Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-09-08
HARRISON ACCEPTS.
HIS CAMPAIGN LETTER ISSUED TO
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Protection to American Industries, ga
Free Ballot and n Fair Count" BIZ
metaIlism and the eAdministration's For
eign Policy the Chief Issues Discussed.
WASHINGTON, Sept 6.-The following is
President Harrison's letter accepting the
Republican nomination for the Office of
president of the United States:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 1892.
Hon. William Mckinley, Jr., and Others:
GENTLEMEN-I now avail myself of the first
period of relief from public duties to respond to
the notification which you brought to me on
June % of my nomination for the office of presi-
dent of the United States by the Republican
national convention recently held at Mime
apolis. / accept the nomination, and am CRATE
ful for the approval expressed by the conven-
tion of the acts of the administration. have
endeavored without wavering or WEAKNESS, SO
far rs the direction of public affairs was com
mitted to me, to carry out the pledges made to
the people in 1888 If the policies of the admin
istration have not been distinctively and pro
gressively American and Republican policies,
the fault has not been In the purpose, but in
the execution.
shall speak frankly of the legislation of con-
gress and of the work of the executive depart
ments, for the credit of any successes that
have been attained is in such measure due to
others-senators and representatives, and to
the efficient heads OF the several executive de-
partments-that may do so without mpro-
priety. vote Of want of confidence is asked
by our adversaries, and this challenge to a re-
view Of what has been done we promptly and
gladly accept
The great work of the Fifty-first congress
has been subjected to the revision of Demo
cratic house of representatives and the acts of
the executive department to its scrutiny and
investigation. Democratic national admin
istration was succeeded by a Republican ad-
ministration and the freshness of the event
gives unusual facilities for fair comparison and
Judgment. There has seldom been a time, /
think, when change from the declared poll
cies of the Republican to the declared poll
cies of the Democratic party involved such
serious results to the business interests of the
country. A brief review of what has been done
and of what the Democratic party proposes to
undo will justify this opinion.
The Financial Policy.
The Republican party during the civil war
devised a national currency consisting of United
States notes issued and redeemable by the gov
ernment and of national bank notes based upon
the security of United States bonds. tax was
levied upon the issues of state banks, and the
intended result, that all such issues should be
withdrawn was realized. There are men among
us now who never saw a state bank note. The
uOteS uHeCIly OF INDIRECTLY by the
United States have been the only and the safe
and acceptable paper currency of the people,
Bank failures have no fright, delay or loss to
the bill holders. The note of an insolvent bank
Is as good and as current as a treasury note for
the credit of the United States is behind it,
Our money is all national money! might
almost say international, for those bills are not
only equally and indiscriminately accepted at
par in all the states, but in some foreign coun-
tries. The Democratic party, if intrusted
with the control of the government is now
pledged to repeal the tax state bank issues
with a view to putting into circulation again.
under such diverse legislation as the states
may adopt, flood Of local bank issues. Only
those who, in the years before the war, ex-
perienced the Inconvenience and losses attend
ant upon the use of such money can appre.
ciate what a return to that system involves.
The president then reviewed the lepisla-
tion enacted by the Fifty-frst congress to
recover to the United States the ocean car
rying trade and the successful results that
attended it, and argued that the policy of
reciprocity was also a large factor in such
results OF reciprocity itself the president
says.
Reciprocity.
Great credit is due to Mr. Blaine for the yipor
with which he pressed this upon the country
We have only begun to realize the benefit Of
these trade arrangements. The work of Gre
ating new agencies and of adapting our goods
to new markets has necessarily taken time but
the results already attained are such, am
sure, as to establish in popular favor the policy
of reciprocal trade, based upon the free impor-
tation of such articles as do not injuriously
compete with the products of our own farms
mines or factories, in exchange for the free or
favored introduction of our products into other
countries. The obvious efficacy of this policy
in increasing the foreign trade of the United
States at attracted the alar a1 att
of European trade journals and boards Of trade
The British board of trade has presented to
that government memorial asking for the ap-
pointment of n commission to consider the best
means of counteracting what is called "the
commercial crusade of the United States"
At a meeting held in March last of the asso
ciated chambers of commerce OF Great Britain
the president reported that the exports from
Great Britain to the Latin American countries
during the last year had decreased 1928, $50, 900,
and that this was not due to temporary causes,
but directly to the reciprocity policy of the
United States
The letter then gives in detail the in
creases IN our trade under this policy and
adds:
The Democratic platform promises a repeal
of the tariff law containing this provision and
especially denounces as q sham reciprocitv"
that section of the law under which these trade
arrangements have been made
AS l have shown, our commercial rivals in
Europe do not regard this reciprocity policy as
a ''sham," but as II serious threat to trade su-
premacy they have long enjoyed. They would
rejoice-and if prudence did not restrain would
illuminate their depressed manufacturing cities
over the news that the United States had
abandoned its system of protection and reci-
procity. They see very clearly that n restric.
tion of American production and trade and
corresponding increase of European production
and trade would follow, and | will not believe
that what is so plain to them can be hidden
from our own people.
The Doctrine of Protection.
The declaration of the platform in favor of
the 'the American doctrine of protection"
meets my most hearty approval. The conven-
tlon did not accept schedule, but q principle
that Is to control all tariff schedules There
may be differences of opinion among protec-
tonists as to the rate upon particular articles
necessary TO effect an equalization between
wages abroad and at home
In some not remote national campaigns the
issue mas been-or, more correctly, has been
made to appear to be-between high and a
low protective tariff, both parties expressing
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