The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-12

Chapter XVI A Friendly Address to the
Democratic Party Regarding Free Trade
and Defeat, Protection and Victory
/. Listen, o ye Democrats to one who
is not wholly bound up in partisan pol
itics, one who believes in the value OF
people vote your party downG Because
of Bryanism? Not so. Bryan did save
your party from almost total annihila
ton.
2. Wherein. then, lieth the difficulty
And the answer doth roll over New
England, the roar is heard in the EN-
pire skte, the sound thereof Is borne
through Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and
other states east OF the Mississippi on
every breeze, and all through the woody
west, even unto the Golden Horn and
Columbia river. the people listen TO the
reverberations of the thunder.-"Jus as
long as your party opposes protection
which gives our wage earners millions
more jobs. just so long will your party
be whipped out of its pedal coverings
3. Talk is cheap. and all your screech-
ing about the rights of the people avail
eth nothing so long as you are silent re-
garding their right TO a job OF work.
4. Surely you do know right well that
during the late reign of avordupois
Cleveland we had your rubber semi-free
trade Wilson tariff, and the people
groaned and mourned wives and children
wept because they were cold and hungry.
for their husbands and fathers were most
brutally and cruelty and deliberately
swindled and robbed OF work and then
insulted with free soup. Moreover. not
a free trade leader so much as suggested
the least protection to furnish work for
bread winners. And this outrage in
Americal
g. Yea, and men Of sympathy and
charity for the needy said unto them
selves. lis this the deliberate policy OF
free trade? Are there no bowels OF com
passion among free traders?" And the
mocking answer seemed TO laugh at the
misfortuncs of wage earners. mot n
bowel"
r--5. Now. behold. during Uncle Growers
first term. his hands were tied for To-
protectionists ruled the senate and would
not suffer the bloodhounds Of free trade
TO devour the wage workers. Therefore
did prosperity abound and the web-footcd
fowl was suspended at a dizzy altitude
OF prosperity.
second time the free traders governed
both Uncle Sans house and senate. and
the result was that every bloodhound and
every wolf OF free trade was let loose.
and the bread winners were shown even
as much mercy as a wolf manifesteth
when he devoureth the toothsome sheep.
A. Verify. 10 was even so In 1857 under
free trade. while I'm 1897 free trade rule
was even more cruel and bitter.
q Verify. 10 was even 50 I'm 1857 under
free trade. while It's branches are tender
and III putteth forth leaves yc know. or
II ye are ignorant the masses know that
semi-starvation and mi-freeze- To death
are near. even at every poor mans door.
Then let them that are I'm the dismal
swamps OF free trade malaria flee 90 tho
protection mountains. Let no man look
back toward the Sodom of free trade.
Lots wife.
10 Behold. how oregon hath Just gone
bob. line and sinker for protection once
strong Democratic state but when the
people looked on the results of free trade
hey said. Oregon hath done enough for
and its free trade policy
we turn 10 the grand old
party Of protection" Ard every West
,rn state. save lonesome Nevada. sound /
"A loud the refrain, so say We all ~
a."
n And now wouidst thou gain the slc-
fory. thou party OF Democracy Then
dick. even as the festive mule. anything
md everything in the likeness of free
trade. Verify, 30 In lemons for protec-