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. . nrm"-m -ZI ZI mijm , Mfc t. THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15, 1884. IsUmI t tli Psie3e, Celestes, ., u sseoal clutsutttr. THAT TARIFF FIiAHK. J. Sterling Mortoa E-rjIfclnm te Iew Democrats Wfcat it J. Sterling Morton essayed to give th Sioux City democrats a statement of the position of the democratic party on the tariff iBsue. His speech here is evidently in subtance a delib erate declaration of the position of the element of the democratic party of which he is a recognized leader. As such, it may be considered signifi cant. Mr. Morton is a member of the democratic national committee. He stands with Morrison, Carliile, Hurd and TVatteraon in the leader ship of tho free trade democrats who control overwhelmingly the party organized in tho houso of representa tives. Ho has been prominently iden tified with the strugglo of tho free trade and tariff factions in the demo cratic party loading up to tho adop tion of tho tariff plank of its last national platform. As a member of the committee on resolutions at the last democratic convention, Mr. Mor ton is familiar with the details of the construction of the tariff plank and ought to know its meaning. Mr. Morton, thereforo, declares with all tho emphasis at his command that tho tariff plank of tho democratic platform means a tariff for revenue only and tho abolition of protection. In a word he declares in varied forms of reiteration that tho democratic party stands pledged in its platform to the destruction of the protective policy, and the reform of tho tariff to tho line of revenue only. Mr. Mor ton iB standing on the democratic platform for the boIo reason that it means the obliteration of the protect ive features of the republican tariff. Tho whole tenor of his speech made tho inference inevitable that as a man of honor neither he nor his faction could indorse the democratic platform if it contained a trace of protection, which ho declared to be the twin brother of larceny and "an infernal system of republican robbery." And this stand he declared to bo a matter of principle, and that he would rather be defeated fighting for it than victo rious in any shirking of it. These declarations when sonorously enun ciated in the glare of the gas lights seem very bold but there is no use mincing matters. UnleBB Mr. Morton considered his hearers and the people at largo gulli ble greenhorns, his interpretation of tho democratic tariff plank is a mira cle of free trade fanaticism. He asks tho peoplo to believe that it is pre cisely what the democracy of Ohio, Indiana, New York and New Jersey declare that it is not. Mr. Morton's argument is simply a rape on history and a flat-footed de nial of common observation. Every man who heard his speech and who has tho ability to read, knows that the Ohio domocracy stands to-day pledg ed in its state platform a protective tariff, "so adjusted aB to prevent un equal burdens, encourage productive industries and afford juBt compensa tion to labor." More than that, the same democratic platform declared as to "tho act of the republican congress reducing the tariff on wool," that "we heartily approve the action of the democratic. mptnbpi'R of t lie Ohio dele gation in ennfjres in voting anin&t that measure." Put those facts in contrast with Mr. Morton's declaration that he indorses tho democratic position on the tariff, because the republican party "robs" tho people forty per cent on woolen goods. The New Jersey domocracy is to-day standing on a stato platform pronouncing for a tariff "so adjustod as to give protection and encourage ment to home productive industry and labor." Tho Pennsylvania do mocracy is to-day pledged in its state platform to a tariff "so adjusted as to encourago productive industries at homo aud afford just compensation to labor." The democratic party of Virginia, "West Virginia, Louisiana, and several other states, RtandR pledged to the principles of protection in almost the samo terms. And yet if, as Mr. Mor ton says, the democratic platform de clares for protection, then the democ racy in those great states is pledged to protection and against protection at one and the same time, Is that Mr. Morton's opinion of nearly half of the membership of (he democratic party? If so, is that the kind of a party to reform the tariff, or to re form any thing else? Hand all and Converse led the rep resentatives of this protection faction againBt the practical realization of Mr. Morton's interpretation of the demo cratic platform, and led that faction to tho verge of the disruption of the democratic parly rather than acqui esce in it. And aro they and the vast interests they represent standing on tho democratic national platform be cause it pledges them to reverse their record and principles? The truth of the whole business is that the democratic platform is a straddle, a bargain between the free trade faction, represented by Mr. Morton, and the tariff faction, repre sented by Randall. The committee on resolutions which framed the plat form, and of which Mr. Morton him self was a member, bad not the moral courage to state honestly the demo cratic policy on the tariff, and