The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-01
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Needs a Rest.
To tho Editor Of THE TRIBUNE:

To tho Editor of THE TRIBUNE;
DEAR SIR--In his last presidential mes
sage, Mr.. CleYeland, taking the whole ma.
tIon to witness, publicly proolaim3 that the
present, or Mckinley, tariff duties on raw
materials radically prevent our manufac-
turers from competing in foreign markets.
Therefore, says our enlightened and far
sighted president, Away with proteC-
tion," that we may have free raw mater
ials in favor Of our export trade, when
Immediately such vast quantities Of
manufactured goods will be exported
abroad that nevermore will ouT work
men be idle ut home. Hence, the absolute
and pressing necessity Of tariff reform Of
which he has 80 devOtedly accepted tha
apOstleship on the fat salary OF $4,000 q
year And thus he deduces his famous
free trade. Confederate maxim of less
wages and moro toll" that tue long.de-
sired wOrkingman's paradise NAV at last
be- open to American labor. Now, all
this might seem intensely statesmanlike
the noe plus ultra in fine, Of
American political oconomy-were it.
not for Section % OF the aforesaid
McKiuley bin, which, for the honor Of tho
presidential chair, ought to be brought,
even at this late hour, Ia Mr.. ClevelHnd's
notice, because it unfortunately brands on
the face Of it the whole Cleveland tariff re
form theory, as the most outrageous and
barefaced falsehood- politically speaking
that ever disgraced an American presi-
Dental message.
And tho reason is simple enough-be-
cause Section % fully provides that no
tariff shall exist on imported raw materials
used by our manufacturers in goods TO be
exported for talo in foreign markets,
which, in plain English, means that all du-
ties assessed on raw materials thus used
are refunded TO tho exporter on goods to
b3 SOLD abroad. CJnseq icntly, under tho
present protective tariff, as ! have often
proclaimed, raw materials are as free from
al duties as any free trade measure can
mako them 80 far as our export trade is
concerned. | hold, therefore, that the
whole so-called tariff reform movement
Of which FREQ raw materials for our OK
port trade Is Fundamental feature,
is gigantic Bwindle in face
OF tho hundredI of thousands
now starving by reason Of it. And its pro-
moters should be hel responsible by suf-
fering and dcluded public. The Wilson
bil-uor any other bill-cannot do ono iota
more for our foreign export trndo than
protection is now doing But on the other
mana, IS not projection wisely anu phtrlOti'
Cally saving our magnificent home market
for ourselves this magnificent mar.
kct which Cleveland ia running
and betrayiug, with his FREQ trade
Confederate ncolytus, into tho hands OF
the commercial enemies OF our country?
No jud Iment, therefore, and no criticism,
can b5 too severe or too personal on a man
like Mr. Cleveland VINO, now that no Is
seated In the presidential chair, has not
only forced his blundering personality on
the whole northern and western wing of
his own party TO better deceive it and be-
tray 1t into the hands of tho "Sold South
but has also attempted to deceive the whole
nation in apre idential message in The man
ner above indicated. or two conclusions,
then, one must be correct, namely, either
that Cleveland has read Section 25 Of tho
Mckinley bill, when, trnly. hc is the most
unprincpled kind of political demsgogue;
or, on the other hand, that he has not read