Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-07-02
Wisconsin Democracy.
Chicago Chronicle.

Is short, but it is to the point and
democratic in every respect.
1t begins by endorsing the wise and
patriotc administration of President
Cleveland. It endorses the president,
who has stood steadfastly upon the
tariff platform and upon the money
platform on which he was elected.
He has battled unnlnchingingly for u
tariff for revenue only and for demo
cratic sound money and he has firmly
enforced the laws Of the United States
in accordance with his constitutional
duty and his oath Of olllce. The
Democrats Of Wisconsin simply rccog-
ni2e the fact that lie has done his duty
in these respects as president and as II
democrat.
1--WE believe" say the democrats of
the badger state, that "a tariff for rev
enuc only would extend American
commerce to the uttcrmost parts Of
the earth and that untTammccd in
dustry would advance our country TO
the foremost place among nations"
Therefore they propose to press for
ward until we have no tariff taxes ex-
n,,t T,r rnUnpnn
The doctrine cnunciatcd in this re
gard is democratic and its truth is rec
ognizcd by the enlightened of other
lands. In his controversy with Mr..
Blaine II few years ago Mr.. Gladstone
expressed the belief that if this coun-
try should adopt the policy Of free
trade it would soon become the most
formidable manufacturing rival of
Great Britain in all neutral markets.
Mr. Chamberlain has more than once
expressed the same view. British
manufacturers have often done the
same thing in conversation with
Americans.
About the time that we resumed
specie payments British textile manu-
features sent an expert to this country
to investigate the cost and conditions
of production here. That expert re-
ported that in cotton manufacture we
were on an equal footing with the
English or had an advantage over
them in all respects except cost oi
plant and materials other than raw
cotton, the cost Of which was enchan-
ced by our tariff. And from an indie
pendent investigation our own state
department found this to be true, as
Secretary Blaine reported to congress
in 1881.
A few days ago one of the leading
English papers, commenting on the
st. Louis tariff plank and nominee,
remarked rs II matter well understood
that the election of Mckinley upon
such a platform would postpone the
day of serious American rivalry and
insure British supremacy as the
worlds manufacturer for another term
of years.
Thus the Democrats of Wisconsin
have not only their own good ntelli-
gence but the Judgment of the most
enlightened Englishmen back of their
opinion. They have the best of rea-
sons for saying that purely revenue
tariff would extend our commerce to
the uttcrmost parts of the earth and
that untrammeled industry would ad-
vance our country to the foremost
place among nations.
The Wisconsin money plank is us
sound as Il Jefferson or Jackson
could have made it. 1t rejects the
currency iatism for which the country
is indebted to the Republican party
and therefore, declares against 1.-THE
free and unlimited coinage of silver
and in favor of gold, the highest mon.
ctary standard of the world"
Delegates who imbibcd their ideas
of finance from the republicans, who
fastened HAT paper money upon the
country, made u desperate effort to de
feat this sound plank and to subSti-
tute for it resolution falsely constru
ing the national Democratic money
plank of 1892 rs tavoring free and
unlimited coinage of silver. But the
convention, under the strong and un-
tlInching leadership of Senator W. +.
Villas and General +, 5. Bragg, showed
under the llatistS by u vote Of III to
lbs.
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