The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-06

| would follow, and l will net believe tina
what is so plain to them can be withheld
| from own people.
PROTECTION.
The declaration of the platform in favo
of the American doctrine of protection
| meets my hearty approval. The conven
| tion did not adopt a schedule, but the prin
ciple that is to control all tariff schedules
There may be differences of opinion amons
protectionists as to the rates upon particu
lar articles necessary to effect an equal Ia
tion between wages abroad and at home
In some not remote national campaigns
the issue has been said, or, more correctly
been made to appear, to be between higt
and a low protective tariff, both parties
expressing some solicitous regard TOR tht
wages of our working people and for ths
prosperity of our domestic Industries. but
under more courageous leadership, the
Democratic party has now practically de
clared that if given the power it will enact
tariff law without any regard to Its
effect upon wages or the capital extapt In
our great industries.
Continuing, the president quotes the
majority report of the committee on plat
form Of the Democratic national conven-
tion, which was defeated in the conven-
tion, to prove the Republican contention
that protective tariff increases the wages
of labor and fosters the growth or Amer
ican industries. The platform of the
Democratic convention, as 1t relates to the
tariff, would. says the president, if enacted
into law, plunge the country into u busi-
necs CONFUSION such as had never been
SeeH
Continuing the discussion Of the tariff,
the president quotes the report of the SEN
ate committee and the report of the Demo
cratic state labor commissioner OF New
York to show that the cost of living to
the poor man has been decreased; that
wages have been advanced, and that farm
products shave increased in price
under the operations of the Nc
kinley law. The Mckinley law has
stimulated the production of tinplate,
says the president, until the production of
the first quarter of the last fiscal year
1926, ,922 pounds) was exceeded by the last
quarter nearly 1000, 900 pounds, the total
production of the year being 13, $50, 600
pounds. The product of the current fiscal
year is estimated at 20,000,0O0 pounds.
The president says that the Mckinley
bill has, further, created a pearl button in
dustry; protected the domestic miners
against foreign silver ores; given employ
ment to many thousands of Americans
and Increased their wages. 1t has also
given beneficial enlargement to the free
list, so that So. S5 per cent. of the total I'M
portations last year came in free, the saw
ing to the consumer in free sugar alone
being S76,000,0 000
OTHER QUESTIONS.
The president heartily accepts the fnan-
cial plank of the Republican platform
and cordially indorses the resolution
favoring bimetalism. He says that he is
firmly convinced that the free coinage of
silver at such ratio to gold as will main
tain an equality in their commercial uses
would conduce TO the prosperity of the
nations of the world, an essen
tiaI condition being that these dollars
shall have equal acceptability and value IN
transactions.
The president reiterates that passage OF
his last message to congress urging con-
changes to secure the choice or
federal officers to the people by fair
and free elections, and says
that he will in his next message urge
to that course.
Regarding the civil service ST stem, the
president says that the laws on that sub
ject are now for the first time enforced
with vigor.
He commends to the farmers the work
of the agricultural department. which; he
says, has secured the removal of the
foreign embargo on American meats, thus
raising their prices so cents per hundred
pounds, and stamped out the diseases OF
hogs and cattle. The tariff bill, he says.
has given TO the farmer protection for his
products and an enlarged home market
for them.
He indorses aid to the Nicaraguan canal
as proposed in the Republican platform.
The president refers to the Chilian incl
dent and confesses his obligation to the
Democratic members of the committee on
foreign affairs, who did not regard the pa
tient but firm insistence on American
rights and upon immunity from in
suit and injury for our citizens and
sailors as policy OF Irritation AMI blus-
ter" he praises the W rk.. of. Minister Egan.
aud says that the confidence which he re-
fused to withdraw from him has been
justified
The president speaks word of love for
the veterans of the war and says that the
ear that does not listen with sympathy
and the heart that does not respond with
are the ear and the heart or an
alien and not of an American.
The president deprecates mob violence
and says that there is strong necessity
for keeping out such immigration as
would lead to criminality and teach an
arcby.
In conclusion. the president quotes the
trade statistics of the last fiscal year and
says our compassion may well go out to
hose wht Sc tparty necessities and
our people oppressed and our trade
by the protective tariff. A
change in the personnel of the national ad-
is of comparatively little mo-
nent, but changes in laws and admins
rative policies are of great moment. The
Democratic party offers a pro-
gram of demolition of the protec-
i've policy, to which all busi-
less, even that of the importer,
5 now adjusted. The reciprocity policy
md the new merchant marine are all to be
gradually, not taken
iown-but blown up To this program OF
destruction it has added one
conclusive feature, the re-establish-
nent of state banks of issue. The
policy of the Republican party is,
IN the other hand, distinctive policy of
afe progression and development-of new
actories, new markets and new ships. IC
will subject business to no perilous
,hauges, but offers attractive opportunities
or expansion upon the familiar lines.
A DlASOLlCAL TRIO.
If there is one more fiendish than the
hateful trinity, dyspepsia, billiousness and