The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-09-03
Letter Of Acceptance.
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and firmly pledged to its
complete overthrow and the substitute
OF tariff for revenue only. The
change having been decreed By the
elections in November, its effects were
at once anticipated and felt, nor would
il be wise To exclude from cOntempla-
ton and investigation the causes which
produced them.
IL - mere pretence TO attrI butte
the hard times TO the fact that all our
Is on n gold basis. Good
money never made times hard. Those
who assert that our present industrial
and financial depression is the result
of the gold standard have not read
American history Alright or been care
full students OF the events of recent
years. We never had greater pros
perity in this country in every field OF
and industry, than in the
busy years from 1880 to 1892, during
all of which time this country was on
gold basis, and employed more gold
money in its fiscal business opera
tons than ever before. We had, too,
= protective tariff, under which ample
revenues were collected for the gov
eminent and an accumulation of a
surplus which was constantly applied
to the payment of the public debt
Let us hold fast to that which we
know to be good. 1t is not more
money we want; what we want is to
put the money we already have at
work. When money is employed, men
are employed.
We cannot restore public confidence
by an act which would revOlutiOnize
all values or an act which entails a
deficiency in the public revenues. We
cannot inspire confidence by advOcat-
ing reputation or practicing dishon-
esty. We cannot restore confidence
either to the treasury or to the people
without change in our present tariff
legislation.
WILSON AND MKINLEY TARIFFS.
Major Mckinley here considers at
great length the tariff acts of 1890 and
1894, contrasting the receipts under
the former with those under the latter
and adding:
The net loss in the trade balance of
the United states has been $I95, 49,, SOY
during the first fifteen months opera
with the first fifteen months of the
tariff of 1890. The loss has been large,
constant and steady at the rate Of $l3,-
100, 600 per month, of $500, 900 for every
business day of the year.
We have either been sending too
much money out of the country or
getting too little or both. We have
lost steadily in both directions. Our
foreign trade has been diminished
and our domestic trade has suffered in
calculable loss. Does not this suggest
the cause of our present depression,
and indicate its remedy? Il
IL is not an increase in the volume
of money which is the need of the
time, but an increase in the volume
of business. Not an increase of coin
but an increase of confidence. Not
more coinage, but more active use of
the money coined. Not open minis
for the unlimited coinage of the silver
of the world, but open mills for the
full and unrestricted labor of Ameri-
can workingmen.
Our farmers have been hurt by the
changes in our tariff legislation as Sc
verely as our labOrers and manufac-
turers, badly as they have suffered.
The Republican platform wisely de-
clares in favor of such encouragement
to our sugar interests "as will lead to
the production on American soil of all
the sugar which the American people
USE"
SECTIONAL FEELINGS DEAD.
The country is to be congratulated
upon the almost total Obliteration of
the sectional lines which for many
years marked the division of the
United States into slave and free ter
ritorv and finally threatened its par
tltlon into two separate governments
by the dread civil war. The era of re-
Cancellation. so long and earnestly de-
sired by General Grant and many
other great leaders, North and South,
has happily come and the feeling of
distrust and hostility between the sec
tons Is everywhere vanishing; let us
hope never to return. Nothing is bet
ter calculated to give strength to the
nation at home, increase our power
and influence abroad, and add to the
permanency and security of our free
Institutions, than the restoration of
cordial relations between the people
of all sections and parts of our beloved
country. If called by the SURFACES of
the people, to assume the duties of the
high office of President of the United
States, shall account it privilege
to aid, even in the slightest degree, in
the promotion of the spirit of fratern-
al regard, which should animate and
govern the citizens of every section.
State or part of the republic. After
the lapse of a century since its utter
ance let us at length and forever here
after heed the admOnitiOn of Washing
ton, "there should be no North. no
South, no East, no West, but COM
mon country"
1t shall be my constant aim to i'm
prove every opportunity to advance
the cause of good government by pro-
noting that spirit of forbearance and
justice which is so essential to prOs-
perity and happiness by joining most
heartily in all proper efforts to restore
the relations of brOtherly respect and
affection which in our early history
characterized all the people Of all the
States. would be glad to contribute
towards binding indivisible union the
different divisions of the country
which, indeed, "now have every in
ducement of sympathy and interest to
weld them together more strongly
than ever" would rejoice to see de-
monstrated to the world that the
North and the South and the East and
the West are not separated or in dam
ger of being separated because of sec
uenal or party differences. The war
is long since over. We are not enc
mics, but friends. And as friends, we
will faithfully and cordially Cooperate
under the approving smile of Him
who has thus far SO signally sustained
and guided US, to preserve inviolate
our country's name and honor, of its
peace and good order, of its continued
ascendancy amongst the greatest gov
ernments ON earth.
(Signed) WIN. MCKINLEY
Miss Anna c. Bracket, in an article
called Among the Trees" in the Sep
TENDER Harper's Magazine, advocates
forestry as an attractive and hool,bf,I