The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-10
The Republican Free Traders.

The Republican Free Traders.
The worst feature of the republican
tariff bill is its free-trade character. 1t
puts more than fifty articles on the free
list, and thereby gives absolute free trade
in them. This free list is a direct stab at
the American farmer, especially the north
ern farmer, and shows that the bill was
dictated by the rebel brigadiers in the in
terest of the solid South. Look at the
articles:
Acorns are put on the free list And
yet every intelligent man knows that
nearly every farmer in the North is rails
ing acorns. What will be the result
The pauper acorn-raisers of Europe will
food the country with cheap acorns and
ruin our farmers. There is one industry
destroyed, and others will follow rapidly.
Coal slack is put on the free list You
all know that our coal dealers can barely
make a living now, and how pitiable will
be their condition when the pauper coal
dealers of Europe cover our broad acres
with slack and ruin this industry. You
know that coal is consumed more largely
in the North than in the South. The OBJ
ject of this discrimination is evident.
Feathers are put on the free list Why?
Apparently to injure our Northern fowls,
which cannot raise feathers in competi-
ton with the pauper labor of Europe
Meanwhile, the fowls OF the South
will bask in q tropical sun, not
feeling the deprivation of covering
which this ubiquitous measure will re-
suit in.
Eggs and yolks are put on the free list !
Both of them! Would it not have been
Just and right to leave a protective duty
on the yolks even If the eggs were ad-
mitted free? But these republican sena-
tors, bought up by British gold and ami
mated by a hellish hatred of our Ameri-
can hens, have given absolute free trade
In both. How are our hens TO live,
stripped of feathers and competing with
the pauper hens of Canada, when they
have to scratch for living even now.
Chinese mating is put on the free list !
This is done, OF course, TO please Mr..
HARRrsoS and keep the Chinese vote solid
for him. While the mating of European
is left free to deluge our once happy and
prosperous land with mating. Our mat
ting factories will be shut down and thou
sands of matters will be thrown out OF
employment. What's the matter with
CLEVELAND? He's all right.
Sand is put on the free listl Another
discrimination against the farmer, who
oil -
This outrageous action was unquestiona-
bly, taken to accommodate the Indianapolis
Netrs, which has not sand enough to de-
nounce HARRISON, Huston & HARDING
for continuing TO circulate the British free
trade forgeries, although it has pronounced
them forgeries.
But it is not necessary to dwell on this
painful subject AS Gen. HARRISON says,
1t is not the length of the step but the di-
rection that fills US with alarm. The man
who denies that this is the road TO free
trade is, as Gen. HARRISON so convincingly
says-"like the man who takes passage on
train scheduled from here to Cincinnati
without stop; and when the train
Is speeding on its way at
the rate OF IOrty miles an
hour denies that he is going TO Cincinnati.
[Great laughter and cheering." We will
add that this man has his ticket in his
pocket. the switches are all set right, the
engine is in good shape, there is no COW
on the track, and he is morally certain to
get there, unless perhaps he is going to
Covington; and even thea be would
probably have to go through Cincinnati,
and fee one of the pauper hack-drivers
of that degraded city. Therefore let us
get off this train before we get on, and
never stop going in the other direction,
even II we do want to go to Greensburg.
When protection first came to this coun-
try we did not have rag to our backs and
now we have millions. OH let us cling
to il, especially US workingmen, till after
theelection. It's making US all more or less
rich and until the next election will make
us a happy and united people, at which
time a batch OF southern outrages
will again threaten us.