The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-17
A NATURAL RESULT.


1t was TO be expected that our English
cousins would rejoice over the recent
sweeping Democratic victory, as we'll
they may The following extracts from
their newspapers will furnish pleasant
reading to the workingmen engaged i'll
American manufactures:
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes a
brief note saying that both the mer-
chants and the unemployed working
men of Eng gland have reason to rejoice
at he Democratic victory. as, with the
possibility OF the re-openlng of the
American market to the goods OF Birm-
1ngham, Bradford and Manchester,
capitalists will get chance to procure
some return on their money invested
and the workingmen will have an oppor-
tunity to get decent price for their
labor without the necessity of striking.
The St. James Gazette says that some
satisfaction is felt iii England at Mr..
Clevelands going back to the White
House. The Blaine H harrison regime has
been far from agreeable to British inter-
ests:
The Telegraph says it does not antici-
pate any material relaxation in the
tariff laws as a result of the assumption
of pow er by the Democrats, but thinks
that it will put a check upon the estab-
1ishment of tin plate and other new
manufacturing industries in America.
and will thereby inure tt the benefit of
foreign trade.
The Graphic says: mo pleasanter
news than that from the United States
has been received here in long time.
The result of the election is the most
disastrous blow given the cause OF
protection in the memory of the present
generation.
The "reopening of the American mar
ket." means the closing of American fac
tories, and English workingmen will reap
the advantage of suspended enterprises in
America. THE Blaine H arrison regime"
was not primarily designed to be par
ticularly "agreeablet to British interests"
and England is to be congratulated up
on having an administration in the
United States more consonant with its
material interests. England sees a
check upon "tin-plate and other new
manufacturing industries in America"
and it was to this end the victory of last
week was won. That the result will in
ure to the benefit of foreign trade can
not be doubted, any more than that it
will to like extent be disastrous to
American prosperity. To be sure it is
pleasant news for English contempla-
ton, but the Republican party does not
believe that the chief end of our national
existence IS to upbuiid foreign prosperity,
Mr.. Watterson. editor of the Louis
willie Courier-J Journal, the man who was
most infuen :ial in having the protection
plank in the Democratic national con-
vention's committee report ripped out,
and the free trade declaration substi-
tuted, is at not all backward in interpret
ing the Democratic victory. He says:
THE vote of Tuesday is primarily and
decisively verdict against the policy
and the theory of protection. 1t is an
acknowledgement 10 mercy and to the
world that the government of the United
States has at last stepped out of the
paths of bondage Of protectionism and
upon the broad open highway of free
trade with all mankind; no more dark
closet reciprocity treaties; no more Nc
Kinley bills designed TO check imports;
no more absurd and burdensome devices
to make the rich Iicher and the poor
poorer by taxing the necessities of life;
10 more Chinese wall to restrain trade
and commerce.
That is the way he understands til It
particular feature of the policy of his
party and ne was chiefly instrumental
in committing the party to it in conver-
ton.
Senator Hill, however, the chietest
demagogue within bis party, who's prin-
ciple-or lack of it's summed mp
in the declaration: 81 am a Democrat"
in true Democratic style. He says:
"We must carry out our pledges by re-
forming the tariff and reducing federal
taxation, not by harsh and extreme
measures, but upon conservative lines
indicated in our platform and in the
speeches of our candidates"
Now. Mr.. Hill, if protection is uncon-
stitutional. as your platform says; If it
is robbing the people, making the rich
richer and the poor poores. Impoverish-
ing the country and enclosing its borders
with a chinese wall, wonld you con-
slider it harsh and extreme" to go to
any length in remedying such an evil:
Conservative is good. when one recalls
the utterances of the Democratic cam
paigu orator on the tariff question. The
party was insincere in its platform, or
it must obliterate this unconstitutional
protective legislation from the statute
books. But it won't do anything of the
kind-it dare not. The David B. Hills
and not the Henri Wattersons will con-
troll the policy of the party.
But there is another result of this vic
tory which must appeal to the exalted
sense of political morality of the average
who believes in civil service
reform, and that is outlined in what
the New York Herald. democratic
paper. says:
The impression is very general that
federal. patronage in this city under
President Cleveland will be absolutely