Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-22
SHOULD KEEP MUM.
John Bull Advised to Lie Low
With Reference to Our
Politics.
When He Talks He Injuries
the Cause of the
Democracy.
Serious Advice rendered by
a Foxy English
Journal.

Liverpool Echo, July u, 1892: NoW
that our home elections ara over the
great conflict which is proceeding IN
the United States of America naturally
begins to attract a little more Afternoon.
Tie fight for the white house this
next fall is going to be on StupendOuS
scale. and it's result may be pregnant
with the most startling consequences,
not alone for tue citizens OF the great
Republic, but for the whole OF III"
civilized and trading world 1t Is
battle which those at home, IL they
wish to show their wisdom and dlScre-
ton. would do well to watch in spirit
of reticence and without display OF
feeling or partisanship. British
apostles of free trade should assume an
Indifference, if they have it not. On
such an occasion it is gospel truth tnat
If speech be silver, silence is golden.
America is just now divided politically
into two great camps, formed OF re-
publicanS on one hand, and democrats
on the other. General Harrison, The
present occupant of the white house,
has been chosen to again do battle for
the republicans, who are best known
over here as stepped to the lips III pro-
lection, and rs the aiderS and support
ers of the Mckinley tariff, Which was
doomed with the declaration that it
was to raise workmen's wages through
out the States, and to inaugurate an
era of unheard-of peace and prosperity.
4c Of
have chosen as their leader Mr.. Grover
Cleveland, whose tenure of office as
President, which closed four years ago,
they recall rs justifying his reelection.
1t is perhaps too much to say that MI.
Cleveland and his party so to the poll
rs the avowed champions of free trade,
but they are certainly in favor of tariff
refortn, and can point to the terrible
labor troubles in the country, due to
the impending great reduction IN wages,
as clear evidence of the fact that, what
ever the Mckinley bill may have done
in pouring increased wealth into the
pockets of phutOcratS and mOnOpohStS
like Mr. Carnegie, it has SigIdlly failed
to ameliorate the condition of the DlaSS-
GS, OF 10 DeJlCE bIlC CttIllIu7S VI I1iG GlL
tisan and mechanic. Great Issues bAVe,
therefore, to be decided within the next
few months, but they have to be lie
cided by the Americans themselves,
and for their own good and proper
reasons. The discussion of the lues-
ton at issue from the English point of
view has only one effect in the states
and that injurious and paralyZinS to
those who are fighting the battle of
free trade. Every public expression Of
opinion in this country hostile TO the
Mckinley tariff, from a British point
Of view, is telegraphed across the At
tlntic and eagerly reproduced in the
republicans papers throughout the cOUn-
cry. AS we said before, the apostles Of
free trade, if they wish to further the
principles they are so proud of, should
rigidly hold their tongues during the
present presidential campaign. Their
utteranceS do incalculable harm to the
democratic cause, and if Mr. Cleveland
is after all defeated it will be largely
owing to the TOO loudly and indiscreet-
ly expressed sympathy proceeding
from these shores.