Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-16
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The British View OF It.

The English admirers of President
Cleveland and his free-trade message very
clearly discern the real issues in the pres
ent canvass and are prompt and generous
In their expressions of good will for the
Democratic candidate and of their desires
for the success of the Democratic party.
Says the London Globe:
Mr.. Cleveland has taken his stand on Free
Trade, and, although his party managers
have considerably planed down his platform,
he is universally recognized in the States as
pledged to initiate new departure in fiscal
policy. Nor can there be any doubt that he
would act up to this understanding were he
elected. The central issue of the contest
lies between the maintenance of the pres
ent fiscal system intact and its modification
in the direction of free trade. And on that
broad question Mr.. Cleveland's candidature
naturally and necessarily carries English
sympathy.
President Cleveland's disclaimer of the
title of Free-trader does not deceive his
friends on the other side. The London
Times of July 6, commenting on Mr..
Cleveland's letter to Tammany Hail.
1t would hardly be possible to put the Free
Trade case more clearly or more strongly,
and yet President Cleveland shrinks from
the use of the term Free Trade" and in
fact, declares that those who taunt him with
being a Free Trader are deceiving the
country 1t is certain that the
arguments which President Cleveland urges
are those which Golden used to employ
forty-fve years ago and which any English
Free Trader would employ now. Such
propositions at that taxation ought to be
strictly limited by the needs of the country
that IL Is unjust to tax the whole community
for the benefit of special classes; that i'm
port duties stifie production limit the area of
a country's markets, are purely Free Trade
arguments. As such we are very glad to
see President Cleveland using them
The London Daily News of July 6
discourses in similar vein. 1t says;
President Cleveland shows that he is the
Free Trade candidate in everything but
name. The reservation is an important one
for American party purposes. The Presi-
dent feels compelled to characterize the
attempt to brand him AS Free Trader as
deception, but for all that the electoral con-
hict now in progress is a conflict between
Free Trade and Prote elton and nothing else.
These London newspapers are correct
opinion. 1t cannot be denied that they
speak plainly and directly to the point.
They make no effort to conceal their
championship of the Democratic party of
this country, nor to deny the English
alliance with Cleveland and his American
associates. They see clearly, and boldly
avow it, that the reelection of the Demo-
cratic candidate In November would be a
Free Trade victory. They fully under
stand that the success of the Golden Club
propagandism in this country would as
completely subordinate the United States
to England as Belgium is politically
subordinated and as Portugal is COM
mercially subordinated to her to-day, and
have been for many years. The Bayard
fishery arrangement, the Mills bill. and
Cleveland's reelection are equally parts
OF the same scheme by which the sixty
five millions of American people are to
be made subservient to British policy and
to contribute to the industrial and com
mercial interests of Great Britain. Such
braxeu audacity and insolence by foreign
press and foreign politicians towards an
other people their equals, and such
humiliating subserviency by great party |
In this country to foreigners, have rarely |
or never been witnessed before in the |
present century. And this the party |
which claims Thomas Jefferson for its
founder and Andrew Jackson for its ex-
amplar.