The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-14

purely revenue tar1n euofoS NO pSoeec'
ton; and they both know that Stree trade"
is not impossible.
New York, Connections and New jersey
were carried this year by talking the 'in-
cidental protection" and impossible Tree
trade" lies to the people Of those states,
but now that the election is over. It does
not lie in the hands Of Grover Cleveland
or David B. Hill to make the victorious
Democratic party ego slow" in tho matter
of tariff reform. The free traders are
in the majority in the party; and the free
traders know the Democratic national
convention acted with deiiberation when
it discarded the incidental protection
principle and solemnly declared protec-
ton to be unconstitutional. Mr.. Hill
can lie ne protection" states OF the
East into voting for free trade plstform;
and Cleveland can promise that he will
favor for the present only free raw
materials, md can pretend that free
trade is impossible" but it il more than
likely that the producers OF the South and
West will tell David B. Hill that they do
not see any difference between protection
ana lncidental pfotectlOn.
Frank Hurd, q Democratic free trader,
thus defined the Democratic platform:
understand the platform to declare that
there shah be no taxation upon articles i'm.
ported into this country which come into COM
petition with similar articles produced In this
country. do not zee where there 10
any difference between protection and Incl
dental protection. If the former 10 declared Q
fraud. that includes the latter. l re-
gard the platform q . step forward In the march
to ultimate free trade Those who DO
not want to look toward free trade As the final
policy Of the United States, and who are in the
Democratic party, are there by mistake. They
ought to get out
Congressman Springer in his speech to
the Democracy at Nation. Ia. said:
1.-THE Democratic party. II clothed with
legislation by the people at the ensuing
election, will speedily put an end to this
political partnership with private enter.
prises, and will reduce the duty on tin
plate to cen. . pound, or place the ar.
ticle on the free list"
Here Mr.. Springer, Western Democrat
tells Mr.. Hill that he does not agree with
him; that he does not believe in inciden-
tai protection "because that would be
forming partnership With private enter.
prises, and, therefore, We say as plainly -
possible, We want no protection Of any
kind, by any name. because it would b
favoritism."
Mills, Cleveland and Springer theoreti-
caliy all held this opinion, but practically
they all consented to the Mills bill, one
sided protection measure. But The Demo
cratic majority from the West and South
is likely to execute the will of Watterson,
who would "trip up, exterminate, annihi-
grace. every vestige of the fraud called
protection, wherever We find II"
This means that the ''incidental" protec-
ton, and adjusted" protection of David
B. Hill and the one-sided protection of the
Mills bill, with its free wool and taxed
wooilen goods, advocated by Cleveland
stands small chance of enactment The
producers of the West. If deprived of pro-
lection will force free trade on the manu-
facturers. If free trade is good for the
producers of the West it is good for the
m manufacturers Of the East
Mr.. Cleveland and his congress cannot
halt; neither can they Ego slow" in the
sense of passing the free raw material bills
of the Fifty-second congress. The coun.
| try will resent tariff which retains pro-
lection for the Eastern manufacturer and
withdraws protection from the West
ern producer. If wool, coal and
iron ore are made free then
woollen goods and iron manufac-
lures will be made free too or the
West will know the reason why. If the
Western farmer aud miner is to get free
| trade the Eastern manufacturer must
take his free trade medicine too. Mr..
Cleveland wants to ''go Slows" he will not
be permitted to "go Slow" he will be
taught by the South and West that free
raw material is not tariff for revenue only |;
that the country will not endure Sec
| tional or a one-sided tariff; it will have .
fair tariff; it will have free trade, fair
tariff from the Democratic standpoint. as
protection all around was from the Re-
publican point of view.