The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-09-14
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Of the tariff law of 1890. 1t has transplant
ed several important industries and estab-
lished them here, and has revived or en-
largcd all others The act gives to the
miner protection against foreign silver
bearing lead ore, the free introduction. of
ing industries of the Rocky mountain
states, and to the wool growers protection
for their neeccs and fiocks, which has saved
them from further and disastrous de
cline.
The house Of representatives, at It's last
session, passed bills placing these ores and
Wool Upon the Free List.
The people Of the west we'll know how
destructive to their prosperity these meas
ures would be.
This tariff law has given employment TO
many thousands of American men and
women and will each year give employ
ment TO increasing thousands. Its repeal
would throw thousands out of employ
ment and give work to others only at re
duced wages.
The appeals Of the free trader to the
workingman are likely addressed to his
preiudices or to his passions, and not in
frequently are pronounced communists
The new Democratic leadership RACES Mt
the employer. and seeks to communicate
his rage TO the employe., greatly regret
that all employers of labor are not just
and considerable, and that capital some
time takes too large share Of the profits.
But do not see that these evils will be
ameliorated by o tariff policy, the frs;
necessary effect of which is severe wage
cut, and the second large diminution Of
the aggregate amount Of work to be done
In this country.
II the injustice of his employer tempts
the workman to strike back, he should be
very sure that his blow does not fall upon
his own head or upon his wife and chill
dren.
The workmen In our great industries
are, as body, remarkably intelligent, and
are lovers of home and country.
They may be reused by injustice, or
what seems TO them TO be such, or he
led for the moment by others into acts
Of passion, but they will settle the
tart h contest In the calm light Of
sole reference 10 the prosperity of the coun-
try of which they are citizens, and OF the
homes they have founded for their wives
and children. No intelligent advocate of
protective tariff claims that IL is able of IT.
self to maintain uniform rate of wages
without regard to fluctuations In the sup
ply of and demand for the products Of la
bor-but 1t is confidently claimed that pro
tective duties strongly tend to hold UP
wages, and arc the only barrier against a
reduction to the European scale.
The southern states have had liberal
participation in the benefits Of the tariff
law, and, though their representative
policy rejoice that their sugar, rice. Goa
ores, iron, fruits, cotton cloths and other
products have not been left to the fate
which the views of their representatives
would have brought upon them.
In the construction of
The Nicaragua Canal,
In the new trade with South and Central
America. In the establishment OF American
steamship lines, these states have also spe-
cial interest, and all these interests will
not always consent to be without repre-
sentation at Washington.
Shrewdly, hut not quite fairly, our adj
versaries speak only of the increased duties
imposed upon tin, pearl buttons and other
articles by the Mckinley bill, and omit al
together any reference to the great and
beneficial enlargement of the free list Dur
ing the last + cal year s45s, 600, 772 worth Of
merchandise, OF 55.35 per cent of our total
importations, came In free (the largest per
centage In our history, while In 1889 the
per cent Of free importations was only "a, AZ
per cent The placing of sugar upon the
free list has saved to the consumer IN duties
in fifteen months, after paying the bounties
provided for, sS1 100000 This relief has
been substantially felt In every household
upon every Saturdays purchase Of the
workingmen.
One OF the IaVOr1Ue arguments against
protective tariff Is that 1t shuts us out
from q participation in what is called
with swelling emphasis the markets of
the world" II this view Is not a false one,
how does 1t happen that our commercial
competitors ARE not able to bear with more
serenity our supposed surrender to them of
the markets OF the world Z" And how does
It happen that the partial loss of our market
closes foreign tin plate mills and plush
factories that still have all other markets
Our natural advantages, our protective
tariff and the reciprocity policy, make 1t
possible for US to have large participa-
ton In the markets Of the world" with
out opening our own to a competition
that would destroy the comfort and in
dependence of our people.
The resolution OF the convention in favor
of bimetallism declares, l think, the true
and necessary conditions Of n movement
that has upon these lines my cordial ad-
herence and support i am thoroughly
convinced that the free coinage of silver,
at such a ratio TO gold as will maintain the
equality in their commercial uses of the
two coined dollars, would conduce 70 the
prosperity of all the great produfs. q and
commercial nations of the world. The one
essential condition is that these dollars
shall have and retain an equal acceptable
ity and value in all commercial transac-
tions They are not only medium of ex-
change but measure OF values: and when
two unequal measures are called In law by
the same name commerce Is unsettled and
confused and the unwary and ignorant are
cheated.
Dollars Of unequal commercial value
will not circulate together. The better
dollar is withdrawn and becomes merchan.
disc This true interest of all our people, and
especially of the farmers and working PEG
Pile, who can hot closely observe the money
market, is that every dollar, paper or coin,
issued or authorized by the government
shall ut all times and in all its uses be the
exact equivalent not only in debt paying
but In purchasing power of any other dollar.
| am quite sure that IL we should now act
upon this subject independently of other
nations, we would greatly promote their
interests and injure our own.
The monetary conditions in Europe with.
In the last two years have, think, tended
very much to develop sentiment in favor
of larger use of silver, and l was much
pleased and encouraged by the cordiality,
promptneSS anc Inanimity with which the
Invitation of this government for an In
..-navionai conference upon the subject
was accepted by all the powers. We may
not only hope for, but expect, highly bene
fetal results from this conference, which
will now soon assemble When the result
Of the conference Is known we shall ther
be able, iutelligently, 10 readjust our flnan
cial legislation TO any new conditions.
III my lhSJ annual message 10 congress
said 81 must yet entertain the hope that
1t is possible to secure calm, patriotic
consideration of such constitutional Oh
statutory changes as may be necessary Il
secure the choice of the officers OF the gov
eminent to the people by fair apportion
ments and free elections l believe IL will
be possible to constitute commission
non-partisan in its membership and com
posed Of patriotic, wise and impartial men
TO whom consideration of the questions
of the evils connected with
Our Elections Systems.
And methods might be committed with