Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-10-19
WHITELAW REID
Also Writes a Lengthy Letter
Of Acceptance,
SYNOPSIS OF THE DOCUMENT.
SYNOPSIS OF THE DOCUMENT.
PARTY Platforms More Important this
Year than Usual"
THE REALLY VITAL ISSUES
iinrriron'a Administration Pronouuc.
cd brilliantly successful. Honest,
Able aud safe.

New YORK, Oct. Following IA
synopsis fthe letter Of acceptance OF
Whitelaw Reid, Republican candidate
for vico-presiden,. The letter Is nd-
dressed to Hon. w. n. Durbin, Ander-
son, Ind, aud begins as follow
When the nomination wi . which
the national convention houofcd mo
was formally announced by your com.
mittee ! accepted It ut once. In 10
doing | also accepted the principle set
forth ia the resolutions niopteu by the
convention as baslB ol its APPEAL 10
popular suffrage. There will DO no
Notwithstanding as 10 the uutpJses OF
the Republican party In the contest
aud no doubt ma 20 the attitude OF It's
candidates.
Party platforms arc more important
this year than usual. The dcclsfa-
lions Of our opponents demand close
scrutiny, 90 their victory now would
give them tho first opportunity they
have had since 1869 10 put In ptnctice
their policy. Obvious In the common
judgment OF the people the really vital
igsuee this year are those rotating 10
tariff ana currency. Fortunately both
sides stated their positions on the sub
jects with dlrectness, simplicity and
iTankness.
The issues thus made between the
rival candidates nro especially sharp
and distinct. We maintain that tho
tariff should cover the difference In
cost Of homo ana foreign production
caused by the difference In home anu
foreign wages. Our opponents dis.
tiuotly repudinte the proposition that
American wngea should be considered
in the matter, aud declare instead
that tariff levied for anything but
revenue II unconstitutional. Az the
London Tines naturally remarked, 1t
IN n policy not 10 be distinguished from
free trade.
Should the American people now
choose
REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATES,
tho present tariff would stand, or when
amended would only be changed 20
lnsure closer conformity TO the princl-
pies on which It Is made. II our oppo.
nents are chosen cur Congress is
pledged TO repeal the present tariff ami
10 the adoption OF one arranged for
revenue only, and their executive is
pledged to the doctrine that tariff
having regard also for American wages
IL unconstitutional.
We maintain that the present tarln
worked we'll and developed American
manufactures, steadied aud increased
American wnges and promoted general
prosperity. Our opponents deny all
this anu denounoe the Republican
policy, which they say fosters no other
industry 30 much M that Of the sheriff.
| We favor system by which when we
think tho country il ready for a reduce
ton or abolition OF duties, We insist
upon getting corresponding and recip.
rocal advantages from foreign ooun-
tries. Our opponents denounce reoi.
prority AS a sham aud, therefore, infer.
ontiallly pledge themselves to its
repeal.
Tho constitutionality OF n protective
| taft has been heretofore thought
established. A tariff bill was carried
through the first Congress and signed
| by Washington. A third ola century
| later Andrew Jackson maintained the
constitutionnlity OF a protective system
nv have Jefferson and Monroe, who
each repeatedly recommended tho
exercise OF this right under the Con
stitution. To this testimony from men
who made tho Constitution and from
the father OF the mo fern Democratic
party may ho added that OF the latest
nigh authority OF the modern Demo,
cratic party on constitutional Law, Hon
George TichnOr Curtis, who recently
said he could not subscribe TO doc.
trine that protective tariff was upcon'
.stitutional.
THE EXPFDIESCY or A PROTECTIVE
TARIFF
vindicated by the experience OF the las
thirty years in the most wonderful
period Of financial success ever un
heard OF difficulties in the record o
modern civilization. Under Il and by
tho aid OF Republican management
our finances have resulted in the larges
payment of national debt in tn,
shortest time known 10 history, and In
the simultaneous development of the
industries OF the country on seal,
without parallel.
Eight years ago, In mn8terly public
paper, James q. Blaine called attention
10 the revelations OF the United State
census an 10 the net results Of labor anC
the shvinga among the American pso
pie under the system OF protection
The true value OF all property In tn,
United States, excluding slaves, wal
set down In the census OF 1860 rs four
teen thousand million dollars, thai
being what there was to show fol
twenty-five years' toll. with the sue
cess OF the Republican party, that veal
the Republican protective policy
which has since prevailed, was intro
duced.
In the census of 1850 tho true value
Of property IN the United States II sci
down at fourty-four thousand milliOr
dollars, making an increase Of oyei
double the entire growth Of the previ
Gus twenty-five years. Itappears thai
the property OF tho United States Il
sill further increased In the last few
years 10y fourteen thouaand million
dollars, making the total increase II
thirty years under Republican rule
and under Republican protective
tariff OF forty.four thousand million