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HARRISON'S LETTER
AND WHM THE LEADING NEWSPAPA3S
OF THE COUNTRY
Have to Say About it-Political Points—The
House The Senate—Other Nfewsy
Notes.
H&rrltou's Letter of Acceptance
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is General Harrison's letter accepting the
republican presidential nomination:
Hon. >1. M. Kstee and others of the com-
mittee:
Gentlemen—When your committee
visited me on the fourth'of Jul)' last and
presented the official announcement of
my nomination for the presidency of the
United Stales by the republican national
ohvention, 1 promised as soon as prac
licable to communicate, to you a morej
formal acceptance of the nomination, j
Since that time the work of receiving and ;
addressing almost daily large delegations j
of my fellow citizens has not only oceu- j
pied all of my time, but has in somej
measures rendered it unnecessary for me i
to use this letter as a
medium of communicating _ to j
the public my views upon the questions j
involved in the campaign, 1 appreciate
the very high confidence and respect
manifested by the convention and accept
the nomination with a I'eelling of grati-
tude and a full sense of the responsibili-
ties which accompany it,. It is a matter
:f congratulation that the declaration of
the Chicago convention upon thequestion
that now attacks the interest of our peo
emphatic that it is
pie are so clear am .
further cause of congratulation. In
fact the convention utterances of the dem-
ocratic party in any degree is uncertain
and contradictory, can now be judged
and interpreted by the executive acts and
messages and by the definite propositions
n legislation. This is especially true of
what is known as the tariff question.
The issue cannot be now obscure. It is
not a contest, between schedules, but be-
tween wide apart principles of foreign
competitors of our market, have with
quick instinct seen how on this issue the
contest may bring them an advantage.
And our own people are not so dull to
miss or neglect the grave interests that
are involved for them. The assault upon
our protective system is open and deft-
ant. Protection is assailed as unconsti-
tutional in law. or as views of principle
those who hold such views sincerely
cannot stop short of an absolute elimina-
tion from our tariff laws of the principle
of protection. The Mills bill is only a
step, but it is toward an object that the
leaders of democracy thought and legis-
lation have clearly in mind. The im-
portant question is not as much the
length of the step as the direction of it.
and to place upon the free list all com-
peting foreign products. I do not stop
to refute the theory as to the effect of
our duties. Those who advance it are
students of maximums and not markets.
They may be safely allowed to call their
project "tariff reform." If the people
understand that in the end the argument
compels free trade in all competing pro-
ducts. This end may not be reached
abruptly and the approach may be ac-
companied with some expressions of
sympathy for our protected industries
and our working people, but it will cer-
tainly, if these early steps do not
arouse the people to effective resistance.
The republican party holds that protec-
tive tariff is constitutional, wholesome
and necessary. We do not offer afixed
schedule but a principle. We will revise
the schedule modify the rates but always
with inteligent provision as to the effect
upon domestic production and rages
of onr working people. We believe it to
be one of the worthy objects of tariff
legislation to preserve American markets
for American producers and maintain
the American scale of wages by adequa
»eiy discrimating duties on foreign
produce.
The employer has no inducement to
send for them. In earlier years of our
history public agencies to promote im-
migration were common, the pioneer
wantod a nciirbbor with more friendly
instructs than the Indian. Labor was
scarce and fully employed,
but the day of the immigration bureau
has none by while our doors
will continue to be opened to pauper im-
migration. We do not need to issue spe-
cial invitations to inhabitants of other
countries to come to our shores, or share
our citizenship, Indeed the necessity
for some inspection and limitation is ob-
vious, We should resolutely refuse to
permit foreign governments to send their
paupers and criminals to our ports. We
are also clearly under a duty to defend
oui civil position by excluding alien
races, whose ultimate assimulation with
our people is neither possible nor dasira-
ble. The family has been the nucleus of
our best immigration and home the most
potent assimilating force in our civiliza-
tion The objections to Chinese immigra-
tion are distinctive and conclusive, and
are now so generally accepted as such
that the question has pasted entirely
around the stage of argument. The laws
relating to this subject woulc, if I
should be charged with their enforce-
ment be faithfully executed.
Judged by the executive message of
December last, by the Mills bill, by de-
bate in congress, and by the St. Louis
platform, the democratic party will, if
supported by the country, place the tariff
laws upon a purely revenue basis. Is
this practical free trade in the English
scant The legend upon the banner may
, not be free trade, it may be the more
obscure motto, "tariff reform," but
neither the banner nor the inscription is
conclusive or indeed very important.
! The assau.lt itself is the important fact.
