Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01
WILMINGTON, THURSDAY, MAR. I
The "Remember'' Poster.

Aue ~AAenemDetf fOsttfs
THE GAZETTE acknowledges tho re-
ceipt of yellow poster, to be known
as the Remember pcstor-possibly to
avoid danger of its getting mixed up
with the barber shop circular-sent out
by the American Protective Tariff
League. The poster is 81 by 20 inches
in dimensions and displays, in big black
letters, the following device:
REMEMBER
If the infamous Wilson bill becomes a
law it cannot possibly be changed for
more than three years; and
Hard times and low wages or no wages
will continue during all that time.
Petition your United States Senators at
Washington to kill the Free Trade Wilson
bill.
To which is appended the seal Of the
league. Accompanying is a strip of
pink paper, headed with the seal and
address of the league, reading as fol-
lows:
DEAR SIR; We beg to band you herewith
poster, which we should be glad to have
posted where workingmen will see and
read. II you desire additional copies of
this, kindly refer to it as the "Remeinb er'
poster. Yours, very truly,
WILBUR i. WAKEMAN,
General Secretary.
Many thanks, Mr.. Wakeman. We
shall bear this in mind in case we find
that We need additional copies of 0this."
But you may as well save your am
munition. The Senate is going TO pass
the Wilson bill and we agree with you
that, after it becomes law, ii will not
be changed for more than three years.
In fact, We believe that, after the peo-
pie have had three years taste of re-
duced tariff, they will be many times
three years in turning their faces back
ward toward the high protective system
which found its elimination in the con-
gealed greed of McKinleyism. You
may recall that Andrew Carnegie, that
especial high priest Of protection whose
solicitude for the wages of American
workingmen was so beautifully exem-
plified at Homestead, had reached the
same conclusion when, in his letter of
January 9th, he said:
Is it not far better for manufacturers as
class, to have the party which has on
posed the present tariff frame tariff which
shall pass as Just to all interests and for
which it is responsible? Should the
democratic party pass tariff bill, 1t will
be its own work, and it will be estopped
from attacking it as made for the few and
not for the general interests of the nation,
The question would be removed from
politics for many years. The party who
made 1t could not attack it, and the other
party would have no disposition to do SO.
Then, again, you call it the Wilson
Free Trade bill. Now, considering that
the Wilson bill, in the main. is substan-
TALLY return to the Republican tariff
of 1888, with the Blaine idea of free
wool thrown in, are you not a little
previous in talking about free trader Do
you not remember that John Sherman
said it was nonsense to talk about free
trade so long as we had 10 raise a
revenue of $l50,OOO0OO? And arc YOU
more competent to pass upon what con-
stitutes free trade than the free traders
themselves? Congressman Tom johnson
is one of these-a genuine free trader
and this is what he thinks of the Wilson
bill:
The result is bill so protective that il
would have startled Hamilton or Clay. A
Dill which, taken as whole, will give to the
manufacturers OF this country a more sub.
stantlal protection, will allow them to
make greater profits at the expense of their
fellow men than the bill of 1888, and in
many cases more than the Mckinley bill.
IN fact, II did not know better, / should
be Obliged to suppose that the gentleman
from Maine (Mr. Reed) and his fellows OF
the minority had hypnotized the majority
and written the bill for them.
Now, Mr. johnson, being free
trader, ought to know better than Mr..
Wakeman what constitutes free trade,
and he (Johnson) says that the Wilson
bill is $50 protective that it would have
startled Hamilton or Clay" lie said
he would vote for it, and he did, be.
cause every little "break in the link Of
protected interests lessons the power OF
the league of plumber to further squeeze
the people" but that "the best that can
be said of it is that it is the Mckinley
bill shaved down." But he added:
= 1t will not satisfy protectionisis, for
4 your protectionist is as bitterly opposed Ia
you If you cut down his protection a little
as u you cut it out altogether. 1t will moi
satisfy free traders for it no more acknow,
Iedges the free trade principle than did the
Mckinley bill. Perhaps it may satisfy
what are called tariff reformers, but ii
this IS tariff reform bill l am all the moro
re1oiced that am not now and never have
Deen tariH reformer. am only plain
free trader.
Here is measure, therefore, that the
protectionist calls free trade bill and
the free trader calls a protection bill
Under these circumstances it may safely
be pronounced very moderate tariff
reform measure; necessarily so because
OF the revenue needs of the nation. So
Mr.. Wakeman, you would be wise, from
the protectionist standpoint to accept i
with alacrity and, instead of YOU
calamity petitions, send out others call
ing upon the workingmen to petition
the Senate to pass the Wilson bill witt
all possible speed. For, should thi
measure by any possibility fall through
you will never get another so lenien
toward those manufacturers who Ear
more highly protected than anybod
else and who make large fortunes ever
year when times are prosperous" Blu
out of whom it has been so hard ITO FIR
the fat"
Some Plain Truths.
The unavoidable absence of Secretar,
Carlisle from the banquet of the South
ern Society, in New York, on Thursda,