Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-03

would be left without employment unless they
accepted such prices.
But assuming, for the sake of argument that
the tariff is tax upon our own people, it is a
tax upon imported luxuries, sugar alone
excepted and the Democracy refuses to change
the tariff on that commodity. The money r.
eeiyed from tariff duties goes TO support the
Government. The three hundred millions re
quired annually 10 run this Government must
be collected from some source either as q direct
tax upon the people or as an import duty. The
Democracy has used this money and used ii IN
their own way, snd used it all. The so-called
surplus to-day Is less than twenty millions OF
dollars, showing cOnclusiYeiy that this whole
scheme of the surplus is a matter Of politics,
gotten up by Mr.. Cleveland TO attract attention
from other AID more glaring defects OF his
policy.
THE PRESIDENT AGAINST THE PEOPLE.
In the Presidents message to Congress he
claimed in effect that the nation was in peril.
answer, American labor and American indus
tries are in peril. The Presidents course, ever
since his election, and the whole trend of the
controlling power of the Democratic party, has
been to mperil the industries of the country.
Before his Inauguration. in the interest of Wall
street, he attacked silver money, the recognize
money of the people. In the interest of the
national banss he, for a long time refused to
redeem bonds that were due from the surplus
in the Treasury, and since then until the COM
lneneement of this canvass he neglected TO pur-
chase bonds which were not due from the same
surplus, although the law permitted this 10 be
done. And thus, by his own act, he has caused
the very dangers of which he complains
de has vetoed more bills than all his prede-
cessors, from Washington down they were all
wrong, or he alone is right. He has thus as
sumed the power of legislation and indirect vi
Olation of the clear intent OF the Constitution
and the precedents of the past in matters purely
OF discretion he has placed his own Judgment
before that of Congress, and thus united the
executive and legislative departments of the
Government. He sends to Congress treaty
with England, which is a Clear surrender OF
American rights in American waters. When
that treaty is defeated by the Senate he for DO
litical purposes, and for use of this canvas
alone, seeks TO Ietaliate on England for doing
Just what the treaty, if it had been adopted,
would have legaliZed. He recommends to Con-
gress the payment to China of large sum of
money for the destruction of property and
the killing by mob of thirteen Cinnamon in
Wyoming, and yet he vetoes bills for the pay
ment of pensions to the widows and orphans of
soldiers who died in defense of their country.
In word, Mr. Cleveland stands forth to-day as
great enigma in American craftsmanship.
Sbrewd and cunning beyond the average OF
men, he is great in nothing. Full of surprises,
his principles are Tor day they cannot be
for all time.
All thinking men admit there are grave cues
tons involved in this eontest-queStiOns which
Will affect in marked degree the future of the
Republic. To repeat it may be stated as ill
axiom in political economy, that the larger the
variety OF the products of a people, the higher
the wages of the laboIer, and the more secure
IS capital against market fluctuations and mo-
mentary panics. The reason is that by a Yari-
ETY. of pursuits and large number Of produc.
tions, there is no dsnger of Over-productiou IN
any one article, or rapid rise or decline III
prices The question Of supply and demand Is
regulated by the home market, and is more
carefully studied, because business is run on
more economical principles, ard the general
prosperity Of the whole country is made more
certain.
To increase the number of products we must
give encouragement 10 all, and destroy none OF
them. Wherever by reason of free trade one
American product is placed in competition with
the same article produced by European labor
ours is driven out of the market and there is one
industry less, aud American labor and capital
both suffer.
PROTECTION TO AMERICAN LABOR.
The protection of American labor and Ameri-
can products against the competition of foreign
labor and foreign products is the question. We
argue that when by reason of free trade you
stop protecting any article largely produced at
home, and thus have to look TO foreign marx et
for a supply, home competition ceases with
home production, and the price will necessarily
be increased.
We calm that free trade means European
prices for products and European prices for the
labor that produces them. and thus free trade
viii decrease the number and variety of Ameri-
can industries, limit the field of labor and en-
danger both labor and capital.
DEMOCRACY OF CALIFORNIA.
The position of the Democracy of California
on this subject is unique. To illustrate: Two
years ago the Democratic State Convention de
manded q higher tariff on wool, on the ground
that our wool men were not properly protected.
