San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-09
SHAKING FREE TRADE.

southwest Texas is getting alarmed
at the effect the preaching of the COS.
pei of free trade is having on the vot-
ers of the wool and cattle sections.
The election of Judge NoOnan two
years ago has opened the eyes of the
slick ones of the border Democracy
to the need of stemming the tide, as
is apparent by the resolutions recent
ly offered in the Texas delegation at
Chicago and the conclusion to force
them before the committee on resolu-
tions. The resolution referred to
was drawn by Free Silver Gatewood,
who figured in the withdrawal of
Eelso from the congressional race in
this district, and is as follows:
Resolved, that we favor a tariff for
revenue sufficient to defray the neces-
sary expenses of the government,
economically administered, and so adj
justed as not to discriminate against
the Industries of any section, eSpec-
tally the raw materials of the West
and South, including their wool,
hides, sheep, cattle and other live
stock interests"
What sop to Cerberus? A dyed
in-the-wOOl Democrat, of the free sill
Yer, free trade Gatewood stamp, Of
fering in the sacred portico of the ma
tional Democratic convention such q
resolution. " 1t is enough to make
Mills and Cleveland turn green with
at the degeneracy of the
party. And to think that Hogg was
not out of sight, and Culberson was
there, and Reagan on the bench,
when such blasphemies were uttered
against democracy as she is spoken
in Texas. True, Gatewood did not
come out squarely for protection, but
that would discover the clOven foot,
or at least he thought it would, but
the discovery is there all the same.
This little incident teaches two
things. First, that it is accepted in
this region that the free tradeiSm of
the Democracy must be put out of
sight, lift is expected that the Demo
cratic party is to carry this southwest
for congress. Second, that Gate
wood is ready to give the sacred dog
ma of free trade the gO-by, if thereby
he may save his free silver hide
from the congressional fence, trust
ng that his free silver tent will hide
his free trade detection. AS to the
of GatewOOd's resolution,
that is another affair. This present
would surrender Cleve-
land, Mills, Wilson, free trade and
every advocate of it, and every prin-
ciple for which they have contended,
in order to save the 16 to l baby
which they have taken to wet nurse
for the Populst party. This is the
situation today. There is not a prin-
ciple for which the Democratic party
has contended for the past thirty
years that will be named in the Chi
cago platform, if it is thought that the
will in any way prevent a
free silver vote. Protection, abhor-
red as it has been in the past and de-
nounced, would be nailed to the mast
head of the platform of Chicago to-
il thereby it could be shown
to the leaders of that convention that
free silver would win out at the polls.
This is the consistency of Democratic
principles and procedures. The hon
CRADLE leaders of the Democracy are
aside for such guerrillas as
Altgeld and Tillman. The result is
only a question of time, but in the
meantime much good United States
credit and industry may be DESTROYED.