Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — The Tariff Issue in New York. [ARTICLE]

The Tariff Issue in New York.

When ex-Senator Warner Miller was asked if he expected that New York State would give Harrison a majority, he replied: “Do I expect it? Well. I look for a fuir majority. We ought to carry the State by a fair majority, I think, "as the light is on the tariff, and you know that we carried the State for Garfield on that issue in 1880.” This makes it interesting to inquire what sort of a protective tariff Garfield advocated. And here we have it, in an extract from one of his speeches: "I hold, therefore, that a properly adjusted competition between home and foreign products is the best gauge by which to regulate international trade. Duties should be so high that our manufacturers can fairly compete with the foreign product, but not so high as to enable them to drive out the foreign article, enjoy a monopoly of the trade, and regulate, the price as they please. To this extent lam a protectionist. If our Government pursues this line of policy steadily, we shall year by year approach more nearly to the basis of free trade, because we shall be more nearly able to compete with other nations on equal terms. lam for a protection which leads to ultimate free trade. lam for that free trade which can be achieved only through protection." These are the broad and comprehensive views of statesmanship. New York was carried for the candidate who held them. But the ultra high tariff position of the Republican platform is as far from Garfield’s views as darkness is from light. —Chicago Rews.