The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-07-26
Democracy Means Free Trade.

There is another term in which we speak of Eng
land as Il freetrade country. They adopt the pol
icy Of liberalizing their commerce. Others suggest
that free tradc country Is a country where tar
i'll Is levied for revenue only, and where com
merce is iberaZed far as it can be liberalized
consistently with the collection of the necessary
revenue for the support Of government. If that is
what the Senator means by free trade, then am n
free trader, and take it that of the Senators
on this side of the Chamber are free traders of
that kind; that is free traders in the sense of
simply lcyying duties enough to furnish revenues
for the support of the government economically
expended. senator Reagan, Democrat, of Texas
Senate debate, July IL.
This is definite and satisfactory. While
Speaker Carlisle, Premier Mills, Mayor Hew-
lit and Governor Hill have been irving to pull
the wool over peoples eyes in this strong pro-
lection State. the Senator calls himself and his
colleagues free-traders and then defines the
term with precision. He wants tariff for
revenue only, without protection Of aDy indus.
try or class. That is his idea of free trade, and
in his judgment nearly all his colleagues are
frce-traders in that sense.
But our present tariff laws, the vicious, inequit
able, and illogical source of unnecessary taxation,
ought to be at once revised and amended These
laws as their primary and plain effect, raise the
price to consumers of all articles imported and
subject to duty by precisely the sum paid for such
duties. Thus the amount of the duty measures the
tax paid by those who purchase for use these i'm
ported articles. President Cleveland's Message.
Those three sentences show that the Presi-
dent is free-trader, and has no sympathy
with protective tariff. "Vicious,'' '.inequt-
able" ''illogical'' are not words which any
friend of American industry will apply to the
tariff The assertion that the amount OF duty
measures the precise increase of price of the
article for the consumer is one OF the widest
examples OF free-trade dOgmatism.
OF course, England may subsidize lines of ships
to open up new markets for her surplus, because
she freely exchanges commodities with such mar
kets; and her policy Is after establishing the com
merce to steadily decrease the subsidy. ii the pol
icy OF giving bountles to promote commercial rea-
tiOns with other countries he ever adopted again
after the failures In history 1t would seem that
its adoption should be deferred until closer com
tanned and are not antagonized by an opposing
system of laws. Postmaster General Dickinson
to Representative BlOunt.
This is the Administrations ultimatum to
the American steamship lines: 'You will get
nothing from the Democratic party beyond
freight charges for mail carriage until we have
free trade. England subsidies It's lines, but
that is proper enough. England has free trade:
when we have free trade here 1t will he time to
Zeal generously with the American lines.'
Is 1t good policy to close markets against the
world? II So Is 1t not good policy for them to close
their markets against us? Can We sell to everybody
and buy from nobody Senator Beck, Dem, Ken
lucky. Debate June IL.
That is the precise manner of Professor Sum-
mer and the free-trade Professors at nearly
every American college. Senator Beck has
been free-trader from way back, and never
tries to conceal his meaning nor to alter the
conventional phrases and stock arguments of
the free-trade school. New York Tribune.
A peculiarly of Hoods Sarsaparilla Is that
while it purilies the blood 1t imparts new vigOr to
every function OF the body.
Transplant one fourth of the smells OF Rome to
New York for day." says an American tourist
'and you would start plague which would sweep
million people out Of existence. The Italians
grow fat them"
Ladies' who BDOat.
What great number there are; how uncOmfOrt-
able 1t makes them; It is almost impossible for
those afflicted to enjoy fe In my private practice
have always found Sulphur Bitters to be the best
remedy. All who are thus troubled should use it,
2w29 MRS. DIR. CHILDs, Boston.
A man in Nebraska is reported as having just
died OF hydrOph0bia from the bite of a rabid dog
received twelve years agO. HydrophObic germs
seems TO he about Ms slow q poison as coffee or
tobacco.