Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-27
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

! Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
He speaks truly and wisely who says
that the Presidential. campaign has al.
ready opened. Business men of all class
es should have this in mind and begin
to look ahead. Laboring men should
be asking about the goal toward which
shrewd demagogues are leading them.
And all remember that tearing the
present situation into tatters will not Of
necessity replace it with better eondi-
tions.
Business men may well reflect wheth
er elements which have already declared
war on the National banking system,
which are both silver imitation and in
flated paper currency, and which either
directly support or pander to those who
do indorse the wild and pernicious sub
treasury scheme, are safe representa-
tives of the business men of America.
Manufacturers should begin to ask
themselves whether an American sys
TEN which rouses the protests of the
factors and exporters Of England,
France, Germany, Canada, and the alien
importers Of New York is one that they
should lift their hands against before
it has had trial. These foreign inter
ests, by their prompt and hot opposition,
show clearly enough what their under
standing of the Republican tariff policy
is. 1t should be remembered that it is
Mckinley, and not Mills, or Cleveland,
who is being hung in efigy at the Eng
glish crossroads. 1t is because under
valued invoices no longer pass current
in American custom houses that foreign
exporters to this country and alien i'm
porters at the East are raging. AS to
these issues the campaign Of '92 is al
ready open, and American manufactur-
ers should begin to inform themselves.
The incident of the Barring Bros,
which, but for the prompt support of
the leading financial circles of the
world, would have shaken all financial
circles to their foundation, was the di-
rect result of their investments in
South American Republic which had
adopted the very policy which the lead
ers of the Farmers Alliance in this
country are advocating. The Argentine
Republic had loaned its credit to indi-
viduals upon every class of securities.
The inevitable result was speedily reach
ed. The National bonds fell. Thelcol- |
lapse was such as must belong to any
wildcat fnanciering by nation, and
one of the strongest firms in the world |
was driven to the wall. There is no les |
son which American farmers can study
at the present time with so much profit
to themselves and advantage to their |
country.
American workingmen should begin |
to reflect upon the meaning of free trade
sounding the praises of Demo
cratic victories, and of the London Times
celebrating Mr.. Cleveland and crying |
aloud over what it is pleased to regard
trade policy. Are the manufacturers of
the philanthropists at whose
feet laboring men should sit to learn of
their true interests?
Is party whose leaders already pro-
claim their purpose to disturb business
for series of years by attempts to over
throw tariff which has not yet been
tried, and introduce commercial and in
dustrial uncertainties, party for either
or workingrnen to support?
The campaign of '92 is open, and the
questions herein suggested are those
which thrust themselves before every |
intelligent man. The coming campaign,
to greater degree than any previous
one, is to be educational. 1t becomes
every American, both native and for
eign born, to begin to think.