The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-13
LET wAsHINGrUx.s VOICE BE EN-
PHATIC.


not destroy the tariff question IS the chief
issue Of national pei tcs On the contrary.
Il gives this great question new importance
makes it In fact the paramount issue.
The tariff question Is question which no
amount Of adjustment or readjust-
nent can permanently settle. Chang
ing times and conditions give
it new aspects from year to year
and almost from month to month.
Already those who imagined that the
enactment OF the tariff law Just now put
into effect would settle this issue. at least
for time. find out their mistake. They
find the issue somewhat modified, to be
sure, but still the same old issue, IN
changed in its essential features and, as
heretofore. calling for immediate and
between two great economic policies Pro-
lection to American industry on the one
hand and Free Trade on the other. Since
the adjustment Of the political questions
growing out Of the Civil War no other
question Of equal gravity and importance
has presented itseifto the American people
and none il likely to within the next dec
ads.
We find both great national parties
again preparing for conflict on this great
issue. The Republican party win under
take to show that in the future as in the
past the true American policy 10 the policy
Of Protection. while the Democrats on the
other hand will fight on the old line for
Free Trade and the abandonment of tariffs.
Already both sides are flooding the conn
try with political literature based on this
great question.
1t - important that every state whose
interests lie In the maintenance of the Pro-
tsctive principle should demonstrate its
position and the wishes of its people in
emphatic terms upon every opportunity.
And such IN opportunity is afforded to the
people Of Washington by the election
which will occur on the fourth day OF
next month. II the result Of this
election shall b favorable To the
Republican, party by strong majority, 1t
VIII show that the people Of Washington
stand now - heretofore. strong for protec-
ton Of home industries and for American
labor. But II the result should b favor
able to the Democrats, It viii indicate
state Of feeling here precisely the
reverse. Democratic success viii be
assurance, and it viii be accepted q
such, that the sentiment Of Washington
has changed and that it stands in opposition
70 that policy which makes it profitable to
produce lumber. to produce iron, to pro-
duce coal. to produce wool. to produce
hops-in short, to maintain cur industrial
system in its present usefulness and In
tegrity.
All this is quite apart from mere ques-
tons Of personal and local interest. These
considerations are trifling Is compared
with that greater and paramount interest
dependent upon national economic poll
cies
Every voter in Washington who believes
in the principles and in the policy Of Pro-
lection ought to vote the Republican ticket,
for every vote cast will have weight in de-
termining our future national policy
and through that policy in destroying or
conserving the essential interests of this
commonwealth and of the country at large.
Let Washington's voice be emphatic for
the policy which assures the prosperity of
her people and which is essential to it.