The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-09-21

matter Of total unconcern with him; he
knows it is good, that it will pass in any
State or Territory Of the Union, and in any
! of the commercial nations oft world. and
he knows that no matter what may become
of the stockholders, if all Of them should die
| if the bank should fail, if its entire property
and assets should be destroyed, every dollar
| he holds is worth hundred cents because
/ the Government Of the United States is behind
! il, and that Government has for its security
lis own bonds, which are at a premium in
/ every monetary market Of the world. Our
money should be as National as our flag.
That is what it is to-day, and it should be as
sacred as our National honor, and as sound
as the Government itself The people of
tins country no more want free trade and
the conditions which it viii impose, than
| they want worthless Ssate bank money.
Free trade in this country would be vel
coined by every European country Of the
world, by every commercial rival Of the
| United States and by every enemy 10 our
/ progress and prosperity Free trade would
increase foreign production and diminish
| domestic production in all competing pro-
ducts until the laborers Of this country
would accept the miserable wages which are
paid foreign worknen Free trade would
encourage the foreign shop and discourage
the American shop; it would increase the
| demand for wOrkingmen abroad and
| diminish the demand for workingmen al
! l. - s.n-s
from those on this side; il would increase
| The spindles Of foreign factores and diminish
/ them in cur own build fires in their
| furnaces and extingush them in ours; it
would open up this market TO their products
and permit the foreign producer TO enjoy
this greatest and best market in the world
without condition or restraint upon exactly
the same terms that the producers Of our
Country enjoy this market to-day. And do
not forget that whatever Of our market they
| take is a less to our own citizens and our
own country; loss to our producers and
our own labor, 4 sacrifice Of the interests Of
our own laborers and feilOw-ciuzens for the
alien and the stranger. Free Trade or a
revenue tariff such as is advocated by the
| Democratic leaders and is proclaimed by
them in speech and press, would make
everything free in this market which COM
| petes with what We produce in this market,
because they are against protteion in every
form and would tax only those foreign
products which have no competition in our
own markets and which We cannot produce
among ourselves. Protection imposes its
tariffs upon an exactly opposite principal, it
permits everything TO comeinto this country,
except luxuries which we cannot produce
at home, and puts its tariffs unpOn those
| products from abroad which come into com
petition with the products OF our own soil
and our own shops, the products ofour own
land and Of our own labor.
So long as we have to have tariff, the
Republican party insists that tariff shall be
put upon the foreign product seeking a
market in the Uunited States in competition
with our own, and thus discriminte by such
tariff against the foreign product aid the
| foreign producer and in favor of the home
| product and the home producer. Protection
thus encourages our own industries and our
own investments and our own people
! Protection gives employment to our OWE
labor, bread TO our own people and our own
market to our own producers. Free Trade
gives our money, our markets. our manu-
| hctures, TO our commercial riuals Protec-
ton keeps money and markets and manu-
| factories at home for the benefit of our own
people. Free trade among ourselves in
fourty-four States and the Territories, and
with 100000 Of people, and a reasonable
restraint upon those without who seek to
invade our markets with competing products
is the dictate Of enlightened patriotism and
the doctrine of the Republican party.
Every nation in Europe wants TO break
down the protective systsm. They would
repeal the tariff of 1880 and every section
thereof tomorrow ifthey could.
Doyou really think we want what these
other nations want and what they declare to
| be for their interests and which we know
should be to their interests? Is that what
we want here in the United States? Do you
believe it is good policy for the American
people to take their political economy and
take direction in its fiscal legislation from
rival commercial nations President Wash
| ington, in his farewell address, warned the
| people Of this country and the generations
which were to follow him against adopting
the policy dictated by other nations; and
| President Harrison's Administration spoke
in the true spirit in one ofits State papers
when it said: This Government has never
yet taken its orders from foreign govern
ment and does not propose to begin now
1t is good thing to know what your ad
versaries want and then do the other thing !:
I that is good in war, as well as in conflicts for
trade and commerce. The Democratic lead
ers for more than thirty years have waged
their warfare against the Republican party
upon phrophecies Of faiiure-failure of Re
publican measures and Republican policies
Their campaigns have been campaigns Of
| prophecies of evil, predictions of awful ca
lamities which would follow in the wake Of
Republican legislation and Republican Ad-
ministrations.
The man familiar with the history Of tIis
country since 1861 viii recall that in every
National contest the arsenal of Democratic
warfare has been prediction of Republican
failure. II was predicted by the leaders of
the Democratic party, not by the great rar K
and file THAT party, in 1861 that all efforts
to save the Union would be a failure. 1t
was predicted that the Republican party
could not issue, and if it did issue could not
pat in circulation and pass among the people
at par, the greenback currency ofthe coun-
try. Then you will remember the famous
campaign of 1884, which was based upon the
declaration that the war was failure; then
that the resumption ofspecie payments was
failure now that the Tariff law Of 1880 is
a failure and will interrupt the prosperity ol
the country. The student Of history will
also remember that every prediction of fail
ure made by that party has failed Of verif-
cation; not one has been vindicated by the
truth of history. If results did not overtaks
predictions the Democratic party would be &
great party, aud if facts did not so soon fol
low their prophecies eontrsdicting them, il
would be the most successful party in tbs
world
The platform of the Democratic party is &
declaration of retrogression. 1t insists upon