The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-28

be promptly rejected, and the party pro-
posing 1t should be deprived of the power
to promote such a scheme. The experience
last three months. shoriid admonish us
that whatever other kind of money. we may
employ, State bank money should not be
thought of. Had our 100 suspended Ma
tional banks been State banks, following
their suspensions would have come dis
credit to their notes, which would have
been nowhere received, and q monetary
disturbance would have ensued that must
have caused universal bankruptcy and
ruin. Even as it was and bad as it was,
to have these National banks suspend, it is
to be noted to the credit of the system that
the bills of every suspended National bank
are as good as gold and pass as freely as
though the banks had never closed.
The Note of Warning.
The president, in his recent message,
makes significant and for him, a some
what surprising statement. He says
" 1t may be true that the embarrassment
from which the business of the country is
suffering, arises as much from evils ap-
pretended as from those actually existing"
believe that in this sentence the presi-
dent has uttered a great truth, one which
will find in the mind of every thoughtful
man quick and approving response.
Whatever other things may have contrib
uted to our present condition, every man
knows, as the president puts it, that the
great underlying cause is from 'evils ap-
prehended'-evils which are yet to come
evils which are threatened-evils which it
is believed will follow the executed DEGREES
of the last Democratic National plat
form. He also announces in his
message the real evil to be appre-
hended, He emphasizes the menace in al
most the last paragraph of the. message
from which L quote, in the following
language:
''It was my purpose to summon congress
in special session early in the coming Sep
tember that we might enter promptly
upon the work of tariff reform, which the
true interests of the country clearly de-
mand, which so large majority of the
people, as shown by their sutfrages desire
and expect, and to the accomplishment of
which every effort of the present admins
tration is pledged"
This is the note of warning. This is the
alarm bell This is the evil to he appre-
hended, and the one most of all others
which the country fears, and because of
which it is, in large part, suffering today
He renews the threat of his platform and
declares that every effort of the admins
tration shall be employed to carry it into
execution. Remove that threat, and conf
, dence would at once come back; business
would resume it's old condition; mills
would start, and idle men find work and
wages 1t is the anticipation of tariff re-
form, or free trade, or revenue tariff
which has set the country where it is.
Who can doubt its That revolution in
our tariff policy is to be expected admits Of
no doubt.
The Democratic Policy.
The Democratic candidate for governor
this year, Mr.. Neal, proclaims the purpose
and policy of the Democratic party in the
pending campaign in these words:
Tariff reform must be our battle cry.
Make the fight active, aggressive, offensive
! from start to finish Success will, in such
! ha tn Nhxax xytnf<r xuytll ho
a decisive one. 1t will forever expunge
the foul blot of protection from the fair
| escutcheon of our grand and mighty Re
| public. The result will finally be received
by the members Of all parties as the full
and final judgment and decree of the peo-
problem of taxation. The voice of Ohio
| will, with universal acclaim, be held the
i voice of the Nation"
These are the deliberate, carefully pre-
| ances Of my distinguished competitor
| spoken before the convention which placed
| him in nomination. He proclaimed tariff
for revenue only as their battle cry, and
announces with boldness their purpose tc
forever " "expunge the foul blot of protec
ton from the fair escutcheon of our grand
and mighty Republic"
! The Issue Accepted.
1 accept the issue thus rendered, for and
in behalf Of the Republican party of Ohio
and in behalf of the thousands who have
heretofore acted with other parties, and
who do not believe that protection is q
fraud or a foul blot on our progress and
business prosperity, and to the people
whose Judgment in popular government il
supreme, I confidently appeal. He not
only declares what their purpose is, but be
makes Ohio the National battle ground
and announces that the result here will be
finally received as the full and final judg
ment and decree of the entire country, ant
that the voice of Ohio this year will be held
the voice of the Nation. II this be true, il
only increases the gravity of the contest
| and makes it all the more imperative
upon us to see to it that the result which
is to be finally accepted as conclusive, shal
be on the side of q protective tariff and in
favor of the interests and labor and prop
erty Of the United States There can b,
no mistake but that Mr.. Neal believes en-
actly what he says, and that he is radically
revenue tariff. This is shown by his OWL
record in the past, and especially by hi
part in the Democratic National Conven
tion which assembled in Chicago in June
1892. 1t will be remembered that Mr.. Neal
| as member of the Committee on Resolu
tions, differed from majority Of the Com
mittee, and reported in full Convention q
substitute for a portion of the tariff planl
agreed upon by the majority of the Com
mittee.
Mr. Neaps Position At chicago.
/ Twill first call your attention to thai
part which came from the Committee OF
Resolutions and was stricken out on thu
motion of Mr.. Neal. The report declared
when custom house taxation is levie(
upon articles of any kind produced in thii
country, the difference between the cost OF
labor here and labor abroad fully measures
any possible benefits to labor"
This genuine American sentiment, thi.
true Jacksonian principle, was stricken ou
of the report of the Committee, upon thu
motion of Mr.. Neal, and this difference il
favor of American workingmen is not to bt
recognized by the Democratic party in it
proposed revision of the tariff Again tn,
report declares:
"But in making reduction in taxes it il
not proposed to injure any domestic in
dustry."
This, too, was stricken out upon the mo
tion of Mr.. Neal, and in the proposed tariff
they will take no heed of any domestic in
dustry, and the reductions to be made il
the tariff will be made needless of the in