The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-01-25
Mr.. BLAINE GARBLEs MR., GLAD.
STONES ARTICLE.

No M will dispute Mr.. Blaine's in
telligence. Though not profound as u
scholar or thinker he Is a sharp ,shrewd
man. He knows how TO mako a poinl
in a discussion, and he Is not at ali
scrupuloHs as to how he makes il. II
ne argued public questions fairly he
might be considered q statesman, bu.
II appears impossible for him TO do So.
He is as honest in polemics as he was
when as speaker of the lower honse Of
congress he bartered the influence OF
the position for bonds and money with
the sams complacency that a fish mon.
ger would dispose of a herring or b
Inackerel-uo more, no less. When
piited in controversy with the broadesI
statesman now living, the most
thorough thinker and the most versatile
scholar in public lite, the Honorable
William <. Gladstone, Mr.. Blaine docs
u II appear to advantage, for even
trough there Is an evident effort on hi.
part TO rise 10 the height of the occa.
g ON, his natural habit of p~eltIfogging
z IA the better of him.
Ills argument that all the prosperit,
Of this country zones from protection,
Il old, and has been often exploded.
Whit we have to do with here is the
audacity of the man 10 disappearing
the words of his antagonist In the North
American. Review controversy. One
would suppose such q thing impossible,
but there 1t L.. Mr.. Blaine not only hal
the iinpudence to misrcpresent Mr..
Gladstone's vlews-this be might palli-
ate by claiming the right TO constrne
nin-but he absolutely misquotes hila
Q ,is up a straw man of bis own, and
then compIacently proceeds to knock
him down, with an audible cachinp, :
ton at his own proves.
Mr.. Blaine, in his reply, ayers:-
Mr.. Gladstone boldly contends that
''keeping capital at home by protection
lc hCat PkOuuIbiOu oua IN uCiuhlOI
from top 10 bottom" " . I might ask
Mr.. Gladstone what he would hav,
done with the labor of the thousands OF
men engaged IN manufacturing rail, II
IL had been Judged practicable TO buy
the rail in England2 Fortunately he has
given his answer In advance OF the
question, for he tells us that "in Amer
lea we produce more cloth and mor,
iron At high prices, Instead OF more
cereals and more cotton at low prices
The grain growers of the west and the
cotton growers Of the south will OBJ
serve that Mr.. Gladstone holds ont 10
them a cheerful prospect /! They"should
produce more cereals and more cotton
It low pricesl' Mr. Gladstone sees that
the protective system tends TO keep NJ
he price OF ~"ceFesls and cotton" and
he asks that manufactures of ''cIoll,
aud from be abandoned, 80 that We
may raise "more cereals and more cot
ION ut low prices.n Mr.. Gladstone
evidently considers the present prices
ii cereals and cotton as "high prices
We have seen gsrbIed statements be.
lore. but we never saw worse ones than
these. A reader Of Dir Blaine's article
would inter. and naturally, too, that
hese quotations, used by Mr.. Blaine,
represented ords that MIR. Gladstone
had written, but they do not they car
not lie iound In Mr.. Glsdston,'s article
aud we will show IN a that he
holds views exactly the opposite from
those attributed to hun.
Mr.. Gladstone does not contend that
Excepting capital at home by protection
IS dear production, and Is 4 delnsioD
rom top I % bottom" because his con-
lcDIiOn is the reverse of the proposition
that protection is eficacious in keeping
capital al home. Here is wha, he really
does say VI shall boldly contend THAI
The whole of this doctrine that capital
slIoula he tempted into AL area OF dear
production for the sake or uuder the
notion OF keeping IL al homes q delu-
siOi from top 10 bottom" This is ve,y
different from the contorIion of the
words dishonorably used by Mr..
Blaine, for Mr.. Gladstone gees on to
say;-"I have not admitted that pro.
keeps st home any capital which
would otherwise go abroad"
Mr.. Blaine then goes on further to
Disquote Mr.. Gladstone, even placing
quotation marks aroupd language