Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-10-20
Stand in Line.

One of the greatest political issues of the century is upon us; if not indeed the very greatest,
 The fight is for the triumph of the old free trade doctrines of the South 10 brlng American labor into competition
 with the psuper and semi-slsve labor of all the world, as against the triumph of the principles of protection to American industrial labor, under which, as @
 whole, tho nation has made such giant strides in material wealth. and is now the richest nation on the earth. The cry now made by the democratic leaders to blind the real issue, IS that
 they mean. tariff reform only; but If the democratic masses mean that THE LEADERS DO NOT.
 they are only masking their batteries they have pronounced protection "per-
 niclous" and plainly introduced the thIn
 end of full free trade wedges in fEee wool, free lumber, free salt, free
 borax, free quicksilver. and other srti | cles, and in reducing to almost nominal | figures the tariff on fruits, lead, and that | grestest of our growing interests and of 6 nations strength, iron. and if continued | in power they will continue to drive home those free trade wedges, and ex- tend those principlrs in which they be- lieve. and which IS to-day running even
 mighty England, for free trade, or uni
 verssl competitor, IS 6 principle thai tends only to make
 II The destruction of the doctrines of Protection under which lAmerlcs has | fiourished as a nation has ever done be- fore as testified to, not only by statistics and our own observations, but even by
 such great foreign statesmen as Bis
 marck, is frsught with awful dangers to
 which Republicans are not bind. Nor
 is this the only issue; minor but still | greater issues are involved. The pres ent administration ID alliance as II IS
 with the mono-metallism of the Geld
 Bugs of the monoy ed rings is ln persis- tant opposition to the coinage of silver, whereby money is rendered scarce Tn the
 interests of banks, money lenders, and
 wealthy people genesalIy, but the peo- pie at large suffer, and our great west ern mining interests languish. and like | our great lrOu lutcrt5trg with comparative destruction,
 If Cleveland democracy is successful
 in 1888, the country will be dominated
 and governed by and in the interests of | the importer worried sristocrs,y of the
 north and of the south, and of these
 who once before when
 DETERMINED TO RULE OR RUIN Dt-.I 4ko ..4,o, ,rta sha Uraatast civil war that was ever known. Ii is the writer's firm belief that
 should the present southern and New
 York, Cleveland and Mills free trade crusade and the attempt to crown i'm porters and discrown labor be success | ful aud the resources of the nation be
 once more fully placed in the control of | those who used them not long ago to
 destroy the union, thst it may lead to in- ternecine war. the end and outcome of
 which, and its result, ID relation to the union, of the east and of the west as
 we'll ss of the Forth and of the south, 1t
 is not possible to forecast.
 IL behooves Republicans and all who desire the welfare of our common coun- try to
 AGAIN STAND IN LINE, And shoulder to shoulder lire their bal
 lots this time for the protection of white
 labor, east and west, north and south,
 lest they should have again to stand m line to fire lesden bullets. Let well enough, alone. reduce taxation, but do
 not reduce the toillng American millions
 to 6 competing level with the down
 trodden masses of Europe, or evil will
 follow. Our cItizens are not made ot the material that will peacesbly dwell | in hopeless serfdom like those Of Flu rope, Mexico or China.
 No Republican. DO thoughtful msn
 should fail to cast his vote where the national issues are concerned for the preservation of our nation from an lm-
 porting sristocrscy and national psuper- | ism and in favor of that protective syt-
 tenn which is building up our industries,
 developing our boundless resources, and
 rendering
 AMERICA INDEPENDENT or ALL, And for us to dc this in Arizons We
 must rebuke at the polls the present sd
 minIstration, and must sustain the in- coming, by voting for the republican
 nominee, General Wilson. for Delegate
 to Congress, snd not return 6 demo-
 cratic nominee unless we wish to sustain
 and support the party to which Delegate
 Smith says expressly he belongs, for his own words are, and he said in his last
 congressIonsi speech whilst referring to
 the Mills and Cleveland free trade party.
 it is, "the party 10 which l belong" A REPUBLICAN.