New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-22
4 DECTSIVE VICTORY NEEDED.

4 DEcISfTE VICTORY NEEDED.
IN two weeks the vote will be cast
which will probably shape the history OF the
country for the next twenty years. For, II the
people give decisive verdict. as 1t is clearly
their interest to do, they can put an end Tor
many years to the two most powerful causes OF
industrial disorder and commercial alarm.
These causes are the desire to break down
| American manufactures in the interest OF for
eIgn traders and manufacturers. and the desire
to place the government of the country under
the control of q small Oligarchy at the South,
through practical suppression OF free suffrage
wherever it may be necessary to that END.
| These causes work together. The suppression
| of free suffrage enables the Southern 0ligarchy
| to control 1913 electoral votes as they boast
with absolute certainty. The selfish zeal anu
the heavy moneyed contributions OF foreign trad
| ers and manufacturers enable the party OF
| Southern ideas TO secure maiOrites III Few I'M
| porting cities, and through these majorltles
that party hopes to secure the electoral votes OF
| two or three Northern States. Shameless cor
ruption, and infamous vilificatiOn OF Northern
statesmen. naturally follow as the chief
weapons by which Northern voters can be led
This powerful combination, in hostility to
a truly American policy, has now existed ever
since the close of the war; New-l York. Brook
lyn and Jersey City have cast heavy malorItles
against the vital interests of the working peo-
pie of those cities and thus have several times
controlled and always threatened to control, the
electoral votes of Newly orl and New Jersey.
Boston has threatened Massachusetts in like
manner, and New Haven has threatened Con-
necticut, and Baltimore has controlled Mary
land, and San Francisco in 1850 turned the
vote of California. Take ont the few import
ing cities. in which the foreign traders. the
agents of foreign manufacturers, the importing
houses, and tleir clerks. labOrcrs and other en-
ployes. have a powerful influence, and there
would be an absolutely certain Republican ma
jority in every Northern State to uphold the
American policy which protects American labor
and American citizenship. 1t is the clear in
terest of the people of the Northern States TO
defeat this combination so overwhelmingly
that, from this time onward, no party shall
dare to seek foreign rather than American in
teress, by the votes of importing cities and the
suppression of free suffrage at the South.
TO no other people is this more important
than to the people of the three great cities
which lie upon New-York Bay. BY undue
regard for Southern theories and wishes. these
cities have long been placed in antagOnism TO
the interests and wishes of the Northern people.
BY allowing undue influence to importing
interests, these cities have been led to vote
against the industrial system which has made
them marvelOuSly prosperous. For every
voter interested in foreign trade, directly or
indirectly, there are In these cities at least five
voters whose wages directly depend upon
maintaining the protective tariff Yet each OF
these cities has repeatedly cast majorities
against the interests of its manufacturing
workers, and has voted as if the little knot OF
importers was of enormous consequence, ana
the vast body Of producers and wage-earners
of no consequence whatever. These are for
eign notions, and have no business on American
soil.
There is but one way to stop the recurring
disturbance of American industry by this hos
tile combination. 1t must be SD beaten for
once that no party shall hereafter dare to
appcal to the same influences and methods for
success. so long as these three cities give
heavy Democratic majorities, so long it will be
The interest of present leaders at the South to
suppress Zee suffrage tncIt, HOpinS W S't
power by the electoral votes of New-York and
New Jersey, and to suppress the natural ten
dency of the South toward protection of home
industry. in order to make sure of the influence
and the money of the importing interest. The
lavish supplies with which Cleveland clubs are
o-day equipped and maintained all over the
land. the great corruption fund with which
Ohio was assaulted i'll October, and Indiana will
be assailed in November, could not have been
obtained had not the Democratic party commit
ted itself to ee-trade policy.
Business men know that all trade ia Frustrated
by this struggle every four years. II is time to
end it, Manufacturers know that II prostrates
all industry whenever there is thought to be
chance of Democratic success. II the people
have the practical sense for which Americans
have credit, they will put an end to this long
struggle in November 81 that 1t shall never be
revived.
7HI ONO CORRUPTION FUND.