Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-09-27

Next to him the gratitude of our people is
most due to the great secretary of the treas
ury, John q. ca Isle. / was intimately as
sociated with him in the pioneer days OF
tariff reform. | learned mis- disinterested
ness, his fidelity to principle, his courage
and his profound knowledge of political
economy. watched and admired his su.
perb leadership as bill after bill was formu-
lated in the interest of tariff reform and sub
mltted to congress. He came to the cabinet
with more experience in tariff legislation
than any man in public life. By his wi {
suggestions he assisted the ways and means
COMMITTEES OF the house and the finance com.
mlttee of the senate and in consultation with
| the president was ever his trusted advisor.
At this same time he was conducting sue
cessful!y the treasury and the credits of the
| country through the most perilous days
which have environed them since the war.
| No history of American tariff reform will
ever be truthfully written which does not
give to John G. Carlisle position in it, an
alagous to that held by Richard Golden or
John Bright in the history of the free trade
movement in England.
have said that free wool is the most i'm
pcrtant feature Of the new measure. 1t is
worth more to tariff reform than all the 9TH
| er provisions of the law put together. The
organization to defeat this part of the bill
was strong and compact. 1t came priuci
pail y from Ohio where the Ohio Wool Grow
ers' association has been long established.
As Ohio was the greatest wool growing state,
the arguments were especially directed to
the ONO members in congress. To their
credit, be it said, the Democratic membars
IN the house stood firm, everyone voting for
| free wool.
ror the trial passage of the free wool clause
When by one word he could have defeated n
more credit is due to the Junior senator FTuns
Ohlo, Calvin s. Brice, than to any other in
nnence, or to AL other inf fuences combined.
HIS Independence and courage saved for
tarlI REFORM tie most important feature of
| me Dill as 1t passed the house,
But, my fellow Democrats, meritorious as
Is this law, it is but the beginning of the
work of tariff reform. There will be and
need be no general tariff revision for years
TO come, but the different schedules will re-
qulre further adjustment in the interest of
| free trade. Whoever expects tn the great
| system of protection, strengthened as it has
been bv the aid of the government forthirty
years, could be overthrown in single day
or by single measure was doomed to disap
pointment. From the time England first
repealed the corn laws until the present sys
tenn was adopted, forty years elapsed, II
VIII not take so long here. and now with the
greater light and knowledge of our people.
but even rere 1t cannot be done at once,
L ne duty, there fore, before us is plain.
Inc chicago platform declares that pro-
lection IS unconstitutional and a robbery
Ii that declaration be true, our mission can
not oe ended while protected statute re.
MAINS: Let no one cry peace, peace. when
there is no peace. No question Is finally
settled until is ia rightly settled. Let the
the agitation continue until business learns
that 1t cannot be secure so long as it is in
partnership with congress. Let the farmer
learn that the law can give him neither a
market nor higher prices for his products
and that his only hope of relief is in the
removal of the burdens which the law has
imposed upon him. Let the manufacturers
learn that the same overproduction from
tne depression OF which he is now recovering
VIII again occur, unless he finds an outIet
for his goods in the foreign market. lei
every one learn that the eternal law of ius
tlce requires that all shall have equal oppor
tunltles IN the race of life, and that congress
mas no right to help one man or business a
the expense of another. Then the day will
y Heb De tnf dis ant when the last vestipe o
protection shall have disappeared from thu
legislation of America.
Before concluding cannot forbear to cal
attention to the existence in our midst of {
secret political society known as the Ameri
can Prote tive Association.
oppose 1t, first, because it is a secre
political society. l care not on what line
such organizations may be formed, or wha
principle or policy they may be established
to promote, there is no room for them in s
1ree government like ours. Political prin
clpies and administrative policies are mad,
issues to be decided at elections where thu
people vote who have had the opportunity o
nearing open. free and full discussion, 1t il
SAID that the voice of the people is the yoic
OF GOD, because it is believed after the
enlightenment of such discussion it will
speak the truth.
But how can the discussion be open or fre
or full if part of it is carried on behind clos.
ed doors, in places from which most of th,
public Is excluded? 1t is not open, becaus
by the primal law of the organization SOM
OF IL must be secret. 1t is not free, becaus,
III the councils of the society those who dc
not assent to the propositions on which th,
association is based are prohibited from tax
ing part. 1t is not full, because on thei
secret platforms only one side is presented
and that by those wto sympathize with tn,
obiec of the society,"
Such discussions, instead of enlightening
darken the mind. Instead of begetting
spirit of liberalism, they engender prejudice
and intolerance. They can not educate mer
IN the highest American citizenship, or prop
eriy prepalr them for the performance O.
their duties as voters Their inevitable eff
feet is to disturb the peace of society anC
impair confidence in the fairness and justice
of elections.
But when these societies are organized OF
religious lines, to interiors with the putli,
rights of those who differ with them in relig
lous faith. they become still more siniste
and dangerous.
They become then unconstitutional or
ganizations violative of the fundamental Law
tod fntn Al
The former provides that mo religious res
shall ever be required as qualification tt
any Office or public trust under the UniteC
States" The right to hold federal offic,
without regard to religious opio ons is thu
civil right guaranteed by the federal con
stltution. Any organization proposing tc
dlsquallfy men from holding federal offic,
on account of their religious opinions no
only defy the federal constitution, but violal
the federal statute prohibiting conspiracie
to deprive American citizens of their civi
rights.
The constitution of Ohio is no less EN-
phatlc IN its provisions ON this subject. |
declares: "No religious test shall be reauir
ed as qualification for flee, 'nor shall
any interference with the rights OF consci
ence be permitted" These provisions ar
found III the Bill of Rights, and not merel
limit the powers of the different branche
OF the state government, but prescribe tn
duties of citizens to each other in their lif
and conduct. What clearer violation O
them could there be than this organization
presents, which proposes to prescribe me
! IN their business and prevent them froI
+ holding office because of their religion
! opinion
Although this society declares itself to b
r American, it is essentially un-American.
: there was one principle which more tina
/ another controlled our ancestors in the fol
: lmation of the federal government, sit wa
{ hostility to persecution for consoience's sak'