The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-29
FREE TRADE VOICES.
Henry Watterson in the Louisville Cour.
saws of the Democratic victory:

Henry Watterson in the Louisville COur.
ier-JournaI says of the Democratic victory:
1t ends forever all disputes among Democrats
about tariff policies. 1t is an announcement to
America and the world that the government OF
the United states has at last stepped out of the
depths OF the bondage OF protectionism and
upon the broad, open highway OF free trade
with all mankind; no more dark-closet reci-
procity treaties: no more Mckinley dutiessde-
signed to check imports; no more absurd and
burdensome devices TO make the rich richer aud
the poor poorer by taxing the necessities OF life;
no more Chinese walls to restrict trade and
commerce, nor Chinese gongs TO alarm the ig.
norant ami the foolish; bat the right OF every
American to sell where he can sell to the best
profit and to buy where he can buy cheapest
The Memphis appeal and the Kansas
City Star express the same views, and call
for an extra session for ''the abolition of
protection" The New York Evening Post
and the Boston Herald also want an extra
session and the honest "free trade" organs
all want an extra session and desire the
enactment of tariff for revenue only.
But the 'free traders" will not get an
extra session, because Mr.. Cleveland is in
no hurry to reform the tariff" and he
has not the slightest expectation of "abol-
ishing protection" he means to replace
Republican protective tariff, which is
fair tariff, granting protection equally
to producer and manufacturer, by the
one-sided protection. the unfair tariff
policy of the Mills bill. giving the
manufacturer free raw materials and
protection for his goods.
While Watterson screams for the ut
ter abolition of protection, Democratic
Congressman Patrick Collins, speaking for
the manufacturers of the East. tells what
he expects as follows:
The revision will follow generally the lines of
the Mills bill, with an almost certain enlarge.
ment of the free list The Mills bill was a care
fully considered, coherent and conservative
measure. Had it been accepted at the time it
would have proved substantial settlement of
the question for period OF from ten to twenty
years. Out OF the coming tariff legislation New
England will get untaxei coal, crude iron, lum.
Der and lime, and its industries will be- rescued
and revived, in spite OF its own adverse vote in
the last election Bounties and subsidies,
whether for sugar or for shipping, will doubt
less be swept away. In four years after we get
untaxed raw materials l believe 100000 more
hands will be employed in our metal and tex.
tile Industries than before.
This is what the manufacturing East ex-
poets of Cleveland; this is what Cleveland
favored in his tariff message of 1887; this
is what Cleveland promised the Eastern
manufacturers in 1883 and again in 1892,
and this is all the tariff reform" that
Cleveland expects to see enacted while he
is IN Office. How do the Western pro-
ducers like the prospect of free raw mate
rails with protection to finished goods
How do they like the prospect of free
wool. free coal, free ores and lumber, and
taxed sugar and taxed wooden goods?