New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06
SINKING DEEPER.

Governor Wilson daily sinks deeper
into a bog of sophisrry IN trying 10
square his innate predictions for free
trade with the polite proyiso that the
sort OF free trade at which the Demo
cratic marty II aiming doesn't mean
ANYTHING and will not hurt anybody.
When he talks 10 one class OF voters
the farmers of Pennsylvania. for IN
stance-he hints that me favorS q free
list Of an articles which the farmer
Uses or consumes. But when he talks
To city workinSmen, "a AZ Buffalo ana
M the Yorkyille Casino, in this city ne
scouts the idea Of a real free list Tor
any kind Of producer or consumer ana
SAYS that the man who talks of the pos
sibility Of free trade in this country Is
only setting UP a boGie with which To
frighten ignorant and credulcuS voters
To the Woodrow Wilson Working
mems League the Democratic candidate
offered these pleasant assurances ON
Wednesday evening
There are circumstance IN TINS coun-
try which render 1t absolutely impossl-
bic in our time. / dare say. that we
sbould have tree trade. When
people talk 10 YOU about the danger oi
free trade and the folly Of the free
trader do not he afraid that YOU VIII
meet 4 free trader i'm the dark any
where. because there is rot any Tree
trader who can get abroad in America
at present
Governor Wilson must have assumed
that nobody I'm the lorkville Casino
audience bad read his Williams Grove
speech II he should favor as Presi-
dent and Democratic Congress should
happen 70 pass free list bills for the
bepetft Of various classes and vocatlons
for the farmers the miners. the artl-
sans the factory hands. the butchers
the bakers and the candlestick makers
we should. have. free trade all along
the limo M the end of single session.
It wouldnt be- necessary TO 20 10 tp-
rrs,uhie- Of revising the schedules one
bv one. Congress would merelH have
10 urovide that sugar. cotton goods.
chemicals. wool and wOOllen goods. iron
aud steel products. pottery products.
clothes and food should be admitted
free when intended for the use OF
American citizens or residents Of vari~
Gus occupations and the contamination
~ free trade would be upon Us. we
should ger free trade by the simple and
original method which Governor vii
son commended when be approved the
! underlying principle Of the Farmers
Free List.
The Governor says that no free
trader can get abroad in America al
present" Yet every Congressman who
voted for the Farmers Free List was
the rankest kind Of free trader since
he brushed aside the hitherto accepted
theories that tariff taxation should
have some relation 10 protection or 20
revenue or 10 a mixture Of both, ana
gave his sanction 10 the notion that
articles should be taxed or free accord
Ing 20 the vocation Of the persons for
whose use they are intended. That
Kind Of free trader Is the most danger
GUS OF all 10 be abroad for his point OF
view is not economical at oil, since be
j. willing to sacrifice revenue whenever
NECESSARY 70 class advantage.
The Democratic candidate may try
10 conceal the fact but II remains true
that there are free traders walking
about amoug US, not In the dark but in
the open. and that he is one Of them.
ANY one who can advocate occupational
free lists is a. dangerous a free trader
a. Champ Clark was when he declared
himself in favor Of tearing down all
The custom houses and sowing their
sites with salt and ashes