; Those who teach that the import duty on
all foreign goods sold in our market is
: paid by the consumer, and the price of
! domestic competing articles is enhanced
to the amount of duty on imported ar-
, tides, tnat every million of dollars col-
lected for customs duty represents as
many millions more which do not reach
the treamry but arc paid by our citizens
as an increase on domestic productions
resulting from tariff laws may not intend
ThpTrdlowinu- to discicdit in the minds of others our
system of levying duties on competing
foreign products, but it is clearly already
described iu their own. We cannot doubt
without impugning their integrity that if
free to act upon their convictions they
would so revise our laws as to lay the
burden of customs revenue on articles
that are not produced in this country.
Competing products, the effects of
. | lower rates and larger' importation upon
public revenue is contingent and doubt-
ful. but not so effective upon American
production and American wages. Less
work and lower wages must be accepted
as the inevitable result of increased
offering of foreign goods in our
market. By way of recompense
of this reduction in his wages
and the loss of the American market it is
suggested that the diminishing of work*
inginen will have an undiminished pur-
chasing power* and that he will be able
to make up for the loss of a home market
by an enlarged foreign market. Our
workingmen have the settlement of the
question in their own hands. They now
obtain higher wages and live more com
fortably than those of any other country,
They will make a choice substantially
of the advantages they have in hand and
the deceptive promises and forecasts of
those theorizing reformers. They will
decide for themselves and for the country
whether the protective system shall be
continued or destroyed.
The fact of the treasury surpiusr the
amount of which is variously stated, has
directed public attention to the consider-
ation of methods uy which the national
income may best be reduced to the level
of~ a wise and necessary expenditure.
This condition has been secured by
those who are hostile to the pro-
tective custom duties as an
advantageous base of attack upon our
tariff laws. They iiave magnified and
nursed the surplus which they affect to
depreciate seemingly for the purpose of
exagerating the evil in order to reconcile
theveople to the extreme. They propose,
a proper reduction of the revenue which
does not necessitate and should not
suggest the Abandonment or impairment
of the protective system. The methods
suggested by our convention will not
need to he exhausted in order to effect
the necessary reduction. We are not
likely to be called, I think, to the present
choice between a surrender of eur pro
tective system and the entire repeal of
the internal laws. Such contingen-
cy in view of the present relation of
expenditure to revenues is remote. The
inspection and regulation of manufac-
turers and the sale of Oleomargarine is
important, and the revenue derived
from it is so great that the beople need
enter into any plan of revenue reductiou.
The surplus now in the treasury should
be used in the purchase of
bonds. The law authorizes this
use of it and if it is not
needed for the current or deficiency ap-
propriations, the people and not the banks
in which it has been deposited should
have the advantages of it by stopping
the interest upon the public debt, and
those who needlessly hoard it should not
be allowed to use the fear of monetary
stringency, thus produced to coerce the
public sentiment upon other questions.
Closely connected with the subject of
tariff is that of the importation of foreign
laborers under contracts of services to be
performed here. The law now in force
prohibiting such contracts received my
cordial support in the senate, and such
amendments as may be found necessary
to effectively delivor our workingmen
and women from this most inequitable
form of competition will have my sin
cere advocacy. Legislation prohibiting
the importation of laborers under
contract to serve here will, how-
ever, afford very inadequate
relief to our working people if the system
of protective duties is broken down, if
the products of American shops must
compete in American markets without
the favoring duties, the products of cheap
foreign labor, the effect will be different.
If at all, only in a degree, whether cheap
labor is across the street or over the sea,
such competition will soon reduce the
wages here to a level with those abroad,
and when that condition is reached we
will not need any laws forbidding the
importation of 4abor under contract.
They have no inducement to come.
Further legislation if necessary
and proper to prevent the evasion of the
laws and to stop further Chinese immi
gration would meet my approval. The
expression of the convention
upon this subject is in
entire harmony with my views. Our
civil compact is u government by major
ities and the law loses its sanction and
the chief magistrate our respect, when
this compact is broken, The evil results
of the election fraud do not expend them-
selves upon the voters who are robbed
of their rightful influence in public af
fairs. The individual, or community,
or party that practices or connives at
election frauds has suffered a teirible
injury and will sooner or later realize
that an exchange of the American system
of majority rule for minority control is
not only unlawful and unpatriotic, hut
very unsafe for those
promote
protected,
In it the free
schemes of
condemned
The diafranchis emeiit of a single legal ' hardships and risks that are necessary in-1 the democrats are strongly
• - . <- •• I cidents of the business shall not be incased | and the republican advocacy of the pro
elector by fraud or intimidation is a
crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
The right of every qualified voter to cast
a free ballot and have it honestly counted
must not be questioned. Every consti-
tutional power should be used to make
this right secure and punish frauds on
the ballot, Our colored people do not
ask special legislation in their interest,
but only to be made secure in the com-
mon rights of their citizenship. They
will, however, naturally mistrust the
sincerity of those party leaders who
appeal to their race for support only in
those localities where the suffrage is free
and election results doubtful and com-
pass their disfranchisement where votes
would be controlled, and their choice
can't be coerced. The nation not less
than states is dependent for the prosperity
and security upon the intelligence and
morality of its people. This common
interest very easily suggested national
aid in the establishment and endowment
of schools and colleges in new states.
