Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-19

wHITELAw REID's LETTER.
He Accepts the Republican Nomin.tion 70,
Vice President
He DISCUSSES TIE ISSUES or TIE CAMPAIGN
HE CLAIMS THAT TIE x'KISLxY TARryI HAS
| EAIsxD wAars-THx TEDERAL ELEcuoNs
BIIL-AhRAIoxISo ruI DxnooRAoI.
Mr.. whitelav Reid's letter accepting the re-
publican nomination for the vice presidency
Was given out last night ME-. Reid says;
When the nomination with which the
national convention has honored me Was form
ally announced by your committee accepted
II at once. In doing % I accepted alss the prin-
ciples set forth In the resolutions adopted by
the convention a. the bahs Of my appeal TO the
popular suffrage.
/ To do other OF less than this 10, to any honor
able man, an imposubility. political party
BY an association Of citizens seeking to have
the government conducted In accordance With
its views and presenting candidates, whom ID
strives to elect for that purpose. to accept its
nomination without intending to carry out its
! principles would be as dishonorsble and as
/ criminal a. 10 procure goods under false pre-
| lenses.
| There will be no Misunderstanding a. to the
purposes Of the republican party in this contest,
| and no doubt to the attitude of its oandi-
dates. What il intends IL has set forth In lam
| guage that cannot be mistaken; and they will
strive by all the lawful means in their power to
enforce its plainly expressed viii. Since my in
/ terview with your committee further reflection
and careful attention to the arguments on both
sides in the current public discussion have con-
/ frIned my belief in the wisdom Of the rePubh-
| can declarations. well as in the lucid candor
/ With which they have been presented
The party platforms, so called, are more i'm
| portant this year than usual Both the leading
candidates have once commanded the approval
Of the American people In its highest Perm Of
/ expression. Attention Is therefore concen-
trated less on the men themselves and more on
the principles each is put forward to represent
and would In case Of election be required 10
carry out
The declarations Of our opponents demand q
still closer security, since their victory now
would give them che fret opportunity they
have had since 1859 10 put In practice their
policy. Never, since that date, have they had
control at once both in the executive and legis-
lative departments Of the government. This
year the election of President clearly carries
With IT majorities in both houses of Congress.
THE TARIFF.
He says that the real issues which divide the
that the position Of each party is clearly defined
a
the democrats favor a tariff for revenue only
and would repeal the present law.
I'VE, he says, maintain that the tariff
should cover the difference in the cost of the
home and foreign product caused by the differ
ence in the home and foreign wages for the
labor employed upon il. Our opponents dis
tinctly repudiated the proposition that Amer
lean wages should be considered in the matter
and declared instead that tariff levied for any
thing but revenue only was unconstitutional.
Il A. - ~
naturally remarked This policy, II fairly and
logically carried out, is not to be distinguished
| from free trade In the practical form in which
we are familiar with it If protective duties
are unconstitutional. was asserted at Chi
| cago, financial legerdemain can produce
any other 'readjustment than that which would
naturally follow the removal of all imposts
tending 70 bolster up particular branches Of in
| dustry and commerce.
"ShOuld the American people now choose the
| republican candidates the present tariff would
| stand. or, when amended. wecld only be SO
changed as TO insure a closer conformity IN
practice to the principles on which it was made.
| II our opponents should be chosen their Con-
gress is pledged to the repeal of the present tariff
and to the adoption Of one arranged for reve-
/ nue. only and their executive is pledged to the
doctrine that a tariff having regard also for
American wages il 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"
He says that the protective tariff has worked
well, increasing American wages, and he de-
clares it the purpose of the republican party
/ to get reciprocal benefits from foreign coun-
/ tries when duty is reduced or abolished.
He argues a; length the constitutionality Of
protective tariff laws, quoting Washington, JEFF
\ ferson, Madison and Monroe as authority for
his position. He also disc uses at considerable
length the operations of the protective laws
and cites statistics to prove that these laws
have been of immense benefit to the country,
| and especially to the wage-earning classes. He
points out total increase in thirty years of re-
| publican rule and republican protective tariff
| Of forty-four thousand millions OF dollars
against the fourteen thousand millions earned
in the previous twenty fve years.
RECIPROCITY.
| Discussing reciprocity - calls attention to
what has been accomplished during the short
! time the policy has been on trial The market
/ of the United States, he says, is the largest
and best in the world, because our people, in
| proportion to their means and numbers. are
| the largest purchasers. The reciprocity policy
so far adopted by the republican party simply
| provides that where we now take off dnties
| and give foreign products free access to
| this market We shall stipulate for CORE
| spending advantages to our products in their
markets. How an Intelligent and candid
| American can object to this is incompre-
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mally denounced IL sham. At the
| close OF the fiscal year, in June last it had
/ been in operation but few months, and
under all the disadvantages attending the
opening of new line of trade inforeign countries.
II is obvious that the new trade
I thus opened, particularly with our neighbors
| in Central and South America, is sure of a wide
aud far-reacbing development. This trade lies
at our doors and is with peoples naturally in
| clined 10 friendly commercial relations with us
| through kindred interests and political aspira-
tons 1t involves largely the exchange Of pro-
/ ducts peculiar to each country and needed by
the other; it opens markets for our cereals and
vast fields for the Of our machinery and
1 manufactures, and II must naturally bring
with it also an annual increase Of mis-
cellaneous business between US and them
outside the articles directly affected by
| the treaties. In short, it reclsims American
| business which should belong to us, but has
heretofore crossed the Atlantic, and brings it to
| our ports. To abandon this system, which is
absolutely equitable to both sides, which costs
US nothing and which brings such results, would
be madness, while to denouncs it a. a sham is
| unpatriotic as II is untruthful. 1t Is for the
| people who are so generally benefting by il al
ready, and who must see its promise for the fu-