Show afraid of free trade democrats today quite generally acknowledge that free trade is a fal basy whan confronted with the coa and not the theory of free trade ia 1892 they hesitated passing the wilson bill and raised the duty in the senate on some six hundred articles which reaul the mixed protective measure now on the statute books it was satisfactory to very lt citizens for it was neither one thing or the other and well might president cleveland call it a thing of perfidy and dishonor Josep byL theu our delegate to congress seeing how the threatened free trade was crafting craa ting havoc throughout tho country for ot hia campaign slogan of chos t afraid of free trade and voted for protection on lead since that time he has been more or less a anasi pro he is icalla making a better record in that regard than the man republicans sent to the senate as a protectionist monday senator hawlins coed for protection on pine lumber while senator cannon voted for it to go on the free list we commend the action of senator bowline for thus standing by one of the western products we believe ha will also vote for protection on lead and wool two other western in te so what we lose by senator cannon bolting the ranks of hon we will gain in the broad dmd ed statesmanlike course of the junior senator who believes in looking after the interests of his constituency re garless of party and not be pursuing some untried impracticable policy like that of a proposed bounty on exported farm products |