Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-02
HIRRISON KELLEY.
he Pays HIS Respects to Major Hudson Of
the Capital" and Gives his rea-
sons for Leaving the

the Capital" and Gives his rsa-
sons for Leaving the
COP.
Editor Topeka Capital: have care
fully read your criticisms in the Capt.
tai of August 4th, of my reasons for
supporting the peoples party, and am
sorry that they are not satisfactory to
you: but as you ask me several ques-
tiOns and kindly invite me to reply, l
will proceed to do 80: You ask, do l
expect to expedite the passage of a
measure to protect the republican vot-
ers in the south by assisting the ALI
ance to throw the election of a demo-
cratic president into the house? / an
swer no. My only hope of securing
fair elections In the gulf and southern
Atlantic states is in the peoples party
absorbing the extinct republican party
in those states, and very large portion
OF the democratic party. AS an evil
dence that this Will be done, observe
from personal observations OF several
weeks recently spent in these states
that the democratic party there is
lighting the peoples party and the
farmers alliance almost as fiercely as
the republicans are fighting it here, and
doing it because it threatens the ascen-
dancy Of.the democracy by securing a
fair election. Your criticisms imply
that trying to secure fair elections ev-
| erywhere i'll this country is sectional
ism. do not agree with you. You
ask If | do no know that the leaders of
the peoples party denounce the wav-
ing of the bloody shirt, and say that
tn3 war issues are not in the discus
sion. l answer, yes know 1t, and 1
agree with them. But what cOnnec-
ton, 1 ask you, has the demand for
fair elections now with the war issues?
Y ou ask me as stalwart prohibition
ist, how can unite with a party too
cowardly to put word of endorsement
of the principle in its platform. l an
swer that the peoples party was true
to prohibition in the house of represen-
tatives last winter, when they refused
to vote for resubmissiOn, and when l
hear the democratic party denounce
the peoples party for that act, l feel
quite we'll satisfied that prohibition is
as safe with the peoples party in pow
er as it was in republican hands; and
when 1 reflect that it passed an act
through the house fully enfranchising
women, which if passed by the senate
would have made prohibition as solid
in Kansas as the everlasting hills, L feel
quite safe In trusting the future of pro-
hibition in their hands. You say that
l believe in the principle of q protect
I've tariff, which admit, and you ask
me to reconcile my present position to
that principle. l answer that believe
in liberty too, and so do you; but the
exclamation of Madame Roland when
about to be executed: "Oh! Liberty
Liberty! How many crimes have been
committed in thy name!" expressed her
opinion of the abuses OF liberty, and
when l say, Protection! Protection!
| How many crimes have been commit
ted in thy name! it expresses my opin-
ion Of the abuses of protection, and IN
my opinion, the climax of those abuses
is the Mckinley law. And does 1t not
to you and others who have been pro-
tectioniSts, seem little strange that
the republican papers and orators in
eulogizing and defending the McKin-
ley bill dwell more on the beauties and
benefits Of that part of it-that is abso-
lutte free trade free sugarl-than on
the balance? agree with them that it
is the best part Of the bill, but where
does it leave our theories of protectionp
And does not the further fact that the
price OF sugar, on the taking effect of
that part of the act April LIST was re-
duced exactly the amount Of the tariff
that was taken off, demonstrate the
somewhat disputed fact that the tariff
paid on goods imported is at last paid
by the consumer of those goods? While
other republicans have disputed this
last proposition, never have; and yet
have been IN favor of protection 10
infant industries, but in the language
OF another, am constrained to say,
when that infant gets to be six foot
long and wears number twelve boots,
tells you as it lies in the cradle If you
don't continue to rock it, it will get up
and kick you out of the house, it seems
to me the tlmefor withdrawing the pro-
lection has fully come. Again speak
ing of the Mckinley law, it discrimi-
mates against the farmers. To Illus
trate: Take the schedule of wool and
manufactures of wool. While the av-
erage tariff on the raw wool imported
was reduced, the tariff on manufactures
OF wool was increased more than "a per
cent. Was this increase necessary to
encourage the ancient industry of WOOL
en- manufactures in this country or was
it simply TO appease the demand of the
ancient infant in the cradle at the ex.
pense Of both the consumers of wooden
goods and the growers of wool? Dur
the last presidential campaign, the re-
publicans justly censured the admins
tration of Grover Cleveland for loaning
to various banks in the country $780,
600 900 of the public funds without IN
terest, the republicans claiming that
besides the wrong to the people it en-
abled the administration in power to
draw on the favored banks for cam
paign funds to perpetuate itself in pow
or, which was true; but the Mckinley
law deliberately puts into the hands of
the president power ten times as
great and ten times aa dangerous. 1t
absolutely puts it into his power at any
time he may see fit, to impose a duty
of II to cents pound on sugar, 3
cents a pound on coffee and 10 cents