The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-10
r.. rcuJOn "Timcs" COmmends
Him as a Free Trade
Champion.
us Use, the Old Arguments Of
the Golden Club.
.rhe Free Trade Candidate in
Everything but Name"
a Conflict Between Free Trade
and Protection, and Nothing
Less"

Presently the Democratic party will
T., n,,,ins 10 be saved from its friends
oi,be English press. The ISTELLroES-
indebted to the New York World
rp.ml ior extracts from two leading
roalon newspapers on the tariaattitude
o,,be Democratic party and Of its nom
irse Mr.. Cleveland. The London Times,
Jaly0, said:
at would hardly be possible to put
a,. i,cr trade ease more clearly or more
so,as,, aud yctSuch is the forceofword
1y, President Cleveland shrinks from
III. p,c Of the term free trade, and in
ht declares that those who taunt him
with being free trader are deceiving
he country. Free trade appears to be
elriyaIent, in the language OF American
POLITICAL controversy, to enemy OF the
vorkingmcn and Of industrial enter
Prses.'
That it should be so is one OF the
curiosities Of politics and m extraordi-
nary instance Of the power OF a phrase
even over minds which are commonly
.llrwd and reasonable; for it is certain
that the Arguments which President
Cleveland urges are those which Golden
used to employ forty.iive years ago and
which any English Free-Trader would
employ now. Such propositions as that
taxation ought to be strictly limited by
the needs OF the country; that it is un-
Just to tax the whole community for the
benefit Of special classes; that import
duties stilc production and limit the
area Of country's markets, are purely
irc.tradc arguments. As such We are
very glad to see President Cleveland
using them, though we are sorry for the
popular iniatuation which makes it dan
gemus to give them their right name.
to be hoped that his vigorous
denunciation of the useless and dan
geous surplus in the Treasury will have
its proper effect and that the people OF
the United States will at last begin to
ask themselves why they are being
taxed in the prodigious fashion which
rules at present"
The Daily Ntrs says Of the two can
dilates:
"The two candidates for the American
Presidency are now face TO face, and
their latest uttcrances as they appear in
our columns to-day are not unworthy
Of the great contest in which they are
engaged. It is impossible to deny Gen.
Harrison, the Republican candidate,
praise for dignity. lie chooses to say
little in accepting his nomination, but
that little is very well said.
President CIeyeland's speech is more
iothc point. 1t discusses the principles
at issue in the struggle and shows that
heis the free trade candidate in every
thing but name. The reservation is an
important one for American party pur-
poses. The President feels compelled to
characterize the attempt to brand him ms
Free Trader as deception, but for all
that the electoral conflict now in pro-
gress is a conflict between free trade and
protection and nothing less. This is n
very good conflict as things go, and, like
warfare between good and evil, it threat
ems to he perpetual. Mr.. Cleveland may
Ind more formidable antagonist in
6enenl Harrison than We have been