Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-02

! ~-N avn sCp W poN0n Moto thah
twenty-one years ago reported . reso-
luton to q Republican Convention in
Clinton County that was unanimously
adopted, which contained the words:
1--WE heartily favor a revision Of the
present oppressive tariff so as to adjust
IL to purely revenue standard" am
in favor Of doing that now. know Of
no higher purpose for which gov srnment
is instituted among men than that Of
securing 10 each man the full, peaceable
enjoyment Of the products of his own
toll know Of no more wicked perver-
sion of the powers Of government than
by legislating to take the money one
man earns by his toll and give 1t % an
other man, who has not earned it, to add
to his business profits. That is the pur-
pose and that will be the effect of the
Mckinley bill.
l know that many of our retreating
Republican friends, led by the ablest
and most audacious OF them all, Except
Mr.. Speaker Reed), are trying to find
refuge from aroused public indignation
under the shelter Of reciprocity" !,
too, am for reciprocity, but for reciproc-
ity in its large and broad, not in its
narrow and contracted sense. / would
! open to our res4hiaeAse all the markets Of
| the world. / wsGll invite France, Ger
many, Austria and Italy to allow US to
export to their markets our wheat and
corn, our pork and beef, or whatever we
grow or make, subject only to revenue
tax, and would impose no other sort of
tax on any thing they grow or make
or mine.
believe, with Mr.. Blaine, that sour
great demand is for expansion-expan-
| sion of trade with countries where we
can find profitable exchanges" am
not in favor of our contriving to confine
this trade to South America and the
West India islands. Our people will
never make exchanges anywhere that
are not profitable. There are in South
America and the West Indies only about
45, 100000 of people, many of them In
dians and slaves. They are very large
ly engaged in agriculture. We were
told only few months since by Mr..
Blaine's special agent of the State De-
partment that ''Chili has already driven
our flour off the west coast of South
America" and shat the time is not far
distant when Chilli, the Argentine Re-
public and Uruguay will deprive the
United States of the greater portion of
its flour market in the West Indies and
South America, and will enter into ac-
tive competition with us in Europe"
He also assured US that we can not
compete with South American farm
ers in producing beef and mutton.
Reciprocity with South America means
amazingly little for suffering farmers in
this country. 1t would open to them no
large or important market for their
produce To our manufacturing capi-
talists, by giving them free wool and
other free materials and subsidized lines
of steamships, (as Mr.. Blaine proposes),
largely paid for by taxes on farmers, to
carry their goods to South American
ports, it might mean great wealth. That
is probably the milk" in Mr.. Blaine's
reciprocity cocoanut Any benefit it
would bring to farmers is largely illu-
sorry. But reciprocity with European
countries-with three hundreds of mill
ions of civilized people and all the rest
of the world who want such agricultural
and other products as we can produce,
cheap and abundantly-would enable our
farmers, as well as manufacturers, to
enter on career of prosperity unparal-
leled in history. Our ships would soon
be plowing every ocean and every sea in
profitable trade.
Gentlemen: think you must under
stand my opinions clearly. think you
must have some conception of the char
acter of the Mckinley bill. That bill
will be passed or defeated before the
election. But If passed or defeated, the
fight must go on. The people of this
country will never quietly submit to
such awful spoliation.
If you take pride" in the Mckinley
bill, vote for my opponent. If you be-
lieve in restricting our markets for pro-
duce by retaliatory legislation in Canada
and Europe, vote against me. If you be-
lieve that the annual increase of our ma
tional wealth is 80, 900, 900, 900, as the pro-
tectionists assert, and that farmers are
getting their equitable share Of this enor-
nous sum, vote against me. If you be-
lieve that it is just and right to tax one
man to add to the business profits of
other men, vote against me. If you be-
lieve it is right to foster combinations,
pools and trusts, whereby the cost of the |
necessaries of life are increased, vote |
against me. If you believe that it is |
just and right to tax widow woman 11O
per cent. on her clothing and that of her
children in order that wool growers land |
| am one), or woolen manufacturers may
grow rich, vote against me, / beseech
you. If you believe that sound public
policy and simple justice requires that
tax of ITO per cent. shall be laid on
poor boys woolen hat and tax of 116
per cent. on his pocket-knife, to enable
anybody to grow richer, pray you vote
against me; for the Mckinley bill, in
which my opponent will take Especial
pride," does all this.
But If you desire low taxation; if yon
wish to take no money from any man by
aw except for public purposes, if you
iesire to make the condition of the
ives of the poor and unfortunate less
If you desire to cultivate
such relations with foreighn countries
IS will open their markets to all our sur
olus products of every description; if
ron desire to arrest the blight that is fall
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