The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-07
Go to the polls early, vote the Citi-
zens and Democratic ticket, then help
somebody else to the voting place.
THE BoGY OF THE REPUBLICANS.


''The spectre of free trade" we are
told by Republican sheets, is the cause
of the disturbances in trade and in
dustry against which the country has
been struggling for some time. 1.-THE
spectre of free trade" What is a
spectre? Is it reality or even the
shadow of a reality? Who ever saw
a spectre? Is it not an imaginary
apparition?
A fine traditional spectre pale.
With turnip head and ghostly
A woody hide and a silvery tail.
Now who raised the spectre of free
trade but Republican pothouse poll
ticians? In all the appeals to the
country last fall by the Democratic
party, there was not any advocacy of
free trade but only of tariff for
revenue, or, tariff reform. did not
Rawlins Shout who's afraid of free
Itrade?" some ridiculous Republican
will ask. Yes he did, and so might
any Democrat ask concerning Re
publican spectre. The same question
might be put now and nobody would
reply, I'VE are" but similar class of
ignorant people to those who are
afraid of going through a cemetery in
the dark when churchyards yawn and
graves give up their dead"
Free trade" is indeed but a spectre.
An insubstantial unhealthy. The base
less fabric of vision Nobody ad-
vocates it as a present or Immediately
future possibility. Republicans raise it
to scare the uniformed and deceive
the. unrefecting. There was no spectre
of free trade to shake the business
and financial affairs of Australia to
pieces. There was no spectre of free
trade when the panic of 1873 alarmed
and spread ruin through the country.
There was no spectre of free trade to
cause the failures, strikes and numer-
Gus disasters in 1891 and 1892.
The revenue required for the ex-
penses of this government, no matter
how economically administered will
necessarily be large considering the ex-
travagances of Republican rule and
the financial obligations which they
have entailed upon the country. They
must be met and fulfilled and it will
take a great deal of money to do it.
That must come in the main from
duties on imports, and duties on i'm
ports are the very reverse of free
trade.
But the tariff that will be imposed
by the Democratic Congress will be
limited to the necessities of govern
ment, and viii not be extended to the
imposition of high and excessive duties
to protect wealthy manufacturing cor
porations and trusts, that they NAV
be able to charge exorbitant prices for
the goods they produce, and thus
enrich themselves at the expense of
the public. There is the difference
between the Democratic tariff and the
Republican tariff. and free trade. as
the Republican ghost-raisers know, is
at present out of the question.
Free trade is remote possibility
that none who are now living may be
likely to see in practice. 1t must
come, if ever, by real not sham reci-
procity. 1t cannot be made success
full except by international agreement.
Garfield, the murdered Republican
statesman. believed in that kind of
protection only (which leads to free
trade"
Free raw materials, needfuI for
American manufactures, is not free
trade. Even McKinIeyism has free
list. The policy of the Democratic
party is to lay duties and customs as
the constitution provides, not for the
enrichment of class but for the ben