The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
THE TARIFF AND BRYAN.

same safeguards against the foreign trade generally; and in the south citrus fruits, olive oil, crude petrole- um, borax, wool, canned meats, iron ore, preserved fruits and jellies, raisins and wine are staple products, which, without the aid of @ pro tective tariff, would cease, for the most part. to make profitable re- turns.
 To many of these lines of pro- duction the passage of the German Wilson law was a crippling blow. The wool industry is dead and any further lowering of duties upon the other staples would kill three fourths of the income-producing employments of the State. A con- dition would arise for which even free silver, useful as that would be with protection, could afford do re lief. It follows, therefore, if any purpose exists OF the part of the Democracy to go on with it's early programme of tariff revision, that the real issue of California to vote upon is thus marked out and any other is subordinate to it.
 The tariff plank of the Demo- cartic National Convention is cautl- ous in its phrasing, but declares in so many words that duties should be levied for purposes of revenue" which is the same as saying that duties shall not be levied for objects of protection. But the candidate goes much further than the platform. We are indebted to a pamphlet issued by the Colorado Populist State Central Committee for the text of letter which Will liam J. Bryan wrote to that body some time after the Gorman-Wil- son bill had passed, in which he marked out the political courses he intended to pursue. Upon the subject of the tariff he wrote as fol- lows:
 q shall continue to labor for a tariff for revenue only, more deeply convinced than ever before by my short experience in Congress that a protective tariff, as we have known it, is only system of lega- 1 lized spoliation by which the or ganized few are able to plunder the unorganized many for pretended public good"
 It is a fair question to the voters of California whether they want a man for President of the United 1 States who is committed to work of this character? The wool-growers ask for relief and they get the threat of free trade in wool for another four years. The manufacturers call for protection, but Bryan re- bukes them as the organized few who would plunder the many, and he practically pledges himself te ct down the bars still further be-
 tween this country and Japan. The fruit-growers and wine-producers; whom the present scale of prices barely sustain, want the home market to themselves, but they are brought face to face with the pros pect of competing on even CT less than even terms with France, Italy 2 and Mexico. The lumbermen arc apprehensive of Canada, yet Bryan tells them that their idea of keep ing British competition out is a part of the "legalized spoliation' which he would grind under his , heel. No matter what might come to California he will continue to labor for tariff for revenue only"
 This is the reason why the , Chronicle insists that the tariff so far as California is concerned, Is the real issue of the campaign. With a tariff, even under vicious monetary system, this State enjoyed great prosperity; without one there is hardly an industry, by which our people now create their reven- ues, which would not be prostrated To keep these facts in mind and to vote accordingly seems to us to be the highest duty which has 50 far been placed, in this canvass, before the citizenship of California.-S. r 'i Chronicle.
 THE Republicans of Mohave