The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-24
He Attacks the Presidents
Tariff Views.
GLEE OF BRITISH TRADERS.
leans Took Up the Preside uts
Gauntlet Of Free Trade With
Great Pleasure" '-sH ra.
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of Massachusetts,, Mayor of Boston
presidents of colleges and large num-
| Der OF other distinguished persons,
representing mass meeting held on
November 18th last, to welcome the
! British peace deputation. khe petition
was referred to the committee on Nr
| eign relations.
Edmunds, from the judiciary com.
mittee. to which had been referred the
investigation into the Jackson, Miss. :,
izing that committee to send for per
sons and napers inquiring into the al
legged participation of Federal officials
in the suppression of votes Of coored
cilizens. he resolution tas adopted
FRYE called up the motion 70 refer to
the committee on fnance the Presi
| dents annual message, and proceed 10
| discdss the message, in which he said
| the President had clearly thrown down
the gauntlet to free trade. There was
an attempt: he admitted, at disguise,
| but so feeble that it did not deesive any
one. The message had been received
with unbounded Joy in Great Britain.
| The British press had at once proceeded
! TO self -congratulation and to strip off
mercilessly the Presidents disguise.
These congratulations. he said, would
have continued if the voice of warning
had not been heard. The warning
was that such English expression
had better be curbed, or the full fruition
of English hopes never would be en
joyed He quoted from the Pail Mel5
Gazette to that effect, and said that i'm
mediately there had been transforma-
ton. Free trade pa! ers of Great Brit
49,, hnA 4 OF hpS, raVf .f
graduation and had proceeded to con-
graduate tae United States and to
prophesy unbounded prosperity for
this country Great Britain had
seemed suddenly to recognize the fact
that this country was her daughter, and
to evinee her friendship and affection.
He declared emphatically that Bng-
land had never In one single in
stance evinced any sympathy for this
country; and that she never had per-
misted an opportunity to iDJure this
sountry to pass uMmproved. He de-
clared that the counsel, advice and
friendship of Great Britaia to any ma
ton in commercial matters had in
variably and inevitably resulted in in
pry DO the nation whish accepted it.
ireland was an instance of that, and
yet, said be, Great Britain hoped and
the Democratic party expected the
Irish votes next fall for Cleveland as
the Democratic candidate for the Prssi-
deney. One of the leading free-trade
speakers in England had declared,
years aga that the greatest triumph of
Great Britain would he the subjugation
of the market of the United States. In
the promise of the Presidents message
They could see that subjugatien nigh at
hand.
Great Britain to-day, had her market
open to the world, while otner countries
had their markets partially closed to
her. She found now, within her own
borders, the fiercest kind of competi-
ton, and her industries were falling
off. But England heard the President
of the United States declare in his an
nGal message, that the tariff (the only
obstacle to English possession of the
American market) was vicious, illog-
ical, inequItabbe and what wonder is it
that English people deafened American
ears with their cries of Hear, hear"
They. saw him adopt as the slogan of
the Democratic party for the prssiden-
tial battle of 1888, the old fundamental
doctrine of free trade. that duty is
tax paid by the consumer. What won
der that they hailed Mr.. Cleveland
as their champion. But the atti-
tude of the Democratic party of this
country was of more Importance
practically, than the attitude OF Great
Britain.
Would the Democratic party of the
United States be asked to endorse their |
new chief. He was strongly inclined |
to think that it would. He thought /
that the Democratic party of the eoun-
~ rnollN Gho rod N tho pr0ai ttC
yictions, and really believed that the
tariff was vicious, illogical and iniqui-
toHs. The controlling element of the
Democratic party has been always in
the south. and the southern wing Of the
Democratic party controls it to-day as
powerfully and as completely as it did
before the rebellion. There was
not the slightest doubt as 10
the attitude of the south On this
question. Rhe Democratic party had
its promotion to power by
that the tariff be revised and I
the, whole business .ofJthe country be /
disturbed. The Democratic cbairmen of
the committee of way and means, since
the aquisition of power in the House,
has been Fernando Wood, with RAM
dolph Tucker as assistant. and William
r. Morrison. All three Of them out
and out theoretical z free-traders.
To-day, Mills, of Texas, was chair
man of that committee, and Mr.-Mills :
was even crank in his devotion to the
principles of free trade. and endorsed
the message of the President. The dis.
Speaker of the House, in his
devotion to the principles of free {
trade, had dared in the last Congress
oI arrogste1 to himself almost despotic
powers, to declare, from his high place,
hat he would recognizes no member Of i
.he House to. make any motion to cut A.
Town the surplus unless lit was first
submitted to a. Democratic eaucns. The +
Democtstic Secretary of the Treasury
had also joined in the choral song of ;
rec trade, apparently with all his heart.
La fine, he was satisfied that all Demo-
cratic leaders agreed with the President, bi
except that they had not the Presi-
1ent's boidness or honesty. he, how
sver, by cheating the people in next
election as.to their position, they could
get new lease of power and obtain the I