The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-09-10
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and IL has had the courage 10 raise them
when 20 do 80 was To inaugurate ear promote
great industries. and enlarge the field OF
employment for American men ana women.
III any doubt ever existed that the house
tariff bill was "A piece of American legisla-
ton for the benefit of the American people,
and I'm the line OF the country largest pros
pcrity, that doubt must have long since
been removed by the manifestations Of OPP
position which have come from the leading
and competing nations OF the world"
To the charge OF extravagant appropria-
tions he says:
1T has boon charged thar we have been
| eXtravagant I'm our appropriations. To this
| want To say that our appropriations will
be larger this year than last because OF the
| growth OF the postal service and the In
creased facilities given 10 the people In the
| transmission OF the mails, and the large
sums carried by the river and harbor bill,
for we made no appropriations last year for
| the great waterways OF the country. The
| appropriations this year, though large, are
made necessary by the increasing business
| OF the country, and IL must not DE forgotten
that the great lakes and rivers furnish the
cheapest transportation To the farmer and
producer. and therefore cheaper products To
| the consumer.
To this must be added the increased APP
preparations for pensions under existing
laws with additional pension legislation. /
assert that, emitting these three items the
appropriations otherwise will be less than
last year. Who will say they are not justi-
| fled and necessary"
Concerning the difference OF the two
great parties i'm the matter OF our financial
policy he says:
The financial department OF the govern
ment has been managed prudently and ably
by that distinguished financier, Secretary
Window. That large sum OF money which
was deposited by the Cleveland administra-
tion with banks, principally in the east is
being withdrawn and used for the payment
OF the debts OF the government as rapidly
as 1t can safely be done. Since the advent
into power OF this administration tho aver
age purchase OF bonds has been SS,206, 900
monthly. while during the preceding adj
ministration no bonds OF the government
were bought from the 4th day OF March,
1885, TO the Sd day OF August, 1887. The
debt has been reduced $4,000 900 under
the present administration. The interest
bearing debt OF the government to-day is
little short OF 500, 100000, while three years
ago il was S9SS, 600. 000 The government
finds the greatest difficulty i'm getting its
own bonds. They are valued almost above
price. The credit OF the government is so
high and this character OF security so safe
that investors are slow to part with their
bonds, and ii Is n serious problem as how
To get them, the government hav-
ing the money in the treasury To pay them.
This is i'm great contrast with the condition
OF the treasury when the democrats yielded
control Of the government in 1861. Then
we could not get anybody to take our bonds
at any price; they could not pass the
scrutiny OF the broker or the money lender.
Now we cannot get the people holding them
10 give them up without large premium,
Then we relied upon borrowing to meet the
current expenses; now we have large sur
plus above our current needs, and instead
of lOaning 1t, without interest 20 the banks,
as was the custom OF the last administra-
ton. we are striving TO apply IL to the eX-
tinguishment OF the national debt, and TO
provide against future surplus we are
proposing 10 remove taxation where IL falls
heaviest upon the people
Upon the whole the utteranccs of Mr.
Mckinley at Cleveland are OF great inn
portance and his speech will be an excellent
campaign document, not only I'm the Ohio
campaign but all over the country, and
ought 20 be extensively circulated among
the farmers and business men of the nation.
TIE FRENCH PRESS ON PORK.
[Chicago Inter ocean,
The most widely circulated newSpa-
pcrs of the French republic insist upon
tho old terms Of a moderate tariff duty.
II is the democratic newspapers Of the
United States that insist upon its
exclusion from France until the
American protective system shall
be supplantcd by the British
llf'-l u dAf - Sb'llls 1 ~ htlllDti -AlJ par y
would limit the foreign market of the
American farmer, if by so doing it could
create agricultural distress, and then
use il as lever for the overthrow of
protection. The democratic party never
is happy except when it is making some
great part Of the industrial community
unhappy.
The French people need our pork; we
do not need their wines and laces. We
can make our own wines and laces.
| They cannot make their own pork. II
they admit our pork at a moderate duty
we will continue TO admit their
wines and laces at moderate
duty. If they don't we won't. If
they don't they will lose the sale Of
400, 900, 900 of francs worth of exports
which we now take from them. and will
have just as many mouths 10 be fed with
meat enhanced by the exclusion of Amer
lean pork But if we manufacture for
ourselves the 400, 600. 900 francs worth Of
stuff which we now import we shall give
employment 10 a large number Of Ameri-
can citizens who will go far toward sup
plying a home market in place of that
foreign market for pork which French
obstnacy has closed To our farmer for
nearly nine years. The French news
| DdptIS IttO8illLt lllt IOIlC VI Jlt Sllud-
ton; the American free trade newspapers
don't. They very seldom do.
EX-MAYoB JOHN A. ROCHE, Of Chi
cago. says writer in the New York
Press, is at the Fifth Avenue hotel. He
has dropped politics entirely since he
was defeated for reelection. although he
still keeps a close watch on affairs in Hi
nois. | asked him yesterday what affect
the democratic tom-tOming in his state
would have on the election this fall. 1T
will serve TO bring out the republican
VOTE" said he. 'Thc Democrats cannot
win. They have kept Gen. Palmer at
work all summer, and will be mistaken
if he doesn't break down before the real
canvas begins. They are making great
hue and cry, but they will not get the
votes"
MCKINLEY's friends have got up FOR
the congressional fight badge that is a
badge. On the top is the gallant mai r's
picture. Below. with the motto, In
Spite Of All is a facsimile of Mckinley
district as gerrymandered by the des-