Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-17
The Battle Will Go On.

experimentation Signal.
The Battle Will Go On.
The Republican party has met with
reverse that may be compared with
the first bate of Bull Run. The exult.
ant free traders will do well to remem.
Der that four years after Bull Run came
Appomattox. The contest which Re-
publicanism has waged in the past
campaign has been one of the most inn
portant struggles in the history of the
Republic. 1t has been q struggle for
the nearest and dearest interests of the
people; for the home, for the factory,
for the farm and the school. 1t has
been struggle for the dignity, the self
respect and independence Of the Ameri-
can workingman, for the preservation
of that high standard of living and
wages which a protective tariff has
made possible, and which free trade
would destroy. 1t has been struggle
for honest money, and for the main
! tenance of national credit unimpaired
In this struggle the Republican party
has had arrayed against it all the re-
sources that free traders and foreign
industries could bring to bear to break
down American protection and place
the American workingman at the mercy
of pauper competition abroad.
The Republican party has had to con-
tend against vast corruption fund,
levied by Tammany Hall in the city of
New York, with the addition of contri-
buttons from the wealthy friends of the
free trade candidate, and their fellow
free traders in other countries. 1t has
had to contend against the solid South
made solid by the open, undenied and
flagrant violation of the National Con-
stitution, and inheriting from slavery
traditional devotion to free trade.
The Republican party has met these
foes and, for the moment, has been
driven back, though not in disorder.
Its flag is still there. 1t still floats
to the breeze above the vanishing smoke
Of the conflict, and it will yet float
over victories as great and as memora-
bic as any of the triumphs which the
Republican party has achieved in the
past. The free trade, pro-slavery De-
mocracy thought they had crushed the
Republicans in 1856, but the reverse of
that date only stimulated Republican
preparation for the great success of
1860 and the added triumph of 1864.
The Democracy declared, when Cleve-
land was first elected, that the Repub-
lican party had been swept out of ex-
istence. But the Republican party
showed in 1888 that the repulse had
been only temporary, and that the cour-
age and resolution, the vigorous and
aggressive energy which had charac-
terized the party in former struggles,
were as vital as ever, and as capable as
ever of achieving success.
The Press renews the combat today.
1t proposes to continue its aggressive
campaign against the combination of
free trade, fraud and violence, which
has obtained passing advantage over
the forces of protection, and which is
already proclaiming that the barriers
which guard American labor against
pauper competition abroad will be torn
down. The Cleveland Evening Post is
already demanding the repeal of the
Mckinley tariff, and its London ally,
the Pail Mall Gazette declared, in its
issue of yesterday, that both the mer-
chants and unemployed workingmen
of England have reason to rejoice at
the Democratic victory, as with the
possibility of the reopening of the
American markets to the goods of Bir-
mingham, Bradford and Manchester,
capitalists will get chance to procure
some return on their money invested
and the workingmen will have an op-
portunity to get decent price for their
labor"
In face of such declarations as these
it is imperative that the friends and
supporters of American industry should
be fearless, earnest and outspoken in
asserting the rights of American labor
and opposing and exposing the schemes
of its enemies. The Press will do that
duty thoroughly, and, we hope, effec-
lively. 1t will keep a search light
turned on the schemes of those who
are plotting in the interest of British
free trade, and against the welfare of
the American workingman. The Press
was never more firmly convinced of