Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-07-30

aVermont Democrats not all FreeS
Traders. -zsa

While there are some democrats In
this State who are so welded to the
idols of democracy, and so controlled
bv the ring-masters of their party as
to be and do anything that they are
ordered to do, there are large class
of honest, Independent men IN the
ranks that earnestly desire the best
things in state and national politics.
In common with all good citizens they
desire to see such laws enacted as
shall best promote good morals, bus
mess prosperity, and national honor.
Most of these are opposed to the free
trade tendencies of the party as it is
now made up. These men realize
that the enactment of the Mills bill
into law, by vote of one hundred
and sixty democratic representatives,
in opposition to the arguments OF
Samuel j. Randall, one of the ablest
and best men in the party, would be
a great blow to the interests of the
country, and especially so to the farm
ers and the manufacturers OF New
England.
The democratic politicians are striv-
ing very hard to parry the blow that
falls so heavy on the party; and
some of them declare that it is not a
free trade measure that it is not
measure to cripple the North while
it benefits the south. In answer to
such statements we refer to the fact
that the bill puts on to the free list
among other things, Northern lum-
Der, wool, salt, beans, peas, wheat
corn, oats, rye, barley, vegetables,
flax. lime, etc. The bill protects the
South on rice on which there is tar
iff of two cents a pound, on sugar OF
66 per cent.
But possibly with democrats the
statements of Henry Watterson, one
of the brightest and most influential
democrats in the party, publisher of
the Louisville COurier-JOu1ndl and
Chairman of the Committee on Reso-
lutions, who made and reported the
platform at the last democratic con-
vention will be taken as truth from
the true democratic standpoint. Mr..
Watterson, in his own paper July 8,
1888, says:
Tariff reduction of ''the Henry
Watterson kind" is the Tariff reduc-
ton of the St. Louis Platform, and
none other. 1t may be
that I have been more earnest and
insistent in the matter of urgency,
but nOaUhere and at no time haze e!c-
ceeded the demands made by the st.
Louis Platform, which | not only
voted for in committee, and reported
to the Convention, but which is an
exact reproduction of my own view
delivered over and over again.
Now, as to what the the ''Watter-
son Standard is, we may gather from
the two following extracts, both taken
from the Louisville Courier-Journol
of March, 1882:
The Democratic party, except i'll
the persons of imbeciles hardly worth
mentioning, is not on the fence Il
is q Free Trade Party on 1t is nothing.
The Democrat who is not Free
Trader should go elsewhere. He
should join the Republicans.
The Democratic Party aciU make q
Free Trade fight IN 1884. # 1t loses
1t aciU make another IN 1888. The
conflict 5etween Free Trade and Pro
, lection is irrepressibZe and must be
fought out to the bitter end. w
spit upon compromises and propose
neither to ask nor give quarter.
The democrats have been able &C
pass their free trade tariff-reductior
measure in the House of Representa-
tives, and would pass it in the Senate
if it was not republican. Protection
democrats will understand what Mr.
Watterson means.