The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-18


surrender to the dishonest. The platform in
dorses the protective tariff.
TIE TARIFF
We have protected American products and
American laeor. So long as foreign products
can be found 90 tax which compete with our
own in our market, We propose to tax them
rather than tax our own. The Democratic
party prefers to tax domestic products rather
than imported. Their tariff legislation would
beneht every country but our own. We follow
in our tariff policy the teachings of Washing
ton and Hamilton, Clay. Webster, Lincoln and
Garfield They pursue the fallacies of Golden
and Bright and Calhoun and the statesmen of
the late southern confederacy.
AN ABSURD ASSERTION.
They are pledged to impede. if they can,
the prosperity of the country until after the
next presidential election. That is their mission
this year. Business disaster and reverses are
the ladder of their hopes. Prosperity aud oon
tentmsnt among the people bring them sure
political defeat. Idle furnaces, dis
mantled factories, silent mines, unemployed
workmen, general distress, are sure harbingers
OF democratic victory. They are disoouraging
industrial activity through their press and
orators everywhere, and every day, and il
Industrial advancement In the United States.
AN IMAGINARY sNERR.
They sneer at every attempt TO establish new
factories and would gladly frown them down
1t is the same snser and frown which have been
exhibited toward our Industrial enterprises
since 1851. But in spite of them we lead the
world in manufactures, agriculture and mining
and we will prosper under the new law in spite
Of their false omens and discouraging
prophecies. They insist that we cannot make
tin plate; so they said about steel rails so they
said about plate glass and cutlery and pottery,
and when you take them TO the factory and
plate they assert with intense pleasure
that we are only making "a little"
This is true, but how much should we be max
ing. That we are making any is surprise, for
the protective duty on tin has not yet gone into
effect and will not until July l.
BIDS FOR MANUFACTURES.
Reflect for a moment-there is no section Of
the country, north or south, which is not seek
ing by every manner of inducement to get man.
factories established in their midst. They are
in some communities they are taxing
themselves and burdening their property
for the sake Of securing industries
which will employ labor and enlarge their
neighboring markets. In the south, the great
center of free trade, they are Offering freedom
from taxation for ten and twenty years to those
who will bring their capital and invest in pro-
ductive enterprises. and this by authority of
state law. And while all this is going on the
leaders of the Democratic party are proposing
to tear down the protective tariff and
inundate this country with foreign competing
products to displace those which these very
manufactures propose to make and which the
people are taxing themselves to establish.
INCREASED DUTIES.
Referring to complaints among free
traders about increased duties under the
new law, Maj. Mckinley said that 3D. per
cent. of them ara for the better protection
Of the American farmer; % per cent. are
upon wine and spirits, which will hardly
burden the farmers. Five per cent.
are upon tobacco, an agricultural product.
No like recognition of the agricultural
industry can be found in any previous
tariff legislation. While securing to the
farmer a home market by increased protec-
tion, the reciprocity clause is intended
to extend his foreign market, and upon
terms more favorable than those accorded
to competing agricultural countries. 1t is
a significant fact that the articles which the
farmer most frequently hugs bear less
tariff than under the law of 1888, and the
products which he sells bear higher duty
than ever before.
TIE PLATFORM.
The following is the platform:
The republicans of Ohio in convention as
sembled, reaflrm and express their adhesion
to the principles which have guided them here
tofore in the promotion Of the prosperity and
happiness of the American people.
/. We reaff1rm our devotion to the patriotic
doctrine of protection, and recognize the Nc
Kiney bill aB the ablest expression of that prn-
cple, enacted in the fulfllment of republican
promises, and we pledge ourselves TO its sup
the changed conditions Of experience may re-
quire.
2. We favor such legislation by congress and
in this state as will in every practicable mode
encourage, protect and promote the interests
OF agriculture in all its departments; the pro
lection of labor and the rights of laborers, such
as will grant TO toll its full and Just rewards, is
among the first obligations Of the government.
g. We demand protection for the wool in
dustry equal to that accorded to the most
favored manufacturer OF wool, SO that in due
time American wool growers will supply all the
wool OF every kind required for consumption in
the United States.
4. Thoroughly believing that gold and silver
should form the basis of all circulating mediums,
we indorse the amended coinage acJ Of the last
republican congress-, by which the entire pro-
duction of the silver mines of the United States
is added to the currency Of the people.
8. We demand and win continue TO demand
until finally and absolutely secured, free exer
else by every citizen OF the supreme and sover-
eign right to cast one ballot at lawful elections
and have it honestly counted.
8. While Inviting to our shores the worthy
poor and oppressed Of other nations, we de-
mand the enactment OF laws that will protect
our country and our people against an Influx Of
the vicious and criminal classes OF foreign
nations, and of the importation Of laborers
under contract to compete with our own citi-
zens, and earnestly approve the rigid enforce
ment Of the existing laws by the present
national administration.
T. We favor economy in the administration Of
national and state affairs; prompt and effective
restraint of combinations of capitalists for pur-
poses unlawful or at variance with sound public
policy; ample educational facilities for the
whole people; the reservation of the public
lands of the United States for homesteads for
American citizens, and the restoration to the
public domain of all unearned railroad grants;
and we contemplate with pride the progress of
republican legislation and administration in all
of the directions named.
8. The Republican party, ever mindful of the
services of the heroic men who saved the union,
favor liberal pensions TO the sailors and soldiers
of the republic and generous care Of their
widows and orphans.
9. The patriotism, wisdom and ability of the
of President Harrison command
commend the policy of recproc-
ity by which our trade may be vastly increased
by commercial treaties with other nations, and
we also commend the vigorous foreign policy of
the administration. which has commanded the
respect of foreign nations for the flag Of our
10 We commend the patriotic services of our
fellow citizen, Senator sherman,
and his republican colleagues in the Fifty-hrst
congress-.
ii. We congratulate President Harrison and
the country upon the selection of Hon. Charles
Foster as Secretary OF the Treasury, assuring
as it does an able and efficient administration
of that great department of the government
H. We denounce the late So-called Ripper
legislature of Ohio as most corrupt and incom-
petent, and the administration of James E.
Campbell as the most partisan in the history of
our state. We denounce the present governor
of Ohio for having converted benevolent insti-
tutions into political machines, making pollti-
cal merchandise Of the sufferings and calamities
of the helpless wards of the state, and we
point with pride TO the more patriotic aud wise