Show THEY FEAR fean FREE TRADE ait f ieni democratic cr a tie orators aro are edging T till Is issue hardly a it free trade orator has opened his mouth to discuss tho tariff biaco the chicago convention who has bus not attempted to get away from the tariff plank of his bartys platform aware that such a bold declaration of war on american industry must bury their candidates unless it ia is in some way Modi modified fiel they one a and nd all have ad dressed themselves to the task of I 1 ing dg I 1 it t a away way since the platform calu calls for the raising raisin Ll of revenue sufficient cien t for the needs of off government from customs duties they argue sufficient protection to all interests is therefore guaranteed and freo trade ia Is an impossibility thu this was wits the burden of senator hills dr brooklyn ook speech and of mr Clev elands letter of abc acc acceptance extance ep tance in the tile manufacturing states in particular it has come to be the slogan of tho the democratic tic ari armies niell it ia is as 11 ami ana 0 as 1 I afi that at 6 other democratic cry of polity dallas and a nl the tariff of 1 ift S 12 I 1 which once before elected the democratic candidates by b hoodwinking the protectionists projectionists illch illco into voting for them the sequel of that victory ato how bow vice president dallas a the be presiding officer of the senate threw hia his deciding vote for the infamous I 1 of 1846 which resulted in t the sue beeding years 5 ears of commercial stagnation tion misery and the reign of soup houses i IS well known to our readers the tile same party is trying the same gaino game again thia this year no ITO intelligent man can call misinterpret the plain language of the democratic Demo cratit platform in the words of that illustrious democratic lawyer and scholar george ticknor curtis it denies that any protection of our domestic indus tries is within the constitutional power of congress E every ery vestige of protection may bo be stripped from our statute books and ample revenue for the needs of government still be raised from duties on imports free trade does not mean the abolition of all custom houses as democratic orators and editors dishonestly assume hear what that bigah bigli priest of american free traders professor W Q G sumnar of yale sa says s A country may collect its entire revenue by duties on imports and yet bo be an entirely free trade country england collects as much revenue per capita from duties on imports under her free trade system sa stem as we do under under the protective mckinley tariff it is the manner in which duties are levied not their height which distinguishes a protective from a free trade tariff the democratic platform demands that ours be so levied as to exclude every sem sern blance of protection that is it d demands the full measure of british freo free trade this is no false al alarm arm already some of the more honest democratic journals yielding to the inexorable logic of their bartys attitude toward the tariff have lia e outlined the plan plan whereby abundant revenue rev eluo can ran be raised without an iota iola of if protection one piper paper in particular points out that we might raise W 0 annually from duties on tobacco and spirits the protective pi elective force of these duties would of course be offset by in taxes on similar domestic prod acts BO so as its not to violate the tile great demo cratic an anti ti protection principle restoration to ration of the sugar tariff would yield tins this free trade editor points out and a CO 50 per cent tariff on tei tea coffee cocoa and chocolate would give additional duties on diamonds works of art and the like all nori protective would furnish W woi making in all of revenue without a hint of protection to t 0 an any american industry we raise less lea thau t by the present law tins this is the democratic scheme workingmen it comprehends the taxing of your our breakfast tables while exposing you to the merciless competition of eu starvation wages no amount of partisan palaver can obscure the issue if you want w ant that sort of thing you ou can have it by electing the candidates pledged to bring it about if not vote for II arnson and reid whose election will mean no free tradel no pau per labor t new york press |