Show TALKING FREE TRADE In his recent speech at Knoxville President Presi-dent HARRISON said What is it that has stirred the pulses of this great region that has kindled these furnace fires that has converted these retired and isolated iso-lated farms into centres of trade and mechanical me-chanical pursuits bringing a market close to the door of the farmer and bringing prosperity into every home It is that we have no line of division between the states it is that these impulses i im-pulses of freedom and enterprise onco limited in their operations arc now common to all the states As gtho supposed head of a party that went into power on the issue of protection as against tariff reduction President HARRISON HAR-RISON is unfortunate in his utterances In the above he clearly attributes the prosperity prosper-ity of the United States and the phenomenal phenom-enal of the resources of the south to the free trade that exists between the several states It is that we have no line of division between the states it is that these pulses of freedom and enterprise once limited in their operations are now common to nil tho states If freo trade between the respective states of the union says an esteemed contemporary have produced such patent results re-sults why wouldnt the removal restric tions upon trade with Canada on the north and Mexico on the south and with all other foreign countries make the beneficent reo suIts af free trade still more apparent Evidently it would and President Hinni sox in the progress of his swinging round the circle seems to be rapidly coming to the same conclusion At Birmingham Ala only a day or two after his Knoxville speech he said to a vast assemblage of applauding ap-plauding Democrats You are realizing the benefits of home markets mar-kets for what you produce and I am sure you will unito with me in those efforts which we ought to make not only to fill our own markets with all that this great nation of 63000000 needs but to reach out to other markets and enter Into competition with the world for them This vro shall do Then again this is the message he sen t from El Paso to President DIAZ I look forward with interest to a larger davel opment of our trade to theooeningof new line s of commerce and new avenues of friendship We have passed that year in our history I hope when we were aggressive and unpleasant neighbors We do not covet the territory of any other people but we do covet their friend ship and those trade exchanges which are natu rally profitable All these remarks are true and commendable commend-able but how arc the hopes and intentions expressed to be realized under the theory and practice of a high protective tariff such as President HARRISONS party favors It is impossible The remarks of the President Pres-ident indicate that no one is more actively aware of that fact than he is unless un-less indeed it be his more astute secretary secre-tary of state JAMES G BLAINE The theory of protection is doomed We doubt if ever again it can be made a plank even in a Republican platform Restricted free trade under the plausible name of reciprocity recipro-city will tako its place and the difference between the two great national parties on tho tariff issue is likely to be merely a difference dif-ference of words rather than of principles Protectionist Republicans will be found over on Democratic free trade ground but with a different name that will be all |