The Forrest City times., 1892-05-20
DEMOCRATIC MATTERS.
REPUBLICAN, POLICY.
Doctrines of the Obstructive Party or nctaIly Expounded.

Ex-Congressman F. P. Alien the temporary chairman of the Michigan Republican convention, made speech on that occasion. which was accepted as satisfactory and sufficient state ment and defense of the present policy of the Republican party.
 He indulged of course in the GUS tomary Reclamation about the ancient history of the party and the old flag but ne put his main strength into a defense of the policy of delegatlng the taxing power of the government 10 favored few for thelr own benefit and enrichment
 The convention was held in Detroit which is separated from Canada only by a river Accordingly. Mir. Allen made it his first business to tell the people of Wayne county. in which Detroit is situated. and especially the farmers of that county. how the Re- publican party promotes their inter ests by denying them the liberty to trade according to their own inclina- tioa and their own judgment Of their individual interests with the people across the river
 Our platform" (of 18ss) said that the men of Wayne county. whose farms are worth more money who pay more money for labor should be protected in the local market against foreigners across the river to the ex- tent that the difference between the value of land in Wayne county and Canada and the difference in the value of labor in Wayne county and Canada should be equalized by laying upon the foreigner who seeks this market tax or duty that should rep resent that difference thus making the foreigner pay for the privilege of entering the best market in the world etc.
 Here we have the old false pretense that the farmer is protected-the farm CT who produces surplus Of his staples for export whose prices are made not in Detroit but in the same market in which the prices of the same products of Canadian farms are made. If the land of the Wayne county farm CT is worth more money and if he pays | higher wages he yet gets no more for eis staple products than the Canadian | farmer does. and so far the latter has the advantage.
 This fiction that the farmer is pro tected may be swallowed at a distance from the border says the Chicago Herald. but not in Wayne county Michigan, where the people can see for themselves how injurious it is to be restrained of their liberty to bly and sell according to their own judg- ment as to their own interests.
 Mir. Allen told the Wayne county people that the Republican party pro- tected them in the Detroit market but he omitted to state at what cost to themselves He did not tell them | that when they sent their surplus wheat to Liverpool and exchanged it for woolen cloth the Republican patty government took from them half the cloth or its equivalent in cash as soon as they attempted to get it home through an American port.
 | He did not tell them that when they sold the wheat at home for the Liver | pool price less cost of transportation | and attempted to exchange proceeds $ | for woolen cloth in the home market the Republican party robbed him to about the same extent by giving the home manufacturer power to exact twice as much as the goods arc worth,
 Mir. Allen would rather not have the farmers know this But the farm CTS of Wayne county Michigan know it in part at least because they live on the border and have an oppor- tunity to compare price and quality under an enormously high tariff with price and quality under a compara- lively low tariff. Farmers on the border who have taken the trouble to make the comparison do not admire the Republican policy of robbing them of half. more or less of the price which the world will give for their ! products They do not accept Mir. Aliens statement that the Republican party stands for perfect equality to all citizens and for liberty to do that which Is right for all. '"
 They are ir a position to know that the Republican party stands for the privilege of the few to grow rich out of the earnings of the many and for unjust restriction of the liberty of every man to do that which is right and best for himself so long as he does not encroach upon and impair the equal liberty of others.