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luOtfSf, much ulOl - tilah tnE t1SAtAO-
Gratis TO use in the elections. 1t is per-
haps true. as frequently asserted, that
the corruption fund used by the Re-
publicans reached the high water mark
in 1885, when change Of 10000 votes
properly distributed would have land
ed William J. Bryan in the White
House. But whether that is true or
false they have always had super
abundant funds, while the Democrats
have never had more than was neces-
sary for legitimate expenses, and in
twoNor three campaigns they did not
have even that much. In the begin
ming of this campaign Mr.. Sherman,
chairman of the Republican congress
sional campaign committee, sent out a
piteous appeal for dollar subscriptions.
which was all blind.
More Globe Democrat Inconsistency.
In the st. Louis Globe Democrat OF
August s, 1889, appeared the following
editorial. which is at variance with
everything now said by it or any other
stand pat organ:
A good many Democratic papers Just
now are busy accusing the Globe Demo-
crat and other Republican journals of in
consistency in demanding that duties be
lowered on articles controlled by trusts;
we are accused Of infidelity to party and
treachery to the cause Of protection The
few Republican papers. too which remain
silent on the trust question or which
imagine that the individuals at the
boodc nf fbnco t1fas,ala{yoe "a n no raaxe6
by honeyed phrases or appeals to their
honesty or patriotism to discontinue their
oppression of the people also charge us
with tampering with the tariff.
The tariff was framed to create conn
petition in home industries. Foreigners
were shut out of free entrance to our
markets with the intention of building up
industries here utilizing our materials
and resources and developing the capa
bilities of our own people.
It was understood, of course. that the
tariff would increase the price of COM
modities to the consumer. but the ex-
pectation was that the domestic COM
petition which the tariff would create
would eventually lower prices to the for
eign level or near it. This was the inten-
tion of the men who first put our tariff
laws on the national statute book.
On no other ground can the tariff be
reasonably and logically defended With
the entire spirit and intent Of the pros
tective policy the trust system Is at war.
When Mr.. Blaine. during the presiden-
tial canvass last year. said that trusts
were private affairs" the Globe Democrat
promptly and unsparingly condemned
that utterance and showed it was oppos-
ed to the central idea and vital spirit Of
the protection system.
Every leading protectionist. Washing
ton and Hamilton Of the early period of
the countrys history. Clay and Webster
of the later day and MorreiI and Sher-
man of our own day, were and still are
opposed to monopoly BY striking at the
home competition which the tariff has
established and was designed to estab-
fish the trusts have attacked the very
citadel of protection.
This Journal took the same ground a
year earlier when the sugar combine
came into being. We said then If trusts
formed in any commodities on which du-
ties are levied could not be crushed read
fly without striking them at the custom
house they should be struck at that point
vigorously and remorselessly. This posi-
ton we have maintained from that time
onward, and we have had the satisfaction
of seeing nearly every conspicuous and
influential Republican newspaper in the
country take this ground since then and
hold 1t.