Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
Shall Bntains or American Republicans
Have Their Way November 9Th.
fFrom the London Times.l


1t would be hardly possible to put the Free
Trade case more clearly or more strongly.
and yet, such is the force of words, President
Cleveland shrinks from the use of the term
Free Trade" and in fact declares that those
who taunt him with being Free Trader are
deceiving the country. 1t is certain that the
arguments which President Cleveland urges
are those which Golden used to employ
forty-five years ago and which any English
Free Trader would employ now. That i'm
port duties stife production and limit the
area of a country's markets is purely . Free
Trade argument. AS such we are very glad
TO see President Cleveland using them,
though We are sorry for the popular infatus-
ton which makes it dangerous to give them
their right name.
From the London Globe.
As rule the Presidential contest has very
little interest for the Old World. On the
present occasion, however, an issue is in
volved which very closely concerns Europe,
more particularly Great Britain. Mr.. Cleve-
land has taken his stand on Free Trade, and
although the party managers have considera-
bly, planned down his platform, he is univer-
sally recognized in the States as pledged TO
initiate a new departure in fiscal policy. Nor
Ntsh ebSiN NC az uOuUt tildt ne hOulu hCt up
TO this understanding were he elected. The
central issue of the contest lies between the
maintenance of the present fiscal System in
tact and its modification in the direction of
Free Trade. And on that broad question
Mr.. Cleveland's caniidature naturally and
| necessarily carries English sympathy.
From the London Saturday Review
President Cleveland has devoted himself
entirely to the tariff. 1t is impossible to re-
cast this without touching directly the peck
cts of every citizen of the United States and
indirectly influencing the commercial inter-
ests of the world. The President is careful
to state that he frankly declared his indiffer-
ence to the charge of favoring Free Trade.
His policy, he says, may be called by that or
another name, but it is the policy he recon-
mends TO Congress, and which, he does not
affect to deny, must alter the terms on which
| foreigners have access TO the American mar
ket and on which Americans compete with
foreigners abroad.
From the London Daily News.
| The President feels compelled to charac-
terize the attempt to brand him as a Free
Trader as deception, but for all that the
electoral conflict now in progress is a con-
| hct between Free Trade and Protection and
nothing less.
| From the Scotchman.
If once the United States finds herself on
the road TO Free Trade she will hardly know
where to stop. For the principle which
| President Cleveland, as head of the Demo-
cratic party, lays down is really that no i'm
port duties are justfable which are not
levied solely for purposes of revenue.
From the Glasgow Herald.
! President Cleveland may say to others and
think what he chooses, but he has precipi-
tated the inevitable struggle between Free
Trade and Protection in the United States,
and that is tantamount to saying that he is on
the side of Free Trade.
From the London Daily News
| The stone now set rolling will not stop I'M
til it has broken the the idol of Protection in
pieces.
From the London Globe.
Mr.. Cleveland has taken his stand on Free
Trade.
From the London Iron and Steel Trade,
| Journal
! The facts set forth in the Presidents mes
sage, though by no means new, are now
brought SO prominently under the notice of
the American Congress and of American cit
liens that violent stimulus must be given
to the party which advocates entire freedom
of trade.
| From the London Standard
| Mr. Cleveland demands in effect that there
shall be tariff for revenue purposes only.
No tinkering with the tariff will suffice; no
readiustment of duties will do. The only
reform that common sense can accept is one
which unalfectedly substitutes the principle
of unimpeded imports for that of tariff regu-
lations