New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-25
DEMOCRACY MEANS FREE TRADE.

am frank 10 say 10 the gentlemen here who be-
long TO the blgh-prOection school OF politics that
for one am prepared the floor of this House oday
say do not believe i'm the doctrine of Protection
for Projections e.-Reprcsentatve Tarsney, Dem,
Michigan, Tariff debate.
Yes: and your associate from Mississippi, Colo
mel Hooker. went even further when he asserted
that nobody on the Democratic side believed in the
doctrine of Protection for Projections sake and
was not contradcted. During the entire debate
the Democratic members have not only argued
like frce-traders but have denounced the roobcr
tariff" as the sum of all iniquity in government
and political economy. The record has been
made and it cannot be unmade The Mills bill,
with free wool and reduced duties on woolens, is
free.trade measure and nothing else. The party
is frce-tradc party and nothing else.
II President Cleveland should be able to carry out
his plan for admission into America free Of duty one
OF tho first effects which would be produced on the
English iron trade would be the tranSfeence of much
cleveland markets to United States ports Shipments
of hcmatitcs from Scotland and from the west coast
Of England would also Increase The lronoro mines
Of Lancashire and West Cumberland would be certain
to do greatly enlarged trade with the United States
The future OF events will be watched with con
siderable interest by the British iron trade.-(London
COllicry Guardian, December 49, 1857.
All this will come in time, il President Cleve-
land and his Democratic Congress are voted in
by the people next November 1t is free wool
and woolens this time; in the next tariff bill
the iron and other industries will be sacrificed
for the benefit of the British manufacturers and
mine owncro if Democratic Administration be
continued in power and q Democratic House be
reelected. All the great industries of England
and Europe are deliberately preparing TO raid the
American market and subject home manufactures
TO ruinous competition. Fortunately, American
citizens have an opportunity of protecting them
selves next November.
It Is clear therefore, that II Is not against the paupcr
labor of Europe. except In very indirect and remote
way that our Protection laws are aimed for so long
he keeps his handiwork at home, sells Il the
other side Of the Atlantic he eXcltes no interest what
this side OF the watcr.-(Nlr Hcmphill, Dem
South Carolina, Tariff debate.
No; that is not at all clear. The protective
tariff protects the homemade manufactures, and
thereby better-paid American labor from compe-
tition with the same class Of articles made abroad
with poorly paid labor American labor is pro-
tccted directly, and not remotely, against the
pauper labor of Europe. II you and your fellow
Democrats succeed in lcveiny tn tar II the Ameri-
can market will be the dumpng-ground for foreign
manufactures. II competition be attempted under
free trade the wages of American worlSmen must
be scaled down to the European level.
II is calculated that to give effect 20 Mr. Cievelands
policy duties to the amount Of some fi6 100000
1880 600 900, about two fhs of tho entire customs
revenue, must be surrendered. This operation may not
establish free trade In the strict OF the term but
IL will to great extent make trade free.-(London
Times.
This is the same distinction which our amiable
friend, The World has been making in high
glee. " IL is not question of free trade 10
asserts, but Of freer trade In the same inical
manner The London Times discrminates be-
tween establishing free trade and making trade
free 1t is the difference between tweedle-dum
and tweedle-deA