Show coming around to protection A change is to be noted in the attitude of many democratic papers toward protective tariff says the globe democrat ahby are not BO four years ago that sure as they were protective ideas are without merit in the first place their party after distinctly pledging itself to enact a only shrank from fulfilling the promise when it had possession of all branches of the government ern ment the tariff that was established and which now impoverishes the treasury and clogs the industries of the people is acknowledged by all parti esto ba a nondescript it is protective in spots to suit certain interests te rests and to this extent is a denial of free trade doctrines its disastrous failure to provide a sufficient revenue and encourage business activities is BO clear that no one ventures to dis the fact the existing tariff has no friends and never had any as whole having been disowned by its author nd becoming aw without the democratic president in view of the hesitation of their party to adopt a policy of frea trade when it hada chance and of the lamentable men table results of the present tariff il is not strange that democratic editors generally express a desire not to passage of a protective law by the republicans as outlined in theS fc louis platform while tinaa journals are op posed to a high protective tariff they are evidently of the opinion that the republicans cannot do less than pass such a bill as is demanded by their distinct agreement with the people farther than this the brooklyn eagle after advising the passage of a tariff act furnishing ample revenue for the running expenses of the it is our own belief that the intelligence of democracy is relinquishing much of its animosity toward the protectionist school and that it will continue to relinquish it to the extent that the degradation and debasement of labor conditions abroad are the more understood and appreciated in other words american wages must be maintained by a protective policy it is sound republican doctrine |