Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — Party Differences. [ARTICLE]

Party Differences.

“l’he Democratic party was

| elected," says Hon. Bourke Coch--1 ran, “upon the lis issue that i protection was a fraud. The pro* tective system lias been condemned by Democrats because by iucreas mg the cost of production it diminishes itsvolume. Dower tariff rates have been advocated because whatever cheapens the cost of production stimulates its volume and le ds to abundance. The chain* pious of Republican protection have contended that cheapness was degrading, if not immoral, and, as scarcity is the one sure defence agaiust cheapness, they natur-dly u; held a system which bv increas* ing the cost of production, maintamed the dearness of com modi* ties In the last analysis, there fore, the Democratic contention was that abundance meant pros perity, while the Republican party Out tended that senility was the safest bulwark of u tional wealth, l’he people in 1890 and again in 1892 declared for the Democratic policy of low tariff and abundant production as against the Repub licau {policy f high tariff and re stiicted production.”