Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-09-14
IT Is A FREE TRADE PARTY.

IT Is A FREE TRADE PARTY.
 The JoURNAL-MNER has been la
 boring to convince its contemporary
 that the democratic party is free
 trade party, and has advised it to
 join the procession and keep pace
 with it. To our good advice and
 suggestions our esteemed contem-
 porary replies as follows:
 "The public will hardly accept
 democratic doctrine as expounded
 by a republican paper. It is the
 old case of the devil quoting scrip
 ture to suit his own purpose. There
 are, of course, democrats who ad-
 here to the pure free trade doctrine.
 but the platform of the national de-
 mocracy declares for tariff for reve- nue only-meaning such revenne as Is necessary to pay the running ex- penses of the government, economi- cally administered. There is no free trade party in the United States to-day. The democratic platform declares against the more than war tariff of the Mckinley bill, but it certainly does not declare for free trade. Tariff for revenue only, is the democratic slogan, and the one to wbich free-thinking people will march on to victory, and the money changers will be driven out of the temples of justice, and the terrible burden of taxation lifted from the backs of the toilers. A local incl dent Tn a spontaneous democratic procession, in a small mining vil- lage, situated up dry gulch in the mountains, has no more to do with the declared principles of the de- mocracy of this nation than the ef- forts of an ant in an Arizona ant hill has to do with the eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius."
 It is plain to be seen from the above, that the JOURNAL MINER does not possess the fullest confidence of the editor of its contemporary, on matters political. Such being the case, We will give it few choice morsels from its own party leaders on the subject, from which it will be seen that We have not in the least misrepresented the party in our as sertions. Here they are:
 Il am for Cleveland for President because am free trader" Henry George.
 "The Democratic party, except in the person of imbeciles not worth mentioning, is a free trade party Henry Watterson.
 We hope that the star eyed god dess of liberty meant nothing per sonal in the above, and as he could not have seen Tuesday mornings issue of our contemporary, he cer- tainly can not be accused of it.
 "I will never help to make law that stands in the way of free trade" Roger .. Mills.
 ''I am free trader. The Mills bill is a step in that direction. Con gressman Breckenridge.
 The democratic party is free trade party or it is nothing."-Hen- " Watterson.
 MT. Cleveland, by his message. for which 1 honor him, has challenged the protected industries of the coun- try to fight of extermina tion."- Senator Vest Dem.) Missouri.
 If Grover Cleveland is reelected president of the United States We will pass tariff bill that puts raw all on the free list, and then we will put our own intelligent and skilled and productive labor in this country upon a plane of equal ity with the laborers of all other Roger Q. Mills speech at East St. Louis, H., Sept. p, 1SSS. 1
 Here is another good democratic authority on the subject, which we commend to the prayerful consider ation of our democratic contempo- rary. It is from the Chicago Her aid, and reads as follows:
 "The question is whether the tariff for robbery only shall be abol- ished once for all, The question is, Shall we have free absolute Iy free-with all parts of the worldl The Herald says we must. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAYS WE MUST. That settled, we can then consider how to raise what revenue is needed restraining any man of the liberty to buy and sell untaxed in any market in the world. Until then the issue must not be obscured."
 If the above is not sufficient proof of the free trade proclivities of the democratic party, there is still an encyclopedia of democratic au- thority to draw from to prove the