Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-07
He still Favors the Force Bill.

The President has at last given out
to the public his letter accepting the
nomination by the Republican party
for President of the greatest country
the world ever saw. He starts out
by saying that the Republican reel
procity humbug is great and good
measure. Republican protection is
something better, however, and he
then launches into lengthy discus
sion of the tariff. He says that "the
Southern States have had liberal
participation in the benefits arising
from the Mckinley tariff bill" In
other words, the President thinks
that the people of the South have no
reason to kick against the Mckinley
bill. Indeed, Mr.. Harrison is right
when he says the people of the South
have "participated' in these social
ed benefits. The fact of the business
is they have been doing the same
kind of participating for twenty-five
years, and they know what it all
means. To come to the point, the
people of the South have been par
ticipating with, or under, a high
protective tariff until their homes
are plastered over with mortgages,
caused by a depression Of prices OF
farm products, due directly to the
workings of this same tariff. Their
wheat is lying in warehouses or
granaries begging some Spectator
to take it at sixty cents per bushel,
while a tax-gatherer is calling on
them to pay exhorbitant taxes.
Participating in the benefits of the
Mckinley tariff law" has brought
about this state Of affairs. Before
the Republican party came into
power with its idea of protective or
prohibitory tariff, wheat was worth
one dollar per bushel, and a farm
mortgage was something unheard of.
This is only one of the points where
farmers of the South have suffered
under Mr.. Harrison's kind of pro-
lection. Hundreds of such cases
could be mentioned, but they are all
more or less familiar to the reader
Columns could be written on the
subject and still it would not be eX.
hausted. The people know how they
have participated" and they are
calling for change, and will have
it by defeating him in November.
The other main point in the presi
dents letter is his position on the
force bill. Some of his lieutenants
who had seen the handwriting on the
political horizon took on big scare
few weeks ago and gave it out thai
Mr., Harrison had softened on this
particular subject. They said that
he would materially modify hi
views in his letter of acceptance. i
they really believed this and HOPED
that he would do something OF the
kind the letter must be a sad disap
pointment TO them. Instead o
modifying his views he quotes liber
ally from his former message on thu
subject, stands by his record and say
that he will urge the next Congress
to pass the force bill. He holds up t,
the public gaze the assertions of Kohl
and his hirelings in Alabama, charge
fraud there and in other States, il
elections, and thinks that Fedora
supervision at the ballot-box Is III,
salt that must save the nation, b!
Wrestling from good people whom h,
seems to regard as horde Of bar
barisns, the rights guaranteed then
by the constitution. The people o
the South will not mistake, or mis-
calculate, the meaning of this por
ton of the presidential letter. The.
know full well what it means anC
viii answer II Of the ballot-box.