New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-03
DRIVEN OUT BY FREE TRADE.
4 LEADING BROOKLYN DEMOCRAT WHO BELIEVES
IN psoTECTIsN LEAVES HIS PARTY.

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IN PRoTECTIsN LEAVES HIS PARTY
William H. Grace, a prominent real estate dealer
In Brooklyn and active member OF the first aiu
Democratic Association Of that city, has resigned from
that body on account of the declarations OF the Demo-
cratic platform in favor of free trade In letter
addressed TO Tax Collector Alden D. SWAN, prosiuoh'
of the association Mr. Grace says:
81 Some of the best friends have leading men,
bcrs of your association, and nothing but profound
sense of duty forces nc TO resign my membership I'D
your body sincerely regard President cleveland as
clean honest man, but his views on the tarlH arc al
war with my lifelong convictions am Democrat
pure and simple profoundly believe in homo rule,
in each community making its own local laws and
every man in the community having a voice in those
laws So with the State, with the Nation. Win
ample protection life and property the less gov
eminent the better: the fewer laws The better, inc
fewer officials and the less expensive the Government
the better This is tho pure Democracy, as under
stand IT, Of Thomas jefferson, Andrew Jackson ana
Abraham Lincoln. II is tho democracy of the Chi
caco platform on which Abraham Lincoln was first
nominated and elected. 1t IS the Democracy which
proclaimed protection 10 American labor and Industry
in 1861. II is the Democracy which roplcnlshed inc
National Treasury, prosecuted the war for the Union,
emancpatcd the slaves and made our glorious country
nation in the true by dcdicating every inch OF
its soil TO liberty forever
In opposition to this Is the socalled Democracy OF
John c. Calhoun, who founded the southern school
Of free trade abroad and serfdom at home. When the
high protective tariff OF 1928 was enacted under Inc
first administration of Jackson, Calhoun rpudiatcd
the law and called State Convention of his so-called
Democracy to sustain him. and 1t passed resolutions
doing So We all know what short work Jackson made
OF that convention. Jackson greater protection
ist than Henry Clay, and on 1t he was elccteo ana
his policy brought the country great prosperity After
Jaclson's death tho Calhoun school prevailed, and
Southern leaders prepared the platforms up to the
Rebellion Southern leaders Of the sanlo school and
ideas are in control again. 1t was southern Cal
holn Golden Club Democrat who wrote tho Demo-
cratic platforms in 1876 and in 1883. The first did not
prevail; neither shall the second. They are both
OllAmerican. hostile alike 10 property and INDUS
trial independence. l regard the Chicago platform
as the most positive comprehensive and bcncnccnt
declaration Of principles made by any one party
I'm this Republic. 1t will take rank second only TO
the Declaration Of Independence The issue mahos II
a campaign of principles and not OF men, 1no ne
publican platform can be maintained on the principe
of protection for the sake OF protection; not as an
cxpcdicncy but actual permanent necessity to
advance and improve the Social material moral ana
Intellectual condition Of tho people"