as Gen. Butler, another member, says, spend thirty-six hours in devising a dishon est declaration, and the plank was Adopted by the democratic conven tion for the reason that it was the most dishonest which the ingenuity of the committee could devise. It was so framed for the express purpose of enabling Mr. Morton, the free trader to come to Sioux City and torcrte Iowa aud Nebraska where the anti-protection faction of his par ty predominates aad declare that tho plank means free trade ; and so that, on the other hand, Randall the pro tectionist could declare in snch states as Pennsylvania and Ohio that it means protection. And that is just what the democratic party is doing, and Mr. Morton and every. iatelligeat democrat who listened to Mm in Sioux City knows it. In the light of these facts his closing appeal to the democratic party to stand by their principles is a maBterpieco of irony. The HC 8cerce. Never in the history of the state has one of its leading industries been moro seriously threatened than at present. The hog business or eastern Nobraska is on the verge of ruin and Dodge county alono, according to the best estimates, has already suffered a loss of about a quarter of a million dollars by the fell scourge that is sweeping whole herds as with the besom of destruction. It docs not seem to bo tho cholera, hut takes many of the symptoms of pleura pneu monia. Tho post mortem examina tion showa tho lunge to be decayed and othor symptoms corresponding with the dread cattle ecourgo. As far aB we can learn tho symptoms of tho disease are a general falling off in flesh, loss of appetite, cough, and the offings are almost coal black. It often affects whole herds -at once, and so far no remedy has been found. It is claimed that Washington coun ty has already suffered a loss of f 300, 000, and evon yet it seems to be in no measure abating. Tho disease has not, as yet, ap proached within 4 or 5 miles of North Bend, and its line seems to be about north aud south and its course seem ingly northward. This dire disaster to tho hog indus try must certainly awaken farmers to the circumstances that surround them. There must be a decided change in this whole branch of husbandry. Corn and water, it matters not with how much care given, can never make healthy hogs. One generation may not realize it, even 2 or 3 may not feel its effects, but sooner or later disease engenders that sweeps the rherd. In and in breeding is another serious cause of disease. To make the hog industry a complete success as great care should be given to the hog as to the cow, not only in breed ing but in food and care. The east realizes this and it is reaping as re sults good pork and sound, healthy hogs. North Bend Flail. Genu or StateMHaagbip. EXTRACTS FROM BLAINE'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE We seek the conquests of peace. A free ballot is the safeguard of republican institutions. The South needs capital and occu pation not controversy. Religious liberty is the right of ev ery citizen of the republic. He who corrupts suffrage strikes at the very root of free government. The strength of government is in creased by the multiplication of land holders. Citizenship of the republic most be tho panoply and safeguard of him who wears it. The institutions of tho United States rest upon the intelligence aud virtue of the people. Tho law does not interfere with what a man believes; it takes cog nizance of what he does. Consuls should be commercial sen tinels encircling the globe with watchfulness for their country' in terests. Experiment iu the industrial sys tem is tho country's dread, as stability is the greatest boon. Labor is indispensable to the crea tion and profitable use of capital, and capital increases the efficiency and value of labor. The agricultural interest is by far tho largest iu the nation.-and is enti tled in every adjustment of tho rev enue laws to the first consideration. It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us, but we can maintain our heritage only by guard ing with diligenco the source of pop ular power. Wages aro unjustly reduced when an industrious man is not able by his earnings to live in comfort, educate his children, aud lay by a sufficient amount for the necessaries of age. Gen. A. M. West, tho vice-presidential candidate ou the Butler ticket, opened the campaign at Rloomington, Illinois, the other day in a lively manner. He said he did not expect to get any electoral votes aud did not want any. He was merely sowing seed for a future harvest. He de nounced the democratic parly and said that it had issued an address in tho placo of a declaration of princi ples, and tho chief fear of the framers of the extraordinary document was tnat they might let an idea stray into it. He paid his respects to the rascals who commenced early iu the cam paign with a dastardly attack upon tho reputation of Mrs. Blaine. Ho said that in the south, if a man utter ed a libel of that kind there would have been no party to prosecute, they would have taken the law into their own hands for the protection of a lady. He commended Mr. Blaine's letter of acceptance aB the grandest production of the period. In short the General