benefit OF the foreign
market a,d what is meant by tariff reform"
1corefully read all these speeches and confess
my surprise TO find SO little on economic cues
tons affecting our home industry, and so much
about politics. II is like Falstafrs bill of fare
% little bread and SO much sack
IT.,
for whom have always entertained the high
est respect. He is known as an accomplished
writer. a man Of culture and taste, welcome
representative Of this country at the English
court. He was the president OF the occasion.
and gave tone and direction 10 it. l find but
very little about the tariff in his remarks, but q
good deal about Mr.. Cleveland lie says:
Personally. I confess that feel myself
strongly attracted to Mr.. Cleveland as the best
representative of the higher type o; American
ism that we have seen since Lincoln was
snatched from us"
Thus Mr.. Lowell who has been honored by q
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 admins
tration. and Mr. Lowell. himself: above Gar
field. one OF the most accomplished OF Ameri-
can statesmen, and above Arthur, in every re-
spect mode, gentleman and u prudent and
aple President
Now for what has Mr.. Cleveland been dis
tinsuished to justify this euiogy! Two things
first, for the promise OF Civii-Service reform,
ard he has practsed the most general sweep
ing removals in the public Offices since the
Government was established. He found 2 359
Presidential postmasters in Office and he has
removed or changed 1900 OF them. His Post
msster-General out Of 5000 employees under
him has removed ~, 0N. Out OF thirty -three Min
listers abroad the President removed or changed
thir.y-three, a large proportion OF whom are
men distinguished in the war against the
Union. Out of 5000 places he has removed or
changed 42vot, and out OF the 5000 there are
not fifty Republicans among the ,ap-
poin.ees. No wonder the witty but cynical
eir. Stearns one OF these appcintees, says:
"Civil Service reform received 10 aid from any
public man to amount to any thing until the
advent OF Nj Cleveland" But is is the civil
service that turns out all the 'ins " and puts il
the outs THIS is the kind of Civil Service
reform practiced by Mr.. Cleveland, and yet he
is eStolled bv gentleman who places Civil
Service reform above all other objects OF public
policy.
The other ground named TO justify this
eulcgy Is the recent message o: the President
recommending that all taxes now existing on
home products be continued and duties on i'm.
ports be largely reduced.
The inevitable effect Of this policy Is to in
crease imporsatious at the expense and loss OF
our home market, and especially to reduce the
wages OF all engaged in industries competing
with foreign production. The message creates
alarm among business men at home aud gives
Joy and hope to every market in Europe. l
have had occasion recently TO answer this mes
sage. and do not care to repeat it here, but
wish to reply to other remarks OF our fr. ends in
the league.
N
cora's box SO full OF the germs OF infectious de-
rlora!ization been offered to any people as our
growing surplus"
This is nos true. A surplus IS grea: deal
better than o deficit. And this surplus Is rot
new. Ii he's been growing snce the close Of the
war. 1t has enabled US to perform The magnii
cent fea; OF rapidly reducing the public 6eIt, a
policy which has exci,el the admiration of the
greatest statesmen OF Europe. MIR. Gladstone
sad to u,e twenty years ago that this WAS as
great victory as success in war. This grow
ing surplus was beQueathed to NJ. Cleveland by
his predecessors. and was applied by them 10
the payment o: Gebt and 10 repeated reductions
OF taxes. 1t is the rational and steady result OF
Cur increase II wealth aud population growing
out Of the policy OF protection to home indus
tries. Our friends may be surprise! that the
surplus revenue did not stop with the election
OF i Democratic President. and perhaps it will
il his advice is followed. Certainly 1t VIII if he
checks the prosperity which enables US TO i'm
port goods and pay taxes.
But why IS not this surplus spilled to the
payment or purchase OF the pubic debts
Whose fault is it that IL accuTul3.es in the
Treasury. Plainly the .aul. OF Mr. Cleveland.
whose Secretary OF the Treasury r. authorized
20 apply this surplus ct any tine 70 tina reduc-
zion of the public debt II re had followed the
example OF his predecessors he would, weekly
or monthly, without proclamation or noise,
have purchased and retired the puclic debt IN
der the main provisions o; existing law.
But. if the President preferred to reduce the
surplus by the reduction OF taxation, why Gid
he not apply TO Congress to ciinin ali taxation
without disturbing home Production: 1
know that at any time in the last Con-
Sress taxation could have been reduced but
;or the desire OF the Speaker OF the House
and the President 20 strike 1T home in
duSrries rather than 10 reduce taxation. A
majority Of the House. though Democratic,
would have passed in an hour a bill reducing
taxation IL il had been permitted by the
S. eaker TO vote upon q reduction OF internal
rather than external taxes: ard to-day. IL the
House is not packed 20 defeat its will, bill to
make all the reduction recommended By the
President could be promptly passed. But the
President ard the controlling elements of his
party are determined TO use tac cIigency
which re has created to force Congress TO re-
cuce taxes in their way, SO IS to strike dan
gerous blow .: our domestic industries: and it
is because o; this that he receives the high
euloSy Of Gr. Lowell.
Again, NJ. Lowell says that ''the two great
parties In Congress are unworthy o; conf
deuce," that with them it IS . struggle be-
tween the ms and outs" and that leach ap-
pears to make use of the same unworthy tricks
for its own advantage: each had An abundance
OF aces in its sleeve. and each was divided on
the great questions o: vital interest"
Now, as Mr. Lowell has never been . MEM
Der o: Congress and have :or many years,
~ oil Yh.s I n