The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
The National Republican Nominees
J stter ofAccsptance
Workinpmsn Have a Choice Between
SubstantiaIAdV ntages
And Deceptive Promises and Fore
casts Of Theorizing ReFormers.
Trus; S, immigration, Buildaz;ng vO'
tiers, Etc, Aptly SetFO tn.

cOpting the republican preSidentlai
nominations: 81
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. IL.
Hon NJ n Estee, aud others, Committee etc.
GENTLEaEKN:-ANhe hen yeurcOmmittS
visited ne ON the 4tii OF Suiy last, and
presented the official ANNOUNCEMENT Of
my nomination for the presidency of
the United States by the republican
convention, promised as soon as prac-
ticable to communicate to you a more
formal acceptance of the nomination.
Since that time the work of receiving
and addressing almost daily, large del
cations Of my fellow cit
liens has not only occupied all
! of my time, but has in some measure
rendered it unnecessary for me to use
| this letter as medium of communi-
eating to the public my views upon the
questions involved in the campaign.
| 1 appreciate very highly the confidence
and respect manifested by the cOnven-
ton and accept the nom nation with ~
| feeling of gratitude and full sense of
| the responsibilities which accompany
| it. It is a matter of congratulaGiOn
| that the declarations of the Chicago
convention upon the questions that at
tract the interest OF our people are 50
clear and emphatic, and there is fur
Their cause of congratulation in the fact
| that the convention utterances of the
democratic party If in any degree I'M
certain or contradictory can now be
| judged and interpreted by executive
acts and messages and by definite prop
ositions in legislation. This is especial
" true of what is popularity known as
the tariff question. The issue cannot
now be obscured. 1t is not a contest
| between schedules, but between wide
apart principles. The foreign Compel
| itors for our market have with quick
| instinct, seen how one issue of this
contest may bring them advantage and
our own people are not SO dull as to
miss or neglect the grave interests that
are involved for them. The assault
upon our protective system is open and
defiant, protection is assailed as uncOn-
stitutional in law or as vicious in prin-
clple. and those who hold such views
sincerely cannot stop short of an abSO-
| lutte elimination from our tariff
laws of the principle of protection.
| The Mills bill is only a step, but it is
toward an object that the leaders 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 message of December
last, by the Mills bill, by the debates in
congress and bv the st. Louis platform
| the democratic party will if sup
ported by the country, place the tariff
laws upon purely revenue basis; this
Is practically free trade-free trade III
the English sense: The legend upon
the banner may not be free trade, .
/ it NAV be the more obscure motto tar
| iff reform, - but neither the banner nor
the inscription is conclusive or indeed
| very important. The assault itself is
Observation-Disclosures, Those who teach
that the import duty upon foreign
| goods sold in our markets is paid by
the consumer and that the price of the
domestic competing article is enhanced
to the amount of the duty on the i'm
ported article-that every million dol
lars collected for customs duties rep
resents many millions more which do
not reach the treasury, but are paid by
| our citizens as the increased cost of
domestic productions resulting from
| the tariff laWS-maV not intend to dis
credit in the minds of others our
system of levying duties on competing
foreign products, but it is clearly
| already discredited in their own. We
cannot doubt without impugning
their integrity, that, if free to act upon
their convictions, they would so revise
our 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
or foreign products. do not stop to
refute this theory as to the effect of
| it are the students of maxims and not
of the markets. They may be safely
| allowed to call their project tariff re-
| FORM" if the people understand that
| in the end the argument means fir ee
trade in all competing products. This
end may not be reached abruptly and
its approach may be ac-
companied with some express
sions -. Of sympathy for our
people, but it will certainly come if
these early steps do not arouse the
| people to effective resistance.
The republican party hold that pro-
tectiVe tariff is constitutional, whole
some and necessary. We do not effeT
\ q fixed schedule but a principle. We
| will revise the schedule, modify rates,
but always with an intelligent proyis-
ion as to the effect upon domestic pro
ductiOn and the wages Of our working
| people. We believe it 70 be one Of the
preserve the American market for
/ American producers and TO maintain
/ the American scale of wages by ade-
quate discriminating duties upon
/ foreign competing products. The
effect of lower rates and larger
| importations upon the public revenue
is contingent and doubtful, but not so
the effect upon American production
| and American wages. Less work and
less wages must be accepted as the
inevitable result of the increased Of
fering Of foreign goods in our market
and by way Of recompense for this re-
| duction in his wages and the loss of
| the American market. 1t is suggested
that the diminished wages of the work
ing men will have an undiminished
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 settlement
/ of the question in their own hands.
They now obtain higher wages and live
more comfortably than those of any
| other country. They will make their
/ choice between the substantial adYant-
ages they have in hand and the deceptive
promises and forecasts of those theoriz-
ing refOrmers. They will decide for
themselves and for the country wheth-
| er the protective system shall be con-
/ tinued or destroyed. The fact of q
treasury surplus, the amount of which
is variouSly stated, has directed public
/ attention to a consideration ROf the
methods by which the national income
may best be reduced TO level of q wise
and necessary expenditure. This con-
dition has been seized upon by those
| who are hostile to protective custom
duties as an advantageous base
of attack upon our tariff laws. They
have magnified and narsed the surplus
which they affect to deprecate, seem
ing1y for the purpose Of exaggerating
the evil in order to reconcile the people
to the extreme remedy they propose.
A proper reduction of the revenues
does not necessitate, and should no;
suggest, the abandonment or impair.
ment Of the protective system.
The methods suggested by our con-
yention will not need 10 be exhausted
in order to effect the necessary Teduc-
ton We are not likely To be called
upon. think. TO make present ciloicG
upon the surrender Of the protective