The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-03
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1892.
A SPLENDID RECORD.

Senator Dolph in a recent magazine
article says that mo man will be
elected president on account Of his
gracious manners" Those who are
opposing President Harrison should
ponder well this statement. One of
their chief objections to the president
is that he is cold and distant. I'm
doubtedly these men form this opin-
ion as to the presidents GOODNESS. be-
cause he would not allow them to
control public patronage to the eX-
tent they wished. OF course they
cannot make this complaint to the
public, but the people we'll understand
what the trouble is. Comparatively
few of the 65,O00,000 of people of this
country come in contact with the
President, and his GOODNESS or gra-
ciousness cut but little figure with
them. The principles involved in
great public questions are of far more
interest TO them.
President Harrison has been true to
the trusts imposed upon him His
administration has been strong one
in a business sense, and in many re-
spects a most brilliant one. As Sen
ator Dawes says in the June North
american RevieU: ''Our diplomacy
was never in ADLER hands. Its achiev-
ments, from the Samoan complica-
tions bequeathed by its predecessor,
to the Behring Sea arbitration. it's
greatest triumph, with which this it's
third year closes, form an unbroken
series of signal successes. Treaties
with Germany, France, and with
Spain, the Italian imbroglio at New
Orleans, the CHILEAN complication,
and series of commercial treaties to
be considered in another connection,
have lodged in the State department
imperishable proof of diplomatic abil-
ity unequaled in recent history. 1t
can be safely said that no administra-
tion in the history of the country has
been more successful in its diplomat
ic relations. In it's business relations
it has not been less successful. In
this respect Senator Dawes says:
The "McKcKinley Tariff is a meas
ure OF this administration enacted in
fulfillment OF its pledges so to revise
the tariff that while the aggregate
revenue should be diminished, prOtec-
tion to American labor and capital
should not be impaired. While not
perfect, (nO law ever yet was), and
while it may in some respects require
modification, as every tariff law before
it has done, it still has accomplished
both these ends. 1t has so enlarged
the free list that for the first time in
the history of the country the value
of goods imported free of duty exceeds
that of dutiable goods. 1t has, at the
same time, so readjusted the duties
on the dutiable goods after this great
est addition in value to the free list
ever made, that the duties paid on
the goods still dutiable do not now
exceed in per cent. those paid under
the old law, including duties then
paid on those goods now added to the
free list, being Az per cent, both be-
fore and since the passage of that
law. At the same: time that this re-
ductiOn has been accomplished, pro-
lection to the home producer and the
home market, home capital and home
labor, has been made more effective.
Nothing in this law has contributed
SO much to the double purpose in
view, that of reducing by enlarge
ment Of the free list the aggregate of
duties imposed and of making pro-
lection to American producer more
effective, as the provision regulating
by law commercial treaties with ma
lions producing raw materials and
other products which are necessary
for our consumption but cannot be
profitably produced at home. Under
this provision we obtain an exchange
of equivalents of the highest value to
our national prosperity. For the adj
mission, free of duty, of raw material
and other products not producible
here at profit and in quantities need
ed we in turn are admitted into the
markets of other nations free of duty,
with articles we make and they need.
No other method could be devised so
effective to make production at home
cheap, and to multiply it by enlarg-
ing our market. This increases our
export trade, already reaching the
enormous sum of 81, 100.000,000 in a
single year, and with that will in
crease our carrying trade, our shipping
interest and our commerce.
In every department his admins
tration commends itself to the peo-
pie, and because Of its success and
strength the Republican party is
strong before the people. 1t is upon
these principles that the battle will
be fought and won, and representing
these principles, President Harrison
would make strong candidate. The
Republican party does not lack strong
men. It has many who would make
winning candidates, but they would
all have to stand upon the same rec
ord and the same principles, as would
President Harrison. and his gracious
manners would cut but little figure in
the matter. The people are more in
terested in the principles the man
represents than in the man.
THE fellow who knows all about