Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — ENGLAND’S SYMPATHY. [ARTICLE]

ENGLAND’S SYMPATHY.

Cleveland would run magnificently in England. Over there, they are all for him. 'His Free-Trade policy, if adopted in this country, would mean millions upon millions to British manufacturers and British workingmen. . - ' “ But it would come out of the pockets of American manufacturers and out of the wages of American labor. Loflg before the Revolution, England resolved that America should never manufacture for herself, During the first half of the eighteen century the poor colonists made a feeble beginning in the fabrication of coarse woolens, linen and hats. English manufacturers complained of this to their government and Parliament interfered—in what manner we let Adam Smith, the founder of the Free-Trade school, relate,. We extract from his Wealth of Nations, published in 1776: - - England prohibits the exportation from one province to andther by water and even by land upon horseback or in a cart, of hats, of wool and woolen goods of American production, a regulation which effectually prevents the establishment of any manufacture of such commodities for distant* sale, and confines the industries of her colonies in this way to such coarse and household manufactures as a private family commonly makes for its oWn use, or for that of some of its neighbors in the same province. That policy was adhered to with relentless vigor by England down to the Revolution. Since that time she has watched with impotent rage and maddening envy our advance in manufactures, under the shelter of a Protective Tariff which rendered futile her malevolent attempts to destroy them.

Is it any wonder that her sympathy in this campaign is witnthe party which in effect proclaims in its platform its purpose to reduce us once more to that deplorable ' state of industrial vassalage from which the Revolution freed us? Can a true American vote for the ..candidates of such a party? Democratic Wildcat Resolution. Henry Watterson, the able editor and master of the democratic Louisville Courier-Journal, answering the question “Who wrote that plank in ffvof” of restoring state bank notes to circulation by repealing the tax upon them?” said:

“I do not know, but it is the gravest error in the platform. If anything has come out of the civil war for the benefit of everybody it is good currency. A dollar .is a dollar every where. I have no sympathy with any scheme to put it in the power of an individual or a partnership to issue their notes and make them legal tender, or make the multitude pay the depreciation upon them. It is a step back to barbarism.” But it is a step the Democratic party has deliberately taken. The Republican party has given the country the best and safest system of currency it ever had, and its ascendancy is an imperative necessity to maintain such a system of finance. The older citizens who recollect the times of w ildcat money and uncertain value of paper money, shudder at the thought of returning to such a miserable system.