Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Keep It Before the People! [ARTICLE]

Keep It Before the People!

.New .York, July 7.—A special to TheWorl<l, from London. says: On account' of-the tariff issue, English newspapers give constant attention to our political campaign. The Times, after quoting aj>provingly from President Cleveland’s letten - to Tammany Hall, says: "It would hardly lx? jossibie to put the free trade case more clearly or more strongly, and yet, such is the force.of words. President Cleveland shrinks from the use of the term •free trade,’ and in fact deciares that those .who taunt him with being a free trader are deceiving the country 1 ... It is certain that the arguments which President Cleveland urges are those which CobderfS&ised to employ forty-five years ago, and which any English free trader would employ now. We are very glad to see President Cleveland using them.” The foregoing quotation from The London Tinies was telegraphed to the Buffalo papers, This news was suppressed by The Buffalo Courier, the Democratic organ at President Cleveland's former home. The Courier knows that The London Times understands the language of fn-e trade as well aS the President knows his* a, b, c. Grover Cleveland is the candidate favored by British manufacturers. —Buffalo'Express. Hon. Benjamin Harrison said in 188(5, two years before his nomination for the presidency: “A revision of the tariff from any standpoint is a most difficult and delicate work, and for one I will not consent to hold the sponge and allow the unfriendly and blundering Democratic leaders of the house to use the knife. I do not Ixdieve in horizontal cuts. If there is a call, as I think there is. for clianges in the administrative features of the law. and in some particulars as to rates. 1 shall inrirt. for one. that thdy shall be made by friendly hands. Fhilucklphiu Bulletin, ...