Show DEMOCRATS FREE TRADERS AT HEART tho conservative democrat says we dont want real free trade wo just want lower but as that true let see what makes up tho democratic party in congress the old slaveholding slave holding southern baurr bons the elates chero breo trade is as firmly grounded today aai in it the democrats should carry congress who would dominate the party not the conservatives as the group that met at esopus like to call themselves but the bourbons Dour bons in the most overwhelming proportion they would frame the tariff bill and they would draw it as acar free trade as they could get it why there ts the hon champ dark of missouri who was permanent chairman ot the democratic national convention and who notified judge parker of his nomination who no later than the last session of congress declared that he would demolish the protective tariff and tear down our custom houses from turret to foundation atone to quote hla own words who would not leave a custom honeo on the shore ot either ocean mr dark and gentlemen of his ilk would control tho democracy there la tho hon bourke cockran of new york the ablest tariff debater the had in the last congress who on the floor of the bouso last endorsed champ darks tirade against protection and adopted it as the hon john sharp of mississippi 1 eader of the minority in ho horci who speaker if the democrats should carry it and who wrote the democratic national platform a st louis ho declared the protective tariff to bo a robbery if he thinks eo would be not try to demolish it and ninety nine hundredths party in congress would he just as rabid free traders as champ dark and dzurko cockran and as mr williams Is in bla heart of hearts how can an intelligent american hearken for one moment to the bland ish ments of the and the low tariff man in the face of testimonial to protection like the following from free trade england hear what tho london telegraph in a recent editorial eald about tree trade it Is the process of paying for the razor Is to cut your own throat and it Is a process from which belgium germany france and the united states take good care to be tree free trade had nothing to do with laying the foundations of En glands commercial greatness it was a protectionist nation that won india and north america in tho great trade wars of the eighteenth century it was a protectionist nation which won the carry ing trade of the world sustained the twenty year crisis of the revolutionary wars up to waterloo founded industry invented tho loco and aavo an example of triumphant emotive vi gorand success of force of character and genlue of mind we drew in complete safety the raw materials for our industries from every clime they were worked up here lii the central marl and workshops of the wold then tho aln fiaAi iA dished goods went oufa again far and aldo to all diio tho callous ot ear tu that could bo reached by traffic from the sea wo laid the world under tribute and even tho power ot napoleon could not break tho bond fhe armies ho led were clothed and shod to no small extent with tho British 1 manufactures ho that was england before arco trado foreign competition since the general abandonment ot free import principles by other nations has brought tho I 1 influx of untaxed manufactures from countries which keep down our exports by hostile duos that this process must bo mainly destructive to the Interests of our industry it Is not possible for any cool and searching thinker to deny if free trade Is proving bad for en igind what would U do tor the united states |