The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-07-25

rather have my right arm tori U 81
- socket than vote for this bill.
senator Allison with some feeling)
You are winking ct Senator Black.
burn across the table. and are just say.
ing this TO please him.
"Nr. Blaine-I wa winking at Sena.
tsr Blackburn because he was winking
It me; but say solemnly that this
Mckinley bill II an outrage and ought
TO be killed by the Senate"
There Is one touch in this story which
gave II q color OF ~truth-that part about
Blaine and Blackburn winking 1t each
other. and Blaine's remark when ALI
son called attention to It. For this rea-
son newspaper men were disposed "a
think the story genuine.
But now the whole thing has been
substantially confirmed. William T.
Curtis, who attracted considerable At
tention last winter through his connec-
ton with the Pan-American Congress.
and who now has . position under
Blaine in the State Department. has
given out an authorized explanation"
which has been printed In the Now
York Tribune.
Curtis says: There Is no reason why
the actual facts about the incident In
the Appropriation Committee room
the other day should not be related l
happened to be Q witness and the cir
cumstanccs were these"
lie then goes on to tell how Blaine
tr ed to impress the committee with his
idea tbat we should use the sugar duty
as q means to secure reciprocity with
our Southern neighbors; but Curtis takes
good care not to deny the strong
language which Blaine was represented
as using.
lie eve goes 30 far a. to say that
Blaine declared that IL he were in the
Senate he would fight the sugar sched-
ule to tho best Of his ability-from
which it may DO guessed that Blaine
may have used the vigorous language
above quoted
And as for that part Of the report
which refers to the ''winking' between
Blaine and Blackburn. it is almost sub
stantiated by Curtis. mr.. Blackburn"
be says, ''indulged in a little chafing in
a ocular way" What this chatting was
and what Blaine's answer was he does
not venture to tell US; and as this Eau
thorized explanation" does not deny
Blaine's sharp words Of condemnation
for the Mckinley bill. it may be safely
assumed that those words are genuine.
But Senator Black burn himself has
been heard from and he verifes the
published report. He says: II never
heard a more earnest or emphatic de
nunciation Of q measure than that OF
Mr.. Blaine on the Mckinley bill. He
tore it to tattcrs and warned the Re-
publican members Of the committee
that il they passed the bill in its pres
ent shape the Democrats would sweep
the country in 1892. So earnest and
vigorous was Mr.. Blaine that he brought
his silk hat down on the table with
crushing force. TO considerable damage
to the hat"
Blaine, then, is in open rebellion
against some parts Of the Mckinley bill.
The question now Is which represents
the Republican p~arty-Rlaino or Mo
Kinley?
One thing at least is clear. Blaine
recognizes the fact that our farmera
must have . wider market for their
products in order to get good prices
The Home Market Club, OF Boston, has
for years beer trying to drill into the
heads Of the farmers that the American
market Is the only one that we need to
concern ourselves about
Blaine knows better than that, and
he knows also that it is the tariffs Of
foreign nations that keep Us out OF their
markets. He knows that the duty OF
10 per cent levied by Venezuela on our
-four practically prevents our millers
from selling in that country. Blaine
wants to make these South American
countries letin our agricultural products
in return for opening up our market for
their raw sugar. Blaine evidently sees
sanctity laying about the foreign
market which Mckinley snecred at and
refused to believe in.
At . time when there are 90 many
threats of tariff retaliation BY foreign
nations and when some Of these nations
nave already carried out these threats.
1t is not to be wondered at that 50 shrewd
. man as Blaine should recognize tho
value Of a foreign market II Is well
also hat he recognizes the principle
that foreign markets can be opened to |
us only by opening our markets to for
eign nations.
When Blaine has gone 50 far Is that,
how much Of his orthodox protection
remains? Has he not put himsslf out
side the protection camp?