The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-28
A COMMERCIAL PEST.
THE SHIP FREE TRADE MUST or
RlGlDLY ouARANTlNED.

She Has John Bull as Captain and Grover
Cleveland as Pilot-~what 1t VIII Mean
10 She Should Get by Protection Is
land In November.
Quarantine means protection against
the seeds Of disease and death brought
10 our shores from o foreign land. And
we are all agreed that it is good thing,
Protection means quarantine against
the seeds of death to American indus
tries brought to our shores on the ship
Free Trade, sailing under the English
flag, with J. Bull as captain and Grover
Cleveland as pilot.
1t is as important to the industrial and
commercial health of the nation that
the ship Free Trade should be halted at
Protection island and prevented from
landing her passengers and cargo as it
is to its physical health that the Moravia
should be held down the harbor and
prevented from scattering the cholera
germs among our people.
The free trade bacillus is known to be
deadly to the prosperity of every coun-
try where 1t obtains q foothold. The
Golden club is its place of original in
cubation, and as a destroyer of Ameri-
can manufactures its ravages, if 1t ever
gains an entrance to this country, will
be terrible. In 1876, under what was
known as the Walker tariff, the British
commercial cholera broke out sin our
midst" and from that date on for long
period the mortality among our leading
industries was great
The usual symptoms of this dreaded
scourge of American business were rap
idly developed. The pulse of trade grew
steadily feebler, paralysis of the nerve
centers of business followed and in 1857
the whole industrial and commercial
system, surcharged with the British free
trade bacilli, collapsed with financial
crash that will always remain among
the darkest memories of our history.
Again we are threatened with a SINH
lar visitation of this fearful plague.
The Democratic party is full of the Cob
denite germs, and frankly avows its
purpose to abolish the Mckinley quaran-
tine station and allow the British free
trade" ship, with the same old com
mercial cholera on board, to pass Pro-
lection island unmolested.
If this ship that has nailed to its mast
head the legend, death to American
industries" is not halted by the impera-
tive voice of the people at the polls next
November, there is a sorry time ahead
for them. The "pestilence that walketh
by night" is not more deadly to human
life than a tariff for revenue only"
will be to both capital and labor.
The British press may well watch
with eager and hopeful interest the
Democratic effort to break down the
protective system, which has for thirty
years served as most effective quaran-
tine against the invasion of British cheap
goods, made by British cheap labor.
working for British cheap wages. It
means renewed vitality and vigor fo-
British industries If this country shall
elect Grover Cleveland, with mandate
to let down the tariff bars and let in the
flood of foreign pauper competition upon
American factories and workshops and
the working people employed therein.
The American workingmen, however,
can hold the free trade plague at bay il
they choose. The quarantine station
will not be abandoned If they say that
it shall not be. Protection island is in
their hands. They can halt the British
ship, with Its pestilential doctrine that
protective tariff is unconstitutional, If
they determine to do 1t. Self preserva-
ton is natures first law, and Of course
they will maintain the quarantine that
defends their wages, their homes and
their families. York Recorder.