made a very good repub lican speech. We hope we will be duly encouraged as he goes about advocating the merits of the third ticket. State Journal "How do you like the squash pie, Alfred?" asked a young wife of her husband a few days after marriage. "Well, it is pretty good, but" "But what? I suppose you started to say that it isn't as good as that which yonr mother makes." "Well, yes I did intend to say that, but" "Wei! Alfred, yonr mother made that very pie aad tent it to me.'" X. A. Heatricks. Secretary Mcpherson, iu response to numerous inquiries, has prepared the following letter as to the record of Thomas A. Hendricks during the rebellion : Washington, D. C, Sept. 5, 1884. He voted against every tax bill to raise money to carry on the war. He was in the senate when the tariff act of 1864 was passed, and he was one of five democrats who voted agalnst-it. On the question of the draft act, which was passed in the winter of 1864, and which increased the power of the government to fill up our weakened armies, he was one of ton senators who voted against it on its original passage through tho senate ; and one of sixteen who voted ncmTnat its final nassaero. He also voted against the passago of tho sup plement to the enrollment act, which was nasaed in Julv. 1864. Ho did not vote in favor of any measure that looked to carrying on the war. Ho was always in opposition to the ad ministration of Abraham Lincoln in all its mcasuros for putting down the rebellion. He was opposed to the amendment to the constitution abol ishing slavery, and was one of six senators who voted in the negative. He was opposed to the Fourteenth amendment to the constitution, and was ono of the eleven senators who voted in the opposition. If there was a suggestion or movement cal culated to embarrass Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Hendricks was always in sup port of it. If there was an honest blow to be struck at the enemy Mr. Hendricks was always unablo to come to the help of Mr. Lincoln. Some times he bad one excuse and some times another. He always had an excuse His record during the war was detestable and unpatriotic. Very truly yours, Edwakd McPiiebsox. Hon. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, in tho New York 5km. "Since 18S0 I have not voted. I desire now to return to the republicans to die iu the house of my friends to vote for Blaine and Logan, the nominees of the republican party. But the solid South avows the right and acts upon it, as proven in the Danville and Co piah murders, to kill any voter who acts with the republican party when it pleases them to do so; and they have sealed their avowal with the blood of free white men. In the in dependent republican conference which lately took place in New York city, the president, Charles R. Cod man, of Massachusetts, said of these outrages : 'We will not charge the whole Sonth or the whole democratic party with the responsibility of an act which belongs to one 6mall com munity alone.' Now, I take issue with the able chairman, and if I am allowed by the good Providence, under the invitation of the national republican committee, I will be along before the November election, and In Massachusetts or New York city will attempt to make good my assertion, that the solid South is responsible for theso outrages, and I invite Colonel Codmad, or any independent, to meet me in debate. If I vote for Blaine and Logan am I to be shot down in Kentucky by tho solid South, and iB there no remedy ? If this doc trine Is true, was it not a great mis take to carry on sue) a war as that of the late rebellion, and end by finding ourselves in a worse condition in 1SS4 than we were in 1801, when wo resisted force by force?" The followiug is going tho rounds of the papers, many of which arc, in the highest degree, respectable and reliable, and is credited to a pamphlet lately issued under the auspices and by authority of the Cobdeu Club, of Loudon : "Let it be understood onco for all that the salvation of England, depends upon the destruction of American manufactures, and that the only pos sible way in which American manu factures can be destroyed is by free trade." This declaration does not stand alone. Tho same idea may be found in nearly all the English papers, aud announced by most of tho English economists and politiciaup, though not so forcibly and clearly stated. The accuracy of the prediction caunot be questioned. The farmers of the west will naturally ask their democratic oracles where they are to find a market for their wheat, corn, pork and beef, when the strength of the industrial enterprise of the Union has been broken, when free trade has destroyed American manufactures. Before this campaign is over the dem ocratic organs will have to get down to the business of looking facts in tho face, and to mako some show of an swering this question. Perhaps they had better bo getting ready. The scandal of tho Mulligan-Fisher letters about Mr. Blaine was first published nearly eight years ago. The whole matter was then investi gated by a committee of Congress composed of such Democrats as Proctor Knott, Henri Wattcrson, and Fernando Wood. After hearing all the facts they decided tbero