Little Falls weekly transcript., 1895-01-04
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FREE TRADE EDITORS STAGGERED
-. sv THE ELECTIONS. Il.

euses and Blame the Currs1cy-1e Used
- Be Protection and the Silver Law.
Collecting scatterbrains. -
When the result of the elections Of
Nov. 6 was first made known, the Or
gans of free trade and foreign interests
that are published in this country were
so completely staggered by the death
blow given to the cause they espouse
that it took them good many days be-
fore they could invent some excuse for
the defeat. The hidebound free trade
editors cling to their idol with as much
vigor as the paralytio stroke from
which they are suffering o recovery will
permit. 1t took the New York Herald
two weeks to collect it's scatterbrains,
and here is the result:
"The moro tho elections are studied
the more apparent it becomes that the
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 the last campaign,
and that issue was protection as against
free trade. Every honest Democratic pa
per acknowledged this up'to Nov. g.
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,
"It must remain in a minority until
the Democracy becomes bold, coherent
aud united. If we wait until 'the De-
mocracy," in the shape Of the New
York Herald as one Of its leaders,
"becomes bold, coherent, p" in its edito-
rial columns, instead of having the
wishy washy baby twaddle that it has
been printing for several years past, the
free traders must remain in a minori-
ty'' for long time to come.
If they have to wait until "the De-
mocracy becomes united" and we see
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' on 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 "the Democra.
cy carry the cause Of tariff reform on it's
bayonets as we'll as on it's banners. I" 1t
is ''bold" enough, but too incoherent
and too disunited. The cause of tariff
reform" will be seen not ION it's ban.
ners," but on its Cleveland badges as
the remnants Of the party desert the
standard that theorizers raise and praise,
but which true and practical Americans
ruthlessly destroy.