There is, I believe, at the present an
exigency that calls for still more liberal
and direct appropriation in aid of com-
mon school education in the states.
The form of government is a tern-
by inhospitable exclusion from the | tective policy is as powerfully and ener
near lying port. The resources of a firm,! get icully championed.
dignified and consistent diplomacy are | Philadelphia, Sept. 11.—The Press
undoubtedly equal to the . prompt and j says: The republicans will be fully con-
peaceful solution of difficulties that now i tent to let Harrison's letter stand as an
exist. Our neighbors will surely not ] answer to President Cleveland's halting
expect in our ports a commercial hospi-; apology for the free trade attitude of the
tality they deny to us in theirs. I can ! democratic party.
not extend this letter by a special refer- j
euce to other subjects upon which the i The House.
convention gave an expression. In re- ( Wamhsoion, Sept. 11.—The house re-
spect to them as well as those 1 have . suraed consideration of the sundry civil
noticed, I am in agreement with the j appropriation bill, the pending amend- •
declarations of the convention in the ment being that relative to the veclama-
resolutions relating to coinage, of the
rebuilding of the navy and coast defenses
and to public lands express conclusions
to all of which 1 gave my support in the
senate.
Inviting a calm and thoughtful consid-
eration of these public questions we sub-
mit them to the people for their consid-
eration.
Yerv respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
Benm. Hakhj^o.v.
Newspaper Comments.
Pkoyioknte,
perary expedient, not a permanent provj(]ence Journal
civil condition. It is adapted to the exi-
gency that suggested it but becomes in-
adequate and even oppressive when ap-
plied to fixed and populous communities.
Several territories are well able to bear
the burdens and dischargejthe duties of a
free commonwealth in the American
union, to exclude them is to deny t he just
rights of their people and may well ex-
cite their indignant protest. No question
of political preference of the people of
jhe territories should close against them
the hospitable doorwhich has been opened
to two thirds of the existing states, but
the admission should be refused to anyter-
ritorv, a majority of whose people cher-
ish institutions that'are repugnant to our
civilization or inconsistent with a^republi-
caii form of government.. The declara-
tion of the convention against all combi-
nations of capital organized in trusts
or otherwise, to control arbitrarily.
The condition of trade among our citi-
zens, are in harmony with the views en- I
tertained and publicly expressed by me
long before the assembling of the con-
vention. Ordinarily capital shares the
losses of idleness with labor, but under
the operations of trusts in some of its
forms, the wage worker alone suffers
loss, while idle capital receives itsdivi
vend from the trust fund. Producers
who refuse to join the combination are
destroyed and competition as an element
of price is eliminated. It cannot be
doubted that legislative authority should
and will find a method of dealing fairly
and effectively with thes" and other
abuses connected with this subject. It
can hardly be necessary for me to say
that 1 am heartily in sympathy with the
declaration of the convention upon the
subject of pensions to our soldiers and
sailors. What they gave and what 1
have had an opportunity to observe and
in a small measure to experience, they
gave ungrudgingly, it was not a
trade, but an offering. The measure was
heaped rounding oyer. What they
achieved only distant generatinns can
adequately tell. Without attempting to
discuss this particular proposition, I may
add a measure in behalf of the surviving
veterans of the war and of the families
of their dead comrades should be con-
served and executed in a spirit of justice
aud of most grateful liberality, and in
competition for civil appointment houor-
able military services should have appro-
priate recognition. The law regulating
the appointments to classified civil ser-
vice received my support in the senate in
the belief that, it opened the way to
much needed reform. I still think so,
and therefore cordially apdrove the clear
and forcible expression of the conven-
tion.
Upon this subject the law should have
aid in a friendly interpretation and
be faithfully and vigorously -en-
forced* All the appointments
Uuder it should be absolutely free from
partisan consideration and influences.
