Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-20
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the solution of some of cur difficulties by
the wise adjustment of Duties on I'm
ports. Since then the discussion of this
question has gone steadily forward. Near
ly all the enemies of the Government
have been quick to see and denounce
every effort for the development of our
vast material and the strength
ening of our commercial independence.
While the friends of American interests
have not been slow to enter the lists in
behalf of home enterprise and our nation
al advancement. This contest, though
not attracting so large a popular notice as
it deserves, has been carried on with much
spirit, and to the accomplishment of most
salutary effects.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
is put forward as the main prop of the
decaying sentiment of free trade, and for
months has daily g%roaned against the i'm
pending decease of its British pet. 1t no
doubt means TO be candid, yet its articles
are brimfull of sophistry and cheap rheto-
ric. Stin, it is by far the most reasonable
and fair-minded of the free trade journals,
and were its editorials short and spicy in
stead-of long and dreary, we would take
great pleasure in their perusal. But its
arguments have been refuted a thousand
times by the trenchsnt answers of the
New York and Detroit TriBunes, the Iron
Age, and other leading protective jour
mails.
These discussions have, we are assured,
excited much interest among our business
men and politicians. The question had
so long been buried that it was compar-
atively new and unknown to the present
generation. But it is again assuming the
Importance it deserves, as one of the lead
ing subjects of practical craftsmanship. A
great many members of Congress have
announced their adhesion to the doctrines
of the protective system, and we rest in
perfect confidence that the next Con-
gress will be found steadfast in pol
icy and legislation for the interests
of American manufactures, mining and
agriculture. In Ohio, We have reason
to rely on our strongest members
for efficient service in this direction-psr-
ticularly Senators Wade and Sherman,
and Representatives Schenck, Spalding,
Delano, auckland, Clarke and Bundy.
With Senator Foster, Vice President pro
tenapore of the United States, these men
believe that an adherence to judicious
protection by our Government will lead
our growing nation rapidly onward in
prosperity-its abandonment will send us
backward and downward And with
the ablest men in either branch of Con-
gress heartily endorsing this view, we
have faith that they will crystalize their
into clear, statesmanlike legisla-
ton.
This is not a question of tradition. An
anti-ssriff man of AZ may, with perfect
consistency, favor a taritfin '65, as a means
IF revenue, of keeping our coin at
home and resuming specie payment, of
our bonds from the clutch of our
European rivals, and of paying off II Ma
debt. This is a question of vital
aHsssHt sxjgeRsEE As Judge sPalding, a
This line of policy whatever may have
'een saido of it in times past, is most clearly
allied for by the existing necessities of the
american people"
This Is not a question of prohibition, for
o one wants u ports entirely closed to
.portations. What we ask is, first, a :
lir chance of competition; second, the
up of u manufactures and the
.rengthening of our agriculture; third,
lie adoption of a healthy revenue system. :
ask for no ~monopolies, no special :
rivileges, no class legislation. What we
k for n branch of American enterprise :
e accord TO all. We only demand that :
IT home capital, energy, industry and la
n shall not be swamped by the purse
oud manufacturers of Europe, in the in
of aristocracy and for " -.
T enemies. W. NE beneft of
rent ,or,o,5- that the initial
laporers of this free country shall
OF be reduced to a level with the "white
of monarchies. We believe in I
quail rights for all men, but our platform 4;
the equality of intelligence and thrift, !,
OF of ignorance and degradation. We /
emand that cur currency be fixed on a
Ire foundation, and not left to the mercy !
f British bankers. We demand that for
.gners leave US to the regulation of our
WI markets, which will yield US, if not
Re first, at least an equal facility for the
lvestment of capital and the remunera-
of labor. +,
Secretary McCulloch in his Fort Wayne
Deech-the financial part of which we
on Monday morning an
ounced a policy which meets the hearty
pproval of the friends of the protective
ystem, and has stirred up our free trade
Incorporates to renewed agony of
oirit. They impeach his arguments and
his statement of facts, and
re altogether as incredulous as the cotton
of Europe and the co%pperheads of
lis country have been of the downfall of
he rebellion, while we commend his
as an evidence of broad states
and a ~forerunner of wise legisla-
in the interests of home industry and
sound NATIONAL POLICY.
Scandal from San Francisco.
A story has been circulating in the Cal
papers to the effect that Gottsehalk,
lille in San Francisco, so won upon the
Of a young lady belonging to n of