The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-09
Another Blaine FalsehOOd.

Mr.. Blaine has asserted that the
English people and press are in favor
Of Mr.. Cleveland's election to the pres
idency. This is unnatural and false.
British commercial interests are all in
favor of the governmental power of
the United States remaining in the
hands of the Republican party. The
British manufacturers and exporters
say it would be fatal stroke at their
interests for democratic government
to be inaugurated on this side of the
Atlantic. Especially do they desire
to see Mr.. Blaine elected. His policy,
and that of the party, favors the pro-
lection of these people against Amer
lean competition, the system of federal
taxation upheld by them giving En-
glish manufacturers and dealers the
markets of the world The English
people understand well enough, that
as long as high tariffs are
maintained in the United States Am
erican exports must steadily decline.
They know that production has out
run the capacity of home consump-
ton, and that the democratic policy of
reducing tariff, and placing raw
material on the free list would so di-
minish the cost Of American product
ion as to drive English goods out of
many foreign markets. where the lat
ter now excludes the former. They
know that the democratic policy
would so increase the production of
! American factories as to meet wide
demand. 1t would increase the de-
mand for intelligent American labor,
and, therefore, enhance the price of
such labor. Democratic reform means
death to excessive federal taxation,
under which our exports have
fallen off $4,000 in the
last year. 1t is federal
taxation which has fed English man
ufacture and trade, which has turned
over to British merchant marine
the carrying trade of the high seas,
which adds annually millions to the
wealth of the manufacturing and
commercial classes of Great Britain
tbs known that so long as the repub-
lican policy is enforced in this country
the laboring classes of England will
be better and more proftably employ
ed; that, so long as it exists, American
labor will not be able to produce any.
thing that will compete with English
industry; that while it lasts, although
we produce three-fourths of the cotto1
of the world and have the most cottoI
factories, and make the best cottoI
goods, English cotton goods will b.
bought instead of the American
With all our advantages we mus
continue to subordinate American
production and labor to English pro-
fit so long as the tariff refor Iners re
main out of power. Mr.. Blaine ha
power himself capable of saying an6
doing anything that is false and vici
Gus, but when he attempts to blind tn
people of the western states with tn
idea that English people desire the
election of Mr.. Cleveland he wilfull.
tells greater falsehood than ever be
: fore, not excepting even his Kentuck.
l affair. Mr.. Blaine talks Of commerce.
treaties with foreign countries; h
does this again to delude. The Unite
, States might have glittering CONNER
7 cial treaties with all the countries in
3 the world, and with the negative opera
}. ton Of the high tariff the Unite
States would have no commerce wit
the countries with which treaties ha
been made. England commands
I vast trade, which democratic admins
) tration i'll this country would destro
The English people know this and til
English press voices public sentime1
i in desiring the election of Blaine.