Show I 1 I 1 ds t V 00 4 ai tas AS I 1 B 11 I 1 J i te OW ant 1 in hf fetterof ette acceptance of AMI I t lie nomination In atlon 1 C claims the republican publican lle lary I 1 a et ay iy is the friend aitho of tho people Q I 1 as le I 1 Espel alf cipf the tile agricultural n a a 9 17 4 states tates 2 f N 4 L 4 i alt aw tip 4 13 IV ereah IQ thel the 11 lEBLAn FULA z F A versta june jun I 1 5 1 18 az th atif e irim r oan ohn ia deson and of he the in III accepting the nomination laati n for the presidency tendered VT me e D oy y the republican national con antion yn tit tion 0 n I 1 beg to express a d jeep eel of tile honor b amor which is conferred and of the tile duty which is imposed I 1 venture to accompany the acceptance with some observations upon the tile questions involved in the tile contest qu questions whose settlement may at af led the future of the nation favorably or unfavorably favorably tin for a long se a enumerating the I 1 issues upon which the republican party appeal for popular support the convention baa has been singularly explicit and felicitous it baa has properly given the leading position to the industrial du interests of the country as affected by tho the tariff on imports r on that question the two political parties are RADICALLY ZV I 1 CONFLICT almost the first act of the republicans when they came into power in 1861 w was a s tho the establishment of the tile principle il 1 ciple plo of protection to american nr labor b r and american capital this principle I 1 the Ite republican publican party lias has ever since maintained while on the other hand the democratic party in congress for fifty years persistently warred it upon jouit it twice in that period our opponents have destroyed tariffs arranged for protection and since the close of the civil war whenever they have controlled the tile of representatives hostile legislation lias has been attempted never more conspicuously than in their principal measure at the tile late set session sion of congress the tariff question and revenue 11 laws arm are in their ivery very nature mature subject to frequent revision in order that they may be adapted to the ell changes ange and sand modifications of trade thu tho republican party is not conten dine for the permanency ot AST AT CULAR STATUTE the ille itsue it sue between the two parties partle 3 does loes not have reference to a specific law it la Is far broader and far deeper it involves a principle of willing application and beneficent influence against a theory we believe to be lin Ain sound in conception and inevitably hurtful in practice in III the many tariff revision rev Moni which have been necessary forthe for the past twenty three yearn or which may hereafter become necessary the republican party lias ila maintained and will maintain the solle policy of protection to american industry while opponents insist upon a revision tion which practically destroys destroy 4 that policy the issue is thus distinct dif well defined and unavoidable the pending election may determine the tile fate of protection for a generation the overthrow of the policy means a large and permanent reduction in III the wages of the american laborer besides involving the losa of vast amOl amounts lilt of american capital capita I 1 invested IN manufacturing the value of the present revenue system to the tile people of the united stat states es is not a matter of theory and I 1 submit no argument to sustain it only invite attention to certain f facts of official record which peem to c constitute 0 a demonstration in the c census ei n s us of 1860 an effort was made for the first time in ili our history Iii story to obtain a valuation of all the property in the united states the attempt was in a large degree unsuccessful partly from lack of time partly from prejudice prejudice judice Fre among many who thought t the ie inquiries ries fore shadowed a new scheme of taxation tho tile returns were incomplete and unsatisfactory little more casdone was done than to consolidate the los cal ca I 1 valuation used in the states for pit purposes reposes of or assessment asse and that as every one knows differed widely from front a coin complete lete exhibit of ft all ia the 11 0 sutor 1118 tn L property ro perty in tho the cen census 0 of f 0 flo however wever the tile work was vas done with great thoughtfulness thoughtful nese the distinction between assessed and true value IMMING carefully the grand result was that tile true value of the tile property in the states and territories including klayes amounted to fourt fourteen ten thousand millions lionson of dollars this azg aggregate regato was the tile net result of oatha the labor and savings of fall all the people within the area of the united states from the time the first british colonial at landed in 1607 down to the year of 1860 it represented the fruit of the toil of years after the business of the tile country was encouraged and developed by a protective tariff at tho the end of twenty years tho the total pro property erty of the ul united te d states State sas as returned I 1 by the c census of 1880 amounted to the eno enormous rinous aggregate of TI tills great r eat result was attained notwithstanding I 1 ng tho the fact I 1 feas lees millions had in the interval been wasted in the tile of a it bloody war var it thus appears that while our population between 1860 abd 1880 increased 60 per cent tile aggregate property of the country increased per cent