The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-11-01
IRREDEEM4BLE FREE TRADE
PROMISES.

The free trade attorneys are profuse
with promises of benefits to follow the
adoption of their pet policy. Among
Others they give especial prominence to
the assertion, that when our tariff is abol- |
ished, the trade of this country will reach
into all those foreign markets whose
trade is worth looking after.
Leaving aside the question of cheap
production, which cannot be brought
about without seriously affecting the
price of the labor involved, there is an
other obstacle which advocates of the
British policy seem to ignore, i. e., the
tariff regulations of foreign nations-for
it must be remembered that most of them
equally with the United States, have
found it advisable to protect their citizens
against the competition of rival produ
GERS. Within the present year Germany
has raised the tariff on forei gn wheat to
q point which practically excludes the
American article from competition with
the products of German frams. She is
quite as likely to protect the other indus
tries by an increase Of existing duties,
whenever there seems necessity for SO do
ing. 1t is to just this policy on the part
OF intelligent nations of defending their
own labor and capital, increasing with
each year, that a recent, committee of
parliament referred as the chief cause of
deDressiOn in British trade.
Mr.. Henry Fawcett, M. P, Free
Trade writer, in his work on Free Trade
and Protection" asserts that 'The tar
ifs of almost every European country,
since 1877, have all become more protec-
tive, including Germany, Austria, Russia,
Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece"
During the present year, Sweden and
New Zealand have been added to the list
of nations once supplied by England with
manufactured articles at prices "cheaper
than they could be made at home" but
which have been found quite too dear for
all that.
England thus finds the markets of the
world growing smaller for her, and, &C
cording to recent reports nearly million
of her wolkingmen who have depended
on other nations for consumers of the
products of English manufactures, are
now idle. The markets thus closed to
England, in spite Of her diplomacy and
less reputable exertions, are not likely to
be opened to the United States without
concessions in prices of our products to
which our workingmen ought not and
will not assent.
The only market we can certainly con-
troll is our own, and this, from the fact
of being the best in the world, should be
most jealousy guarded against encroach-
ments in the interest of foreign rivals. If
outside markets really offered the rich
reward that Free Trade advocates hold
up before the eyes Of American voters, it
is quite safe to conclude that those for
eigners in whose interest Free Trade is
urged would be less persistent in their eff
forts to get hold upon the trade of this
| country.
VOTE FOR Z. G. Mills for county attor-
| ney.
c. A. GILMAN, he who delights in knit
ing his best friends, and who has been
guilty of more political tricks and treacl,-
| cries than any and all politicians in the
great state OF Minnesota combined, eX-
PRED in halo Of blue fire and sulphur,
in st. Cloud, on Monday evening last.
He announced himself to speak at pub
lie meeting, and the court house was well
filled to hear him. He declared himself a
republican of thirty years standing, and
still one-ln fact he Intimated that he and
| knute Nelson were the only two good
republicans left in the party. Mr.. Gil
man howled about" runored corruption"
I but failed to cite an instance Or quote one.
He merely said these stories had been set
ahoat and he believed them, and said
! there were two other men who believed
| them, and strangely enough they were
! defeated candidates for the same office,
| Mcssrs. McGill and Schctter. That was
all Gilman's famed speech amounted to.
He merely openly avowed what was uni
versally known-he proposed to bolt the
ticket and oppose Mr.. Merriam. Had
some one the desire to do it, and were the
| game worth the candle, it would be an
easy matter to convict Mr.. Gilman of
| political treachery to friends; not upon
mere rumor, but with testimony SO clear
and convincing that the most skeptical
would be compelled to admit it. Gil
mans fusilade was pueriie, contemplate.
|
VOTE FOR E. Bridglnan for representa-
! tive.
c. d. GR,KQLs, the republican nominee
for Register of Deeds, is an active bust
ness man of Fair Haven, and is pros
porous and energetic young man, one
| who has wide experience, and is well and
| favorably known throughout the eastern
portion of the county. Mr. Grinols will
make an excellent officer, and should re-
| ce1ye the solid vote of western Stearns
Vote for G: D. Grinols for Register of
Deeds.
| VOTE FOX II. S. Dotv for sheriff
| VOTE FOR DR.. H. M. Post for coroner.
DR.. McMasters, democrat, says, che is
one of the brightest young physicians
know, and is every way qualified for the
office and ought to be elected, 1t is a
pleasure to vote for such men for impor-
tant Offices. He will make an excellent
coroner, and l shall do all within my