New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-19
HARRISON ACCEPTS.
lin His Letter He States His Own Posi-.
fion and that of the r epublican
tt Party, in the Times of the
10th.


eng lis Gen. Harrison's letter of acceptance:
Hon. M. NJ Estee and Others, Commit
Eee-GTentlemen: When your committee
visited me on the Fourth of July last
and presented the official announce
tnent of my nomination for the presi-
dency of the United States by the Re-
publican convention, promised as soon as
practicable to communicate to you more
formal acceptance of the nomination. Since
that time the work of receiving and address,
ang, almost daily, large delegations of my
fellow citizens has not only occupied all of
any time, but has in some measure rendered
zr unn ecessary for me to use this letter as
Gnedium Of communicating to the public nv
views upon the questions involved in the
campaign appreciate very highly the CON
4dence and respect manifested bv the con-
venEion, and accept the nomination with
aeetng of gratitude and full sense of the
responsibilities which accompany it.
Ut is matter of congratulation that
the declarations Of the Chicago con-
%ention upon the questions that now
attract the interestof our people are so clear
and emphatic. There is further cause of
congratulation in the fact that the conven-
SION utterances of the Democratic party if
In any degree uncertain or contradictory
can now be judged and interpreted by ex-
Gcutye acts and MESA ges, and by definite
propositions in legislation. This is especially
Grue OF what is popularity known as the tariff
question. The issue cannot now be OBJ
Ecured 1t is not a contest between sched-
nies, but between Wide-apart principles
Ihe foreign competitors of our market have.
with quick Instinct seen how one issue of
This contest may bring them advantage, and
orr own people are not so dull as to miss or
neglect the grave interests that are involved
Tor them. The assault upon our protective
system is open and defiant. Protection is
,assa9ed as unconstitutional in law, or as
vicious in principle, and those who hold such
views sincerely cannot stop short of an elm
anation from our tariff laws of the prin-
&apie OF protection. The Mills bill is only
atep. but it is toward an object that The lead
ears Of Democratic thought and legislation
have clearly in mind.
THE IMPORTANT QUESTION
IS not so much the length of the step as the
direction of it. Judged by the executive mes
Esage Of December last, by the Mills bill, by
the debates in congress and by the ST. Louis
platform, the Democratic party will, if sup
ported by the country, play the tariff laws
upon a purely revenue basis This is prac-
ideally free lrade-free trade in the English
Gense. The legend unon the banner may not
be Free Trade;" it may be the more obscure
motto, Tariff Reform" but neither the ban
mer nor the inscription is conclusive, or, in
deed very important. The assault itself is the
important fact Those who teach that the
import duty upon foreign goods sold in our
market is paid by the consumer, and that the
price Of the domestic competing article is en-
hanced to the amount of the duty on i'm
ported articles-that every million of dol
lars collected for customs duties
represents many millions more which
do not reach the treasury, but are
paid by our citizens as. the in
creased cost Of .domestio productions result
ing from the tariff laws-may not intend to
Gfiscrc1iG in the minds of others our system
OF levylng duties on competing foreign
products, but it is clearly already discredted
in their own. We cannot doubt, without
lnpugDing their integrity, that if free to act
upon their own convictions, they would so
gTeEise cur laws as to lay the burden of the
customs revenue upon articles that are not
produced in this country and to place upon
the free list all competing foreign products.
j do not stop to refute this theory as to the
effect of our tariff duties Those who adj
vance il are students of naxims and not of
the markets. They may be safely allowed
30 call their project tariff reform" If the
people understand thatin the end the argu-
u1enG co1npels free trade in all competing
products This end may not be reached alb
Euptly, and its approach may be accom-
panied with some expressions of sympathy
10r our protected industries and our working
e, but it will certainly come if these
steps do not arouse the people to
resistance
SCHEDULE, BUT PRINCIPLE.
blcan party holds that a pro-
is constitutional, wholesome
y. We do not offer q fixed sched-
principle We will revise the
lodify rates, but always with an
uuseu0 provision as to the effect upon
domestic production and the wages OF our
working people We believe it to be one of
the worthy objects of tariff legislation to
ureserve the American market for American
nroducers, and to maintain the American
scale of wages, by adequate, discriminating
duties upon foreign competing products
The effect of lower rates and larger importa-
lions upon the public revenue is contingent
and doubtful, but not SO the effect
r1ron American production and American
wages Less work and lower wages must De
accepted as the inevitable result of the in
creased Offering of foreign goods in our mar
kst. BY way OF recompense for this rednc-
tion in his wages, and the loss OF the Aneri-
can market, it Is suggested that the dimin-
Isked wages of the working man will have
nm undlminished purchasing power, and
that he will be able TO make up for the loss
OF the home market by an enlarged foreign
market Our workingmen have the settle
mnent of the question in their own hands.
They now obtain higher wages and live more
comfortably than those of any other coun-
try They will make choice between the
substantial advantages they have IN HAND
and The deceptive promises and forecasts OF
those thorizinr politicians. They will decide
for themselves and for the country whether
che protective sy stem shall be continued OF
destroyed The fact Of
A TREASURY SURPLUS,
the amount of which is variously stated. hal
directed public attention to consideration
of She methods by which the national income
-up;Iv hest he reduced to a level OF a wise apC