Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-29
Total. 93 occupations .........S57S 40 sl,1c6 S3
Average weekly ....................... - IL 90
A TIMELY PAPER.
General Horace Porter on the Repubii-
can Outlook,

General Horace Porter in the Epoch has
paper upon "The Republican Outlook"
The readers of the REcoRD-UNIoN will
be interested in a synopsis of the views of
General Porter
General Porter states fact when he
says men are taking a more calm and dis
passionate view of politics this year than
ever before, and studying the issue more
diligently and intelligently. The Re
publican party is strong enough in its con-
victions to declare squarely for a protec-
tive tariff. The lodging this year is on
the part of the Democrats. They at
tempted at St. Louis to sugar-coat the
Presidents pill, but succeeded only in
differently so to-day.
Democratic politicians in some States
are at present advocating free trade, in
other States q reduced tariff, and in others
are actually conceding the doctrine of
protective tariff. This is attempting to
localize the issue with vengeance. 1t
is a conviction of wrong which makes
them conservative upon theleading issue"
He AYERS that the experimenting of
century proves that all movement in the
direction of free trade has been followed
by business depression, and sometimes a
and demonstrated that under their system
the price of manufactured articles fall
Thus steel rails have fallen from $40 to
S2S per ton. Germany, with protection,
has brought down manufactures until Eng
land, with free trade, goes to Germany to
have her ocean cables manufactured.
Under free trade our leading factories
would have been closed, and foreign man
g., Al. IL i
have raised the price of import goods
and draft out our gold, unless we
enforced pauper wages. England
and America are commercial rivals,
and as England strives to fix free trade
upon us, we should resent it, because q it is
safe rule in var and peace never to do
what your enemies want you to do The
importers want duties removed, that
ihey may land goods cheaper, but they do
not intend that consumers shall reap the
benefit. Farmers should not be free-trad-
ers, because most of agricultural workers
are not soil-owners, and a low tariff would
| create lower wages and give less employ
ment for mechanics and laborers in faeto-
ries, and farmland wages would proper
tionately decline as mechanics would be
| thrown out So, too, reduction of wages
would diminish the purchasing power of
the consumers, and thus the market for
products would be unfavorably affected, as
dependence must be placed more and more
| hereafter upon the home market. The
present tariff has made every article the
lspoor man eats or wears steadily cheaper,
and every tool used by the mechanic lower
! in price
| The General chen touches upon the con-
ditions that fortify protection. Thus, he
holds that the seh0al system, the 6issem-
ination of general intelligence, the stimu-
lating of the inventive genius of the peo-
pie kave done mach to bring about re-
duction in prices; and that this improve
mentsn the social and intellectual condi-
| ton Of the masses is mainly due to pro-
| tective system wkieh has enabled the
! workipgman to educate his children, TO
clothe them in a 1T manner to attend
school and TO surround them by an atmos-
phere of respectability which has lifted
| them from position of mere laboring an
inlals aud has increased their capacity for
intellectual efforts. The paRper wages in
free-trade countries have prevented the
working classes from rising in the scale of
being. They have not enabled worknen
to bear the expenses of education or ever
to dress their children respectfully enough
to attend school, and the children are fol-
lowing stupidity il the footsteps OF the pa
rents without any marked development in
their mental capacities or the acquiring of
skill which is based upon intelligence,
and is essential in increasing the standard
of excellence in mechanical industries.
He next takes up the guarantees of the
Constitution Of a republican form of gov
ernment in every State, and adds thai
they are not secured in xeveral of the
Ssputhern States-where large class is
derived of its political rigIls-the free
and untrammeled exercise OF the sacred
right On suffrage. Ii the North every cit
izeu can Sote--even the rabid anarchist /;
in the South the colcred citizens right in