New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-30
DEMOCRACY MEANS FREE TRADE

Even the cores Of Connecticut around which
pipes Of KnckcrbdeEe are not Safe from RON the inter
changeabe piracies Of the tariff. Oh the beauty OF
bragg because we call these tariffs which take from
one class to give to another, robbery But have the
s y eI by e 6s ndyda a Nv Sbra s OF
robbery violation of contract and universally Just
y dmnshes ahd he richest so s hss few
Impoverished inhabitants. But when Government
Lays Its Sst gr2 the OF the c
the less robbery because done under the forms Of
May II.
Mr. Cox is one of the most popular men In the
House, and his speech received with frequent
outbursts of applause from the Democratic side.
A more unequivocal argument for free trade was
never made by Richard Golden or John Bright;
and his Democratic associates were uproarious with
delight when he denounced protected American IN
dustres as a band of brgands, robbers cut-throats
with Pennsylvania as the Robert Macaire OF the
lott We take it that nobody can doubt, so ms
as Mr. Cox is concerned that his kind of Democracy
means free trade. The signs of appreciation and
sympathy with which his assaults upon Protection
were welcomed indicate that the Democracy that
applauded him stands for free trade also.
1t is to the New World that the Golden Club
chiefly looking the most likely sphere for its vgor
Gus foreign policy 1t has done what 1t can IN turope
sgd IS now nov rrn1: I eyes westward Co and saSn
rest while the United States observation-disclosures
Times, July Is, 1850.
The campaign of the Golden Club in 1850 was
a disastrous failure, although one Of its most III
genious writers, Augustus Mongredien, eloquenty
appealed to American farmers TO vote for tariH
for revenue only. In lsSS its list OF American
patrons includes three members OF President Cie'e-
lands Cabinet, the Speaker of the House, henry
Watterson, author Of the Democratic platforms
Frank Hurd, and large number of prominent leao'
ers OF the Administration party. One OF the orS.
tors on the Democratic side OF the House delivered
during the tariff debate an eloquent eulosy ..
Golden rs one Of the strongest and most useia'
friends America ever had abroad; and this ne luz
lowed up with handsome tribute TO the Ioou'A
Club Times have changed since the Mongreai'A
pamphlet was circulated secretly among American
farmers. The administration is now the ally VI
the Golden Club.
The soul and body OF the reduction whss y
tho peope Is contained therefore, in the clauses OF
the Mills bill which admit wool free OF du,y az" oss
duce TO about 40 per cent the auu1 v News and
Courier.
Those are the characteristic clauses OF the meSs
urc, and they stand for free trade ana ho'iI.
else. The Democratic party in the last TWO 's VS.,
IFS IL framed before the war did not dare T" ~
wool on the free list II does this now. ana oiSA,
the way for mportations of foreign woollens o..
thereby procaims the free-trade policy WHICH
gradually to be extended to iron. steel ana c'''
thing else.
The message addressed by President Ceves s,stes.
Congress this week Is the boldest ana mos ~. White
manlko document that has proceeded nom tno .sriy
House for many a year. Mr. Cleveland shows
that a sweeping reduction OF the tarin Is ho.ss.
Tho message nevertheless has had deeps,5lv
Ing effect upon tho stock markets. There Is ni N.
a Single industry In the United ststes ,nss noudoa
tercsted In maintaining ProtectiVo uu'ics'
Statist Dec. IL, 1857. ,.;sf
True enough There is, as this high nnanos
authority of England states, hardly single A~.,
can industry that is not vitality interested In W.
maintenance of Protection. British indus'f'e'
in the other direction.