The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-06
DEMO CRATIu FREE TRADE AND Re-
PUBLICAN PROTECTION.

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viyed. IT simply resumed where 1t left off In
1877. it's first issue being No. Is Of volume XII.
When the bottom of the ship Of state was
scraped preparatory to her new voyage under
Democratic auspices, this was the very first
fat and greasy barnaele that let go its hold.
This YVES the first scab to shrivel and drop
from the body polite, long sick with
the leprosy Of Radical misrule, when
IT felt the first thrill OF new
and vigorous life. Nothing was heard OF
IL ILL the other day, when 1t came back to us.
an outgrowth Of the pestilence that has swept
our city and country with desolation.. Like
those unclean birds that are never seen TILL
the tainted air summons them to their fetid
feast, this sheet disappeared In the days OF
our reioicings only to come back with the
first stroke Of misfortune, hoping to
find in our fniseries the food wherein
IT feeds. The calamity which has devel-
oped 1t, however, Is but transient. 1t will not
last long and when IT disappears the Re1,nb-
licnu will vanish with it. There can be no
doubt Of the Identity Of this new publication.
RI bears all the marks Of that OF which it
claims to be but q resuscttation. 1t displays
the same happy faculty for mendacity-the
same felicitous peryersion and ignoring OF
facts too stubborn for misrepresentation, the
same glanderous innuendo and gorgeous
sophistry that characterized the old puolca-
tion. It ID professionally O. resume, and not
q new venture.
| The last issue Of this revived sheet lies be-
fore u.s. It Is unique-a marvel OF dtsingenu-
BUSINESS from beginning TO end. There Is not
| an article In 1t, and there are quite number,
that is not wicked, Intentional and mali
cious but adroit perversion. There Is not
one OF them that does not come under some
one of the heads Of the DEVILS own art, from
the Lie by inference to the lie direct.
II is impossible for us TO refer even to all
Of these articles, much less to the innum er
able misrepresentation they contain; yet
there Is one to which we wish to attract spe-
cial attention. It is the one entitled "A Solid
South Against Protection This article
comes under the head "By Inference"
There Is not o salient sentence in it. Tt
is simply q marvel Of sophisticatlon. The
purpose Of it only can be stated, and
that Is to give, In anticipation, what
ever credit may be due for the estab-
lishment Of direct steam munication be-
tween New Orleans and Bio Janeiro to the
Republican party In order to do this we are
carried back TO the days Of Calhoun and Clay
and the ascendency Of Calhoun's doctrines OF
free trade ID made the burden OF the homily.
It would be answer enough to this arraing-
rnent to say that the proposition to subsi-
dize-if you prefer to use that word-the
Brazilian postal route pia New Orleans had
It's birth In O Democratic Congress, was
. r%or1 1xrro n1
If established. will be done by the next Con-
gress, which will inevitably be Democratic.
The men who urged the measure in the last
Congress, and on whom we must rely to en-
sure It's prosperity In the next, are all Demo-
Gratis. staunch, hide-bound Democrats It Is
true that its defeat in the last Congress was
due to Sam. Randall more than any one else;
but Sam. Randall will pay the penalty in o
certain deposition from the Speakership Of
the House. and his defeat will be due to the
Solid Southland because Of his arbitrary ac-
ton upon this very measure.
We shall not allow ourselves to be betrayed
into discussion Of free trade and what it
means at least by the Republican. Yet WE
can say--and In SO saying we defy contra
diction-that there is nothing inconsistent
with the true Democratic doctrine in pro.
lection on rice or sugar, or in the sub
sidizing q of the steamship line tc
!, Brazil In England, from which We
derive the whole doctrine Of free trade
and where alone 1t has met with o full exposi
, tion, we find the identical exempllfication the
Democratic party has sought to- give it in this
, country. Mr.. Beck, says the Republican
voted against the Brazil subsidy. Mr.. Beck
may have been wrong In opposing the Brazil
, line, and Mr.. Beck may be good enough
sort Of q Dem ocrat; but Mr. Beck could have
= done nothing to betray or commit the Demo
cratic party.
The last Congress did not carry out the Eng
lish, and the Democratic, doctrine Of free trade
, simply because the country was not prepared
s for 1t, but In the course Of time it will. This
0 South Is solid against protection, but FREE
d trade does not mean absolutely no tariff
It England raises her revenue by tariff on
|, few articles. Free trade means nothing els
!, in America. The tariff on sugar now pay
y the largest proportion OF our revenue an
IS there Is nothing inconsistent with the Demo
e cratic doctrine OF free trade In this fact. Tn
l. same conditions which originated this sourc
II the discrimination In favor Of free agains
N slave labor.
> Half dozen articles pay all the tariff
England, and that Is understood to be fire
j. trade there. The Democrats only propose
q apply the same doctrine In this countr,
y. Now, If we are to take England as the exen
n, plar of the benefits Of free trade, let US 81
ID what she has done for her shipping. In IS
b. Great Britain paid to her shipping In the wa
a. Of subsidies $442O,261 while the United Stat
paid only $287,50
Yet England Is the exemplar of eetrade
Democratic ideas-and the United Stat
OF was held In the thrall of Republican prote
IT. ton. From 1867 to 1876 the account stan
III In this respect, for England $50, 138,847.
'lf 81, 1897, 500 for the United States.
ts' We have but one question to ask. Whotil
III saw In this difference the true cause Of t
he m ruprican rnmYnerrn and w