The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-08-03
A Randall Democrat's Views.

a Randall Democrats views.
We give place to the following COM
munication from an "Old Line Demo-
crat." It does not harmonic with
our own views of Democratic princi-
pies. We deny that the issue in
the last campaign was free trade or
protection to American labor. 1t is
true that the Republicans sprung that
issue and won on false pretenses'
What protection they are now giving
American labor, ask the coal and iron
miners of Blaine, Carnegie Il Co. of
Pennsylvania. They are starving
American labor out and are bringing
in the slums of European labor to sup
plant them. Even the new arrivals,
like worms trod upon, are now fight
ing for the right to live under the
beautiful theory of protection to
American labor" 1t is, in our opin-
ion, the most heartless and cruel
deception ever practiced upon an
intelligent people. Nobody is pro-
fscted under our present tariff sys-
tenn but the heartless trusts and mon
oplists of the country. Better defeat
90 hundred times than once sacrifice
Right on the altar of power and wick
edntss. Here is what our correspond
ent SAYS:
There were various causes which
tended L produce the poIitical revo-
luton of last November, but the
Drm"ciatic party Will not admit that
there Mas ute ot great importance.
aud there are lev snpporicrs at Demo-
crate pity principles vii" viii ac-
IA .wle &c the I, nc re S n which sud-
DENY TO X our represt natives. after
tour years lease of power, and hurt
Ell them back into private life as not
1aithiui I" the pubiic interest, and
Who were MI therefore qualified To
reulsin ia tic rs the peoples repie-
scataJlvcs
We, atmit tat our party is dazed
aDd that IL reason Is shaken. Still /
think recovery Is p"ssliDie, aud | will |
endeavor plainly 10 SLOW the errors
into which the great mass of our
Democratic brethren have fallen. The
faied error is, maintain, in having
followed the folly of free trade.
hold that ii is wrong in theory, wrnng
in practice. and contrary to the tradi-
tons of the Democratic party. From
the hrst ii has been losing issue to
fight for.
Mr. Carlisle was first elected Speaker
in 1883. and there was majority of
seventy-one in the popular branch of
Congress. Committees were appoint
ed aud legislation engineered in har-
mony With Mr.. Carlisle's free trade
ideas, aud at the next election the
Democratic majority was reduced to
forty. But still the old theory was
fought for again. and two years later,
in 1887, the majority was reduced to
fifteen. Then came the Presidential
election, and free trade made in real
ity the issue of the campaign, with
not only sweeping away the last yes-
tige of Democratic rule in the lower
house of Congress, but an absolute
control of both branches of Congress
and the election of Republican
President.
The Democrats of the Nation and
of the State of Nevada must frame
their platforms and maintain the poll
icy of the Democracy established by
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. They
were in favor of protective tariff and
hostile to internal revenue. An in
ternal revenue tax is oppressive to
our industries and only excusabIe in
times of war or dire necessity. 1t
was first imposed to carry on the war
of the Revolution and abolished as
soon as the Democracy acquired con-
troll under Jefferson. 1t was revived
again to meet the expenses of The war
of 1912, but repealed under Monroe
rs quickly as the financial condition
of the national treasury would admit.
The present tax was levied at the
beginning of the civil war, when the
demand on tie treasury became ex-
cessive, and even then. as the record
shows, it was opposed by nearly every
Democrat in Congress. The party,
from the first days of its organization,
has been OunOsed To il until thu ON