The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-09-09
MIR. HARRISONS LETTER OF AC-
CEPTANCE.
of Baltimore County


of Baltimore County.
MIR. HARRISONS LETTER OF AC-
CEPTANCE.
Mr.. Harrison, after long period OF
reflection, on Monday issued from the
White House his letter accepting the
Republican nomination for the Presi-
dency. He criticizes the Demo
cratic deliverance in favor of a repeal
of the tax on State bank issues and
favors bounties to ship-owners as a
means of developing our shipping in
dustry.
The main points, however, upon
which the people of the United States
desire to know the mind of the pres
ent and would-be future President are
the tariff and the Force Bill. Connect
ed with the former is Mr.. Blaine's idea
of reciprocity with foreign nations.
This principle is entirely at vari-
ance with the protection theory of Mr..
Mckinley, which Mr.. Harrison siren
uously upholds. He endorses recipro-
city, which is nothing more nor less
than free trade, and asserts that the
removal of trade restrictions with GER
tain countries has been followed by a
decided increase of our trade with
those countries.
frir of ta
with his hearty approval, and he
quotes the report of the Senate COM
mittee engaged in investigating the eff
feet of the Mckinley act in increasing
wages, which asserts that wages have
advanced three-fourths of cent on
the dollar. This result was arrived
at by taking the average of certain
protected and unprotected industries.
1t has been shown that the average
wages III the unprotected industries
have advanced while in the protected
industries, taken alone, they have de-
creased. Individual experience will
not, in many cases, we apprehend,
bear out Mr.. Harrison's statement.
He also asserts that the price of cereals
has advanced SO cents on the dollar,
under the Mckinley act. Will any
farmer be simple-minded enough to
believe this, when he can not get 70
cents bushel for his wheat? Under
the stimulus of short crops abroad
wheat sold last year as high as $1.03.
Under different circumstances this
year the farmer is glad to get rs cents
a bushel clear for it.
Mr.. Harrison finds it necessary to
support the outrageous increase in the
tariff on imported tin, alleging that
the tin plate industry has been estab-
lished in the United States. His con-
illusions will be taken with many
grains of allowance, when commercial
agency reports show the failure of a
number of so-called tin plate factories,
and when the facts are more gener-
ally known that the alleged Ameri-
can tin is mostly made of imported
block sheets coated with imported
Welsh tin, both being admitted free
of duty, and made with Welsh ma
chinery and mainly with Welsh work
men,
He adverts with complacency to the
placing of sugar on the free list as
having saved the consumer in duties
$87, 900, 900. He omitted to say, what
is fact, that the American producer
of sugar is paid a bounty out of the
U. s. treasury for every pound Of
sugar he produces, so that what the
consumer saves in one way he is COM
PEELED to make up in another
He is for silver dollar of equal in
trinsic value with the gold dollar-a
position which we do not controvert.
Mr.. Harrison is consistent and de-
termined upon one point-the Force
Bill He quotes what he said in his
last annual message to Congress upon
this subject and says he will again
urge upon Congress the passage of
such law.
He prides himself upon the manage
ment of the administration of some of
some of our foreign difficulties, lame
and halting as that policy has been.
He invites attention to what his ad-
ADMINISTRATION has done for farmers, but
this class has not yet been able to see
what benefit they have derived from
the protective tariff or the reciprocity
idea. The former taxes them unmer-
cifully for the benefit of favored
classes. The latter is applied to coun-
tries to which only small part of our
agricultural surplus can ever be sent,
because they are themselves producers
of breadstuffs. 1t does bring advan-
tage, perhaps, to manufacturers, in
opening for them markets heretofore
closed.
Our cotemporary the Elkton
Wing, commentaries the completion
of it's 51st year by the publication of
an industrial edition. of eight pages,
containing interesting illustrated
sketches of the manufacturing enter
prises of Cecil county. The Wing
estimates the capital invested in man.
ufacturing in that county at 81, 900, 900,
and that $4OO, 900 are annually paid in
wages. The Wing deserves to be con-
graduated upon its own enterprise in
getting out SO handsome a number
and one so well calculated to promote