The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-08
FREE TRADE FAIlAClES.


 A Dead Issue In the United states-lsour.
 bons Afraid of Their Hobby.
 Advance sheets of Chauncey M. De pew's article in the Nineteenth Gen. tury on "The Prospects of Free Trade ill the United States" have reached this country. MT. Depew wrote the article while tossing about on the Atlantic on his return from Europe.
 Mir Depew says the result of the election of 1892 was a surprise. The country was paralyzed by the plunge it had deliberately taken. Every indus trial and business interest in the land was extraordinarily interwoven with and interdependent upon the protec- tive system, yet a party had come into to the uprooting of that system IL had declared in its platform that the principle of protection was con- .demned by the constitution and that its practice was robbery and a fraud.
 What will you do with your vic. tory?" was the question eagerly asked from every mill and mine, from every factory and furnace, from every count ing-room and bankers office, iron, every corporation and from working men. The answer was flat and frank. We will do what we promised to do if elected, and what you have specially commissioned and instructed us to carry out"
 There never was a more direct man. date from a constituency to an admin istration nor an administration which knew so well was expected of it and what it intended to accomplish.
 Mir. Depew then describes the read justment of business and manufactur- ing in anticipation of the proposed change He says that at least eighty per cent of the mills, factories and furnaces locked their doors and two million persons were thrown out of employment He tells of the calling of the extra session of congress in re- sponse to the demand for the repeal of the silver law, and continues:
 'One-half of the presidents followers refused to follow his lead, and it re- quired every recourse known to power and authority to hold those who pro fessed obedience to their elected chief. The wild horses of Mr Gladstone obeyed every suggestion of the bit with the reins in the hands of that vet eran, able and accomplished whip, but the wild horses of Mir Cleveland plunged and bolted at the start, nearly .upsetting the national coach"
 Mir. Depew says of the election of 1893: 'The educational campaign for free trade, which after thirty years of earnest and ceaseless labor had finally triumphed, was in less than twelve months turned into a disastrous rout" As an effect of the elections, Mir. Depew says the president hastened to send a message to congress reassuring the country that any legislation would have due regard for existing business interests and the wages of labor. Free trade principles were at once aban- doued by the reformers and in their place the details of protection are dis cuSsed.
 In conclusion Mir. Depew says: Free trade is myth and tariff for revenue only shadow. Most of our industries are stagnant and the majority of our mills, factories and furnaces are in to- tai CT partial paralysis, while the vic tors are experimenting with the weapons of their protectionist enemies. If, under these circumstances, the much-heralded measure which was to repeal the alleged atrocities of the Me Kinley bill and curb the reputed rapac- ity of the tariff robber baron ever reaches President Cleveland for his signature he will not recognize it In the meantime the people, harassed with doubts and fears, losing money or out of employment, with the impa- tience of despair or hunger are clamor- ing for action. Every days delay is re garded as further evidence of inca pacity for government Under these circumstances miracle can scarcely pass measure which would materially alter the present law, and only mir acle can prevent the return of protec- tionists to power. "- San Francisco Chronicle.