New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-09
nruOcR4Cy MEANS FREE TRADE.

Free Traders appears to be equivalent 10 .ns
language OF American political controversy 10 Th,
If worklncmcn and OF Industrial enterprise Ina s
should be Is one OF the curositcs Oh p0nos'
extraordinary instance of the power OF pm Jason
over minds which commonly shtewd anu VSich
able. For il Is certain that the argument, ussj
President Cleveland urges are those which OOyue Ssa
10 employ fortyfve years ago, and when any ns "a
Free Trader world employ now such proposlnons. Ss
that taxation ought to be strictly limited oy u com
M for tho benedt Of special classes that impOn
duties STIFF nSTe Rnq ra tse arsncn
such, very glad to see President
them, though we are sorry for the po1na Sslr risht
which makes 1t dangerous TO give them their Hs"
name.--( London Times. 80,
This Identification Of President Cleveland WIN
the Golden school is most satisfactory, SO isf a.
Protectionists are concerned The Leading NoH'
don journal is high authority in free-trade co"'
troyersy. and when it declares that the Presiden'
uses language which any English Free-'raaef
would employ there is nothing more to pe S'iO.
He has taken up Cobdens work under ulne'
conditions from those existing in England IN w.
fortcsp when it was the agricultural classes aion'
who were protected and who resisted the ''i"'
changes demanded by the manufacturing cnS
| Farmers manufacturers and the WORKING c"
| in America to-day alike enjoy the Dement'S OIL P
tection and there is prospect of starving -
country into repeal of the tariff, as the rnsn~
were starved into the abolition OF the cofn To-.
| The conditions rave changed, but III Is Vne =
free-trade cause and President Cleveiana i'f'
| scntS it.
II tho gentleman means 10 ask whether ~ ray.
| a principle that would impose duty apoSe u" What
| enue point merely for the purpose OF glNns
! is called protection my answer Is IN the ,ine "a
| II we were called upon now for the first INV mi,
| declare a principle inaugurate pohey uP~ al
subject, ! should not hesitate 10 anhounto isrees
| herence TO that creed which demands thc hsnyel
liberty I'm law that doctrine which opens tho Ia IN
OF commerce In all parts OF the world ana ns n
producer and consumer to meet on equal tolit,,,es
a free market for the exchange OF theI 1oa,,tction
for sincerely believe that all commercia rs nsouls
In the end injurious TO the lhtercSVS Va WV
| -(Speakcr Carlisle. IA Il
A clearer declaration against protection anu "
favor of free trade could not be made SPe"A'
Carlisle would not impose duty above IiH i,',
, nue. point for the sake of protecting ana uo'''.
ing any home industry. \ free market ,0' =
interchange of the worlds products Is wn"'
, demands IL this be not free trade, Coouen w
not Free-trader.
To show how American labor has been plii.aaso" At
pluntlered by this mashed robber OF pfoiec to"' nj
{ -(William d. Bynum (Dcm Ind, House deoa'o' ~
90. " ''''"' - - ''''" ''''
+ Mr. Bynum, as one Of the majority o' w.
mittee of Ways and Means Is respohsio'e LUZ
1 original form of the Mills bill, reported a.'e.
darlS-lantern conferences" This Is the ahoos'
, ate manner in which he refers TO the AN'''
< economic system.