The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-09
FLAT FOOTED FOR FREE TRADE
The Party Of Robert e. Pattison De-
clares UnequivocalIy In Favor OF
Unrestricted FOREIGN Competition.

cIares OneQuiVocaIIy IN FaVor o5
Unrestricted Foreign Competition.
The prosperity Of Pennsylvania IS
due to Republican rule and not to DEM
ocratic mismanagement. The Demo
cratic party in 1860 went out OF power
in this state and left debt Of $40,-
100000 for the people to struggle with.
Now Robert Z. Pattison comes along
and asks that that party be put again
in power.
The Democratic party stands for
free trade, the Republican party for
protection. A vote for Pennypacker Is
vote for the party Of prosperity. a
vote for Pattison is an encouragement
to the tariff-smashers and free silver
dreamers, of whom R. f Pattison was
one Of the chief. IL this is doubted.
read the following from the Albany
Journal:
In the preparation of the Democrat
ic campaign text book at least, just
issued by the Democratic congress
sional committee. Clevelandism has
exercised the prevailing influence. For
! the first time there is made, for the
/ Democratic party, a straightforward,
unequivocal. emphatic declaration in
/ favor of free trade. There is no talk
about tariff revision" tariff reform"
or tariff for revenue only" reciprocity
is simply declared to be "a sham and
hurn-Jug." while of free trade it is said
that it would open our own markets
to benefit our own country. 1t Is as
serted that 1.-The greatest good to the
greatest number requires that there be
no barriers in trade in order that goods
may be as cheap as possible and the
cost of living be reduced to mini
num-"
That goods as cheap as possible
would mean wages as low as possible
that the opening of our markets to all
the products OF foreign cheap labor
would mean destruction to our indus
tries. and IT,. the reduction of the cost
Of living to minimum would result In
deriving t. t.UI5ands of American work
incmcn of ev, the minimum required
to Geiray I ,Ost, are facts which the
Democrat! .sXt books ignores; but
which tn merican people have in
|, their minds.
Democratic congressional COM
:, lee is entitled to such credit as Is
the destruction Of our prosperity which
has developed under the Republican
, policy of protection for homo indus
tries. the pauperization OF American
labor, the ruin of American capital
, the enrichment Of foreign nations a
the expense Of the United States, thu
retrogression OF this nation to the con
dition of a debtor nation, 1t states II
/. proposition without circumlocutlon in
tended TO befog the minds of the peo
pie as TO the real purpose OF the Demo
cratic party. Free trade, complete abo
- lition of the tariff, admission of al
y, foreign products to free competition
- with American products-that is tn
IIODbSlllpu NAANlA 10 tfN"4N ~ SNN ~
- fore the people of the United States.
American thought will instantly re
y, vert to the condition that was precipi
~ tated by the election of Mr.. Clevelan
- in 1892 when nothing nearly SO radica
was proposed and when the tariff la
~ soon thereafter enacted by the Demo
. cratic congress, the so-called Wilso
- law, was after all, though it made
reduction of the duty on many import
~ as a whole protective measure.
The Democratic declaration for FREE
trade. absolute free-trade, will nah
~ the question wheJner this country wi
,1 uphold the policy that has made
=, prosperous or reject that policy ar
u cast prosperity to the winds the par
mount issue in the congressional ele
t!ons this fall and in the PRESIDENT
contest two years hence. The Amer
Is can people made a terrible mistake
de 1892: they will not repeat it in 1902
All In 1904.
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