The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-08-28
The Party for Young Men,

A great army of new voters will cast
their first ballot for President this fall.
Nine-tenths of them are young men
who have to make their own way in
the world, with brains and industry
for their capital. The older men who
have saved something have an advan-
tage; it matters less to them whether
days work brings good wages or poor.
But the young man who has to start at
the foot of the ladder-how is he to
climb, if the wages of labor are to be
cut down to his cost of living?
The question whether American or
British wages shall prevail here, there
fore, is more vital one to the young
men than to anybody else. British
wages do not even fill the stomach, aud
leave nothing for the pocket or the
savings bank. American wages enable
the thrifty and capable man to support
family decently, and to put aside
something for the children or for
time of misfortune. British wages at
the best, keep sturdy worker hover
ing on the border between independ-
ence and servitude; the first sickness,
or loss of employment, OF other disas-
ter that comes, is apt to leave him quite
at the mercy of employers, and he falls
into the ranks of the helpless and
hopeless toilers. Those who want to
try British wages in this country ought
to have their pockets well lined first.
British wages come with British free
trade. The main object Of that system
is to produce cheaply enough to under
sell all the world-and that means to
get more work for less wages than
other people. The system suits the
ruling classes in country where the
millions have little part in the Govern
ment. 1t does not suit this country,
where the worker is also ruler.
Hence the American system protects
the worker, SO that he may remain as
far as possible independent, and free to
cast his vote as he pleases, and to put
his work where he pleases. 1t is the
American system of protection that
gives the Young man the chance to
make his first savings, even though
times abroad are hard, and the manu-
facturers of many countries are strug-
Cling to umdersell us and to get the ut
most possible out of their workmen.
British free trade is the Democratic
policy. Where that party dares to tell
what it wants, it squarely opposes the
protective theory. But it does not dare
in this State, and therefore at every
election for twenty-five years it has
raised CHATTER about something else,
which it pretended to regard as ''the
main ISSUE 1t wanted to ''save the
Union" in 1860, and it wanted ''peace"
in 1864; it was excited about ''negro
suffrage" in 1868 and about carpet
baggers' in 1872; 1t wanted 'reform"
in 1876, and "a change" in 1S80-but
all the time it fought for British free
trade, and whenever it could geta ma
jority in the House attempted at once
to tear down the protective system, as
it did last winter.
The American policy of protection
was established and has been main
tanned by Republican votes, and that
party makes no attempt to cheat any
body about its intentions. 1t means to
defend the system which has given
working people fair chance and en-
riched the country. Therefore the free
trade boilers 60 to Mr.. Cleveland
though they do not dare to tell the truth
about it now, as they did six months
ago.-[N. Y. Tribune.