Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-19
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. A FORCEFUL DOCUMENT. WhiteIaW Reid'S Letter of
 Acceptance. KIDNAPPING GIRLS FOR HlREMs. Gen. Howard Recommends
 the New Arm. PRAISE FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD. Jim COrbett Bids Jackson
 Wait Awhile.
PRAISE FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD,
wHuTELAw REEDS POSITION.

wHITELAW REEDS POSITION. His Letter of Acceptance a Cogent Presentation of Republican Doc.
 trines In Accord With the Party's Principles as Set Forth in tho Plat.
 form Adopted by the National Com ventiOn.
 NEwYoRK, Oct. 1S.-Whitelaw Reid has sent his letter of acceptance to W. T. Dur bin, chairman of the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination as repub- lican candidate for the vice presidency. In his letter MT. Reid states that when his nomination was formally announced by the committee he had accepted 1t at once and in doing go had accepted also the prin- ciples set forth in the resolutions adopted by the convention. To do other or less than this is, says MT. Reid, to any honor able man an impossibility. To accept partys nomination without intending to carry out it's principles would be as dis honorable and as criminal as to secure goods under false pretences. MT. Reid then continues substantially as follows:
 There will be no misunderstanding as to the purposes of the republican party. Since my interview with your committee further reflection and careful attention to arguments on both sides in the current public discussion have confirmed my be- lief in the wisdom of the republican dec larations. as we'll as in the lucid candor with which they have been presented. The party platforms are more important this year than usual. Both the leading candidates have once commanded the ap- proval of the American people. Attention is, therefore, concentrated less on the men themselves and more on the princi- ples put forward to represent and would in case of election be required to carry out The declarations of our opponents demand a still closer scrutiny, since their victory now would give them the first opportunity they have had since 1859 to put in practice their policy. Never, since that date, have they had control at once both in the executive and the legislative departments of the gov ernment. This year the election of presi- dent clearly carries with it majorities in both houses. It is obvious that in the com mon judgment of the people in all parts of the country the really vital issues which this year divide parties and demand pop ular decision are those relating to the tariff and the currency. The issues made be- tween the rival candidates are specially sharp and distinct. We favor protective tariff, and when in full power made the present one. Our opponents favor 8 tariff for revenue only, and promise the repeal of the present one. We maintain that the tariff should cover the difference in the cost of the home and for eign product caused by the difference In the home and foreign wages in the labor employed. Our opponents distinctly re- pudiated the proposition that American wages should be considered in the matter, and declared instead that 8 tariff levied for anything but revenue only was uncon- stitutional. As the London Times re- marked, 'this policy, if fairly and logi- l cally carried out, is not to be distinguished from free trade in the practical form with which we are familiar with it. If protect | i've duties are unconstitutional, no fnan- cial legerdemain can produce any other adjustment than that which would naturally follow the removal of all imposts ! tending to bolster up particular branches of industry and commerce."
 l Should the American people now choose the republican candidates the present tariff would stand, or when amended would only l be 80 changed as to insure closer con- l formity in practice to the principles on l which it was made. If our opponents should be chosen their congress Is pledged to the repeal of the present tariff and the adoption of one arranged for revenue only, and their executive is pledged to the doctrine that tariff having regard also for American wages is unconstitutional, so that the only new one that could escape the presidential veto must be of the kind which "the London Times" considers equivalent to free trade. We maintain that the present tariff has worked well; that it has developed American manufact- ures, steadied and increased American wages and promoted general prosperity. Our opponents deny that there has been any increase of prosperity under the pres- ent tariff, declare that wages have been re- duced, and denounce the republican policy which as they say fosters no other indus try so much ss that of the sheriff. We favor the system by which, when we think the country ready for the reduction or ab- clifton of duties, we insist upon getting corresponding and reciprocal advantages from foreign countries as the condition of their enjoying these advantages in our own markets. Our opponents denounce this reciprocity as a sham, and, there fore, inferentially pledge themselves te it's repeal. The sharp issues thus presented for the decision of the AmericaI
 people cover more comprehensively ano
 more specifically than ever before tho
 whole range of considerations relating to {
 protective tariff. The constitutionality O.
 8 protective tariff has heretofore beer
 thought established. A tariff bill avowed
 ly for "the encouragement and protection
 of manufactures" was carried through thu
 first congress by James Madison an'
 signed by George Washington. A third o
 a century ago Andrew Jackson in mes
 sage maintained the constitutionality of | protective system. To this testimony ma J, be added that of the high authority 0 the democratic party on conetitu r. tional law, the Hon. George Tickno
 Curtis, who says: "In common with man
 other democrats, I cannot subscribe to tn
 doctrine that protective tariff is u1
 draftine and voting for this resolution th " members showed either dense ignorance (
 American political history, or they man
 Tested purpose to win votes by deceivin
 the voters. I cannot, at the bidding ( Id these gentlemen, unlearn the lesson of ID
 whole life."
 The expedieucy of protective tariff hi
 been vindicated by the experience of u ,d past thirty years-that most wonderf1 . period of financial success over unheard-'
 difficulties in the history of modern civil
 zstion. Under it and by it's aid the repu
 
 nd suited in the largest payment of nation 'c- debt in the shortest time known to histol
 and in the simultaneous development
 the industries of the country and the pro Y perity of the people on scale without |. parallel. Eight years ago in a master
 public paper James G. Blaine called stte
 tion to the revelations of the United Stat
 census as to the net results of the lab
 and savings of the American peoI
 under a protective tariff. The "tr
 value of ali the property in the Unit
 States excluding slaves was set down - the census of 1860 at $14, ,000, ,000,O 900.
 the census of 1880 the true value of t
 property of tho United States was {
 down at $44, ,00O, ,00O, 900. The property
 the United States has been still furth
 increased in the last ten years by $14, ,00 GOO 900, making total increase in t
 thirty years of republican rule and a
 publican protective tariff of $44, ,000, ,0O , 900 earned in the previous 250 years. has been a fortunate circumstance for , impartial public that in the regu course of their official duty number of democratic officers have be
 required to report the statistics in th
 several departments, bearing upon 1 Z effect of the present tariff. Such repo