The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-09-19
the state. No officer to be elected, ex-
cept congressman, will have any vote


IN NATIONAL LEGISLATION.
Notwithstanding this fact our Demo-
cratic opponents are again practically
declaring in favor of free trade. They
have already commenced their circula-
ton of their free trade doctrine, and
are vociferously and falsely charging to
the application of that national princi-
pie of protection to American industries
and American labor, so long and to our
country so proftably maintained, every
species of trust, monopoly or other ag-
gregation of capital, known to modern
times. The great debate waged In con-
gress, on the stump, and by the press,
and finally decided by the people OF
our state and nation two years ago by an
overwhelming majority in favor of the
position of the Republican party on this
great question, ought to satisfy them
that as between the applications of the
doctrine of free trade and protection
there is no longer any doubt in the
minds of the American people as to
which they prefer. To those acquaint-
ed with the usual methods of the Demo
cratic party, their purpose in thus fore.
ing into state campaign this national
issue is plain. 1t is not to enlighten and
instruct the people on those questions
affecting them as citizens of the state, in
which all are vitality interested, and
which they are called upon to deter
mine by their ballots; but they hope
thereby to draw the attention of the
people from those measures and men,
which they cannot controvert, and in
favor of which the Republicans so wise
ly declared in their recent convention,
and if possible excite the prejudices of
the people and thereby steal success at
the polls. But they cannot thus deceit
fully get the votes of the people; many
times have tried it and failed.
Seventh-But since our opponents are
giving to this national issue so much
prominence in our present campaign,
and are so grossly Incorporating the
position and acts of the Republican
party in relation thereto, we unhesitat-
ingly declare that the Republican party
is welded to the doctrine of govern
mental protection TO American invent
i've genius and American creative ener-
gy. That its position on the question of
protection to American industries and
American labor is the same to day 1t
has always been, and is clearly set forth
in
THE PLATFORM RECENTLY ADOPTED
by our state convention. Democrats,
Revenue Reformers, and Republican
all alike believe in imposing duties on
imports as means of defraying gov
ernmental expenses. But the great
difference between the Democratic and
Republican parties is, that the former
declares in favor of tariff for revenue
only, without any regard whatever for
the success or preservation of American
interests or American industries, and
without any regard for the welfare of
American labor, while the Republican
party is equally pronounced in favor of
tariff for revenue and protection, not
incidental nor accidental, but intention
al protection to such American interests
and American industries as are unable
to successfully compete with like for
eign interests or industries on account
of cheap foreign labor. The tariff ia
vored by the Republican party would
rest impartially and equltably upon all
classes Of our people and upon all Sec
tons OF our country. These are the two
irreconsilable theories confronting us,
whether duties shall be levied for reve-
nue. and protection, by one or the other
of which the tariff question is to be
solved by congress and not by the state.
EighthmDqring IL the las last fSia aea y years
tho IdI1Q Uu lIlpOTIS mas D66u 80 re-
duced and our tariff laws so modified by
the Republican party, that to-day more
than one-third in value of all articles
imported in the United States are adj
mitted free of duty. In the future as in
the past, the Republican party will eff
feet all needed reduction of our tariff
and national revenue by using the pow
er we possess to enlarge the markets for
our industries and agricultural products
by entering into profitable reciprocal
mercantile exchange with the southern
republics, whose products we have here
tofore purchased with our gold, thus
opening to our farmers and manufacture
ers the best markets of the world; while
the Democratic party proposes to open
OUR MARKETS TO THE WORLD,
under the plea of opening the markets
of the world to us. Thus the protective
policy of the Republican party will be
made more thoroughly American than
ever before, and Will in time be the
chief agent in populariziug and consoli-
dating Republican institutions; and be-
come like Gods providence, the fructi-
flying agent to distribute the wealth of
the country equitably amongst all class
es of American people.
Nlulu-l DIOuSu WISE l6SlSldIlOu,
brought about by the persistent efforts
of the Republican party, the interstate
commerce commission was called into
existence, and the principle of govern
mental control over rates Of transporta-
ton forever fixed in the laws of the
United States. The party responsible
for these enactments relterates its un-
dying opposition to all unwarranted ex-
actions from the people by railroad cor
porations Of exhorbitant freight charges;
and pledges itself to so revise and
amend existing laws, that just and
equitable equilibrium shall be main
tanned between the producers and the
common carriers of the nation.
Tenth-The Republican party of our
state heartily endorses the passage of
the pension bill, prepared and cham
pioned by the distinguished junior SEN
ator from this state, and has pledged it
self to continue, as far as it can, that
national aid and care of the soldiers and
sailors of the late war, their widows and
orphans, which their valiant services in
behalf of their country so richly merit.
Eleyenth-The attention of the peo-
pie is called to that plank of the plat
form which refers to the relations OF
the state with it's corporate common
carriers. They are reminded that what
ever has been done by legislation to reg
ulate their tolls and charges has been
the work Of the Republican party. 1t