The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-03-01
clevrLaxD,s TARIFF POLICY ENDORSED.
Second Days Proceedings Of the Tariff Re.
farm Lea0ue Conventions.

Second Days Proceedings or ue xoyIV nc
fern League Conrenfion.
The tariff reform league met in Chi
cago again IN the 2lst. After some dis
cussion it was decided to appoint a COM
mittee of nine on the propagandism OF
the principles announced yesterday.
Mr.. Bowker, of New York, offered the
following, which was loudly a~pplauded
and adopted by n rising vote:
eve honor President Cleveland for
his brave, manly, and statesmanlike
course in making tariff reform an issue
before the people. We see in the in
creased popular majority which that is
sue won for him and the increase of his
vote in the industrial centres an assur-
anoe for an early triumph of "the peo-
pies cause" and we pledge ourselves to
increased agitation until that triumph is
won.
Land, of Boston, made an argument
against the tariff on tin plate and was
supported by Byron ID. Stout, of Michi-
gan, and Read Gordon, of New Jersey.
At the afternoon session George j.
Brine, of the Chicago board of trade,
spoke at length upon the influence of
restriction by foreign and domestic leg
islation upon the agricultural interests
of the country. He emphasized the
Importance of foreign outlets, and al
luding to the embargo placed upon meat
products by various European govern
ments, said that this government could
not very well ask them to abandon their
policy as long as it's own doors were
closed to them. Should Great Britain
adopt the policy of protection, the farm
ers of this country would be ruined in
short order.
The convention approved as the mem
bers of the permanent committee on
organization and propaganda, Horace
White, of the New York Evening Post;
Hon. David A. Wells, of Connecticut;
ex-Gov. J. s. Morton, of Nebraska; Hon.
Eugeue Wilson, of Minnesota; Frank
McKeogh, of Illinois; Hon. J. r. Smith,
of Ohio; Byron Stout, of Michigan; e.
W. Judd, of Massachusetts, and Sam E.
Morse, of Indiana.
This committee was instructed to
, issue literature especially addressed to
farmers upon the tariff question, and to
! give it the widest circulation in the
agricultural districts, and was also IL
thorized to call another convention at
its discretion.
Mrs. Marion Todd, of Michigan, rep
resenting the Women's Reform league,
spoke briefly. She denounced Senator
Sherman's position IN the Chinese ques-
ton and his advocacy of the bill for II
c%ouraSing immigration, and said that
although he did not get what he wanted,
the presidency, the people had just
about as good Il one now.
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, of Brook
lyn, who was the concluding speaker,
made the most eloquent address of the
entire convention. He said that al
though the single tax men or free
traders had not had things their own
way altogether, they would return home
without heart burnin%s and were ready
to work hand in hand with the revenue
reformers to down the devil of protec-
perstition-a fetish. In olden times,
instantly struck dead it was taken as an
indication that IT'S power had zone.
Grover Cleveland had bowed down in a
measure before the fetish of protection
when he said that we must retain some
portions of the protective tariff, but ut
the same time he had the courage to
walk into the temple before the wor-
shippers and slap the fetish in the face.
Loud and prolonged applause
Although not stricken dead he was
defeated by the fetish wcfshipers. At
the same time, if anybody thought he
was dead. politically, they were greatly
mistaken. [Renewed applause. The
convention had added a kick to the slap,
and if the tariff reform league, taking
courage, will entrench its doctrines in
the minds of the people they would
soon realize that Cleveland slaps was
the beginning of the end. With this
speech the convention came to a close.
Tonight a majority of the delegates
attended a banquet at the Palmer house,
at which J. Sterling Morton, Rev. DR..
Pentecost, Eugene Wilson of Mime
sofa, and r.. r. Bowker of New York,
responded to toasts.