San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-06-25

own manufacturers TO hold their own
with the present protective duties on
iron. Another decade or two and, with
her railroads affording transportation at
cost under governmental management,
India under free trade conditions will
place her wheat in this market cheaper
than it can be grown in our home fields
with American labor. The same will
be true of nearly all our food products,
OF which we have had a monopoly so
many years that the reversal Of the order
seems impossible. This attempt OF the
Morrison clique TO reduce the tariff on
wool is but the entering wedge Of free
trade policy that, If carried out, will leave
all the industries Of this country Grip
pied; will bind hand and fool all our free
labor and reduce it to the serf condi-
tiOns of the Felleen and Sudras of Egypt
and India; will close the doors Of our
wooden and cotton manufactures; rake
out the fires in our iron furnaces; drive
our wheat, rice, beef, mutton and canned
goods from our markets, and leave us
at the mercy of those nations whose
lands are as fertile as our own, and whose
labor conditions are such that we can
not compete with them without making
serfs of our own freesoilers. This tariff
tInkering this session Of congress has
been of incalculable mischief. 1t has
kept the market for our great wool
staple In condition OF feverish alarm;
it has caused great uncertainty among
our sheep ranchers as TO the possibility
Of continuing business with the proba-
bility Of reduced wool tariff staring
them in the face; 1t has lowered the
price Of wool at nearly every cOnsidera-
BILE market in the United States, and
has only received its quietus when the
season lie so far advanced that little
farther damage could result. The ac-
ton of this democratic congress on this
wool question alone has been such rs to
politically damn them in the eyes Of
every protectiOnist in this country. The
Industrial interests of this nation are of
greater Importance than any mere party
perpetuatiOn, and the only safety OF
American agriculturists, manufacturers
and labOrers is to elect men to power
committed TO protective legislation.
Not only committed, the democratic
party was that, but men who will keep
their pledges with the people, as the
Republican party did when in power.
Cook AND LILLY will probably not go
over the road until October, rs there are
fair grounds for believing that re-
hearing OF the case will be had at Ty-
Ter next fall.
THE Prohibitionists are putting their
best foot foremost to capture the coun-
try. They have sworn out indictments
against old King Alcohol and jolly Gam
brinus charging them with all the sins
in the calendar, and are imploring
heaven, moving earth and defying hell
in their efforts to secure sentence Of
perpetual Punishment against them.
Little by little they are drawing their
lines closer and closer; every year sees
them gaining some ground, particularly
in the south and west, and this year finds
them more active, aggressive and deter
mined than ever. Free whisky and pro-
hibition are in the same boat. They are
extremes of an idea in itself good and
like all extremes are to be avoided.
Sumptuary laws will never be Of practi-
cal force in free country. They are
opposed to the spirit and genius of the
government, and so doomed to failure
after some fitful successes as expert
ments.