Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-11-14
AFTER THE ELECTION.

\
 tion has been a great victory in ever. sapse of the word. It ie not ozly 8 VIC
 tory of great msjorities, but it IS vlc
 tory for great principle. It is not
 victory or any particular section, put victory for the whole country. IL II l not victory for any particular class o'
 men or for any party, but victory foi the whole American peotle. The victory is only what every one expected. In eouare battle between Protection and Free Trade there could be but one result and that result triumph for the Ameri' can system of Protection. 1t IS for this reason that William J. Bryan and all his Free Trade supporters have 80 strenuously endesvored to switch the issue of the campaign away from the question of the tariff.
 But with Nr. Bryan's free-trsde rec- ord open to the public, with the great Apostle of Protection" ss leader CD the other side; with partial free-trade already casting its deadly blight upon our industrial life; with that product of ignorance and incompetency, of sec- tioUal discrimination and individual fsvoritism-the debt producing. indus try destroying German bill as the law of the land, the dominant and decisive issue V as bound to be rhe tariff. Much ss the free- traders did to befog tue issue, they could not change it. That being so, the result was 8 foregone con- ciusiou. There are pone so blind as those who will not See, but there were none so bllnd that they could not foresee the coming of the political tide wave, which sweeps the country back to pros perity, back to it's prosperity of four years ago.
 The briefest actual trIal of free trade, O. of any approach to 1t, has al ways sufficed to turn the people back from aIy lesnipgs toward that economic fallacy. The disastrous experience of the last four years, under this free-trade administration, has thoroughly sicken- ed the American people Of that policy. In 1892, after more than 30 years of uro- tectian, We stood at the very pinnacle of proeperity. The triumph of the free trade party in that year sent us down to the lon est depths of industrial depres-
 ; rpho goorraoro einca 1SQ2 have been one long history oi hard tInes, of disaster and distress. No part of the country hss been left unscatbed. The south has suffered with the north and the east with the west. No man has been spared. The farmer has seen the value of bis farm and of his stock de- crease, bis market destroyed and his crops left uneold upon his hands; the merchant has seen his goods grow dusty on bis shelves; the manufacturer has been forced to close his mill; the wage earper, whose whole capital IS m bis power to labor, has had the chance to labor taken from hlm; the capitalist has suffered with the rest. There IS not a person in this country wbo has not helped to pay, either by actual loss or by sacrifice of comfort, the tremendous cost of this trial of free-trade.
 "Truth has to be taught. Lies lind theIr owp wsy," eaid Speaker Reed. The free-trade liar was abroad in 1892. The provisions of the Mckinley law were grossly misrepresente0, history was distorted, figures iuRgled and facts sup pressed. The lies found their own way and WOE the election of 1892 for free trade. But, during the last four years, the American people have had experI' ence for a teacher and the truth has been taught Each drop in wages. each workman eeekipg for work, each closed factory, each business failure, each insolvent bank, eech free sonp house, has helped to teach the lesson of truth The dt fioit in the national treasury and the issues of bonds have helped on the work. The lessons of these four recent years will not be forgotten for genera tion, at least, and we hope never.