Daily Republican., 1886-12-10
FRIDAY DEC EaBER 10. 1855
Free Trade Hypocrisy.


As the Carlisle. Morrison free ira fe
school OF Democrats have captured
President Cleveland, and the free
traders all over the country, with those
Of England, are rejoicing over the cap
ture, and as the President In his mes.
sage recommends o reduction In the
necesssries Of life Ii might be Q ques-
ton OF some practical importance as
TO what articles are 80 dear rs to bear
heavily apon the people. Bread Is
called the staff OF life, and ~ the most
OF our bread Is made from wheat we
might very properly ask the farmer Il
lie somewhat solicitous for the welfare
OF the Agricultural, % his productions
are not protected. But he wants
cheaper food for the people. How can
he have cheaper wheat than II now is
IN price? Ask the farmer II raising
wheat at eighty. Ave cents q buslel
pays? We do not see how he can make
wheat cheaper without letting In Indian
waea,, that Is not half as good as
American wheat and that is not used
IN England without mixture Of Amer
AS@A Whons. Wo W nut ucllov6 tub
people OF the United States want this
poor wheat while they can get good
home wheat OF eighty.fve cents q
hushel. Well then wheat and -four are
not taxed. What other necessaries Of
life are taxed? Certainly not tea nor
coH5e, for they have for years been on
the free list. Sugar? Yes, there 1t Ii.
There Is tax on sugar ard 1t ought to
% removed, but that Is one OF the last
things the Democrats would remove
the duty from, ~ 1t protects the Lou
isians sugar producers, and II this tax
vas removed the sugar cane growers OF
that StAte would turn their backs on
the al ADMINISTRATION and the Democratic
party, and would turn the State over to
tbs Repnblicans. The President should
be taken at his word and the duty
should be removed from I'm por ted sugar.
Yet even with this duty sugar never
Was cheaper in this country than it IL
to-day.
Is /, dear clothing then that bears 80
heavily upon the people? Certainly
rot for the competition in the manu-
tacture Of clothing has made IL chea per
than 1t was ever known to be before.
Toe people even now, In preparation
for winter and the coming holidays, are
clothing themselves In new suits
cheaper than they ever did at any other |
tine under protection, and one. half |
cheaper than they ever did under free |
trade. Dear clothing certainly cannot |
be ooe OF the necessarles Of life that is I
grinding our people down into the !;
dregs OF oppression and poverty. Car.
peiiuss, formerly considered lux ury,
are lower now than they ever were,
aud ies.eAd Of poor people having bare,
cold tilors in their dwellings they can
at II TO have them comfortably car
pe5ed. Meats are dearer than they
should be, hat that lie no fault OF a pro- /
tective tariff, as there Is no duty on /
them Well then, where are the arti |
cles 10 be cheapened by free trade that
belong to tie neoessaries OF life2 They
are hard to find. II there Is anything
OF the kind that bears heavily upon the
m assss OF the people let 1t be pointed
cut. We are sure the Republican party
will offer no opposition to having 1t
placed upon the free list. Bat 1t is not
these necessarles OF life that the free
traders with their fresh cap i've, Presi-
dent Cleveland, are driving at Cheap
eDlng the necessarIes OF He Is kind OF
cheap clap-trap which serves rs q bar
rier 10 N AXE an attack on our manuisc.
turing Industries. Labor 10 no. 30
cheap here as In iree-trade England. |
Tia: is where the snoe pin ches. Labor
Is not one OF the so-called necesssrles |
Of lie, but 1t is necessary to epable
American manufacturers to compete
with the manufacturers OF England,
and the reduction Of wages Is what
these free-traders want. Do the labor
ing psopls not see Il? 1t is time they
did.