The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-07-09
The Democratic Dodge:

in connection with the present
political situation is the unmistak.
able desire on the part of the men,
bers of the democratic party to
get away from the tariff issue in
the coming political contest and to
fight out the battle on the financial
question. That some Importance
must be attached to the financial
and money question generally no
one will doubt. But republicans
everywhere.will do we'll to note that
the Importance of that questions
has been very largely augmented
by the action of the members of
the free trade party in their fran
tic desire to get away from the
consequences which have naturally
resulted from their violent assault
upon the industries of the United
States
It will be remem bered that the
present free trade and prosperity
running administration was scarce
ly inaugurated before It's friends
and apologizers began to complain
that the disaster aud devastation
which promptly spread over the
country was not the result of the
threat of free trade, but was due
to the unstable condition of the
national finances, and the uncer,
tainty respecting the money of
the land. Every effort has been
made by the friends of the admin
istration to foster that idea among
the people, and the penalty has
been paid for that folly by the un-
rest which has prevailed among
many of our people concerning the
financial question. The disease
went beyond the control of the
quack doctors of the adminlstra-
ton, and they are now being re-
pudiated in the house of their
friends.
But those who have held strictly
to the fact that the principal
trouble with our country at the
present time, aud the trouble that
has upset industrial prosperity in
the country, Is the throwing down
of the tariff barriers, which have
stood during republican admins
trations between the goods made
by foreign labor and those made
by the labor of this country, find
, no difficulty IN explaining the
causes of the present conditions.
The hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of foreign man ufactured and
manufactured goods which have
entered orr markets during the
past two years have contributed
: much to reduce the productive
F.; ability cf the American working
men, and also, by reducing their
wages, lessened their power tc
r consume either domestic or foreign
2 products.
! The tremendous pressure that is
t being felt all over the country al
this time in favor of return tc
5 protection - adequate protection
, that shall preserve our own mar
I kets for our own people, afford:
. abundant evidence that va.
majority of these people of our owr
r country understand what the rea
r difficulty with American industria
: conditions is, and also that they
4 are preparing to vote to change
D those conditions. While it is i'm
e portart that our currency shall bt
n of a sound and stable character, il
d is of the greatest Importance tina
D those who toll shall have oppor
n tunities to do so and earn gooG
9 wages IN our currency. The only
y way to obtain these opportunities
e and to restore the wage conditions
: which the workingmen of th'
n country enjoyed before the bligh
n of free trade settled upon the in
n dustries of the land, is to turn ou
n the whole free trade crowd an'
If restore the policy of protection
C American Economist.
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