Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-08
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CALL.
To the Members of the Republican
League of the Territory of
New Mexico.
HEADQUARTERS,
SANTA FE, N. NJ, July 4, 1891.


the city of Albuquerque, on the 18th day
of September, 1891. Two years and five
months have passed since our party re-
ceived control of national affairs and al
ready the administration of President
Harrison has secured the approval and
esteem of every citizen who holds Amer
lea and her industries paramount to all
other earthly considerations Foremost
among the great measures which will
forever distinguish this administration
is the bold, American Mckinley tariff
act. The votes of the people which elected
Harrison and Morton demanded just such
d measure and their will has been prompt
ly obeyed The policy adopted by the
Wings of the Henry Clay school of admit
ting free of duty all articles which we
cannot produce and leyying duties on such
articles as we can produce has been adopt
ed by the Republican party and the Nc
Kinley bill voicing the sentiments of that
party approaches nearer being real
protective measure than any we have yet
lived under since the birth of the Repub
lie; not'daring to attack the American
principles contained in that law the free
traders abroad and their democratic and
mugwump allies at home inaugurated
campaign of falsehood and misrepresen-
tation (previous to the late congressional
election) which finds no equal in the his
tory of this country and can only be
paralelled by the corrupt and detestable
policy of Horace Walpole or Lord Castle
REACH in England. Inscriptions politi-
clans united with dishonest merchants all
over the country in declaring that the
price of almost every article used by the
people had advanced in consequence of
the passage of the Mckinley bill when
the facts really were that in nearly every
instance those prices had fallen. By these
vile methods our people were swindled
out of millions of dollars of their hard
earnings which went to swell the usurious
profits of rapacious cormorants who tax
ing advantage of the unsuspecting nature
of their honest customers robbed them
without mercy or conjunction. Smart
ing under these wrongs and not waiting
to investigate the real causes the people
in several states rashly voted against their
best friends and for the very men who
had basely conspired to rob and mislead
them.
Victories gained by such methods must
in their very nature be short lived, and
already the people are preparing to in
hict condign punishment on their be-
trayers. Major Mckinley, the typical
American, the able statesman, the model
citizen, the honest, upright, irreproachable
gentleman, was doomed to defeat because
of the possession of these splendid quail
ties,) by an unnatural combination COM
posed of native and foreign enemies OF
American enterprise and industry. To
accomplish their purpose his congress
sional district was gerrymanderedt to such
a shameful extent as to change a large
Republican majority to Democratic ma
jority of over 5000, and yet such was the
popularity of the man and his principles
that he came within 300 Of being elected,
This petty victory was hailed in England
as a triumph of British and defeat Of
American principles andsuch in very truth
it was. 1t was just such a defeat as this
that made the immortal Lincoln Presi-
dent of the United States; 1t was General
Harrison's defeat as senator that helped
to make him president, and the defeat of
Mckinley will make him governor OF
Ohio next fall with yet more brilliant
possibilities in the near future. The
limited space usually allowed to an ad-
dress like this precludes the possibility
Of any extended remarks on the act
which has made the name of Major Nc
Kinley so famous and few brief refer
ences thereto must suffice.
Probably no article Of food is more uni
versally used by our people than sugar. 1t
has become one of the actual necessities of
life; every family in America uses 1t two
or three times day and yet, with singular
perverseness, this was one Of the only ar
ticles on which the Democratic friends o.
the people insisted that high duty must
be maintained. They were and are in
favor of free trade in iron, steel, glass,
coal, etc. which would have flooded the
country with foreign goods and thrown
millions of men out Of employment, but
the duty on sugar must be maintained
and why? Merely because few Demo
cratic planters were enriched by said duty
without any corresponding benefit to the
people. And this is a fair specimen Of
the narrow partisan policy which charac
terizes the craftsmanship of the Demo
cratic party. "The greatest good for the
the greatest number" is one of the cardi
nal principles of Republicanism, and act
ing on that policy, the Mckinley Act re
duced the duty on "all sugars above No
15,Dutch standard, in color" from Band 81
cents per pound to one Z cent per pound
The effect was magical. Sugar immediate
ly fell from to cents per pound and ev
cry family in the country was benefited tt
that extent. Unable to deny what was visi
BILE to every eye unable to invent falsehooc
to counteract these splendid facts and ye
unwilling to acknowledge the benefcen
results of this Republican measure, il
which they, as well as the rest of the PEG
pie were beneficiaries, the Democrats ar
now attempting to minimize this univer
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