Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-07
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
MR. BLAINE'S LETTER.
The Issues Of the Campaign
Clearly Defined.
DIXON STILL RETAINS HIS TITLE.
Shelley Shows Remarkable
Endurance.
VERMONT biennial STATE ELECTION
The Poet Whittier Failing
Very Rapidly.
VERMONT biennial STATE ELECTION
PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS.

| PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS.
| Not Being Able to stump in the Pres
| ent Campaign, Hon. James G.
Blaine Submits His Views on tn,
Issues Which He Regards as Being
Most Important for the Party t.
Urge Before the Publie-Tarif OF
Imports the Subject of Greatest Con
sequence-The National Currenc,
Thoroughly Expeunded.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Sept 6.-The following
from Hon. J. G. Blaine to Chairman Man
ley of the republican committee is made
public tonight:
DAN Sept Sept. g. Isl 1892. )
Hon. Joseph Marley, Chairman, Etc.
My Dear Sir:-Not being able, for res.
sors have explained to you, to delive,
speeches in this present campaign, take
the liberty of submitting my views on the
Issues which I regard as being strongest
for the republicans to urge before the
public:
MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE.
1. The issue of greatest Consequence ID
the tariff on imports, and it will continue
to be until a settlement is effected by a
majority so large that it will be tanta-
mount to general acquiescence. The re-
publicans are aggressive on this subject.
Two years ago they passed general enact
ment known as the Mckinley tariff, which
for time failed to meet with popular ap-
provel and was regarded with a certain de-
gree of distrust by those who had always
upheld the protective system. But a power
full reaction has come in consequence of the
vindicstion of the Mckinley tariff by ex-
perience. 1t is found to have worked ad-
mirably, and within the last year has pro-
duced greater volume of business, inter
nal and external, export and import, than
the United States ever transacted before
Notwithstanding the character and ex-
tent of opposition to it, agriculture is
remunerative, manufactures are prosper
GUS and commerce is more fourishing than
at any previous time-thus indicating the
Mckinley tariff by an impressive and un-
deniable series of facts. Against this
tariff the democratic party have taken a
history of the country. They reject en-
tirely the doctrine of protection, pro-
nounce it q fraud and ansthsmitize it
generally. A resolution to this eff
feet was adopted by the democratic
convention against the report of tho
committee on resolutions by q two-thirds
vote, thus manifesting the intelligent par
ticipation of every man in the convention.
Sometimes resolution may be adopted in
haste or just when the convention Is adj
journing it may fail to receive the atten-
ton of the members, but this resolution
was debated pro and con, adopted after a
contest, and was perfectly understood by
the members of the convention. It is oon-
tanned in these words.
"We denounce the republican protection
as fraud upon the labor of the great ma
jority of American people for the benefit
of few. We declare it q fundamental
principle of the democratic party that the
federal government has no constitutional
power to impose and collect tariff duties,
except for the purpose of revenue only.
We demand that the collection of such
taxes be limited to the necessities of the
ally administered"
THE TARIFF.
If any one will take the trouble to read
the resolutions by which Mr.. Calhoun
sought to defend his notification scheme
in 1888 he will find the tariff platform of
the democratic party in general harmony
Herewith and if he examines the subject
1uILuGT uo WILL OleCofcI GuhO buc uuGloS III
the compromise tariff which reconciled Mr..
Calhoun and appeased his angry followers
in South Carolina were of q more COM
prehensive character than those contem-
plated in the democratic resolution of
1892
The democrats are in the habit of nam
ing Jefferson as the founder of their
party, and yet on the subject of tariff they
are in radical opposition to the principles
laid down by Jefferson. Toward the close
of his administration the revenue from
the tariff on imports produced a consider
able surplus, and tho question was, What
duced or should this surplus be main
taineds Jefferson pointedly asked: "Shall
we suppress the imports and give that
advantage to foreign over domestic manu-
facturee?'
For himself he recommended that "the
imports be maintained" and that the eur
plus created "should be appropriated to
the improvements of roads, canals, rivers
and education"
If the constitution did not give sufficient
power to warrant these appropriations
Jefferson went 80 far as to recommend
that it be amended. This presents the
strongest condition of affairs upon which
a protection tariff can be justified and JEFF
ferson did not hesitate to recommend it.
The democrats of the present day, it Is
needless to say, are the direct opponents
of the policy which Jefferson thus out
lined and adhered to.
RECIPROCITY.
2. When the principle of reciprocal
trade was first proposed to be introduced
into the tariff system, the democrats
showed most generous appreciation of
the question and gave 1t their support so
long as republicans refused to accept
it, but when the republicans came
to approve it the democratic
support vanished : and instead of
favoring it we find the democratic nation
al convention passed resolution hostile
to the system. But in spite of democratic
opposition we have attained through reci-
procity a new and valuable trade and the
system has demonstrated its many advan-
tages. We were about to secure sugar,
molasses, coffee and hides free of all du-
ties in the Mckinley bill, but instead of it
We passed law by which we asked the
several nations interested what they would
give to have those articles free. We found
that the privileges We were about to give
would secure large trade in Brazil, in
Cuba and Porto Rico, in the Wind
ward and Leeward Islands, in
British Guiana and Jamaica, San
Domingo and the five Central
American states and to minor
| degree in Austria, France and Ger
many-an in exchange for the articles
which we had intended to gratuitously ad-
NIT. The free list of the Mckinley tariff
is larger number of articles and in the
aggregate amount of their import value
| than the dutiful list. What would have
been the result to the United States II
| every article before 1t was put on the free
list had been made the subject of inquiry
| to see what we could get in exchange fol
| ita We omitted to do SO for many years,
| and that neglect has cost the government
advantages in trade which would have
amounted to tens of millions of dollars.
This is the whole of the reciprocity
scheme, It is very plain and simple. II
secures q valuable trade in exchange fol
/ articles and was destined to be put on the
free list. The democratic party think they
can discredit 1t and they make the effort
apparently for the unpatriotic reason thai
they did not originate 1t.
NATIONAL CURRENCY.
8. With all its calamities the wal
brought us one great blessing-nationa
currency. There are many who will So.
that it was worth the cost of the war t,
bring about so suspicious result to cap
ital and labor. Prior to the war We hsi
the worst currency system of any en-
NRhtened nation in the world. Tho stat
banks, With some exceptions, Wprs thoz