National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-26

our manufacturing industries are at stand
still because OF the immense amount of goods
on hand. Our manufacturing facilities are so
extensive that in six months our factories can
make up enough to last our people whole
year. If we only had q foreign market for
these goods We might keep them running con-
dantly. Trade supporter Qf tle Democratic
Ticket.
Oh, certainly. The way to relieve the
pressure Is to put on more pressure by
abolishing the tariff on protected wares
and opening the doors to competition with
England and other FREQ trade nations,
where starving artizans work night and
day for barely enough to keep body and
soul together. The overstocked markets
Of the old world will absorb accumulated
American products at an astonishing rate.
England and Germany will jumlp, y
chance to go across the Atlantis and buv
merchandise and manyfaGSsaar aared goods
%"'V W aauro rr, r'r OWN ho,p people produce
Nv avp. = ,, II" 90 Wv the cost in America
NnV 10 'nole foolish enough to believe
any such 15nscnsoa Who is there that
y"V'l.,s.Issfemoval of duties would in the
xstehtest degree remove the pressure
under which American manufacturers of
a certain class are sunering2
Overproduction is an evil that carries
with it Its own cure. 1t is result Of
bad business judgment, and it is as com.
mon in free trade England as in protected
America. Stagnation in trade aud indi-
vidual bankruptcies inevitably follow
overproduction. Hundreds or thousands
of workingmen and workingwomen may
be thrown out of employment in conso-
quence of such condition of affairs, but
that is no excuse for making hard times
harder by opening the gates for tho
admission of the surplus of other nations
which have been suffering from overpro-
duction for hundreds of years.
Because there is not bread enough in
the cupboard for the family call in tho
hungry neighbors to help make way with
what there is. That would be sensible
course to pursue compared with the
proposition that is made to relieve the
pressure rosultantupon an era of over pro
duction by inviting tho old world NOR
chant to ship in on us the cheap goods
that are made by tho enfeebled ha nds oi
their pauperized work people.
No, the doors will not be opened.
American workingmcn will not be com
PEELED to compete with the slave labor of
Europe just yet. The republican party
has its stalwart shoulder against the door
the free traders and their allies are try
ing to batter down. The republican party
believes in caring for the American
workingmen. and it does not believe that
the way to do it is to degrade him to the
level of the labor bondsman of the old
world. 1t docs not feel called upon to
attempt the emancipation Of European
| workingmen at the expense of its own
citizens, especially when it is patent that
benefit to the class whose relief is sought.
We of America sympathize with the
oppressed of the old world, and we would
like to lift you up to our own level. We
see you struggling to keep your head
above water, and we would swim out to
your assistance If we were not morally
certain you would drag US to the bottom
with you. Heroism carried to that ex-
tent becomes suicidal folly. Foolhardi
ness should not be encouraged. No good
can come from self murder as an agency
of universal salvation. No such sacrifice
is required.
America will worry along awhile longe
without taking on any free trade ballast