Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-06

wings to the pinnacle and acme of the
glory of human success.
Once more in the history of our coun-
try we are brought face to face in the
question and defense of old principles
and governmental policies which should
have been settled long ago, such as the
protective tariff, tariff reduction and free
trade. We did not think that IN the
light of the events of the last twenty
seven years the utility and benefit of a
protective tariff system to America and
Americans should be called in question.
In the consideration of these questions
one should keep in mind the
origin of the free trade vagaries III this
country They We're conceived, born
and rocked in the cradle of slavery. For
two hundred and forty years slavery ex-
isted in this country, and especially III
the southern states. The southern peo-
bic have for years been committed to
free trade, even as far back as 1892,
when John G. Calhoun inaugurated null
LITIGATION in Charleston, South Carolina,
and was summarily squelched by Cen
eral Jackson.
Southerners did not pay their laborers
anything; hence if they could get all
they consumed at low free trade
prices they would have been
happy. But no, it was not
to be, for their enthusiasm far o'erleaped
their discretion and they gave the Re
publican party one more chance to I'M
mortalize itself and to put one more gem
in its diadem of glory, and it acquitted
itself most molly by going steadily for
ward to the right, which led TO the pres
ervation of the union and the destruc-
ton of slavery. Through the emancipa-
ton proclamation of the immortal Abra-
ham, which embodied the divine COM
mand of infinite justice, slavery was not
to be. and in the midst of the fierce
charge. the roar and din Of battle and
| the clash of arms the shackies were torn
! from the limbs of four millions of
human slaves. and the Republican
party By that act heralded all
/ over this land and TO every notion on
| the globe, this one immortal truth and
principle, that if a man labors he shall
receive pay.
I Is that all Republicans have done for
| labor and the country: Not by any
| means. After they cemented and made
/ sacred by their blood, their limbs and
| heads if you please, that paramount
principle, that if man labor he shall
/ receive pay, they made that pay good.
They have not only made it possible for
| the laborers OF this country to make two
dollars where they only made one back
under Democratic times, but they made
| that money good. The laborers of today
are not afraid to 90 to bed for
! fear this money will 'gpilcf before morn
/ ing. The Republican party through the
| instrumen tally OF John Sherman, OF
ONO. in 1879, in that act Of the resump-
/ ton of specie payment made it possible
for any man TO go TO Wonder bank with
his neighbor's cheqne or draft. and no
difference whether he desires graenbac x
national bank notes. silver or gold, ne
can get which ever he wants. and ali are
of the same value and viii buy the same
| amount in all the nlarts Of the world
No difference which he chooses; he maT
carry it around the globe with the circuit
of the sun. and II will be discounted 10
where. Ii viii pass current and good,
and as a dollar as well az Hong Kong.
China, as It viii at New York. Il IL as
good al MISREPRESENTATION. ct Ber-
lin. at Paris and az ConstautIn0ple a. II
is at Boston, Chicago. San Francisco and
| Wichita. AosTEZUEA.