Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-13
DEMOCRACY MEANS FREE TRADE
SO Say the Best Authorities as Hero
Quoted,

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So Say the Best Authorities as Hero
Quoted,
Even the corsets of Connecticut, around
which hover so many happy associations,
or the brier wood pipes of Knickerbocker,
are not safe from the interchangeable
| piracies of the tariff. Oil the beauty Of
reciprocal rascaltyl Gentlemen seem to
take umbrage because we call these tariffs,
which take from one class to give to an
other, robbery. But | have the best
ethics for the statement hat the right Of
property is violated by the individual by
! cheating, stealing, robbery, or violation
of contract; and universally, JUST as these
crimes prevail, production languishes, In
dustry diminishes, and the richest soil
fails these few and impoverished inhabi-
tants. But when government lays its
powerful grip on the property of the citi-
zen to bestow that property ON favored
enterprises, it is none the less robberyb o
cause done under the forms of law.-Mr.
Cox (Dem.), New York, Tariff Debate,
May n.
Mr.. Cox is n of the most popular men
in the house, and his speech was received
with frequent outbursts of applause from
the Democratic side. Amore unequivocal
argument for free trade was never made
by Richard Golden or John Bright, and
his Democratic associates were uproarious
with delight when he denounced protected
American industries as q band of brigands,
robbers, cut Threats, with Pennsylvania
as the s'Robert Mccaire of the lot" We
take it that nobody can doubt, so far as
Mr.. Cox Is concerned, that his kind of
Democracy mean free trade. The signs
of appreciation and sympathy with which
his assaults upon protection were well
coined indicate that the Democracy that
%applauded him stands for free trade also.
1t is to the New York World that the
Golden club is chiefly looking as the most
likely sphere for its vigorous foreign pol
icy. 1t has done what it can in Europe.
and it is now turning its eyes westward
and bracing itself for the struggle which
is to come. 1t cannot rest while the
United States are Observation-Disclosures
Times, July 10, 1880.
The campaign of the Golden club in
1880 was q disastrous failure, although
n of its most ingenious writer's, Angus
tus Mongredien, eloquently appealed to
American farmers to vote for q tariff for
revenue only. In 1888 its list of Ameri-
can patrons includes three members of
President Cleveland's cabinet, the speaker
of the house. Henry Watterson, author
Of the Democratic platform; Frank Hurd,
and a large number of prominent leaders
of the administration party. One of the
orators on the Democratic side OF the
house delivered during the tariff debate
an eloquent eulogy of Golden as one of
the strongest and most useful friends
America ever had abroad; and this he fol
lowed up with a handsome tribute to the
Golden club. Times have changed since
tho M9ngredian pamphlet was circulated
secretly among American farmers. The
administration is now the ally of the Cob
den club.
The soul and body Of thu tax reduction
which is proposed by the Democratic
party for the benefit Of the people is con.
tained, therefore, In the clauses Of the
Mills bill which admit wool free Of duty
and reduce to about 40per cent. the duties
on wooden goods. There is the test of
Observation-Disclosures News and Con.
rier.
Those are the characteristic clauses of
the measure, And they stand for free trads
and nothing else. The Democratic party
II. the last two tariffs 1t framed before
the war did not dare to put wool on the
free list. 1t does this now, and opens the
way for importations Of foreign woolens,
and thereby proclaims the free trade
policy, which is gradually to be extended
to iron, steel and everything else.
The message addressed by President
Cleveland to congress this week is the
boldest and most statesmanlike document
that has proceeded from the White House
for many q year. Mr.. Cleveland shows
clearly that a sweeping reduction of tho
tariff is inevitable. = y . The mes
sage nevertheless has had a depressing
effect upon the stock markets. There Is
hardly single industry in the United
States that is not interested In maintain
ing protective duties.-London statist,
Dec. 12, 1887.
True enoughi There is, as this high
financial authority of England states,
hardly a single American industry that is
not vitality interested In the maintenance
Of protection. British Industries lie in
the other direction.-New York Tribune.