The Columbus journal., 1895-01-23
THECROWDHARDHIT
FREE TRADE EDITORS STAGGERED
eY The ELECTIONS.

Now They Are on Still Hunt For Ea
esses ala. blame the Currency-lt Uset
to BE Protection aud the Silver Law
Collecting Seatterbrains.
When the result of the elections Ol
Nov. was first made known, the or
gans Of free trade and foreign interest:
that are published in this country were
so completely staggered by the death
blow given to the cause they espouse
that it took them q good many days be-
fore they ceuld invent some excuse fol
the defeat. The hidebonnd free trade
editors cling to their idol with as much
vigor as the paralytic stroke from
which they are suffering a recovery will
permit. 1t took the New York Herald
two weeks to collect its scatterbrains,
and here is the result:
1.-The more the elections are studied
the more apparent it becomes that ths
overwhelming blow was directed by
voters not against Mr. Cleveland, not
against his aggressive tariff reform pol
icy, but against the elements Of his par
ty which deserted the cause he up
holds.''
This is one Of the most laughable
jokes of the season. especially when We
find added in the same article that
but for Mr. Cleveland's adherence to
this cause his party would have Jared
much worse than it did" There was
one issue, and only one issue. as The
Herald very we'll knows, before the
American people in tho last campaign,
and that issue was protection as against
free trade Every honest Democratic pa
per acknowledged this up to Nov. 8.
The overwhelming vote of the people
was rendered against tariff reform" or
free trade collegiate theories and such q
policy as the anti-American New York
Herald advocates. The people voted for
an American policy; the people voted
against free trade; the people voted for
American silks and against French silks;
the people voted for protection for them
selves, not for the French; for Ameri-
can manufacturers, not French manu-
facturers; for American labor, not for
French labor; for American steamers,
not for French transatlantic steamship
lines.
The Herald anticipates the defeat of
the Democratic party for another quar-
ter Of century at least. and probably
until the millennium, because it says,
1T must remain in a minority until
the Democracy becomes bold, coherent
and united. If we wait until ''the De-
mocracy," in the shape of the New
York Herald as one Of its leaders,
becomes bold, coherent, in its edito.
rial columns, instead of having the
wishy washy baby twaddle that il has
been printing for several years past the
free traders must remain in q minori.
ty" for long time to come. re-.
If they have to wait until 'the De.
mocracy becomes united" and we sec
hand in hand such Tammany leaders as
Mr.. Pulitzer Of The World with Mr..
Dana of The Sun, such foreign repre-.
sentatives as Mr.. Bennett of the Franco.
American Herald with Mr.. Godkin Of
the Anglo-American Post, or with Mr..
Miller Of the Anglo-American Times,
united" Oh any single free trade theory,
on any one Democratic line Of argu.
ment. or even once advocating in har-
mony an American line of policy-if we
await the performance Of any such mir
acles We shall never see ''ths Democra.
cy carry the cause Of tariff reform on its
bsyonets as we'll as Oh its banners. Il
is bold" enough, but too incoherent
and too disnnited. The cause of ''tariff
will be ssen not ION its ban.
ners," but on its Cleveland badges as
the remnants Of the party desert the
that theorizers raise and praise,
but which true and practical Americans
destroy.