Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-07
WHAT 1T MEANS.

Voters who work with your hands for
your daily bread and the daily bread of
those dependent upon you, the decision to
be made tomorrow deeply concerns you.
You are now at work at fair or good
wages. Business is generally good. There
has probably been no time in the history
of the country when there was less COM
plant of lack of employment and less rea-
son for such complaint. That this is 30
is largely owing to the policy which has
found its latest expression in the Mckinley
tariff. This tariff has worked even better
than Its most sanguins supporters pre-
dicted. 1t has stimulated old industries
It has reduced the prices of things to be
bought while helping to maintain and in
crease the wages of those who do the buy
ing. 1t has kept foreign goods out of the
country and greatly extended the market
for goods of home production. 1t has de-
Tended the manufacturers of this country
against the manufacturers of other coun-
tries, and 1t has defended the workingmen
of this country against the reduction of
wages which would have to be made If
the manufacturers here were compelled to
compete with the products of cheap labor
in other countries.
Democratic orators in their eagerness to
get your votes will tell you that what we
have said is not true. They will tell you
that the tariff has nothing to do with
your present comfortable condition; that
it is not good thing for you to be pro-
tectionist; that free trade is what you
really want, and that it is a noble and
unselfish thing to freely open the magnif-
cent markets of this country to all the
greedy foreigners who are aching to get
control of them. And some of the more
outspoken ones will 90 go far as to tell You
that if free trade should happen to de-
stroy the prosperity of any section of this
country so much the better for this
country.
If you are at all confused by the vocifer-
BUSINESS and conflicting claims of campaign
| orators and campaign newspaper orgsns
there are two facts which you can clearly
and safely rely upon. One is that "the
times" are now good. You don't need any
campaign orator or campaign newspaper
organ to tell you that. Will putting in
power the party that says protection is q
| fraud better themi The other fact, which
is a conclusive answer to this question, il
that whenever a free trade or low tariff
policy has been tried in this country there
has been terrible trouble. Four times ir
the history of the country have suot
theorists as are now asking for your votei
had a chance to test their theory. Eact
time wages had to be reduced to NEE
foreign competition, and finally shop
and factories were closed, becaus,
our manufacturers could not resis
the foreign onslaught. For NOR
than thirty years these theorists hav,
now been kept in the background, and tn
country has been prosperous beyond an,
reasonable expectation. The theorists cam
stand 1t any longer, and they want You t
help them annihilate your prosperity il
order to give their scientific ideas anothe
| CunACo' "hh ~ Pny you eooo ~ ohJ Anoh
than 1t paid those who helped the fre
traders in the four victories they hav
had-victoriss which all turned out to b
defeats of honest labor and blights upo
national prosperity,
Furthermore, do not be deceived by th
assertion that Democratic victory thl
year doesn't mean what the Democrat
platform said 1t would. Only last wee
Henry Watterson said in his papel
"a Republican editor up in New Jersey
endangering the integrity of his garment
because somebody has told him that th
Democrats don't mean what they say i
their platform on the subject of the tariff
He need give himself no uneasiness abor
that. We are after that whole protecti,
tariff, from A to Lizard, from tin plate [
steel rails, and from sugar to shoe peg
and We mean to bring It down to reven,
= basis, every bit of It." This is the spir
Z which animated the Democratic convel
tion. It Is the spirit which animates Il
leaders of the Democratic party. Do
your experience and the experience
those who have lived and worked bsfo
you teach that such q spirit is likely
bsneat you in your work and wasesi