Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-02-18

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influences are best suited to his needs. THIS
work may not be inviting to those who liee
t. figure in the public eye, but j. VIII be 50
use vi that 1t viii lot los unobservcl. 4
generous rivalry for the best results will in
vite to systematic activity and thus the
two-fold purpose of political campaigns--
immediate victory aud permanent ndher-
ence to sound princlples-will bo ACHE we'd.
1t Is great mistuke to leave poi itics TO Tia,
few months oil q biennial or quadrennial
campaign. Ia popular government the
only safety is in popular understanding. II
takes time aud a course OF reading and dis
cussion to master the great questions that
become political issues. We boast of living
In age OF books, magaz ne', n9Wsp Ipsrs AMI
every othsr facility Tor general iuJe.Iis snce.
But in THIS very fact lies a da.. ,er that
an afraid has not been sutIcnAtIy needed.
There is literature on the wron, side as
well as on the riga side. There is a lameu-
table quality in human nature which EN-
Joys the splc9 OF wickeduass. lint portion
of the press which caters 10 this taste III
almost always on the wrong sid5 OF polite.
BY reach NJ vast numbers u. tuOie most ia
need OF safe guidance, it eNerts n tremendous
power for political evil. o coudtera .t
this influence requires Glertness, cJ-upr:.'-
ton and untiring devotion which organ
cation alone can insure.
Although the republican party has all
ways stood for the protection OF American
industry, its national platform o. lS~5 con-
tains the first comprehensive statement oe
the full protective principle Previous
to that many advocate OF lrotlc-
ion had treated 1t Us being nee
essary to 'Intant industrIesn AID uaI
l assume looked forward to tho time
when it would ue required no longer This
| fact furnishes with "a
Of rldcue, and in these days Of our indus
| trial tr.umpus they often inquire when the
| infants viii be prepared to 20 alone
| would respectfully remind .lcm that in
some sections OF the- country thors are al
ways new industries, and nowhere else to-
day in such numbers Us in the south, where,
as President Morrison eloquentiy said III h.s
inaugural address: "M.il fires were lighted
at the funeral pike of slavery. The emancl-
patton proclamation was heard in the depths
of the earth well as in the say. Men were
made tree and material things became our
better servants Aud would cali 10 their
attention the point made 10y that great,
courageous and honest leader Of policies and
men, Thomas 3. Reed when lie sad that:
To-day we are not only in favor of Ios-
tering infant industries, but we are in favor
of fostering and continuing existing indus
tries, because we have discovered that, TO
remove tho barrier between us and the
cheap labor of Europe, is to cause reduction
OF wages Of our own laEorinE men and re-
duce them to their level over there and,
having discovered il, no sneers about infant
industries will prevent Us from maintaining
the barrier between the condition happy
and prosperous, Of our people and the condi.
ton OF people beyond the seas which maies
them SO glad to seek our country
, 1t was with fuI! anoyyIedya eft this distinC-
ton that the trainers OF the last republican
national platform declared for a wages tar
if, in recommending law that will tend
! to check imports OF sucu articles "a are pro
: duced by cur people, tua production o.
which gives employment to our labor Va
do not agree with the advocates Of
unrestricted commercial intercourse that
! u deuse of foreign goods IN our
markets Is desirable, for if We are cGpab.4
of producing them, every dollars worth
that ~ imported deprives American labor OF
! It's natural opportunity. But tue repubI-
ecu platform dad not stop with protecting
production. Ii also favored such ias a
''roedses from import duties those articles
OF foreign production except luxurlesj Ito
like OF when cannot be produced at home. y
( This is clear benefit TO ali classes OF con-
e sumers. 1t is just as much part Of the
/ protective policy 10 lake off duties as 1t Is
t to put them ou--the clear line Of distinction
t being our capacity or iucapacity for pro
9 ducins the article needed.
t l pom these lines the tariff has been re-
= vised and now that the smoke OF the battle
SO long and darcely waged by the opposi-
ton has nearly all cleared away the Amsri-
can people are fast discovering that the new
tariff is the most scientific, the most care
fully adjusted, the most impartial between
industries and classes, the least sectional and
e the most national, in the history OF our own
, or any other country, and it SO confounds
. the opposite party that they cannot unite
o upon policy OF attack.
9 The disciples OF Golden try TO maintain
= that this is free trade far as it goes aud
Il it is that extent an abandonment of the
o protective policy, and that nobody would
d be harmed and everybody would be benefit
ed by removing the remaining barriers AM
= treating all nations alike But whoever
. believes this, should study the difference
Q between fair trade aud free trade. Fair
IS trade favors commerce that is beneficial
o free trade permits commerce that is des-
= tructive Fair trade takes into account the
l. varied conditions of countries aud Of peoples
and sees that on account of those conditions
q neither party to the transaction gains any
n indus advantage; but free trade ignores all
IS differences and everywhere establishes the
y rule Of the strongest. So Wnen our Cob
IS deuite friends tell us in Que breath that it is
d the policy of prosperity and Of the olive
/ branch and point to England m example,
y We may point to Turkey and Japan and
show how many OF their industries have
t been ruined by the competition resulting
o from treaties Of free trade with England
}, In the respect, therefore, tina. our new
tariff protects both the producer and t-a
consumer and secures all desirable com
merce on preferential terms, it marks 0u
epoch in the economic progress OF the
world.
Last Autumn, Col. Howard Vnceu,
o member OF Parliament Tor Contra, Shielded
O visited Canada and Australia in the iuteres,
i OF an imperial federation for preferential
}, trade between the United Kingdom and i'-
r colonies. On his return ho was welcomed
0 by great meeting In Sheffield on the l~tl
/ OF last month, and from his speech, a copy
t Of which he has kindly sent to me-, / beg TO
d read the following extract: