The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-08-24
,oanso. MS RADICAL VIEWS.
lie should BE Free Trade
the Ohio free Trader.

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= the Ohio Free Trader.
r'.ls1 rats. on what issu
''" '''"~ ,miss. are we 10 90 he
aud on what pr, - - :, ~ -
fore the people in .ne eo."'nf ''.e''o''
l. il still "a be tar. e
10 hold up the eniaA "'" w. -" wa.
The only ,h,rg mn v likely TO &c
,hro,,,h Mo, 49,. -, can by tariff re
form? Or are we 10 = :" " *
given power in order tn. +" w may
form our own tariff reform ot ~ -
tn the campaign in that - - :" =
To defeat. The only HOPE l. ."s
openly and unequivocally the 49,"
Of free trade. If the domocrah par
does not stand in opposition tn IT, ~
tectivr idea il stands for nothing.
il must be swept aside by some pa =.
that does not voice the democra, .
principle. II the democratic party
To live il must east all prot ectionists
out Of it, ranks. There is no room in
il for moderate protectionist. or
local protectionist, or any other
kind of "A protectonist. Masquerad-
ing a. tariif-rcform democrats.
they can only bring the democratic
party into contempt and defeat. One
protectionist party is enough. That
place is already filled by the republican
party. Let the democrats who cannot
stand free trade go there, and let us as
si>t them 10 go. The country wants
frec-trade party party. and so long as
protectionists control democratic poll
icy and dictate democratic tariff sched-
ulcs, the rapidly growing body of free
traders who care little for political
names and much for political priDci-
pies will refuse to join our ranks or fol-
low our lead. And why should they?
Why should the people. whom the last
election showed were conscious of the
robbery of the tariff, and who have be-
come moro and more conscious every
day since then. put further trust in the
sincerity of party that can produce
nothing better than the Wilson bill,
and then not even stand up To that.
The schoomaster is indeed abroad.
and such an economic education Of the
masses is going on as never before by
its bounty an sugar the Mckinley bill
proved even 10 protectionists that "a
protective duty was the equivalent Of
| y
| ing for trusts is furnishing to honest
protectionists another great object
lesson. which the rcpub lican papers are
busy in explaining to them-thc lesson
that protection is never in the interests
of the workman. hut always in the in
terests of the monopolist. These papers
are teaching wiser than they know.
In showing up the iniquitv of the sugar
trust they are showing the iniquity of
the steel-rail trust In showing the
injustice and wrong of projecting dem
ocratic sugar growers and coal barons
they are showing the wrong of pro-
tecting a republican steel-rail pool, "A
wall paper trust and combination of
glass manufacturers.
The honest protectinnist who has
already begun to doubt. will. now that
his friends thus show him the evils OF
protection. begin 10 believe that the
Chicago platform was right when it de-
clarcd protection to be a fraud. The
republican protest against the Wilson
bill is doing free trade work in the re
publican camp. Mckinley. in his pro
lection run mad. did more to educate
the people on free trade lines than al
the free trade organizations in the
country: and McKinley's work is now
being completed by the republican
press.
Free trade. Why should we fear t.
announce il? Trade is civilization.
The wider trade extends, the faster
ind the higher the advance of human
progress. Civilized men must trade
Without trade we should be savages
Why not then. trade freely? A mans
right To the fruit of his toll is not com
plcte without the freedom to exchange
it. To abridge that freedom is to limit
that right. 70 hamper exchange
whether by IA customs duty or toll
gate. j.. to that extent to deny the
right of property-the right Of each
man To his own earnings If trade bs
good free trade must he good. Free"
The magic of that word has cheered
the philosopher and inspired the poet
IL has ever been the watchword 81
those who stood for right against
wrong. II has ever stirred the heart
of the masses why should those who
proclaim the equality Of human rights
fear free trade. 1t j. not an enemy u
dread but friend to welcome. Ton
J.. Johs son to the lroquois Club of Chi