The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-17
FOES OF PROTECTION,
CLEVELAND AND HIS PARTY CON
FESsED FREE-TRADERS.

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the English Doctrine OF free Trade.
1t is astonishing how difficult IL ia in this
world to get things called by their right names,
and yet the names are not the essential things
except as affording short and concise to ms
which enable you 10 designate the object with
out decentralization. The horse has a different
name in every language, and yet is the same an
imal to every eye. The difficulty OF getting the
true names attached 20 things Is much enhanced
when the true name reveals sinister designs.
No criminal for instance, likes To have his ac-
ton described in legal terms IL Is much easier
TO get the photograph of AN honest man than
the countenance of one who is TO adorn a gallery
.consecrated to study by detectives. The sitter
in the last case goes in 10 contortions which at
ton difficult Nevertheless, whether the face is
IN repose or in motion, the same man Is in front
of the camera. So with ideas and principles, the
essential thing is to get at the verify, under
whatever name thcy may DO called
In this campaign the purpose OF the Presi-
dents party friends is to break down protection
by slow degrees no slower however than s alb
.solutely necessary for the success of the plan.
In order to do this they commenced operations
at the beginning OF this session OF Congress by
intrusting the formation OF bill TO reduce the
tariff TO n committee, at the head OF which was
Mr. Mills, of Texas. AS soon as the country
was thoroughly aroused to the nature OF the
bill it's trainers and supporters found that there
was strong feeling in favor OF protection
throughout the country and within their own
selves the task, not only OF denying the tenden-
cies of their bill, but OF denying their own in
tentiOnB. when the meeting OF ratlnchtlOu III
New York took place, the feeding was so strong
that large job lots OF Congressman were sent
over to that city TO asseverate the contrary OF
what amid the great applause OF their fellow
members they had declared on the floor Of the
House. The notable instance of Mr.. Mills will
be touched upon later in detail.
All OF them seemed TO be.anxious not TO be
called free-traders. They seemed after the
launching OF their craft to have the same dread
lest it should be christene1 "the Free Trader,
as did Grover Cleveland when he wrote the one
PROPOSED
laid the keel 1t becomes, therefore, highly i'm
portant TO find out what these gentlemen say in
what, under our American newspaper system
of reporting the doings OF Congress, is the pro-
found and confidential secrecy OF the House de-
bates. We must put the camera upon them
at moments when they did not expect to be put
into the gallery TO be examined by all good citi-
,zens. The faces will DO more natural than
when they are contorted for the stump, after
the discovery that the people do not want free
trade" under whatever name the odor may be
given forth.
OF course no one win expect that these gen.
tlemen viii wear their hearts on their sleeves
and boldly announce in precisely the langua o
which will be most dangerous to then and their
party the views they really possess and mean
TO put into action 1t is only in their incidental
talk That they use the phrases which reveal the
ultimate goal of their designs. Out OF some OF
Che very speeches which are carefully pretaced
with denials of free trade tendencies crop the
indications which show what is below. These
things pervade every spec IN delivered by those
who belong TO the dominant wing OF the party
and control the party action. Not once, but
many times during the debates have these
men been invited 10 deny their allegiance to
free tra<A and never once, whom surrounded
by theirt associates, have they dared TO
do In each case they have had TO put the dis
tance from Washington TO New York between
them and the faces of those who know their real
sentiments. Some detached sentences will
show how they feel, 1t is perfectly true that
snany sentences which shall quote are incon-
sistent with other sentences in the same speech
but in no inconsistent with the whole
speech, its purpose and intent. For instance
MIR. Mckinney of New Hampshire, who has
Joined himself very cordially 10 the dominant
wing of his party, but who has too many flour
fishing industries in his district not TO deny that
Inc s free-trader. forgets "in the heat of debate"
all about his eXordium. aud in the ecstasy of his
peroration bursts forth into this invocation,
(which even Frank Hurd might envy:
Give us a free and open market with the world !;
break down the barriers which false system
has built around us
Mr. Mcdonald, OF Minnesota also, who had
heretofore been careful 20 put the word high"
before the word tariff, and 10 say we are no
traders" bursts the barriers before he gets
through, and declares in many words that
American manufacturing industries do not
need protection any longer and speaks of the
"Iegalized robbery called a protective tariff in
precisely those words. No wonder he says, 81
am frank TO say this bill does not meet my un-
qualified approval. l am not fully satisfied with
IL, because it does not go far enough" These
last expressions were so common in the debate
sanctioned as they were at the outset by the
declaration OF Mr. Mills that "the bill propose
is not all we could have asked" that it is q
marvel that any attempt should be made to dis
guise the tendency of the present action, and TO
turn away from the future action which it's
trainers intend TO take, should the present
scheme be successful.