Some extension of the classified list are
practible and desirable, and further
extending reform to other
branches of the services to which it is
applicable would receive ray approva-
tion. In appointments to every grade
and department tltnefs and not party
service should be essential, and
discriminating test and fidelity and
efficacy the only sure tenure to office, only
the interests of the public service should
suggest removals from office. I know
practical difficulties attending or attempt
to apply the spirit of civil service rules
to all appointments and removals, it
will, however, be my sincere purpose if
elected to advance the reform.
1 notice with pleasure the convention
did not omit to impress its solicitude for
the promotion of virtue and temperance
among our people. The republican
party have always been friendly to
everything that tended to make the home
life of our people free, pure and prosper-
ous, arid will iu future, be true to its 1. is-
tory in this respect. Our relations with
foreign powers should be characterized
by friendliness and respect to the rights
of our people and of our ships to hos-
pitable treatment should be insisted upon
with dignity and fairness. Our nation is
too great, both in material strength and
moral power to indulge in bluster or be
suspected of tlmorousness. Vascillution
and inconsistency are incompatible with
successful diplomacy as they aje with
national dignity. We should especially
cultivate and extend our diplomatic and
cqmniercial relations with the Central
and Sooth American states, our fisheries
I. Sept. 11.- The
will say regarding
Harrison letter of accept inc.e, that his
excuse for delay that his time has been
so much taken up by band shaking with
delegations, shows a lack of sincerity
and strength of character,, as it was not
necessary nor valid. His claim that the j
tariff message of the president and Mills j
bill are free trade measures, when they
simply propose reforms advocated in the j
tepubiic.an platform and by republican
leaders, is unfounded.
Utica. N. Y. Sept. 11.—The Utica
Herald says the comparison between
letters of Cleveland and Harrison is
unavoidable, and the- advantage is de-
cidedly with General Harrison. General
Harrison shatters the sophistries of the
president, holds him to consequence of
his doctrines leading to free trade, and
appeals to the American workingmen to
protect their homes, their wages and
their markets,
Nashville, Sept. 11.—The National
American will say: The people whom
General Harrison aspires to rule had a
right to anticipate that he would get
away from the stale and parrot-like utter-
ances of his party organs. Those who
have believed that he would rise to the
great opportunity offered him will feel
sorely disappointed in this document.
Detroit, Sept. 11.—The Free Press
will say: The prominence given to
Blaine hasn't entirely disabused General
Harrison's mind of. the notion that he is
running for the presidency. The chief
fervor of the letter is given to the Chi-
nese question. There can be no doubt
at all that the candidates mean to be un-
derstood as entirely sound on that ques
tion. Now whatever may have been the
fact in the past in brevity the latter has
the advantage over President Cleveland.
In no other particular will it bear com-
parison with that able statesmanlike doc.
ument.
The Times will say of Harrison's
letter: It is a carefully prepared docu-
ment, lucidly written, plausibly urged,
and though far from conclusive in its
argument, is calculated to strengthen
him with his party.
The News will say : With one eye on
the Chicago declaration of principles and
the other on Cleveland's letter, Harrison
has managed to scatter mightily in his
tariff argument. He adds nothing to
what has been as well said by others.
The Inter-Ocean will say: General
Harrison's letter is concise and felictious
in both matter and manner. The letter
will certainly add greatly to this high
esteem in which he is held by an admir-
ing public.
New Yokk, Sept. 11.—The Sun gays
the letter lacks the ring and decision no-
ticed in President Cleveland's document.
It contains few striking passages.
The Herald will say Harrison is evi-
dently cramped by his unfortunate want
of material. His embarrassment forces
him to one statement that will hamstring
his letter and render it useless as a cam-
paign document, for while ho admits that
the democratic action is right he impeach-
es the democratic motive. Other repub-
licans could do better though, than Har-
rison lias don«, for the facts are on tJhe
democratic side and facts will tell in the
present canvass.
The Times says Harrison accepts the
republican nomination in a letter that is
able for nothing save in its weak and
safe general issue. This letter of accept-
ance is the first public utterances of the
republican candidate which gives the
people an opportunity to take his meas-
ure, and the inevitable comparison with
his opponent must result in the conclu
Bion that he lacks altogether the marked
ability that justify confident opinions,
the courageous bearing of the universal
power ef the luminous statesman which
characterized President Cleveland's.
Atlanta, Ga., t ept. 11—The Consti-
tution says: Harrison admits Cleve-
land's argument on tariff reform, but re-
sorts to republican bugbear of possible
free trade in the vain hope of securing
the workingmen.
