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sues. They should not forget the pur-
pose and objects of national govern
ment. They present such an array OF
impracticable and visionary schemes Of
reform, their members are quickly
thinned of men possessing few grains OF
ordinary common sense.
Some statesmen have declared that
money and the tariff were the only ques-
;ioRS worthy OF study in national affairs
1t was the purpose OF Mr.. Blaine to add
third, and that was reciprocity OF trade
with South America, and at some future
day, when analytical history Is written,
Dir. Blaine's foreign policy will stand out
clear and distinct as the only new and
original proposition in statesmarship de-
veloped IN his day. Mr.. Cleveland's S
platitudes are those OF hundred years
ago, and if followed Will iney itably lead
this country back to a condition OF servi-
tude to England. Mr.. Blaine was hated
in England because he was aggressive,
and the only American who ventured to
intrude upon their precious foreign trade.
Mr.. Cleveland is loved in England be-
cause, whether consciously or not, he is
their willing slave.
In regard TO the tariff, | have always
been impressed with the fact that we do
not strive to protect ourselves so much
against pauper labor in Europe as we do
against the earls and dukes who with
their vast estates pauperize their labor.
Last winter l spent several months
travelling over the sta te of Florida. The
Mckinley tariff had doubled the tax on
tobacco, and all over the state tobacco
nod ho..onoo fbn tao1iro fhor,,a Of hrrci-
ness discussion. Iboe City, with 5000
at Tampa as though from magicians
bers of cigar factories in many Of the
smaller towns had been started and So
cieties formed among the farmers to
discuss the methods of the culture of
tobacco suitable for fine cigars, for it
was thought that Florida soil might
now compete with Cuba. This was an
infant industry to be carefully nurtured
and developed by protection, bur Hon.
Tom Johnson of Ohio, the Falstaff of the
house. in his remarkable diatribe against
protection, will "have none of it. Mr..
Johnson's policy is easily defined. 1t Is,
lazness, simply that and nothing more.
Rochefoucault said gravity was cloak
iOI lSuOIduCe. MI. OleNelaUu 5 STauuly
simple words, tariff reform, have made
him twice president though they have
never been defined until recently, when
Mr.. Wilson let the cat out of the bag.
How different is the speech OF Mr.. Bur
rows. Without peer in the present
house Mr.. Julius Caesar Burrows with
patient research and exhaustive energy
shows in clear and business like method
the purposes and objects of prOtec
ton.
The great west must therefore look to
the Republican party for future pos
perty. But the Republican party mus
not seek to purchase gold with bonds
when gold and silver lie buried in its
soil awaiting the eager arm Of unem-
ployed labor. The gold reserve must be
protected by proper policy, for such in
time Of peace, in this country of re-
markable wealth, is perfectly easy of
and finally policy of
protection against the pauperized, not
pauper, labor ofEurope must be adhered
to, with free trade, not reciprocity, with
South America. Then will our property
De given ''vltal growth again"
JERE Jon NSON.
Kildare, Oklahoma, JANUARY II, 1894.