New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-03-02
THE ISSUES.


quest of an issue on which to go before
the people in the coming campaign
Tariff reduction has been their hobby
for the last eight years, bat now even
shat has been robbed of its powers fol
influencing votes by the results OF Re
publican legislation. The Mckinley
bill by looping off so many millions OF
incomeson sugar has reduced the reve-
nues to an amount that barely meets
the expenses of the government, and it
has done this in way that has not
worked to the injury of our industries.
In other words,ait has been reduction
on articles that we do not produce and
protection for goods that we do. The
former has made many articles cheap
er to the consu ner while the latter has
built up industries and afforded employ
ment.
Now, if the Dem ocrats with their
present large majority in congress leave
the bill as it IS, it will be an admission
of it's wisdom. If, on the other hand,
they attempt to reduce the revenues on
articles now covered with liberal pro-
lection they must either economic in
the government expenses or else re-es-
tablish tariff on sugar. Either OF
these policies would act against them.
On the silver question they are equal
ly as much between the devils and the
deep2sea. Their own party is divided
as to the wisdom of free Ecoinage and
least OF all would they dare to carry ii
before the people as an issue, knowing
as they do the popular, prejudice in
favor of an ''honest dollar"
The Republicans on thes contrary
haye every reason to be hopeful and
confident. Their work in the last con-
gress is slowly being endorsed by its
fruits, and the factional disputes in the
opposition ranks gives ample chance 10
bring these facts before the people in a
light that is not Swallowed over with mis-
leading statements. SenatorEugeneHa Hale
sizes up the situation very forciblY in
an article in the last number of the
North American Review, and we give it
herewith in full:
The Republican party will furnish
the issues for the campaign of 1892. It
began doing this for presidential cleo
tons in 1855, and the history of the
propositions touching the existence and
the prosperity of the ration-which
propositions it has VIGOROUSLY main
tanned and embedded in the life OF the
Repuhlic-makes the national record
for the last thirty years. 1t will be no
new thing for the party to see its ad-
vance contested and its way blocked up
by the Democracy.
First, The doctrine of protection, as
opposed to free trade in any shape into
which the Democratic party may turn
twill have frontsplace insthe contest.
The temporary check which the party
met in the elections of 1890, largely be.
cause the provisions IF the Mckinley
Bill were not understood and their ct
feet had not been demonstrated, no
more decided the battle and delivered
the victory to the free-traders than Ma
gengo was lost to Napoleon at that
stage where Dessaix appeared upon the
field, The Republican party will take
its chance before the people upon the
doctrine of protection as opposed to free
trade or what is called revenue reform;
but this doctrine, in 1892, will be en-
larged and expanded and popularized
by It's new ally and handmaiden, recip-
rocity, which, when protection has built
up the product of American labor, fur.
nishes a market abroad for its overplus
without IN the least endaugering that
product bv the competition of foreign
underpaid labor. The whole scheme
of reciprocity, mainly directed to trade
with the sisterRepublics of the American
continent, goes hand in hand with pro-
lection. The Democrats pervert it's
meaning, deride its uses, and yet, 1t IS
plain to see, are afraid of it.
Governor Hills convention in New
York denounced it as q humbug, and
his party associates, North and South,
are plainly getting ready to oppose it.
In the great battle between free trade
and protection the centre of the Repub-
lican line will be reciprocity, and, 50
far from this being a concession of
ground to the free traders, it is Just the
reverse. The two things mean exactly
the opposite, Protectien and reciproc-
ity mean more manufacturing and more
production at home and more sales
abroad. Free trade means less manu-
facture and less production at home
and more purchases abroad, ANY man
who has tried to do business, or any