The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-15
Political Notes.

The Democratic party stands, like the
storm-beaten peak Of Mount Washington
rock-roeted in ths.eFustaof the earth and
buttrcssed with eterush hills, still lifting its
hoary summit into the sky after clouds
that have hidden tifof many days The
war-clouds and the political storms which
have obseured the Dempcracy for long
period could no more ennihilate its princi-
pies than concealing thick weather could
drive away the. mountains which tower in
everlasting grandeur aud whose founda-
tons are as deepas the world. Democ-
raey is the permanent creed of Americans.
it lies at the basis of our institutions, and
both the name and the principle are dear
to the hearts Of our eountrymen. The fact
that it now rises again with power at a
time when so many political secrs had pro-
nounced it extinct, shows how deeply it is
rooted in the moral consciousness of this
great youthful nation These elections
have proved that wild darkening storms of
the longest duration wage vain battle
against principles so deeply implanted, and
that what the people so constantly and
deliberately approved for the first sixty
years Of this century retains its former
hold on their convictions. Even its oppo-
nents and its late deriders must now con-
ccdc that the Democracy will continue to
rank as one of the two great political par
ties of the country, All talk and all
thought of a new opposition party will be
abandoned among practical men of sound
Judgment. For the present, while the
Republican party is in power, Democracy
is the master current into which all the
minor currents of political opposition will
flow. We are safe in asserting that the
permanence of the Democratic party is one
of the things which the late elections have
established, and that our politics are sim
plified, and cropping hesitation relieved by
reducing the choice of voters to an cleo
ton between the Democratic party and
the Republican party, as the two great
contending forces in American politics.
1t is fortunate that this is made plain so
long in advance of the next Presidential
election. This early and irreversible de-
cision of a question of such wide-reaching
practical consequence will save a great deal
of political floundering, misdirected effort,
and squandering of opposition strength.
The Democracy will now confidently say I:
He that is not with us is against us, and
he that gathereth not with us scattereth
abroad
Another thing decided by the recent
elections is, that it is safe and polite for
the Democratic party to take the strongest
and highest ground on the question of Free
Trade The timil, trimming, hating
platforms on this great subject have had
their day, and hereafter the Free Trade
banner will be boldly unturled by the De
mocracy in every political contest, The
monopolists and the protected interests
will always rally around the Republicans,
and it is simple suicide for the Democracy
to make any compromising attempt to con
ciliate them, There is no better way than
steadfast, courageous adherence to prin-
ciplc, accepting whatever good or i'll for
tune may attend series of battles for
truth.-N y World
PRoTEcTIoNIsrs CONE TO GRIEF-A
Worn TO WoRKING-MEN-The Sprague
calico or print establishment, employing
thousands of hands, having it seems run.
ming liabilities of 100000 or $1,000
600, has for years past had only one Gus
TONER and that was the United States.
One Of that firm is Senator, and OF
course protectionist Senator. All he
wanted was protection against allowing
foreign prints to come in to compete with
him here. He never sought or wished the
outlet which he could have found in India,
China, South America, and in the Levant.
No, like Matching chicken he desired to
feed in and from the egg in which he was
encased. This firm, therefore, doing q
business so gigantic, and putting their eggs
all in one basket, were the first to feel the
pinch when the crisis in stocks made
money more than scarce, made notes
worthless which had been considered as
good as money, and bank accommodation
thing not to be had Would this firm
be in trouble now if an enlightened policy
had been followed in this country, if the
delusion of Protection had not blinded
them, and il, like the Schwabes and Other
great print manufacturers in England, they
had had Il foreign market as well as home
market?
Now, what has Protection done for them!
Calicoes similar to the Sprague fabrics
cannot be imported for less than 43 to 40
per cent. duty; yet when the shoe began
to pinch thousands of cases of Sprague
prints were rushed on the market at 81
cents which is either the price or within
cent Of the price current before the war
when cotton was selling for s cents a
pound instead Of Is cents, as now, and
wages were % per cent. to 30 per cent
less. Had the Spragues only served theiI
true interests as they served their idol OF
Protection, had they only cultivated the
trade of foreign countries a twentieth part
as much as they did the home trade, they
would not now be left out in the cold, and
10000 industrious and working artisans
would not now look with CONSERVATION
towards the coming hard winter. Arc
these not facts that Republican Bourbon,
ought to learn? Poor, deluded men
When you resolve for the future to have
the home market all to yourselves, try
and make contract with some bidder
power that no stock or money panics shall
take place, that no mushroom banks shall
smash and no railway kings shall come to
grief, for any one of these is as surely a
part and parcel of your spinning and weav
ing as is the cotton thread you use
Artisans are the shuttlecocks in tn,
hands of these great schemers and specu
lators as long as they and their employers
seek for no other market than the United
States. The Yankee clock trade is nc
tually busy, or at least comfortable, ant
why? Because it does not and never die
rely on the home market alone And il
is in times like these, which try an indus
trial country, that the benefit of foreign
trade is felt.
We beseech those most interested-thC
working classes--to lay these things t.
heart, and act upon them. Had thi.
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