Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-08-11
They Can't Keep Still. Even in En-
joining silence About the Amer
lean Campaign the English
Give Themselves Away.

Give Themselves Away.
Now that our home elections are over,
the great conflict which is proceeding in
the United States of America naturally
begins TO attract little more attention.
The fight for the White house this next
fall is going to be on stupendons scale,
and its result may be pregnant with the
most startling consequences, not alone for
the citizens OF the great republic, but for
the whole of the civilized and trading
world. 1t is q battle which those at
home, if they wish to show their wisdom
and discretion, would do well to watch
in a spirit of reticence and without display
of feeling or partisanship. British apos.
ties of free trade should assume an in.
difference, if they have it not. On such
an occasion, it Is gospel truth that if
speech be silvern. silence is golden.
America is just now divided politically
into two great camps, formed of Repub.
licans on the one hand and Democrats
on the other. Gen. Harrison, tile pres
ent occupant of the White house, has
been chosen to again do battle for the
Republicans, who are best known here as
stepped to the lips in protection, and as
the aiders and supporters of the Mckinley
tariff, which was doomed with the decla-
ration that it was to raise workmen's
wages throughout the states, and to in
augurate an era of unheard OF peace and
prosperity.
The Democrats of the United States
has chosen as their leader Mr.. Grover
Cleveland, whose tenure of Office as presi-
dent, which closed four years ago, they
recall as iustifying his reelection. 1t is
perhaps too much to say that Mr.. Cleve-
land and his party go to the polls as the
avowed champions of free trade, but they
are certainly in favor OF tariff reform, and
cal oont to the telnble labor troubles in
the country, due to the impending great
reductions in wages, as clear evidence OF
the fact that, whatever the Mckinley bill
may have done in pouring increased
wealth into the pockets of plutocrats and
monopolists like Mr.. Carnegie, it has
signslly failed to ameliorate the condition
of the masses, or to better the earnings OF
the artisan and mechanic. Great issues
have, therefore, to be decided by the
Americans themselves and for their own
good and proper reasons.
The discussion of the question at issue
from the English point of view has only
one effect in the states, and that injurious
and paralyzing to those who are fighting
the battle of free trade. Every public ex.
preston of opinion in this country hostile
to the Mckinley tariff, from British
point of view, is telegraphed across the
Atlantic, and eagerly reproduced in the
Republican papers throughout the coun'
try. As we said before, the apostles Of
free trade if they wish to further the
principles they are so proud of should
rigidly hold their tongues during the
present presidential campaign. Theil
utterances do incalculable harm to the
Democratic cause, and If Mr. Cleveland
ID after all defeated it will be largely OWNS
to the too loudly and indiscreetly expressed
sympathy proceeding from these shores
Liverpool Echo, July 81, 1892.