Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-23
TARIFF REFORMERS.
They Finish Their Labors and Are
Banqueted in the Evening.
A SHERMAN SCORED
His Position on tho Chinese and EN- sgra
lion Questions Denounced by Mrs.
Todd-Tariff Literature to be Cir
cuIated Widely Among

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-At the afternoon
session of the tariff reform convention
| George j. Brine, of the Chicago Board
| of Trade, spoke at length upon the in
| huence of restriction by foreign and do
nestle legislation upon the agricultural
| interests of the country. lie empha-
sized the Importance of foreign outlets,
| and abiding to the embargo placed
upon meat products by various Euro
| pean governments, said that this
try could not very well ask them to
abandon their policy ss long as its own
| doors were closed to them. Should
| Great Britain adopt the policy of pro-
| lection by way of retaliation the far
mers of this country would be ruined III
| sho,t order.
The convention approved as the mem
bers of the permanent committee on or
| ganiZation and propaganda, Horace
White, of The New York Evening Post;
Hon. David A. Wells, Connecticut: ex-
Governor j.. Sterling Morton, Nebraska;
Hon. Eugene Wilson, Minnesota; Frank
MacVeagh, Illinois; Hon. j. Q. Smith,
Ohio; Byron Stout, Michigan; E. N.
| Judd, Massachusetts,, and Samuel E.
Morse, Indiana. This committee was
| instructed to issue literature specially
addressed to farmers, upon the tariff
! question, and to give it the widest cir
culation in the agricultural districts,
and was also authorized to call another
convention at its discretion.
Mrs. Marion Todd of Michigan, repre-
| senting the Women's Reform league,
spoke briefly. She denounced Senator
Sherman's position on the Chinese ques-
ton and his advocacy of the bill for en-
~couraging emigration, and said that
although lie did not get what he wanted
the presidency-the people had just
about as good a n now.
Rev. Hugh o.. Pentecost of BROOKLYN,
who was the concluding speaker, made
convention. He said that although the
single tax men, or free traders, had not
had things altogether their own way,
they would return home without heart
burnings, and ready to work hand in
hand with the revenue reformers to
down the devil of protection. The tariff,
lie said, was but q superstition fetish.
n olden times, when a man deted a
fetish and was not instantly stuck dead,
it wa taken as an indication that its
power had gone. Grover Cleveland had
bowed down in a measure to the fetish
of protection, when he said that we
must retain some positions of the pro-
tective tariff, but at the same time he
had the courage to walk into the temple
before the worshipers, and slap the
fetish in the face. Loud and prolonged
applause. Although not stricken-dead.
he was defeated by the fetish worship
eTs. at the same time. if anybody
thought he was dead, politically, they
were greatly mistaken. Renewed APP
plause.1 The convention had added a
kick to the slap, and if the Tariff Re-
form league, taking courage, would
entrench its doctrines in the minds of
the people, they would soon realize that
Cleveland'sslap was the beginning of the
end.
With this speech the convention came
to a close.
In the evening a majority of dele
gates attended a banquet at the Palmer
house, at which j. Sterling Morton.
Rev. DR.. Pentecost, Eugene Wilson. of
Minnesota, and r. r. Bowker of New
York, responded to toasts.