Wichita eagle., 1888-09-23
FREE TRADE DESIGNS.
An American Farmer on the Golden
Club.

In this year of grace the presidential
American parties struggling for suprem-
| acy. England with her American dupes
| is on one side, and on the other side we
find all those patriots who rightly regard
England as our only enemy. In proof
of this assertion l will quote a prophecy
made by the London Times, the Tory
organ Of England. In its issue of July
| 10, 1880, it says: SIT is to the New World
| that the Golden club is chiefly looking
as the most likely sphere for its vigorous
foreign policy. 1t has done what it can
in Europe and it is now turning its eyes
westward and bracing itself for the
struggle which is to come. 1t cannot
rest while the United States are unsub-
| dued."
There is no mistaking this language.
The liberty-loving people of these United
States could not be openly subdued by
British bullets, but they can be covertly
subdued by ballots cast next November
for England's fayorite candidate, Grover
Cleveland. To understand the nature
of the gigantic conspiracy which the
Golden club pushes with its accustomed
activity, against our policy of protecting
our Interests against the products of
European factories and mines, it is
necessary to remember that England, by
means of labor-saving inventions, can
produce four times as much manufac-
tured goods as her people can purchase.
I M n rl-1af For q nfh
fourths is the problem which engages
the attention of her statesmen. France
has closed her gates against English
wares of all kinds: Germany will have
none of them; Russia has placed high
duty on all foreign manufactures, and
thus England is made to feel that she is
no longer the workshop of the world.
She owes her greatness to her CONNER
cial supremacy. Ruin and revolution
stare her in the face if she can not OBJ
tain share of the American market.
By abolishing our protective system in
whole or in part, and forcing our work
ing men to compete with the under-paid
labor of England, we can save the Eng
liSh aristocracy from meeting the fate
1879. Are we willing to make this sac
for the benefit of tilted scoundrels who
are the hereditary enemies Of liberty in
all lands as well as in their own? The
question in a nutshell may be stated
thus: How can an American employer
pay two dollars day for labor and COM
pete in the markets of the world with
the English employer, who can hire
plenty of workmen equally skilled for
T. he
done. And because it can't be done the
whole English press, Tory and Wing,
praise Cleveland and his policy of reve-
nue. reform. There is just one exception
to this unanimous shout of approval,
and the exception is the Dublin Free
mans Journal, the organ of the patriotic
Charles Stuart Parnell. That Journal
wonders how any Irish born man can
support in America the policy advocated
by Cleveland in his message to congress,
as it will enrich England and enable her
to trample on and enslave by her coer-
Give policy unhappy Ireland. 1t has
been written by one of our poets that
zone in name is fame
Are the sea divided gaels."
But there are many of our race in
America who are so lost to the
traditions of our fathers that they can
unblushingly vote and speak
in favor of policy that will enrich
England by extending the market for
her cheap made goods. English and
Scotch journalists are aware of the ben
efits which their people will obtain if
Cleveland's policy becomes the law of
the land. The London Times declares:
''The main question at issue is English
free trade against the Continental system
Of protection. The republic is on trial.
Good conservative government under
Cleveland is opposed by the rule or ruin
party Of Blaine, whose friends nominated
Harrison, and who would certainly be
secretary of state under Harrison adj
ministration. The future of the Ameri-
cans will be seriously Influenced by the
restoration to power of such firebrand
as Blaine with his Home Rule sympa-
thies and nti-Canadian policy"
Here we have it from the organ of the
Tory party that Cleveland is the friend
of England, and orr greatest statesman,
James G.. Blaine, with his "Home Rule
sympathies and anti-Canadian policy"
is feared by the enemies of Ireland. Will
ish-Americans join hands with the
English tories and prevent the restora-
rotary of state? l will not believe it.
The Peoples Journal, published in
Dundee, Scotland, and edited by a
long headed, canny Scot, said of Cleve-
lands message: The change in the
fiscal policy will be beneficial
to their country, and the prospect of it
has diffused fresh hope throughout bust
ness circles in this city" The Courier,
of Haddingtonshire, writes thus: 1--WE
may look to an impetus being given to
our home markets that will go far to
make up for the depression of late |
years" But why multiply authorities
in England and Scotland when we know
that the policy which Grover Cleveland |
forced the Democratic party to adopt is
the policy advocated by England since
1916? ANY person with the smallest pre-
tensions to patriotism will be impelled by
these circumstances to vote for the !
American policy of protection in prefer
ence to voting for and with a party who |
has for the last four years been legislat- |
ing for the benefit of England. Phelps, |
our minister to England. condemned |
Irish home rule" and gave his approval
to the coercion policy of the English
tories. Grover Cleveland approved the
extradition treaty negotiated by Bayard,
his secretary of state, which wasaimed
directly at Irish patriots who had found
a refuge in this country.
The flag that waves DER the land of
the free and the home Of the brave has
been insulted by petty Canadian officials;
and the people whom it was supposed to
protect have been treated in Canadian
ports as if they were so many pirates.
Congress almost unanimously enacted