Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — The Reform Programme. [ARTICLE]

The Reform Programme.

We fire not legislating for Utopia. We are, as the President said, confronted by a condition, not a theory. Absolute free trade is proposed by no one, nor will it be. The abolition of such protection as is thought to tell for American mechanics and workmen is not now in the question. What is proposed is to give cheaper materials to our industries, so that our manufactures may thrive; to abolish senseless taxes that make our productions dear, and to remove, as far as possible, barriers that shut us out from cheap food, fuel, and clothing on one hand, and from profitable foreign markets on the other. —New York Star.