The declarations against protection as q sys-
tenn were not confined TO any section Of country
or any class or condition OF members. They were
mot confined to the South nor TO the West. They
were as widespread the Presidents party
They were uttered well by members who have
not yet made for themselves q national reputa-
,tion as by the members OF the majority OF the
a m az N nd hat ~
ibunal which not only framed the bill in darkness
but afterward farmed out amendments TO the
deserving faithful
THE protection system has violated the letter
and spirit of the Constitution" said Mr. Shaw,
of Maryland, in his speech OF April 25. sir, y
said Mi. OFerral OF Virginia O. tho first day
OF May himse in favor of the iron-ore tax" be-
cause iron ore is produced in his native vii age,
"sir, believe commerce between nations should
he relieved 80 far possible from all letters
and all restraints" and himself at last. bursting
all letters and restraints, denouncos "the blood
sucking protectionist" Sir, said Mr.. Dockery
' of Missouri, though anxious lest any outsider
should call him "free-trader," sir. the present
system is fundamentally wrong in its operation
and fundamentally ridiculous in the pleas sct
up for its continuance" Mr.. Landes, of Illinois,
n little boder declares that "a tariff for protec
Eson is indeed piece OF finesse 10 persuade men
into slavery"
From the state of Henry Clay comes Mr.. Ca
ruth, who tells a prosperous and successful peo-
pie that this tariff ia most insidious enemy"
that lit is really stealing our substance and de
excaims 1T is not highwayman who boldly
gallops upon the public road and boldly de-
rDands your money or your life, but the sneak
gChief who in unconscious moment sic filches
your purse" His colleague, Gov McCreary
from the same State, follows up the attack by
talking Of the robbery which protection brings"
Hatch, OF Missouri, who throws into his oppo-
Bition TO protection the whole force OF a strong
mind and a vigorous body. pu his f. elings into
n single sentence when he declares that ~the
whole system conceived in greed and
'avarice and il has been maintained from that
day to this by misrepresentation and fraud. ="
Not only born bad, you see this demon OF pro-
lection, but has held its own with undertaking
wickedness.
Major Martin, fresher even than Mr.. Mills
himself from the plains of Texas, and whose
bump OF caution has not yet bsen enlarged by
the blows coming from protectionist world, de-
clares in set phrase which that future emil
inence likely TO happen 70 any Texas statesman
may hereafter cause him TO repudiate in New
York: Il am opposed 20 the protective policy OF
our Government" which declaration, liable TO
he so troublesome TO his future fame he supple
1nents with prophecy that "the day of protec-
ton ia fast drawing to close. Mr.. Lane of
Illinois signalized his first year i'm Congress by
essay from which / Gull a few samples which
show that he has not yet learned, like some Of
his more experienced brethren, TO look one way
and row another. "The protective system is un-
American, and is n perversion Of the laws Of
nature, of God and man" This barbaric policy
shall and will have TO GO" So well does he like
the phrase Protection is adelusion and snare"
that he repeats IL like refrain, with just that
little variation which the genius Of the English
Language seems TO require Protection is for
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