The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-14

PROTECTION AND EOh>
The great question which the people OF the
country will have to answer in November Is
whether we shall have Protection for the
whole country and Protection and Force com
| bined for the South or not?" IL did not require
| the Republican platform to convince the pub
lie that the party intended to enforce these Is
sues: the selection Of Harrison as their fresi-
Dental standard bearer would have been Of
itself evidence sufficient OF their determine
ton 10 do so, and placing Whitelaw Reid
second on the ticket merely emphasized this
determination.
During the session of the Fifty first Con-
gress Mr. Harrison showed that he was as
strong an advocate OF taxing the people for
the benefit OF the manufacturers as Mr.. Nc
Kinley himself. and it is we'll known that he
was in favor of the Mckinley bill as it first
passed the House without any reciprocity at
tachment. Had not Mr.. Blaine then Secre-
tary of State, advocated the reciprocity
clause it would never have been inserted in
the bill at ell. for although it was urged by
Blaine with all the force Of his brilliant
intellect. IL was only with great reluctance
that the Senate which became at length con-
yinced by Blaine that without that redeeming
clause the bill would inevitably prove death
blow TO the party. agreed to q reciprocity
amendment Mr.. Harrison, however. wanted
no reciprocity. He WAS for Protection pure
and simple and favored compelling the Ameri-
can purchaser to pay tribute to the American
manufacturer by placing imported articles out
OF the reach Of the masses by means of heavy
Tariff tax He is therefore the peer of Nc
Kinley as champion of Protection for the
benefit of monopoly. and every vote cast
for him is one for that doctrine.
But Mr. Harrison is no less friend and
advocate Of Protection than he is Of the Force
bill During the discussion of that infamous
and revolutionary measure in the Senate OF
was never discussed in the House. but put
through under whip and spur by ex-Czar
Reed no one in the country showed more
anxiety for its passage than he 1t is true be
did not do as Grant did when the fret
Force bill the country ever knew was
introduced by Ben. Butler in the Forty
fifth Congress-tako a room at the Capitol and
personally lobby Tor the measure-but he
showed in every way possible his great desire
to SEQ the bill passed, and let it be very well
understood that should it pass, he would be
very prompt in afiixing ~ it his signature.
Indeed so angry was he wnen the Senate re-
fused TO pass it that it is said he has never. to
this day. forgiven those senators who refused
to revolutionize the higher House of Con-
gress and force it through under the cloture
Here then we have in the Republican can
didates who the voters will be called upon 10
elect or reject in November. two men who
are the embodiment of Monopoly and Force.
Harrison in the White House has always
urged with all his influence the passage of
both the Mckinley iniquity and the Lodge
infamy, while Reid. as editor of the acknowl-
edged Republican organ of the country, has
never failed to back him up with all the
power of his pen and with all the ability he
possessed.
II is very hard to see how the great North
west. which has everything to lose and moth
ing to gain by Protection, can endorse these
two men 50 thoroughly identified Herewith;
but it is still harder to understand how the
South Gun think with any patience of their
election. And yet we constantly hear talk of !
q third party in the South. nearly every vote
for which will be vote drawn from the |
Democracy. and threats of refusal to sup
port certain Democratic nominations if made
by the party. Ii is TO be hoped that no more
such talk will now be INDUCED in. for it is the
extreme of blind folly for such a thing
TO be even contemplated. Any Southern
man who. in the face of the present Republi- |
can nominations, could consent 70 vote in |
November for any one not the choice of the |
National Democracy, will be unworthy of his |
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