showing a vastly enhanced wealth per capita amone among the people millions of dollars had been added during these twenty years to tho permanent or OF TOR NATION these results are regarded by tho older nations of tile world as phenomenal no menal that our country should surmount Burino the tile peril and the tile cost of a gigantic war for an entire period of twenty years make an average gain to ila its wealth of one hundred and t twenty five fiva million dollars per month surpasses the experience of all other nations ancient or modern even ewen the tile airdo opponents op ri ants of the tile present revenue pyo tern do not pretend that in tile whole history of civilization any parallel can bo be found to tile national progress pro greas of f the united states since accession of ld the he republican party to power the period briod between 1860 and lias has been been one of material prosperity only at no time in the history of the unit ed states has there been such pr pro gress greas in the moral and anti philanthropic field religions religious and charitable iloilo schools seminaries and colleges have been founded and endowed far more generously than at any tiny previous time greater and more var ed relief has bas been extended to hu bu fi fib ty tet w V 6 1 4 man lufte u b i d fie tim t gess loll 1011 of ethe toe cr Aint wealth hasteen ha nac c campa 0 M P 0 i A and 1 nd dignified b a 11 i annd n d e JOL ALE ab our opponents find fault quit that our revenue p BUL thay allou d not noi forget torget that the law amo was gi given givena yega a by I 1 hll ail of the flur stir plug is s raa ild honorably lionor ably applied to tile reduction of the public ucb tand the consequent t relief of the burden of taxation not pot ft dollari aa baen wasted A and tho only extravagance with which the party p arty stands charged is the generous pensioning of soldiers sailors and their fa families milles an estr extravagance ava gance wit winch ich embodies tile highest form justice in ili the recognition and anden payment tofaL of a acted d dolt rex when a r reduction on of taxation ia is to be made the republican publican Ite party can be trusted to accomplish it in such a form ai will most effectively A alij ital UNTO birst nI til c the agil cultural intent 14 il i far l ir the la largent agert in ili tile nation md ond ai h ent entitled it ic d in ill siny ad of tit alif re revenue to th blit liti any ally 1 llo hoelle tile to t tile th bitile t of in the I 1 united states must IvAll zill fact the tile opponents c of d illo ll 11 lt system of revenue have labored very earnestly to persuade peru ado the f farmers trainers of tile states tit at they theare are robbed by a tariff and tile efrost Is thus made to consolidate their enco ence in lit faar of free trade but liap hall p pil 1 1 1 the lie farmers ef america nr arc c int I 1 1 g lit and cannot be inis misled ltd by eo when conclusive faett are before bliem they bee plainly that during the past paa twenty four years wealth has not been acquired in lit one lection or by one interest t atthe at the e expense K caise of another section or another F interest interest they rhey see that tho the agricultural stales states have made eveia even mo more re rapid progress than the manufacturing states TK THE I azee that hatin is massachusetts and illinois had about tile same saine between and S each and that 1 an fn f 1830 massachusetts had advanced to while illinois had advanced lo 10 they see that new jersey and iowa were just equal in population in 1860 and that in twenty years the wealth of new jersey was ivas increased bythe by the sum of while the wealth of lown was increased by the aum sum of OCO th they ey see that the ilia nine leading aj ar cultural states of ofilio tile west have 11 grown rown so rapidly in pros prosperity perit ahat that acie the aggregate addition to ti acir wealth since 1866 ig almost alm as great agthe w wealth ea i 0 of f the entire country in that year r T they j e y see that tho the south which is ia almost exclusively agricultural has shared in the general prosperity and that hav ing recovered reF recovered from tile tie losa and de I 1 tation of tho the war gained go so rapidly that its total wealth ia is at least double that it possessed in OF in these extraordinary developments tile farmers see the helpful ain pulse pule e of a home market and they sea seo that tho tile financial and revenue system enacted since the republic republican can party came into porter power has ha established establish etl and constantly expanded tho the homo market they see that even in the case of wheat which is our chief cereal export they have sold in average since the tile close of tho the w war three bushels at home to one aliey y have sold abroad and anti that in the in ins crease of vorn the only other cereal we export to any extent one bundled hundred bushels bushe shave have been used at homo home to three and a half bushels bushela exported in some veira years ve ira the disparity liaa has been so areat that for every ack pe ck of corn exported one hundred bushels haye been consumed in tile home hume market the see ill hint a t in the ing competition from front the grain fields of russia and from ahn distant plains of india the growth of tho the home market becomes daily of greater concern to theland the them mand and that that i its ls 1 impairment apa r men coni would depreciate th the value 1 I u of every acre of tillable land and in the imon |