Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-08-12

ignominious defeat, and the carefully
prepared report of the committee en-
platform was flung under the table with a
howl of derision. Here arc few cita-
tons from said committees report:
From the foundation of this govern
ment taxes collected at the custom
houses have been the chief source OF
federal revenue; such they must continue
to be-"
"When customs taxation is levied upon
articles OF any kind produced in this
country, the difference between the cost
of labor here and labor abroad fully
measures any possible benefits TO labor"
Again, the committees report declares:
$50 that every change OF law must be at
every step regardful of the labor and cap
ital involved"
But in making reductions in taxes, it
is not proposed, to injure any domestic
industry"
Again, "the processes Of reform must be
subject to the execution of these plain
dictates of Justice"
These are the ancient platitudes which
have been used to hoodwink the people
for 10 these many years, but the free
traders of the Watterson stripe could not
be fed on such worn out rihblsh any
longer. They were in the saddle, the bit
was in the mouth OF the Democracy and
it must 20 just where Watterson, Neal,
Hurd, ct al, chose to drive it. Therefore,
they having no regard for ''the labor and
capital invested" and their object being
"to injure domestic industry" and en-
courage the industry of foreign nations
they had no hesitation in saying so in the
most brutally candid manner, and in
place of the horrid phrases just quoted
they insert the following: 1--WE denounce
Republican protection as fraud, rob-
berry OF the American people for the bene-
fit of the few"
In adopting this infamous doctrine the
Democracy denounce as robbers all the
aimers, wool growers, lead and coal
miners, steel and iron workers, wool,
cotton, silk, paper, glass and watch man
ufacturers and operatives and all the other
working people, whose honest toll and
wages are protected by the Republican
party from the pauper-paid products OF
the world. And the irony of this is that
after insulting all the industrious people
of the nation they then ask these people
to reward them by voting for the very
men who thus insult and degrade them.
Can impudence 90 farther than this ?
Here are a few of the yells of exutation
which followed the adoption of the above
II am for Cleveland for president be-
cause | am free trader. Henry George.
1.-THE Democratic party except in the
person OF imbeciles not worth mention
ing, is a free trade party. Henry Wat.
terson.
II will never help to make law which
stands in the way of free trade. Roger
Q. Mills.
1.-The Democratic party is a free trade
party or it is nothing Henry Waiter
on.
"rhe conflict between free trade and
protection is irrepressible anu mnst be
fought out to the bitter end. We spit
upon compromises, and propose neither
to ask nor to give quarter. Henry Wat
terson.
And in full accord with the Democrats
/ llCIO tOliCo q NiCCl VI HUN
which must make their hearts glad:
THE Democratic party in the states
may rest assured that if English sympa.
thy could carry the election of Grover
Cleveland in November the White House
would be theirs. We shall watch the de-
velopment of the struggle with the keen
est interest, and even if the triumph be
not attained all at once there is indeed
reason for congratulaton that one of the
great American parties has made free
trade, pure and simple, the great battle
cry of the future. Liverpool England
Journal of Commerce.
But even in the Democratic party are
men who will not bend the knee to the
Moloch of English-Democrat free trade.
Mr.. Dana, Of the New York Sun, who is
trying to eat dish of the most nauseous
crow, growls out the following:
This is free trade platform, as near
ly as it is possible to make one with any
customs duties left in it at all. 1t declares
that protection is not only fraud, but is
entirely unconstitutional; the execution
OF this platform would require a prompt
and powerful revision of the present tariff
in order that protection might be elimin
ated. New York Sun.
This is specimen of Dana's friendship
for Cleveland, he knows that there are
thousands of Democrats, and especially
Irish Democrats in New YORK who never
can be brought to vote for free trade, ant
that is the reason such items as the above
appear daily in the Sun.
Away down east in Connecticut there
is open rebellion. The old reliable Dem
ocratic Hartford Times thus spits- on the
Democratic platform:
Connecticut Democrats are not bounc
to say that the moon is made OF greer
cheese because some wild and unthought
ful mountain rangers said 30 at midnigh
at Chicago. The Democratic convention
of Connecticut should adopt the very
planks, word for word, that the commit
tee adopted, and pay no regard at all tt
the crazy midnight act that struck then
out"
What enthusiastic supporters of Cleve
land these Yankee Democrats must b.
when they stigmatze the assembled wis
dom of their party as "wild, unthoughtiu
mountain rangers"
In the Jerseys the worst kind of demo
ralization prevails since host of balo
box suffers have been sent to the peni
Tertiary. In New York the grim silence
of ID. s. Hill, the open defiance of Edw
Murphy, of Troy, who told Mr.. Whitney
a few days since that Cleveland would
lose that state by 100000 votes, and tn,
declarations Of thousands of Tammany
men that they won't vote for Cleveland
are among the most ominous signs of tn,
pending rout of the free traders. In New
Mexico, but l forbear, the open lette
writer's are rending their party in such al
effective manner that any outside interior
ence is entirely superfuous. Some vener
able Democratic auntie ought to sing then
the old nursery hymn:
Children you should never let
Such angry passions rise;