Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-07-20
THE COMING ISSUE.

tnG SOmtNSt tSSOe-
u To Protection Against Free Trade-cob-
dcnites Cannot Hide This Year Behind the
Mask of Tarir "Eeform." rs They Did In
1sSS-Thcir Platform Commits Them to
Absolute FREQ Tradc-This Is u Prot.c-
Zionist Country and Defeat Starcs Them
In tho Face.
IL is reported that n canvass of the
delegates To- the National convention in
Chicago showed that every one of them
favored n revenue tariff. which is mere
ly another name for Cobdcnism, or En-
giish free trade. Indications are that
the democratic party win in this cam
paign take holder ground on the tariff
question than ever before. Hitherto
there have always been some democrats
who Indignantly denied the charge that
their party was committed to free trade
But each succeeding year the number
with the requisite cheek TO keep up this
denial has diminished. till this year II is
not likely that any self-rcspccting DEM
ocrat will be found To disclaim for his
party its manifest radical Cobdenistic
tendencies. Democrat and free trader
have come TO be almost synonymous
terms.
We welcome this uncloaking of the
free trade party. We have no fears as
to how the people will decide when
asked too choose between protective
and free trade tariff. The only dan
ger in past contests has been the re-
luctance of the democratic leaders TO
take an uncquivocal position.
Though employing the arguments of
Golden and Bright, of Sumner and
Perry, of Carlisle and Mills, all of whom
are avowed free traders. uncompromis-
ingly hostile To protection in any form.
democratic orators and editors have dis
claimed that they were teaching free
trade. To their success in perSuading
the people that they were opposing only
the abuses of protection, not protection
itself, has been due whatever impress
| sion they have been able TO make ON the
popular mind.
For this is n protcctionist country.
Let no one forget that. 1t started in ms
protectionist under Washington and
Hamilton and jefferson and Madison.
and il continued such in later years I'M
der the teachings of Jackson. Clay and
| Webster. Nor has it forgotten that
| Lincoln and Grant ard Greeley taught
the Same policy.
And to-day it sees the greatest and
noblest of It's statesmen advocating its
continuance. Many years will have
| passed before the American people de
| scrt these statesmen for the shallow
| school of American free traders repre-
scntcd by Cleveland Carlisle and Mills
So the palmer the issue is made, the
better it will suit MS. And II must OF
| N l.s 1,t, -, Ia,
| paign, after the many rabid free trade
speeches and editorials which have been
| put forth in defense of so-callcd tariff
reform" After the bold free trade
declarations from the recognized lead
ers of the democratic party during the
past four years, the party managers can
hardly have the impotence To insult
the intelligence of the people by in.
structing their paradcrs, ms they did
four years ago, 10 cry in unison:
Don't, don't, don't bc afraid:
Tariff reform" S. not fro, trade
As for the republicans, they cannot
hedge II they would, and would not II
they could. Their Mckinley tariff "a
there to define their position more
clearly and forcibly than it could posi-.
bly, be defined in mere words. There is
not line of it which is not protective.
and he who attacks it at any point is
attacking protection.
Let its enemies come on. The people
of this country know what it has done
for them. particularly the working peo-
pie and the farmers, and they will
know enough TO recognize in it's assail.
ant the enemy of their own interests.
There will be no snap Judgment like
that of 1890 in this election. Let the
free traders keep that in mind. In the
words of President Harrison, I'm 1890
II was conflict of predictions. now on.
ndversarics must face trade statistics
and prices current. "-American Econo-
nist.