The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-21
TARIFF PLANKs
The Republican tariff plank reads as
follows:

The Republican tariff plank reads as
follows:
On all Imports coming into competition With
the products OF American labor there shall be
levied duties equal to the difference between
wages abroad and al home.
This is Republican doctrine for the year
1892. The tariff plank in the Democratic
platform OF 1884, the platform upon which
Mr.. Cleveland was elected. reads as follows:
From the foundation OF this Government taxes
collected at the CustOm-hOuse have been the
chief source OF Federal revenue. Such they
must continue 10 be. The necessary reduction
Of taxation can and must be effected without de-
prIYlng American labor or The ability TO compete
successfully With foreign labor, and without i'm
posing lower rates Of duty than VIII be ample
TO cover any Increased cost Of production
which may exist 10 consequence OF the higher
rale Of wages prevailing in this country.
This is the only platform upon which the
Democrats have elected President since
1856 1t is a pretty good protection plat
form. Mr.. Cleveland stepped off it in
the second year Of his administration and
stepped upon tariff for revenue platform.
MT. Cleveland was beaten in 1888 on
tariff platform of bis own manufacture. Is
there any reason to suppose that Mr.. Cleve-
land win run better on a tariff for revenue
platform in 1892 than he did in 1888? No
measure has ever indicated itself more
emphatically in the same space Of time
than the Mckinley tariff. 1t has revived
dropping industries and established new
ones. II it stands four years more it will do
for the tin-plate industry what the first Re-
publican tariff did for the iron industry.
1t has built UP home manufactures without
injury 10 our foreign trade Under the
Mckinley tariff one-half our imports come
in free. They are mostly articles which we
do not produce to any considerable extent
in the United States. These include tea,
coffee, sugar, spices and some tropical
products. On articles which are produced
in the United States duties are somewhat
increased. TIE aatagonism between a
tariff for revenue and the present tariff Is
direct. A tariff for revenue imposes duties
on articles we do not produce, and must
necessarily import, while the present law
imposes duties on articles that come In
competition with home products, and all
mits free articles that we must I'M port In
the platform Of 1884 the Democrats made
the same distinction. MIR. Tiden, who was
then the master mind in Democratic poll
ties, perceived that the old Democratic
motto. "a tariff for revenue only" was a
losing issue. But Mr.. Cleveland thought
himself strong enough to break away from
the Democratic sage. He rejected the sug-
gestion OF the latter that the surplus reve-
nue. be expended in the construction OF
coast Notifications, and otherwise putting
the country in condition to defend itself
from foreign attack, and substituted in its
stead tariff reform on the basis Of providing
simply for revenue.
Republicans very generally desire the
nomination of Cleveland at Chicago mainly
for two ressons-frst. because Mr.. Cleve.
land is personally an honest and respec-
table man, and second, because he repre-
sents more distinctly than any other Presi-
dental aspirant an issue upon which
Republicans have always won. No appre-
hension whatever is experienced in Repub-
llcan circles that the voters will Iepudiate
the principle of protection to American
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