New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-06-29
An Expert Opinion.

An Expert Opinion.
The result OF every Presidential cleo
ton depends largely upon the ballots Q
new voters. In every doubtful Stat,
there are thousands of citizens who vii
vote for President and Vice-P residen
this year for the first time. The young
men to a large extent hold the BALANCED
power. The party which succeeds il
obtaining the support of large majori
ty of the new voters will carry the cleo
! ton. This is fact which makes it nee
essary for Republican journals to con
duct a campaign of education. Thous.
ands of young voters need to have the
issues Of the canvass clearly presented tc
them. The best work Of the campaign
is to be done among this class.
In soliciting the support OF new voters
the Republican party has the striking
advantage of an expert opinion from
England which may be regarded as Who'll
ly non partisan Lord Salisbury has re-
Gently contributed to economic discus
sion speech which was not designed for
political use in the United States, and is
on that account all the more effective.
He has practically admitted that Free
Trade has been carried too far in Eng
land, that it is not business-like policy,
and that his country is without armor
for defending its own industries and with
out weapons for fighting the worlds bat
tie for a market. AS Foreign Minister
he has witnessed the success of high tar
if nations in obtaining admission zoll-
vereins and in securing preferential sche-
dulles and minimum ratings, and he has
been conscious of his own helplessness
in,attempting to. rival the Reciprocity
policy of the United States. So strong
is his feeling of discomfort with the Free
Trade system that he has urged the ex-
pediency of placing retaliatory duties up
on certain classes Of imports received
from other European countries so as to
enable the Foreign Office to exact con
cessions favorable for English exports
and manufactures.
Now, this is fact which ought to i'm
press American voters with the impor-
lance of sustaining the Protection and
Reciprocity policies. The tariff is the
chief principle involved in the present
canvass. The Democratic party aims to
revise it by reducing the rates in nearly
all the schedules. The trend of tariff
legislation on that side is in the direction
OF the English system. The Republican
party stands for Protection and Recip-
rocity on American lines. What thought
full voters are bound to consider is the
expediency of abandoning successful
American policy and substituting for it
an English system which the Prime
Minister has condemned as failure.
For many years the teaching of Amer
lean colleges has been largely influenced
by English works on political economy
Young men have left the universities
with an impression that Protection was
more or less unscientific as an economic
theory, and that the authority of the
book-writers and college professors was
heavily against it. They have been pre-
disposed to condemn Republican <princi-
piles as crude In conception and artificial
in operation. For this class of citizens
the uncompromising declarations Of the
English Prime Minister ought to possess
great significance. He is the most ac-
complished statesman now in office any
where in Europe. When he states that
England has pursued a thoroughly I'M
business-like course in giving away its
market and stripping itself of all means
Of defending its industries and CONNER
cial interests, he speaks from an intimate
knowledge Of the files Of the Foreign
Office. Surely Americans ought to pro-
fit by the confession Of an English Prime
Minister that Free Trade is more or less
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lection being .unscientitic and unphiloso-
phical can hardly be tolerated when the
most powerful Minister in Free-Trade
England practically recommends its
adoption there.
There is no installing the significance
Of the money plank in the Republican
DIatform If saws what5it ,neanc and