Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-08
sCHURZ FOR CLEVELAND.

Carl Schurz, who is now in Berlin, has refused to come over and take the stump for Harrison. MT Schurz sees danger in
 the success of Harrison, which he believes
 would tend to perpetuate Blaineism which
 has now come to be the very essence of re- publicanism. "Mr Harrison, 'says MT Schurz
 lis so pointedly consigned to the role of
 second man that his position as a candi-
 date appears grotesque in the extreme. It is an entirely new thing in our constitu-
 tional history that one person is to be cleo ted president of the United States for the
 very purpose of permitting the presiden-
 tial power to be wielded by another" MT Schurz, who was strong and influential opponent of Blaine in 1884, declines to stultify himself in 1888 by helping to put the reins of power in Blaine's hands. He Is thoroughly consistent in his position as the logic of events in this campaign has shown too clearly what the election of General Harrison would mean.
 The economic policy of the two parties furnishes an additional reason why MT Schurz deems it his duty to support Presi-
 dent Cleveland. He takes no stock in the
 republican bugaboo that, Eff MT Cleveland
 be reelected, the industries of the country
 will surely be ruined and general distress follow" He heard that cry in 1881, and it is spiced with the same cant in 1888. MT Schurz believes the genral prosperity of
 the country will be enhanced if manufac
 lures are relieved of the burdens that re-
 strict them entirelyto the artifcal restraints
 of home competition. And his observations
 in Europe have taught him that foreign
 manufacturers are anxious above all things
 else that the present policy of high tariff
 on raw materials be continued in America.
 MT Schurz says on this point, and his
 words have the ring of truth:
 While theoretical economists abroad, of
 course, applaud every movement i'll the economic policy of the United States which | they consider as emanating from sound principles, l know, from personal obser | vation, that European manufacturers who | understand their business look forward | with grave apprehension to the time when American industry will be relieved of the | clogs which now hamper it and enter the l markets of the world to compete with them. They know we'll that the competition of American ingenuity and energy untram- I melled by artificial shackles will be to them of all competitionsf the most formidable. They are right, for competition in the foreign markets the rubbing against the
 world on every field, will tend to stimulate
 and develop to the highest potency the | peculiar strength of American industry, l which consists in it's inventive genius, pro ductive energy and skill of hand. The more advantageously these great qualities come into play, the more successful will
 American industry be. Necessity is the | mother of invention, competition the stim-
 ulus of energy. Both invention and energy | will gradually relax under a system which,
 while promising artificial protection on the | one hand, creates artificial obstacles on the
 other. Let these obstacles be removed, let American inventive genius and productive
 energy enter the struggle with the outside
 world on fair tern s in the first place with | raw material free to us as it is to others and you will open a most fruitful field 1 of activity t. the strongest forces of the
 national character.
 Our spasmodic seasons of activity in | manufacturing will disappear, MT Schurz believes, under the stimulus of free raw materials and access to the markets of the wide, wide world. His tribute to Ameri- can skill will find an echo in the hearts of American mechanics who know that, given
 equal conditions of productive material,
 they can beat the world. The views of Mir Schruz are timely, truthfuland trenchant,
 and will make deep and effective impres sion on the voters of his nationality in America.
 And good many Germans will, with MT Schruz, deem it their duty to vote for Cleveland and tariff reform.
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