Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-06
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Changes IN iris TariT Views Is Heading
Cleveland for the Deep sea.
New York lribune: Eyid nee is not
wanting to show that many democrats
aud independents who voted Tor Mr.
Cleveland tour years ago will resolutely
decline TO support him this year They
viii abandon him because he no longer
represents the principles OF his tariff
message and the platform of 1883 He
now stands for a tariff for revenue only,
whe ems he then adyoca led a revision OF
the schedules mainly as means of re-
duCing the surplus revenues. The radi-
cal change in his views may be readily
illustrated In his tariff message he
said:
'Our progress toward a wise conclu.
sion will not e improved by drawing
upon the theories OF protection and free
trade This savors too much OF handy
ing epithets 1t is a condition which
confrouts us-not theory. Relief from
this condition may ,nvolve q sligot re-
duction of lue advantages which we
award orr home Productions, but the
entire withdrawal of such advantages
shuld OF be contemplated. The ques
ton Of free trade is absolutely irrele
want; and the persistent claim made in
certain quarters that all efforts TO re-
lieye the people from unjust and unnec
essaTy tax ton are schemes OF SO called
free traders, is mlsChlevous aud far re-
moved from any consideration Tor the
public good The simple and plain
duty which we owe the people is TO
reduce taxation to the necessary eX
penses of in economical operation Of
I the government and TO restore TO the
| business OF the country the money
which we Mold in the treasury thr ugh
the peryislon Of government powers
! ! hese can and should be done wits
safety 10 all our industries, without
| danger to the opportunity for remuuer-
alive dor Whie our workincmeu need
and with benefit 80 them and TO all our
people by che peniug their means of
subsistence and Increasing the measure
of their comfort
The necessity for reduction OF the
surplus revenues was Mr. Clevelaud's
paramount issue 1888 He disclaim-
| ed indiscrmnate warfare upon n.
dust les and the labor dependent upon
| them The democratic plaform Of that
| year closely followed the lines of the
message and recognized the need OF
protecting home Industries SO far as
| there was any difference in the wages Of
! labor at home and abroad. The demo,
c attic convention this year has eX-
! plicitly repudiated The clauses OF the
! last platform 10 which these conservative
ideas were embodied BY test vote OF
! 564 TO $40 it struck out every sentence
/ designed to coDmljate manufacturers
and TO reassure age earners and adopt
ed this radical .ariH plank;
1--WE denouuce the republican protec-
I ton as a fraud; a robbery OF the great
majority of the American people for the
/ benefit of the few. We declare it to be
a Fundamental principle of the demo
cratic party that he federal government
has no constitutional power to impose
and collect tariff duties, except for the
purposes of revenue only, and We de
mand that the collection of such taxes
shall be limited TO the necessities of The
! govern emit when honestly and eco
nomically administered F"
! Nothing could be more uncOmpromis
! ing than this tariff plank. IL embOdies
as "a Fundamental principle denial OF
1 the constitutional right Of congress to
! impose tariff duties except for the pur-
pose Of revenue only, and brands pro-
lection rs a fraud and robbery That e
| the platform upon which Mr. Cleveland
has been renom mated That he is at
home upon it and entirely satisfied with
/ it is evident from his radical u terGnces
at Providence when he put in a higher
! bid for he nomination In these words
"The en- Commandments are thousands
of years old; but they and the doctrine
Of tariff reform will be fought and
preached until mankind and the repub.
lican party shall heed the Injunction
Thou shalt not steal Candidate and
platform are wholly IN harmony. They
are alike hostile to the protective policy
as an organized system Of public rob
berry. They are Indifferent to the fate
| OF home industries and TO the interests
| OF wage earners Without DISCUSSES and
juggling OF phrases they are for the En-
/ glish ecoonmic system pure and simple
| Conservative democrats perceive the
wide gulf separating their c nvasss in
1883 from the canvas IN 1892. They are
hanging back; they cannot follow Mr.
/ Cleveland. Then he was hugginR the
shore; now he is heading for the deep
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