The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-29


In Every State Nah of Mason and
DIxon's Linc-soe Frozen Facts
New York, Ociber 23.-The Sun
this morning prits the following
double-leaded leaer on the political
outlook
1T will now bedmitted IS every
|candid and closepbserver nat the
recent election in)hio tur'scd chief
ly upon the queion of protection
rersas free trade, hat issue having
been projected VII peculiar empha-
sis by the defeat I Mr.. Hurd in a
district which is ront to be over
whelmingly Delocratic. No eva
sion of this primry and vital point
in controversy bsween the two great
parties will hedorth be possible.
The great manufacturing industries,
and the millions workingmen who
depend on them Dr. their livelihood,
are fully awakend to the gravity OF
the impending csis, and cannot be
cheated into usig the ballot against
their interests. But if the great
mass of artisans ave set their faces
against changes rhich would inev-
itably cause an abrupt dislocatlon
of our industriabystem and u dis
tressing fall of wges, it will be inn
possible for Clevland to carry a sin
gle Northern Stae.
'The only hrthern States In
which the Demoratic party, weight
ed with a stolidgross, and offensive
candidate and iiscredited by the
aggressive and nti protectionist az
titude Of its mjority in Congress.
has now any chnce at all of win
ming, are, of course Indiana, New
! York, New Jersy, and Connecticut
Admitting for tie sake of argument
that Cleveland viii gain the solid
lSouth, he mustto tie elected, carry
the first two, or he last three of the
four States mentioned. Now, there
lis no reason to suppose that the In
stinct of self-preervation will be
whit less operative upon the large
manufacturing interests of Indian:
than it proved the other day IL
Ohio; while il Connecticut, New
jersey and New York that instinc
must, from thenature of the case.b b.
more intensely stimulated and NOR
decisively potelt. In every one 0
these three Stats theindustries tba
have been fosleled and shielded b,
the policy of protection of American
labor against cushing competition
by the greedy tapital and starving
proletariat of Europe, stand for a IA
larger fraction If the productive en-
ergies and resources of the common
wealth. Such , change of our tisca
policy as the f.iends of Mr.. Morrl
son openly favored, though they di,
not think it feasible to extort com
pliance with their full demand
from Congress-such a transforma
ton of our tariff as Mr.. Hurd ha
been so rudely disciplined by hi
constituents for advocating-woul
grievously disrupt and cripple eve
States mainly agricultural like Obi
and Indiana, aud would even ther
drive tens of thousands out of EN-
ployments. But in New Yorl
where a much larger proportioa c
population looks to factories an
workshops for its daily bread, tn
effect of repeal of the protectiv
tariff, or of measures directly teno
ing to the disavowal of its principl,
would be vastly more calamitou
while it would blast and paralyz
States distinctivelv manufacture
like New Jersey and Connecticut.
"The skilled workmen of our fat
tories were never so perfectly aliv
to their fundamental interests, an
nobody can gull them into commi
ting suicide. Their votes will nevt
! pave the way for foreign competitor
come down to t1affefn tr1uge Uur1e
| by men who will brook no tampel
ing with the earnings and securit
of American labor, under an advers
majority so huge that no effort
however desperate, in the cities {
New York and Brooklyn will ava
to disinter the corpse"
!