The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-09

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right TO tax one class of the community
10 build up another, or whether taxation
shall be equally divided among ALL shall
be permanently settled. AS Lincoln said
This government cannot last half slave
aud half free" so Harrison puts on the
heroics and proclalms that the country
cannot last with half protection and half
free trade.
Although the speech nominally treats of
half dozen different topics, In reality all
center in one, We have In the outstart
quite q glowing description of the marvel
Gus growth Of the nation; how from few
feeble colonies we have, within single
century, developed into mighty people,
beyond any precedent in history But we
owe 1t all TO protection, If that benefcent
principle once had its enemies, 1t WAS on
account Of slavery, the cotton states, by
reason of their labor system not being
able 10 compete in manufacturing with
the free states demanding free trade In
the manufacture Of cotton. But even the
cause of slavery was overcome, withered
and died In It's conflict with the principle
of protection.
Our naturalization laws need overhaul
ing and amendment, so as to keep out the
pestilent anarchists and other foreign Grim
inals; but we must not cease TO be hOspita-
BILE to immigrants who come here 10
engage In honest toil-even If TO crowd
native working men out of our shops,
factories and mines-d'ye mind,
A great deal has been said about pleth.
ORIG treasury but a treasury surplus is not
the greatest evil, while II Is true that our
revenue should never be greater than is
needed 10 meet the ordinary annual de-
mands upon the treasury. There must be
no Interference with our present system In
a way to break down our protective tariff,
or seriously iDjure any domestic industry
A great deal more than hitherto has been
done can he expected in building up our
navy, and the granting of liberal subsi
dies to build up steam ship lines TO Asiatic
and South American ports would afford an
easy and profitable outlet to big chunk of
the surplus, to say nothing Of the use that
may easily be made of any little balance
remaining over in buying up government
bonds On, there is no use of worry about
any danger 10 protection on account of
the treasury surplus.
There has been great deal of outcry
against the abuses of the election fran
chise, especially in the way of restraining
the negroes in the right to vote at the south,
Now Il have altogether rejected any sug-
gestion of a special executive policy for
any section of our country" If the men of
the south who have lstely commenced
going into the mining and manufacturing
business will let their obvious interest
bend their political views protection. ward,
IL will be easy for them "to make the black
man in their employ their efficient and
safe ally In establishing correct (protection)
principles in our national administration"
In other words, the "solid south" is to be
broken UP by etfecting union between
the manufacturing lords and their negro
employees in favor of epublicanism-a.
enterprise in which we heartily wish the
President and his party god speed!
On the civil service question, which is
about the only topic that is treated outside
of its connection with protection, the Pres.
ident reiterates the promises Of his last
three or four predecessors, that the laws as
they stand shall be honestly enforced, but
as the law in reality has but a limited ap-
plication, he begs the greedy boards of
office seekers that he too we'll knows will
soon plague the life out of him, only to
have patience "You shall all have fair
don't crowdw
On the whole, the message is exceeding
ly well written-is outspoken and manly,
and abounds in many striking epigram-
attic passages that will live in the cur
rent political literature of the day.