The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-08-31
WHAT ABOUT MISSOURI.
Arc thn Democrats Educating u
People Ou Econ OmicHI
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From the st. Louis RepubheI

From the 81. Louis Republic
ST. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 10. That
the tariff question, embracing 20
many phases OF the subject of taxation,
is the Issue Of the present and the in-
tire between tue democratic and
republican parties, is Il proposition
about which there is no controversy. |
Although many of the advocates OF
protection have affected TO believe that
the success OF the protectlnnlsts IN the
last national campaign settled the tariff
question:, their eyes are now OF en- To The
fact that the friends of tariff reform and
tax reduction do not regard the defeat
Oi Cleveland with q majority III his
favor Of nearly 100 900 votes over
Harrison, as ii defeat OF the righteous
principle for which they cumtcndcd in
the last campaign.
Indeed, the tariff discussion did not
SubsidG for IL moment after the election
last November, and il is being carried
on through the press and from the
hustings with more intelligence, vigUr
and determination than ever before.
In several of the eastern, middle and
western states, the advocates of tariff
reform have organized a system of
propaganda, which they propose to
actively carry forward. This work is
being lone in Pennsylvania and Yer
mont by the democratic societies, Or
ganized under the intelligent leadership
of Hon. Chauncey +. Black, the late
Acknowledgements of Pennsylvania.
In Indiana this work is being done
by the Indiana tariff reform league,
and the great tariff refOrm meeting
held at Bloomfield the other day was
one of the results. AT the quarterly
meeting of the leaS ne, held at Indian
apOlis "A few days ago, the secretary
reported that branch leagues had been
formed in % counties in the state, the
officers of which are active tariff re-
formers, whose work is rapidly increas-
ing he membership of their leagues.
In his report the secretary of the
league, Hon. W. M. Lee, says:
All over Indiana people are reading
and thinking about tariff reform. IL is
making converts every day. AT almost
every town men who voted for Har-
rison last fall have become convinced
that the high tariff policy is a delusion
and a fraud. and propose hereafter to
vote their honest convictions upon this
question.
But while all this good work is going
on in other states, what abou; Missouri Z
In the absence of any organizations
in this state, such as the society of
democratic clubs in Pennsylvania or
the tariff reform league in Indiana, it
seems to me that the democratic state
central committee should take the
matter in hand without delay and in
augurate a campaign of education on
the tariff question, to consist of the
distribution of tariff reform literature
ana the holding OF meetings i'm every
county to be addressed by intelligent,
well-informed speakers and Joint dis
cussiOns had wherever and whenever
the champions of protectionism can
be induced to join issue. This impor-
tant work can be done by the state
committee with more ease and less ex-
pense than by the organization of any
new machinery.
Will not Chairman Maffitt call the
state central committee together at an
early day for the purpose of opening
and carrying on a campaign of eduCa-
ton on the tariff question?
The people are ready, willing and
eager to hear the discussion of eco
nomic questions. One dollar expended
during the next 10 months in the
distribution of literature and deiraying
the expenses of speakers will 90 far,hcr
than $40 in the heat and excitement
incident I o a political campaign, and
we can make a score of converts to
where M is made in times of partisan
excitement.
The time is auspicinus for such a
campaign The people are ripe tor it.
The genuine, earnest, intelligent tariff
refOrmera, are eager for it. Will the
democratic state central committee
inaugur0te iti
II. MARTIN WILLIAMS.