The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-06-30
MOST HEROIC CONVENTION
Col Mcclure Praises the Tariff Attitude
Of the Democrats
The Philadelphia Times Compares
the Recent Chicago Convention to
the One Which Nominated Lin

the Recent Chicago Convention to
the One Which Nominated Lin
coin.
From the Philade phia Times
CHICAGO, June "a The most heroic
National Convention in the history
of the Republic has finished it's work
and returned to carry it's cause to
the supreme tribunal of the people.
1t was exceptionally heroic in the
selection OF a candidate for President
against the solid vote of his own
great State, and it was equally heroic
in stripping the tariff issue of all
semblance of disguise The platform
distinctly declares for tariff for
| revenue only, and declares that "Rp-
publican protection is a fraud; a
robbery of the great majority of the
American people for the benefit of the
I few"
While party platforms, as a rule,
mean anything, everything, or moth
ing, this one plank of the Chicago
Convention means more than any
platform plank of any party since
the great Republican anti slavery
deliverance made in this city Just
thirty years ago, when Abraham
Lincoln was nominate ed for President.
The man and the pla tform were jeer-
ed and derided then by the monopoly
slave drivers, as the man aud t he
platform are jeered and derided now
by monopoly prOtectionists Had
slavery been content with the fullest
legitimate protection, it conld not
have been overthrow; it would have
practically without assailants, be-
You'd the dreams of peaceful and
gradual emancipation. 1tnever could
have been confronted by IL foe able
to endanger it's mastery in State and
| nation had it not thus confronted
| itself. The Lincoln Convention of
| $50 offered slavery all the protec-
ton it claimed, when it existence was
dignified by the protection of the
Constitution, as framed by the Faith
ers of the Republic. But slavery
would blight every State and Terri
tory or it would die. 1t made the
issue; the people accepted it and
slavery pc ished in the convulsive
thrOeS OF civil war.
Protection was once the accepted
policy of the Nation. But protected
capital. like protected slavery, grow
insolent in it's power, and greed was
whetted as the few grew rich from
taxes enforced upon the many In.
stead OF being content with the sew
enteen per cent. of tariff taxes impos.
under Washington, when American
industry needed vastly more rotec-
ton than now, the beneficiaries OF
| protective taves have initiated the
slavery leaders by constantly increas-
ing their demands, until now, in time
of peace, our tariff taxes are about
seventy per cent. and they fall alike
| upon the necessaries Of business and
of life.
The growing greed of shoddy fort
unes has finally mastered the party
of the noblcst achievement of history
and forced great convention to I'M
mask against the robbery of Repub-
lican protection, as slavery forced a
| great convention to unmask against
the oppression of slavery in 1860.
Will the parallel end with the Chi
cago Conventions of 1860 and 1862?
| do not believe that it will. Indeed,
looking over the records of half a
century of political action, see moth
| ing to give a ray of hope for the
maintenance of liberal protective
| policy in the future. 1t received it's
| mortal wound from it's own hands in
the wanton, reckless taxation of the
necessaries of life by the Mckinley
| bill, and it heard it's death-knell in
the Chicago Wigwam of 1892, as
slavery MORALLY wounded itself by
| the repeal of the Missouri Comprom-
Use and heard it's death knell sounded