The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-10-19
The Tide Of Tariff Reform is on the
Flood.

We judge from the platforms
which the Democrats have endorsed
in State conventions that the pro-
tective victory of last autumn has
not demoralized them in the slight
est
They-it may be as well to say we
were most Internationally. whip
ped at that time, but it hasn't chang
ed our conviction that we were right.
The common sense of the people
may be blinded for time and a
panic may be created-an old trick
of politics-by which the wrong can
didate gets the office.
But in the long run the people
make the crooked things straight
again, and that 'long rum will ter
inmate in 1892, when tariff reform
will become an established fact.
The Democratic half of our ten
million voters have been consistent
believers in the genius and enter
prise of American manufacturers
and determined defenders of their
rights.
The home market never has and
never will Salty their demand. We
have the skilled labor, we have the
machinery-or if we haven't we. can
make it. We have the resources of
a magnificent country to draw from;
unsurpassed mill sites; an immense
labor population with brains in their
fingers, who can produce larger re-
suits in ten hours day than the
same class in other countries can
produce in twelve or fifteen.
We have therefore right to be
represented in every quarter of the
globe, and to carry our wares with
out let or hindrance to every coun-
try where purchasers are likely to
be found.
A tariff which limits our activity
and constructs our efforts is, there
fore, hostile to our national ambi-
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backs and disables us in the grand
fight for wealth. The party which
adopts it as a policy represents an
economical blunder.
During the last five months a
great many Republican business
men have come to see this. They
have learned the lesson by hard luck,
by diminishing profits and threaten
ed bankruptcy.
The tide of opinion has turned
and if the elections of last year had
been postponed to this November
the Democrats would have been
elected by large and decisive ma
jority.
1t is matter of dollars and cents.
The manufacturer favors the party
which gives him the best chance to
make money, and the wage Garner
throws his influence on that side
which insures the steadiest and the
largest income.
Governor Ames voted for Mr..
Harrison. He made mistake.
Mr.. Harrison's party is pledged to
make raw materials dear. The Gov
ernor says plainly that unless he
can buy raw materials at cheaper
rate he can see nothing but disaster
in the future for his business.
Many of the wooden men in New
England voted for a higher tariff
They were persuaded that protec-
ton would save them, and they see
that it will ruin them, and they are
clamoring for free wool.
All right. There is nothing like
experience to teach the principles of
political economy. 1t is pity that
the experience should be so dearly
bought, but that is one of the laws
of nature. Men who don't see what
is for their good are apt to have
their eyes opened with staggering
blow.
An old farmer lost the Inch pin
of his wagon once on a time. He
thought to supply its place with "a
bit of tough wood. He put his finger
into the hole to ascertain its size.
just then the horse started He lost
his finger. When describing the
accident he said: "The moment the
team started l saw that had made
a mistake"
Likewise the manufacturers, who
are suffering for want of raw mate
rails, the moment Harrison's policy
began to work they saw their mis-
take.
We are glad that the Democrats
are hanging on their convictions. Ii
the Virginia, the Ohio and the Penn
sylvania conventions the cries o
their platforms are; The many mus