Evening journal., 1893-06-02
EVEN IT'S EEEHIES WANT FREE TRADE.
A Free Trader No Longer Supposed TO
BE the Embodiment of All That's Hor-
rible, Cruel and TreasonabIe.

A Free Trader No Longer Supposed TO
BE the Embodiment of All That's Hor-
rible, Cruel and TreasonabIe.
Even the enemies Of free trade view
it's approach with complacency, and
urge us toward it. Only a little while
ago and free trade was a phrase few
dared TO use except in the lowest and
most apologetic tones free trader
was then supposed TO be the embodiment
Of all that was horrible, cruel and
reasonable He WAS an enemy of labor
he was an ally of Britain; he was eaten
up with greed and sefshness. The
dictionary was exhausted in describing
the faults and the follies of the bold
bad men who we're called free traders
and children were sent to bed with the
warning free traders will catch you if
you don't watch out.
That was Il long time ago, say four or
five years ago. IL Is an age in revolu
tionary times, and when we note the
changes that have occurred 1t seems not
only to antedate the war, but to aute
date the food.
Where are the great Democratic cham
pions of tariff taxaliong In those days
Randall thundered in Washington, Col
Colyar led host OF money devils
up and down the columns Of
the Nashville American, seeking whom
they might devour, and the Atlanta Con
stitution exhausted it's gigantic intellect
and staggered its exuberant Imagination
in proving to the people Of Georgia
that waste makes wealth, and that
taxation is the surest path to pros.
perity.
| That rveo a lo,,o, fi,,a o,,o b.fora NJ
Cleveland wrote his famous messag &C.
before the Democratic party put its
creed into its Chicago platform, before
the passing Of Mckinley, before rsciproc-
ity, before the tidal wave of 1892
swept even Mr.. Dana from that
narrow neck of land which lies be-
tween the devil OF protection and
the deep sea Of free trade and pros
perity.
"reminiscences like these make US ap
pear old before our time, for we eft and
bled and died" frequently in those old
days and had to utter our confession OF
faith under our breath.
These reflections are caused by read
ing such journals as the New York Sun
and finding therein such paragraphs as
this:
mo political party in the United
States ever won two Presidential elec
tions in succession, unless the pledges
made in the first one were redeemed"
This oracular utterance is well in
terpreted by another protection organ,
the Chicago Inter Ocean, which says:
"Ihe Democratic party pledged the
country free trade and greater prosper
| ity. If they want to continue ia bust
, uess at Washington they must keep thii
pledge-if they can"
Certainly they can and must and will
) | free trade and prosperity are one and in
, separable now and forever; amen.
These journals understand the Englisl
1 language. The editor of the Sun hal
written, all by himself, an encyclopedia
and with his discriminating scissors h,
has made one OF the most original book
Of poetry ever issued
So II anybody understands the Eng
s lish language il is Mr. Dana and tn
{ | Democratic platform is written ia Eng
= lish. IL means free trade as Mr. Dam
a has explained, and il the Democrats hop
I to win in 1895 they must do as the
= promised in 1892
No mere alteration, adjustment O
horizontal reduction will meet the neces
y stiles of the hour Wake up men an,
D brethren, and read that platform fre
o | trade is written in letters of livinl
s light, as Edward Everett might say, al
@ ! over the Democratic platform 1t is ou
second declaration Of independence
= something to live by. to sware by, t
:. | die by, II necessary. Even our benighte
and abandoned contemporary th
. Chicago Inter Ocean, "sees the point
= and calls on the Democratic party {
8 stand by its flag IL says.
y president Cleveland will recommen
3, TO Congress when 1t is called in specil
% session, modification of the tariff ac
Modification is not the language Of IN
g Democratic platform on which Mr.. Clev
land was elected. II a protective tariff
unconstitutional IL cannot be modified
It should be repealed. Some one shoul
q send the President a copy Of the Dem
cratic platform
r The President has copy; sever
copies I'm fact He gave it his prayerf
is attention tefore he made his Madisc
,r Square speech and before ne wrote b
,r letter OF acceptance
- It's all right. gentlemen, and II it ism
~ the people will make 1t right when Co
~ gress adjourns.
But there is 10 mis- aking the orde
issued. They mean not modification, b
~ eradication; not conserving, but dc
I'd troying; not peace, but war. Forwar
a -Louisyille Courier Journal.