Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-11-02
TWO PICTURES.
What the Result VIII be CCzeernf7e, the
Tariff Decision

lhe question Is often asked, "Why are
you Repubiiean," and it is proposed to
| give few reasons below for the faith that
| guides us into Republican ways, also, a few
reasons that warn us against Democracy
| and free trade, Wig: because,
REPUBLTcANIsM HAS
Sabdued the rebellion and saved the Union.
Conquered war and established peace.
Gave freedom to race and free ballot
to all men.
Was patriotic enough to create debt to
carry on war, and henest enough to make
provision to pay that debt.
Made liberty universal throughout the
States and the flag honored throughout
the world.
Made treason odious, and LOYALTY the
badge of respected citizenship.
Raised the nation frora bankruptcy and
secured for our public credit the faith of
the financial world.
Made persons and property and free
dom Of thotEght and of expression secure
in every part Of the land.
Has digniBed labor and secured its right
full reward by protective tariff laws.
has practically given each citizen a free
home by securing the public domain from
the monopoly of capital
Has, by a rigid supervision. of corporate
franchise, made transportation cheap, safe
and rapid for persons and property.
Has by wise economies and iust laws re-
duced the public debt and the interest
upon it.
Has by generous and yet just appropri
alton for pensions, illustrated It's love and
n
Has made competency condition for
appointment to office and fidelity to duty
the tenure for holding it.
Has reduced the public expenditure to
the lowest point consistent with the gen
eral welfare, and collected the tax from
sources best able to pay it.
Has made religious liberty more secure
to all forms of faith by an enlightened pub
lie opinion, and established free schools
with no sectarian denomination in them.
Has by fidelity to public trust, by its
constitutional amendments, by its. statutory
enactments, Federal and State. by the life
and character ofits long line of statesmen,
heroes, orators and martyrs, by its sacred
traditions, and its matchless history of
great things accomplished, proven itself
competent and worthyto achieve the great
things yet to be done for the good and
glory of the country.
Free trade is no experiment in America.
Sad experience of the past ought to warn
the wage worker and laborer VIII you
profit by your experience? Answer at the
ballot-box in November.
DEMOCRACY AND FREE TRADE WOULD
Shriyel the public revenue.
Drain the country of money.
Drive labor largely from theland.
Lower the standard of comfort.
Scale down all salaries and profits.
Revive here the British colonial system.
Turn the balance of trade against us.
Inundate this country with foreign
goods.
Destroy our capacity for cheap produc-
ton.
Universally reduce the value of farming
land.
Unsettle all forms of mercantile busi-
ness.
Instantly cause paralysis in iron man.
ufacture.
Increase farm products and diminish the
market.
Strike the skilled laborer first and most
severely.
Destroy the possibility of diversified en-
ployment.
Paralyze the arm Of the worker and
empty his pocket.
Add greatly to the wealth of the rich
and make the poor poorer
Leave skilled labor the alternative of
idleness or English wages
Close up thousands of mills, factories,
furnaces and workshops.
Empty the building associations of their
tens of millions of dollars.
Destroy our coasting trade, from which
all foreign tonnage is excluded.
Rob us of our industrial prosperity for
the benefit of Manchester and Birming-
ham,
Make labor beggar at the feet of capi-
tai instead OF partner and an equal, as
now.
Substitute for the music of the looms and
lathes and hammers the complaints of idle
workmen.
Eventually place America practically in
the condition of agricultural countries like
India and Southern Russia.
Bankrupt many railroads and displace an
! immense number of laborers in transporta-
tion, by reason of a diminished internal
commerce.
Make these States the dumping ground
for England's surplus products, which neces-
sity would compel us to take, upon her own
terms.