The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-07

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The truth = thss L Harrison is r.
elected he vilI owe his sls9tsoa chiefly 20
Er-spsske- T0Ea Reed, az Name. who
forced the AcEfnley hill through tie
house. The Issue between the parties is
tie tariff; nos TIE Imperative virtue Of
Harrison or Cleveland. TIE Mckinley
asw presents ths Republican philosophy Of
protection in excellent form; is record
shns far is Ia its favor, and by the enaet-
naens of the tariff the Republican party
were given 8 distinct issue upon which
tAsy could make winning fgas before
the country, IL IL were possible TO win st
all The Democracy strengthened the
chance Of Republican success by declaring
al Chicago for q tsriE for revenue only.
On this plank they we're fofeoraained 70
defeat, bat David B. Hill, an old Demo
cratic protsctionist. with great skill,
changed frons Cor the party under IRE in
his Brooklyn speech as follows:
Tses.r.r 1poa manufactured articles should,
a. genera rue. he larger wsgs similar Articles
ars produced In this eouasry saan wasrs they
not
The tssfs frneossa upoa ali manufactured
agsss2ss tososs than these hiah Tor good reasons
sss placed the free ilst} should sQaa ths
diSxFsnes hssxesn Eha rae OF wages PAID n this
snd foreign countries. 80 FAR ., LABOR enters
into the cost OF tasir production
In maintaining the duties which must necss-
ssrily oe co.leetsa, would discriminate In
isvof Of American labor aud American indus
tgies
This IL the essence Of protection, and
yet DAVID 3. Hill in every one of his
Chicago plank Of tariff for revenue only
and frankly declared himself protection
Isl. On the other hand ex Congressman
Frank Hard, OF Ohio. IA bis Democratic
speeches at the West refuses 10 repudiats
the tariff plank Of the Chicago platform,
saying that it means free trade. We
quote:
understand the platform 10 declare that
there shall be no taxstion upon articles i'm
ported Into this country which come into CON-
petition with similar articles produced in this
country. ] do not sec where there
Is any difference between protection and inei-
dental protection. II the former 10 declared
fraud, that ineiuies the latter. ]
rsgsri the platform step forward In the
march to ultimate tree trade Those
who do net waat to look toward free trade
the nnat policy OF the United States. and who
are Ia the Democratic party. there by mis-
tsEe. They ought to get out
Mr.. Cleveland. like Senator Hill. de-
cIines to accept the Chicago plank Of
tariff for revenue only, ana declares for
free raw materials with protection to
manufacture. That Is not full free trade,
bat 1t il one-sided protection that in prac-
tical effect Is a long step to full free trade,
since !: will cause the Western producers
of raw materials 10 force the East TO choose
between free trade ali around or protection
defense Of free trade in raw materials:
GIVE our manufacturers free wool, and
they " III be able TO compete in production
Of wooden goods with Europe In the mar
kets Of the world"
This argument" is easily upset. We
have free trade in cotton. and We produce
under our Southern labor system enor-
nous quantities OF the ehespes; cotton in
the world. We export our cotton chiefly
10 England. yet we import chiefly from
England great quantities of cotton goods.
With the cheapest cotton in the world we
cannos make as cheap cotton goods as
England. who buys orr cotton. manulac-
lures 1t and sells Us the goods She is
able 20 do this through cheap labor. With
the cheapest cotton in the world we im-
port nearly as many cotton goods as
WOODEN goods, so free wool would not en-
able as TO manufacture wooden goods for
export unless our labor should be reduced
10 foreign level.
Mr.. Cleveland cannot or will not see that
the tariff question IS labor question. bat
We suspect that our producers Of "raw ma
terisl" aud cur workjngmen whose wages
would be cut by Cseye and's tariff re-
form" see it in spite OF the attempt on the
part 81 Cleveland and David T. Hill 10
throw dnst lu their eyes. II they do see it
New York SAL 60 Republican; not other
wise.