The plank III their platform expressing their
principles at that time was as follows:
''lhe present tariff on wool, Prepares, a
Republican commission, appointed by Kepub-
ican President, is an unjust discrimination
against q great industry, and we denounce the
same and demand the restoration Of the tariff
of 1861"
1t may be noted that the tariff on wool of 1867
was much higher than the present one But
Mr Cleveland sent message to Congress last
December asking that wool be put upon the
free list. And note the change in the Demo
Gratis OF California.
They met in convention at Los Angeles this
year, and the following resolution referring To
the subject appears il their platform
We heartily indorSe that progressive meas
ure commensurate with and made necessary hy
the growth ana needs of our country. The mes.
sage OF the President urges Il reform in our tariff
which will lessen the eXsctions now practiced
upon our people"
The latter plank was intended to indorse Mr..
Cleveland policy OF free trade; but If any good
Democrat in the audience can tell what il
means he will be wiser than any one of the del
egaieS in the Los Angeles Convention who
adopted the resolution.
In a word, in 1856 the Democrats of California
wanted Il higher tariff on wool because they
didn't want the great industry Disseminated
against" In 1888 they want free trade, aud are
VIKING 10 'uiscTlnlnate against wool. Not that
the II =cessites of the woolindustry have changed
but the Democracy has changed. Mr. Cleveland
issued his edict aud they filed into line, plat
form or no platform Mr. Biggs ana A1r. Tbomp-
som, our two Democratic Congressman from
this State, both elected on the high tariff plat
form, voted for the Mills bill and free wool
VIII these gentlemen please explain TO the peo-
pie of California; whom they seryt t-.he pe1 ple
that elected them. or Mr.. Cleveland? In q
word, two years ago the California Demo racy
were for protection, ana if we are TO believe
their platform, to-day they are fer free trade.
Then they wanted dear blankets now they
want cheap blankets As an spo!ogy for their
action OF to-day they say in one breath that we
are bankrupt on account of the high protective
tariff which they favored two years ago In
another they tell us that we have more money
in the Treasury than we know what to 90 with
that our income must be limited as our surplus
is increasing.
NATIONAL DEMOCRACY As REFoRMERs
As historical fact the Netional Democracy
has but one great principle worthy of the name
and that is free trade. All others are mere DO.
litical expedients used to gather up votes. FOR
instance, four years ago you recollect the Ma
tioDal Democratic Convention demanded civil
service reform; now they do not want il. for
Mr. Cleveland has removed moro people from
office than any one of his predecessors. Yet he
is a Teiormer. Four years ago Mr. Cleveland
thought second term dangerous 10 the perpe-
tuity OF the Republic; this year he is willing to
risk its perpetuity by himself being a candidate
III q oCSoiin ltAlii. 1Atu ne WSUlel 10 turn the
rascals out; now he is willing TO keen the ras.
Gals in. Nothing suits our Democratic friends
better than offices, and they take to them as
ducks do 60 water.
-Four years 40 Mr.. Cleveland declared that a
public Office was o public trust and that no
public officer should participate in partisan pol
ltics. To-day. If we are to believe uncoutr,l-
dicted reports, both he and his Cabinet officers
have contributed $4,000 each to the National
Democratic funds. This is the first instance in
American history when that great office ha,
been 50 degraded. He has thus become tho
first and most illustrious political boodler or his
time, and this, too, in violation of the spirit /;
not of the letter, of the civil service law
The metamorphis of the Democracy since Mr.
Cleveland issued his famous wool message 4
indeed remarkable. They immediately com.
meneed to figure. 1t was their stock in trade
Ihey proved TO themselves how much we Were
losing by duty of 40 cents sd vGlorem on wool
And we were all told how badly of we were,
now much taxes We were paying: how the
laboring classes were suffering here; how well
people get on who live in free trade Countries,
that Aneri' an wool was not near as cheap and
not as good as Australian wool. And by i'm.
plicatiou, said that American mutton was I'M
healthy.
They. seem to forget that for the last eight
years the Democracy had control of the HoIise
Of Representative, in which all tariff laws oripi-
nate. And during all that time until Mr.
Cleveland was elected, they never once Thought
OF the marvellous advantages which would
accrue to our country by reason OF a change in
our tariff laws.
TARIFF On WOOL
They forget that the claim that tariff ON yooI
makes expensive clothing is practically false:
that II Is the labor the sut of clothes thot in,