The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-20
A POLICY THAT WILL NOT BE EN-
DORSED.


pathway "hard road to trabble." Run
ming for President of the United States,
President OF the Southern Confederacy,
and General Agent of the British Cob
den Club free trade league, is a large
contract for even his huge body with its
small head. He may feel flattered with
the praises he is constantly receiving
from his British masters for his fidelity
to their interest, and proud to have them
say to the world that he "has done more
to advance the cause of free trade with
America than any prime minister Eng
land has ever had" That he may con-
slider feather in his English cap; but
the good, solid masses of the American
people firmly believe the interests of the
American citizen should be of the first
importance to any man aspiring to be
the executive head of the Republic. He
may be pleased with the support of the
solid South, the praises of the trainers of
the rebel state constitution to which he
pays the strictest attention in the man
to the manner of raising revenue-and
their approval of his declaration that
the method adopted and approved by
the old fathers of the Republic are ellie
gal, illogical and vicious" Itmay be de-
lightful to his heart to hear himself fiat
tered for his fidelity to the first article
of the confederate states constitution,
which reads as follows:
Congress shall have power TO levy
and collect taxes, duties and excuses for
the common defence and carry on the
government of the confederate states.
But no bOalYties shall be granted from the
treasury nor shall any duties or tares on I'M
portatiOns from foreign nations be laid to
promote or foster any branch OF home indus
try"
But no true friend of American indus
try who loves his own country better
than he loves England, the arlstocratic
oppressor of the laboring classes of all
nations, can see in this any thing to APP
prove. 1t can only crafty Golden clubs
of England, who have sworn never to
rest satisfied till they have brought the
manufacturing and laboring interests Of
this country down to the level of the old
world. Cleveland may, perhaps, expect
in return for his servillty to his British
masters liberal contributions to his cam
paign, as they made in the Hancock
campaign, but there is not an honest,
patriotic American but scorns with loath-
ing and disgust the demagogue who
would accept even the Presidency of the
Republic purchased by British gold, if
such thing were possible.
But 1t is not, as Grover Cleveland is
doomed to learn. The sober sense of
the loyal people of this Republic is be-
ing thoroughly aroused to the danger of
the situation. The very arguments used
by MIR. Cleveland and his satellites in ia
vor of his policy are the arguments that
should and will arouse the thinking pa
triot of America. For instance, they tell
us the reduction of the tariff on foreign
manufactures will admit them to freer
competition with our own, and cheaper
the cost to the consumer. Now, every
man in the land fit to exercise the cleo
tive franchise knows that for every
81 900 worth Of foreign goods used in
nestle goods of the same kind, and the
labor employed in the manufacture of
the domestic is no longer needed, but
must be bound over to some other occu-
patton, and the domestic laborer must
as we'll as the manufacturer come down
to the British level. Perhaps this might
be made palmer to the Minnesota farm
er by supposing the Mills bill should
pass, taking their zoe per bushel duty
from wheat. Manitoba has larger
wheat area than Minnesota. The mar
ket being free, Manitoba must get 20c
per bushel more for her wheat than she
now gets or you must get Zoe less in your
own state markets. So with your fax,
corn, barley and oats, for if Manitoba is
admitted free to the wheat markets of
Minnesota the farmers of Minnesota
must compete with the Manitoba on
equal terms in our home markets. The
intelligent people of this country too
well understand that if foreign goods
take the place of domestic products the
money to buy them must 60 TO foreign
countries, and this with diminished
home market for the farmers products
inevitably brings disaster. But it is the
Cleveland policy, and just what England
and her free trade Democratic allies pro-
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