The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-27

The President SIM Harps Upon the string
Of Protection.

the President Siill Harps Upon the string
OF Protection.
That portion Of the presidents mes
sage which Is not devoted TO a review
of the reports from the sevesal depart
ments of the government is mainly {
laborious and ridiculous argument de
signed TO convince the great majority
of the American people that they die
not know what they were doing when
they voted against the republican
party and the protective tariff thievery.
| The very best that may be said of the
message as whole Is that it Is a
powerful enunciation of cardinal
principle of genuine repubicanism
that the people are incapable of self
government and lack the ability To de-
termine for themselves what policy of
government is better calcu lated to ad
vance their prosperity.
The president draws largely on the
advance sheets of Commissioner Por.
ter's census reports for figures TO prove
that the business, wealth and other
material interests Of the country have
enormously increased since 1860. lie
speaks of this development and prog
ress as though they had not been fully
understood or properly appreciated by
the people who enjoy the benefits and
blessings which come from them. He
cites some estimates on the subject of
the tin plate industry, submitted by a
special agent of the treasury depart
ment and deduces therefrom the
pleasing assurance that "if existing
conditions were To be continued" all
the tin plate we could use would be
produced in this country ut some in
definite period in the far distant future.
Processing "a most solicitous interest
to preserve to our working people"
higher rates of wages than are paid in
Europe, the president quotes literally
from 1.-The report of Labor Commits
sioner Peck, of New York" statistics
showing an increase both in the amount
and the rate of wages paid in the man
ufacturing establishments of that state
during the year following the passage
of the Mckinley tariff. BY resorting
to the pages of discredited publica-
ton, made by discredited official, for
figures TO sustain his arguments" the
president betrays "a lack of decency
which will occasion great surprise.
Statistics which it was scarcely per-
missible to employ in a letter to a
political committee accepting a nomi-
nation for reelection are certainly out
of place when used in an official com
munication addressed to the congress of
the Unite d States.
Mr.. Harrison claims of course, that
the cause of the prosperity which
the nation has enjoyed for thirty years
is to be found solely in the protective
tariff. Il believe" he says, that the
protective system has been a mighty
instrument for the development of our
national wealth and in protecting the
homes of our workingmen from the
occasion of want" Now that the peo-
pie have voted to abolish that system
he expects the most disastrous conse-
quences to follow a change of policy.
If, however, it shall turn out that his
foreb odings are unwarranted he can af-
ford to be disappointed.
The president recommends that the
republican majority in the senate do
nothing at this session toward reducing
the tariff, but to refer the whole mat
ter to the next congress- which, he in
Inmates, should be convened in extra
session as soon as possible after his
success sor comes into Office. He renews
his demand for force bill in order, as
he Sa VS., "to secure free and fair federal
elections" and takes final occasion to
dcplore the lawless hanging of negroes
at the south. CHICAGO Herald