Daily Republican., 1884-05-31
Il tae Tariff q DeIusiOn .


"a dslusion and snare" is wha
the free trade journals call the present
protective tariff, so far as it concern
fostering our infant industries. II this
is true this is the very kind Of delu
sion and snare the country needs mor'
of. They say moreover that this custom
house tariff has been tried hundred
years, and the result is the same, il
cripple industries. We believe a hun
dred years take in nearly the life time
of our nation and then all that it is must
have been attained under protective
tariff, and there can be none who will not
admit that our country has grown to a
considerable size in that time and it is
no weak power when it is called on to
exert itself.
1t may be crippled and weak, but if
it is, there is no country in the world
stronger, nor can there be one found
that has increased faster in material
wealth and population. If the country
has been ruined by a protective tariff
it is very strange that millions Of people
from the free trade countries Of Europe
should be so anxious to come to this
tariff cursed country. lfprotection is
delusion and snare" we should
rather suppose thar immigration woul d
be the other way and that instead of
workingmen getting from ten to fifteen
dollars week for labor, they would be
getting five and nine dollars week as
they do in free trade England.
"a delusion and a snare" what
silly balderdash No intelligent man
will be deceived by such senseless twad-
die Crippled our industries" why,
it is just what has built them up. 1t
has enabled us to manufacture our own
goods instead of depending upon other
countries to supply us. We keep our
money at home and pay our working
men better wages than they can get
elsewhere. They live better, and clothe
themselves better than any free trade
nation under the sun.
1t has dotted our country all over
with iron mills, wollen and cotton mills,
glass works, carpet factories, coach
works and machine shops 1t has built
up diversified industries almost innu.
merable. 1t has in the hundred years
referred TO increased the population
from three millions to fifty million.
No other nation on the globe has ex-
perienced such prosperity. Under this |
ruinous system of protection our work
ing classes have comfortable homes
with carpeted floors, good furniture,
every needed convenience of life and
even its luxuries.
In what other country do we fnd the
working classes and their families oc-
cupying such advantages? Cross over
the ocean 10 free trade Great Britain, the |
scene changes. There we see in all its |
forbidding aspects the result of free
trade. How true it is that these men
earn their bread by the sweat of their
brow. and it may also be said that it is
not of the best quality, and neither do
they earn much else besides. Wives
and children have to labor in the work.
shops at hard, laborous labor, not
suited to their weak, fragile forms, to
make ends meet, and after all, they
can scarcely keep soul and body TO-
gether.
If this were not so why do these poor
oppressed people come here by thou
sands a week TO find country whore
they can do better. The stream Of i'm
migration has been increasing all the
time these miserable sycophants Of free
trade have been crying out that the
country has been ruined by protection.
And when these immigrants get here
they stay. They DO not act as if they
We're disappointed, pick up their traps |
and get back 10 enjoy the wonderful |
blessings Of free trade. II cannot bel
said that they cannot 90 back if they
wished to do So for many Of them have
accumulated funds enough ahead tol
enable them to cross the ocean every
year without financial Inconvenience i
Thousands Of these men who came even
to Wilmington own their homes, AMI
many of them are engaged largely in
manufactures and merchandising.
This is the kind Of "delusion and
a snare " custom house protection has
given to thi. country, and this is what
the free trade theorists are trying to
pull down. Did our working men who
regularly vote with the party that fa-
vors free trade theories ever stop to con-
slider what the results of free trade
would be to this country and to them =? |
If they have not done so they should do
80 now. All that is needed to make
this country what Great Britain is, is |
70 abolish this custom house tariff that
free trade papers say has b cen a "de-
fusion and snare" No party is in IA
vor Of the abolition Of the tariff but the
Democratic party Workingmen of
Wilmington, are you in favor of it'll
Think before you cast your ballot.
THERE is not a word of truth in the
report Of the New York Herald that
Blaine did not want the nomination for
President on account Of the certainty
Of Tilden's election if the latter was
nominated. It is true that Blaine has
not sought nomination, and it is
equally true that he will accept it if
rendered him, but il s NOT rue that he
will be scared by Tllru n any other
Democratic cipher.
REPORTS from Chicago say that AR
thur is urged for the domination in
preference to Blaine because he can
dicker with John Kelly, who wants to
be the next Mayor Of New York. That
would be a bad Old dcker, and would
at once inaugurste a campaign without
principle.
lHE peaches are SgIe This is good
news to all Delawartans aud the mil
lions who enjoy the hest frnit raised in