New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-27
DENooRACY MEANS FREE TRADE.

President Cleveland does not avow himself to be,
and evidently does not regard himself as Free Trader
Yet whether Mr.. Cleveland IS In the right or In the
wrong he cannot help adopting free trade arguments
and bolstering them up with freetrade Illustrations
tariff that the farming class lose vastly more by the
Increased prices of clothes than they ga, gain from
tract ilom some old speech of Mr. Bright's. . .
But look at his view Of the situation as expressed by
a theory.p Precisely So Words almost Identical
with these have been used and with enormous effect
in this country by Adam Smith, by Richard Golden,
by Sir Robert Peel(Glasgow Herald.
This is positively cruel. At St Louis 1t is
a condition that confronts u.s. was converted into
q trumphal motto; and every Democratic orator
IN the House has repeated the phrase with a
feeling of awe, as though quoting something that
had an inspired source. Yet here Is frank
English journalist who identifies the sentence as
a stock citation from Adam Smith, Richard Cob
den or Sir Robert Peel. Not satisfied with i'm
pairing the value of phrase, he dismisses the
message as reading for all the world like " some
old speech of Mr.. Brghts' Mr.. Cleveland has
not only caught the spirit of the free-trade
essayists, but he has incautiously picked up their
sentences, so that his writings have a familiar
sound throughout free-trade England.
We will Increase wealth If lower the duties and
let importauons como in of those things which can
be produced cheaper in other countries than our own.
(Mr. Mills, DEM, Texas, Tariff debate.l
This was the bold declaration of the Premier
when he opened the Tariff debate. 1t meant in
two words free trade. But when he appeared at
Tammany Hall and when he closed the debate
last week he was very indignant that anybody
should presume to call him Free Trader.
1t may be admitted that large reductions in the
duties imported manufactured goods would pro
dgce great dsrss; In many parts OF as 1 p "S Wan
be great boon 20 British producers II
It were accompanied with reductions In the tariff
artisans Of this country would derive married. benefit
from It, IL the United states finds herself on
the road to free trade she VIII hardly know whee
to stop.-(The Scotsman.
That is the precise theory on VIII CHI the free trade
leaders of the Democracy have acted They have
put wool on the free list and heavily reduced the
duties on wooens thereby imparting to the Mills
bill its distinctive character free-trade
ure They will go on another time, unless they are
defeated in November, and open on the way for
free importatons of iron, steel and other materials
and articles of manufacture. With the Democracy
in the saddle, the country will be on the road TO
free trade and will not know how or when to
stop.
When an attempt Is made to justify scheme which
permits tax to DO laid upon every consumer In the
land for the benefit OF our manufacturers, quito be-
yond reasonable demand for Governmental regard,
Il suits tho purpose OF advocacy 10 call
qfae lures infant industries stu needing the highest
be wrung from Federal legislation -(Prsidcnt Clevc
land.
Mark this sneer at American industries. Docs
that sound like a defence of the country's in
dustYial system? Is ii not rather the contemptu-
Gus rdcule of man who has always been q
Free Trader at hearth