was nothing in the testimony that made a report to the House of Representa tives necessary. And less than four years ago every Democrat in the United States Senate voted to confirm Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State. Indianapolis Times. The democrats have failed to ac complish anything in Ohio by their unexampled slanders of Blaine, and now have become very anxious about his health, and believe he ought, at once, to stop his labors on that account. Quite considerate, gen tleman, it is well you should feel an interest in his health. Mrs. Henry Schumacher of Bal timore, Md., while washing her babe the other morning fell dead of paralysis of the heart. PROCLAMATION. TJ! Ji PW3 W3m Wr VVi tT-Vflr1 liV W I1E11EAS. a joint ..resolution was -iHnnfrfl liv thn T."is1:itiir nf llin State of Nebraska, at the Eighteenth Ses sion thereof, and approved February 27th, a. d. 1883, proposing an Amendment to Section Four (4) of Article Three (3) or the Constitution of said State, and that said suction as amended shall read as follows, to-wit: 'Section 4. The term of ollice of mem bers of the Legislature shall be two years, and they shall each receive a salary of three hundred dollars for their services during said term, and ten cents for every mile they shall travel in going to and returning from the plaee of meet ing of the Legislature, on the most usual route. 1'rovided, however, that neither members of the Legislature nor cm plovees shall receive any pay or perqui sites other than their salary and mileage. Each session, except special sessions, shall be not less than sixty days. After the expiration of forty daj s of the session no bills nor joint resolutions of the na ture of bills shall be introduced, unless the Governor shall, by special message, call .the attention of the Legislature to the necessity of passing a law on the subiect matter embraced in the message, and the introduction of bills shall be restricted thereto." The ballots at the election at which said Amendment shall be submitted shall be in the following form: "For proposed Amendment to the Constitution relating to Legislative Department.'' "Againl proposed Amendment to the Constitution relating to Legislative Department." Whereas, a joint resolution was adopted liv the Legislature of the State of Ne-).rouL-i nt i,i Kitrhtcenth Session thereof. and approved February iiSth. a. i. 18S3, proposing an Amendment to Scctiou One (1) of Article Five (3) ot the Constitution ot said State, aria" that said section as amended shall read as follows, to-wit: "Section 1. The Executive Depart ment shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Superintendent or Public Instruction, Attorney General, Commissioner of Pub lic Lands aud Buildings, and lioard or Railway Commissioners. The ollieers named in this section shall each hold his office for the term of two years from the first Thursday after the tirst Tuesday iu January next after his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified. 1'rovided, hoioever, that the lirst election or said ollieers shall be held on the lirst Tuesday succeeding the lirst Monday in November or 1&, and each succeeding election shall be held at the same relative time in each even year thereafter. All other ollieers that may be provided for by law, under the provisions or this section, shall be chosen in such manner and at such times, and shall hold their offices for such length of time as may be provi ded bv law,' and shall perform such du ,sa niul receive mi eli compensation as mav be provided for by law. The Gov ernor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commis sioner of Public Lands and Buildings, and Attorney General, shall reside at the seat or government during their terms or office, and keep the public records, books and paper there, aud the officers herein named shall perform such duties as may be required by law.' The ballots at the election at which said Amendment shall be submitted shall be in the following form: "For proposed Amendment to Section One 1 or Article Five ." or the Constitution, entitled, ' Executive Department.' " ' Against proposed Amendment to Section One 1 or Article Five 5' of the Constitution, entitled, 'Executive Department.' " Therefore, I, James AY", Dawes, Gov ernor or the State ot Nebraska, do hereby "ive notice, in accordance with Scctiou One 1 Article Fifteen 15 of the Consti tution, and the provisions or an act entitled, "An Act to provide the manner or proposing Amendments to the Consti tution and submitting the same to the Electors or this State," approved Febru ary 13th, A. i). IS", that said proposed Amendments will be submitted to the qualified voters of this State for ratifica tion or rejection at the General Election to be held ou the 4th day or November, A. n. 1SS4. In WirxESS "Whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caus ed to be affixed'the Great Seal or or the State or Nebraska. Skal.1 Done at Lincoln, this lSta day or July, A. D. l$34,the Eighteenth year or the State, and ot the In dependence or the United States, the One Hundred and Ninth. By the Governor, JAMES AV. DAWES, Attest: Edward 1. 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