Show WHAT WILL FREE TRADE DO inevitable results of democratic principals utah april 2 1892 looking over the past political attitude of the democratic party from the close of the war until the present it is certainly made plain to the Ar american asrican thinking man that tha the trend of that party has been and la Is to destroy our manufactures our mechanics and the general industries of america in the interest of foreigners and to bring our laboring classes down to the level of the pauper labor of england eagland not only is it true that the party has lately made a bold strike at the sheep growing industry of our country but by the agitation of the silver question are sire disturbing the financial situation of the country driving gold from the shores of america and creating a hardship upon the borrowers of money reducing commerce and business to gold standard the part party come before the people with a very plausible promise of assisting them in many ways in which they say the republicans have failed to do the cry of the parrot all over the land the tari tariff fris is a tax we know it is A tax but not upon the american people ale the tax falls upon the foreigner who must pay for the privilege of competing with our manufacturers the proof of this t bis is obvious from the fact that edise of every character w was as never in the history of america so cheap as now who does this burden and hardship of protection affect Is it the tle farmer no what does the farmer buy that is protected by the tariff coffee and sugar are free tobacco is taxed internally and does not come in under the free trade schedule then what is it that la Is a burden that robs the farmers his clothes cost less woolens cotton goods and in fact everything he buys and uses hia his machinery bis his hardware w was as never BO so cheap as today to day the truth of f the whole matter is that the people of the united states are today to day better fed better clothed better housed better paid and fare better generally than any other people on the face of the earth buethe but the democratic policy is to turn them all over to the tender mercies of an english aristocracy to be ground down to 25 cents per day for w wages and free trade will bring these re results as sure as free trade is established |