Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-16
From the Sew York Independent. |

british system of free trade a practical trial
on American soil, together with a trial of
the proposed unsound and rickety substitute s
for money, as ioreordained by the present
leaders of the democratic party. More
swiftly than any other argument will an
actual trial of these measures, weighted by
world wide prescription, restore the repub-
lican party to the permanent confluence and
affection of the country.
The total vote of 1892 for president shows
that, although the democratic candidate had
IA majority Of the electors there was a ma
lority OF the popular vote against him Of
!, -S0, 4UL lie will be TO this extent a
minority president, he received only 81, =
466 more votes than when he was detea ted
IN 1888. Nor does it appear that the Nor Tia
and West have deserted the republic ban
ner, when it is seen that. emitting the
solid South, the other States show a
plurality for Harrison of 42l, 4l6 over Mr..
Cleveland
The republicans fiud their hurt mot SO
deep MS well, nor so wide as q church
door, - and, unlike Mercutio when stabbed
Ivy Tybalt, they skill survive with undimin-
jshed courage, and with TO sign of mac
tvity nor omen OF future obsculity.
so far as the fruits OF public measures
and republican administrations are concern
ed, there has been no prestden Of the United
States who, in tho closing year of his term,
could have been more truely entitled than
President Harrison to declare II leave
this great people prosperous and happy
and yet in view of the protentous national
democratic platform, and Of the hungry and
thirsty crowd imnatentiy waiting for free
democrats barbecue the ides of March,
he might well have added: "After me the
deluge" In contrast with what mey now
that The republican in the history OF our
country will be pointed TO and accepted as
the golden age OF the republic
This paper Is not intended 10 catalogue all
OF the merits of the republican party, nor
ali of the dement's of the democratic party
but merely to present specimen bricks or so
much or wholesome political truths will
IN 1icate tue abiding faith and attachment of
the writer to the great national principles
OF the republican party.
During the political ascendency of the re
publican party, larger growth of popula-
! lation, OF wealth and general comfort of the
| people of the United States has been &C
| hleved than has been recorded in the history
OF either our own people any other
Both new and old industries, touched here
| by the electric spark OF protection, have
been walked into life il all parts of our
country, and the splendor of their products
appears in all markets. The wages of abor-
Ing men and women have been lifted I'D and
maintained at Il higher level than in any
other country on the habitable globe. The
| manifest eagernes6 of countless European
and Aslatlc mutitudes-in spite of dssmi-
lar lang uages and the perils of an ocean
voyage-to leave forever the land Of their
nativity to find new and better home in
our republic, is unmpeachable evidence that
no other people can ciaim equal prosperity.
The value Of the United States products
of manufactures, by the census of 1850, was
50, BAL, $50 800 and by that of 1890, it is
estlmtM d they Will amount to not less than
80, 100000, 600. This extraordinary in
crease ina single decade cannot fail
to he largely and justly attributed to
republican tariffs, and the totai amount
Is greatly in excess of the production
or any other country. AS our ex-
ports of manufactures ars less than $780,
600, 900 annually, it is obvious that the
American are larger consumers OF home
manufactures than any other people, and
for the reason that they can afford it from
the income OF their own thriving industries.
In other countries their people are unable
10 use or wear the great bulk
OF their manufactures, and the
better part must be sent to
of food or to pay exorbitant rentals and
taxes la Ireland, for instance, it is said
that each family raises pig, not however
for home consumption, but to sell and pay
the rent of cabin that in America would
he hardly tolerable as sty
British agrIculturalists, whose condition
hes been pronounced deplorable by the late
premier, Lord Salisbury, after having tried
Tree trade Tor over Az years, are camorous
TO get rid of 1t, and singularly enough, bile
ils disastrous results are being denounced in
The only country where it has ever been
iried, the democratic party deem it oppor-
tune 10 present the same bitter cup to the
American people. The democratic war
threatened against all those who employ
labor and capital in industries hitherto pro
eected. If it comes up to the Chicago nantes
to must be a brutal war OF determination.
They are charged not merely with sins that
may be forgiven, but with crimes that
must be punished, and are denounced as the
benehclarles OF fraud and robbery VINO must
be destroyed root and branch. Such ap-
pears 70 he tue deliberate pro-
gramme OF the Chicago democratic
platform it is vociferously In
terpreted by leading democratic newspapers
with lingo chorus by democratic orators.
Democratic Representations about a pro-
tectVe larlH are wei described by Tom
Hoods phrase straight down the
crooked lane and all round the
square" and among the gray
haired falsehoods, not yet dismissed from
democratic seryitude, the assertion that the
amount of export trade to any country is
dependent upon equivalent Import from
mat country, is likely, | fear, to 90 unre-
pented OF until it finally reaches fire and
birthstone. But il would seem almost Inn
poss'be that even this stawart untruUh
shouId long survive in the facs OF the official
report Of our European exports of 1891,
when were more than twice as large as all
our European imports, being $500 G23, go
against TjJl, 62S, 469.
ne low wages current in a free trade
country, compared with what have been
and are current under protection in the
United State, are exhibited in the blue book
recently published by the British govern.
ment BY this document the public ia in.
formed that the wages paid to agricultural
laborers in Ireland vary from So cents to
Gu cents per day in summer, without board
or lodging, and drop To "a can't mar d.u -,