Aibany, New York, Sept. 11.—The
Argus says: General Harrison is clear
ly not equal to his opportunity,
" SriUNOFiKLD, Sept. 11.—The Republi-
can says: On the whole the message is
not the work of a strong man but of an
ordinary partizan and will so impress
any critical reader.
St. Louis, Sept. it.- The Globe.Dem-
ocrat says of General Harrison's letter.
It deals with the leading issues of the
national concern and deals with them
clearly and courageously and satisfac-
tion of arid regions. A long discussion
on the amendment followed.
Weaver, of Iowa, argued the necessity
for reserving portions of the arid lands
suitable for reservoir purposes.
I Vandever,of California, andSymes. of
Colorado, favored she senate amendment
which was attacked by Herbert, of Ala-
bama. Finally the debute ended and the
appropriation in the senate amendment
was reduced from $250,000 to $100,000.
Holman offered a substitute for the
senate amendment providing that the
necessary expenses for carrying on the
work of survey shall be paid from the
appropriation for the topographic survey
of the United States and suspending op-
eration of the desert land law during the
pendency in congress of legislation look
ing to its repeal. The vote resulted,
yeas 01, nays 73. No quorum.
Adjourned,
The .Senate.
Washington, Sept. 11.—The house
amendment to the senate bill for a pen-
sion to the widow of General Heintzle-
mann (reducing the amount from $100 to
$75 per month) was non-concurred in
and a conference was ordered,
Sherman, from the committee on
finance, reported senate bill to declare
unlawful trusts and combinations iu re-
straining trade and production and it
was put on the calendar.
The bill for the allowance of certain
private claims known as the " Fourth of
July claims," number 686, and carrying
an aggregate appropriation of $180,000,
caused a long and hard political discus-
sion, including an attack and defense of
President Cleveland's positii n.
Harris inquired of the chairman of the
committee on claims as to nother of these
claims bills passed by the house many
months ago and referred to that com-
mittee.
Spooner replied that the bill as it came
from the house appropriated $155,000.
but amendments had been offered to it
by the senators until now it aggregated
$466,000. The committee on claims had
referred the bills to him and he had
looked into several claims in the bill as
passed upon by the Cuurt of claims and
found that the finding of the court were
not sustained by the testimony.
The senate then resumed considers
tion of Chinese exclusion bill, and was
addressed by Stewart in favor of the
bill. He was followed by Mr. Teller,
who criticized the manner in which
Chinese rexclusiou bill had been iutro
duced into and passed hurriedly through
the house. The bill went over till to-
morrow without action. Plumb offered
a resolution which was adopted request-
ing the president to transmit to the senate
all correspondence or communication
concerning the late Chinese treaty be-
tween the state department and the
American minister to China or aty other
representative or agent of the United,
States in China or elsewhere,
Adjourned,
PCLITiCAL POINTS,
Colorado Democrats.
De.nvsh, Sept. 11.—'The democratic
state convention was called to order in
the opera house at 10:!!0 this morning,
Martin Morris was chosen temporary
chairman. Committees on credentials,
permanent organization and resolutions
were appointed and a recess taken till 2
o'clock.
On reassembling the reports of the
committee on credentials and permanent
organization was submitted. The latter
recommended Dexter T. Sapp for per-
manent chairman Both reports were
adopted. The remainder of "tlie day was
taken up in speeches by Governor Adams,
Rev. Myron Reed, Hon. Chas Thomas
and others. Adjourned till 10 o'clock to-
morrow
New York Democrats.
Buffalo, Sept, 11.—There is a great
rush for rooms for delegates to the dem-
ocratic convention to-morrow. It is be
lieyed that Hill will be speedily renomi-
nated for governor.
A Sick Senator.
Washington. Sept. 11 —It is reported
that Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is
threatened with affection of the heart,
and will not return to his unties in the
senate till next session.
A Marriage.
Tukin, Sept. 11.—The marriage of the
duke of Aosta and Princess Letitia Bona
parte, was celebrated to-day with great
pomp. The ceremony took place in
Grandham; of the palace in the presence
of the princess of the House of Savoy,
Broginsea and Bonaparte, Generals Men-
abrac and Delarosi, SignorCrispi, Signor
Tarina and other dignitaries. The newly
wedded couple went to the Aosta palace.
They were escorted by six hundred gen-
tlemen on horseback. At the square of
Victor Emanuel, the procession halted
and the king and queen and duke of
Aosta and the bride saluted one another.
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