, 1873-05-17

aoonor than 1t can bo dono with all tho stratoR
OF Jotnlni, or tho tactics Of hrarmont.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND .rRE]
| TKADE.
Tho New York 1Forld recently proposed tia
tho Democratic party should abjuro oil othc
Questions and mako froe trade tho exclusive
principle OF tho party. 1t once thoto was wni
from largo faction who objcoted to mixing tht
party 1osponsiblo for my doctrine which woule
divide it.. What will you do with Ponnsvl-
vania7" askod. these persons "and without
pennsylVania what COL tho party or any
party do?" Tho porsona who mako tue
objection to having FREQ trado "a a dis
tinottve and avowod policy Of J.: tho Dem
ocratio party arc, az class. tho same mon who
objected to oooroing Hovoroign. State who,
further on, washod thoir hands Of all reBpouet-
b'lity Tor the prosecution Of q war wnged against
slavery; who opposed tho Thirteenth Amend
mont 30 roBolutoly that the Fourteenth bocamc
necessary; and who talked 40 loudly Of repu-
dating tint, that tho safoty and poaco of tho
country demanded tho adoption Of tho Fifteenth
Amonumont. These aamo poraons Aayo re-
comfy got to ro-adopting tho Kentucky. rcao1u-
hona Of 1893, md think the momorioB of tho old
Democratic party ought not to be disturbed BY
making that party an advocato OF FREQ COM
morce, FREQ marltets. FREQ production, ind tho
abolition Of special privileges.
We do not think FREQ trado. or any other
principle of government, Is to bo evor promoted
by tho Domocratfop party. Tint party ii; Of itself,
fatal to anything 1t supporta,-o to Sunday
beor In Chicago. Taking tho public mon. who
have boon Its loadora- and tho mon it has sont to
congrosa, aud its press gonora1ly, they exhibit o
profound ignorance OF tho principles of tax.tion
for rovenuo, and genoral disposition to sell out
to tho protectioniats upon ovory possible occa-
sion. With tho exception Of tho late Mr. Brooks
and Mr. Cox, Of Now York, Mr. Korr, Of Indiana.
and three or four others, there has boen
lamontablo deficiency Of Dcmocratio intelligence
and offort IN Congress, both in opposing untust
tariff Legislation and iii accomplishing tariff ro-
form. There has not boon Democratic sonator
Turing tho last ton years that has had tho infor-
"'Ne "'n*5 "At4 tAo Aucunat1on to OK
poso and oppose tho tariff robbories. On tho
contrary, tho Democratic Senators from Nav
Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West |
Virginia havo strauglod every measure which tho
'rienda OF royonuo roform have been alba to
'ush through the House. It was tho blind ie-
aoranoe OF the Democratic membors of both |
aouaos that voted tho repeal Of tic reyonuo !
lutloa on ten md coffee, and loft tho duties |
N coal, salt, lumber, and On all tic
'roat staples OF cotton and wooden clothing.
ron and other motals. The fact is, tho pro- |
cctlontsts have only been able to maintain the
moro robbor-like provisions of tho tariff through
10 partly-ignorant and partly deliberate support
iVon t1em by tho Democrats Of tho Senate aud
1ouso Of Representatives. Thosc mon. who
ave boen thus used as tools Of tho ponaioners
II the civil List. have boen loud in their declama
ION against negro suffrage and negro equality,
hoy have boon yalfantly fighting tho War
Il oVor again, mud at the Bamo time permitting
10 people to be robbed through form
t taxation that in tho oxtont Of it's oxactions
as been without precedent. Those are t1o mon
lat the World proposes to marshal in solid
'Tay IA party in favor Of froo trado, whom
lolr record during tho last ten years has boon
moas uniform in support of protection. ri
The objection, however, that iB urged by somo
apers processing to bo in favor OF froo trado
lat pennsylvania must bo considered as lost tn
y party that opposes protection La founded
pon an assumption not warranted by facts. In
'a2, the Whig party enacted tho protective tarl1
'that year in tho direct nterestof PENNSYLVANIA.
hut tariff was repealed few years later by tho
eo"trade tariff Of 1916. Pennsylvania voted
1046 against Henry CLAY, tho apostle Of pro-
ctton, and in favor Of James K. pollt, who had ,
congrosa opposed tho tariff of 1919. Tho tar- {
OF 184o was passed by tho casting vote of +
o.PreHldent Dallas, ponnsylyanian. blr. 7
avid Wilmot, OF Pennsylvania, Democrat. in | n
'ngroaa ropudiatod tho policy Of protection, a
d upon that Issue was triumphantly re-eloctod "
Congress. Throo years ago, 1lr. Bpeor, Il
mocrat, ayowed himaolf q free-trailer, n
defeated Dauiol J. Aloroll for Cou-
'aa in Ponnsylyanla. Since he has !,
On In Congress ho has rosolutely advocated a ~
luction Of tho dutica avon OIL plg-iron, aud !,
t fall, notwithstanding tho State gavo over q NJ
adrod thousand majority for Grant, Mr. II
Dor, tue aVowod fEeo-trader, WAS ro-elooted by II,
Increased majority. There Is 10 State In tho n,
'ntry where tho principle Of taxation for M
onuo only will find a mora rolontlosa oppoai- al,
from chartered monopoly than In Ponusyl- ia,
ill., and whore It will 10 supported moro n,
vo1y by that portion OF tho people who arc q,
vlctima' But, by a tacit agreement between M