The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-24
ENGLISH HOPES AND AMERICAN
POLITICS.

We have before us the full text of the
editorial comments published on June
It'll in the EUening NeloS and Post of
London on the Minneapolis convention.
AS the Evening Post of New York may
question some day that such an article
ever appeared, it may be well to add
that the article in question is the leading
editorial in the London EUening Post of
the date mentioned and appears on the
fourth column of the second page. At
ter declaring, as already quoted in a
cable dispatch, that "a Republican VIC
tory at the polls in November would be
a blow to the Free Trade party in the
United States and would retard for a
considerable period the progress of those
sound commercial and economic doc
trines which underlie British CONNER
cial greatness and alone maintain British
commercial ascendancy," the London
namesake of two New York Democratic
papers adds that 'on broad and general
grounds, then, the proceedings at Min
neapolis have as great an interest for the
manufacturer of England as of New
England; of London and Birmingham, as
of New York and Boston"
All of which is true, with the addition
that what is of interest to the manufac-
turer in New York and Boston is of equal
interest to the workingman in New York
and Boston. Indeed, the London news
paper would have put the case much
more precisely and concisely had it put
the workingman in place of the manu-
facturer, for the issue between English
Free Trade and American Protection is
an issue that involves, above and before
all things, the wages of the American
workingman.
The London Nel0s and Post, whose
article appeared, of course, before the
nominations at Minneapolis, stated in a
nutshell both the policy of the Republi-
can party and the reason why all who
believe in that policy should be unit in
support of the Republican candidates
and platform. 1t said: "Whoever may
be the candidate finally selected
whether President Harrison, Mr.. Blaine,
Senator John Sherman, Major Mckinley
or a dark horse-he will stand as the ex-
ponent and embodiment of that high
protective tariff system which, by its
latest engine, the Mckinley act, shuts
the gates of the American markets
against the British manufacturer. The
chosen of the Republican convention
will be pledged to defend and extend
that system, and to veto any measure
which would repeal or modify that act"
The Mckinley act does not shut the
gates of American markets against the
British or any other manufacturer, but
it maintains a barrier sufficiently high
to prevent the degradation of American
labor by the two easy admission of for
eign goods produced at cost for wages
far inferior to the American. The Eng
lish newspaper was right in saying that
any candidate nominated at Minneapolis
would represent the principle of the Nc
Kinley act, as that act is in accord with
the policy which has built up to prosper
ity the industries of America, and which
is unpopular with Englishmen because
it has done so much for American in
dustry.
We notice that the London newspaper
finds some consolation in the hope that
Stephen G.. Cleveland win be the next
President. There is no doubt that if the
British Isles, instead of the United