Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — COBDEN CLUB'S SCHEME REVIVED. [ARTICLE]

COBDEN CLUB'S SCHEME REVIVED.

A Bother Attempt to Convert fiw West to ftwTtafo The Western Democratic Oaapalga Fund, beaded by Nr. Joseph Pulitzer, the millionaire editor of toe New Yotk World, win appeal to the sympathies aad to the pocket-books of the Cobden dnh. Mr. Pulitzer, who lives abroad, and merely visits this country occasionally to see how things get along in his stupendous newspaper yullding down on Paris Bow, U doucUeas In close touoh with the foreign Free Traders. Theirs is tbs idea of converting the Western formers to Oobdanism. The Cobden Club yean ago saw toat the farmers constituted the bulwark of Protection in tbis oountry, and realized that, If the Cobdan dub was to triumph, they must be weaned from their aUeglaaoo to toe teachings of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Tliomas Jefferson, Henry Olay, Horace Greeley, and every Illustrious American statesman who has earned the love, gratitude and admiration of his countrymen. Bo they hired one Profesgor Mongredien to write up toe side of Free Trade, and Us books were scattered free by the 100,000 throughout the West. The London lima instead of the New Torts Wbrld was then the leading champion of the Tree Trade crusade. The Timet said on July 18,1880: “We wish the Oobden dub toe best success In the arduous encounter which lies before it. We hope Mr, Augustus Mongredlon’s excellent volumes, and the other publications of the club will, between them, carry toe United States by storm and thrust reason [L e., Pres Trade] Into nil minds, whether willing or unwilling to admit It” ; lZp0;" T Substitute "Beform” dub for Oobden Club, and how ilka an extract from toe World of 1892 this extract reads. But the Times added a serious reflection which we earnestly commend to toe thoughtful consideration of the Western rainbow chasers of this campaign. It continued: “But we dare not venture to be prophetio, We have beard too many propheoles, apd have waited long and vainly for their aooompllshment. That free trade will come some day in the United States it Is perfectly safe to assert; but how and whan, and other mlnutise of the kind, must be left to the Oobden dub and to its twelve Cabinet Ministers in their unofficial capacity to deride. Their prophecies shall be like lovers’ vows—broken, it may be, a thousand times, but uttered slnoerriy every time, and believed In to the very last,’* That is the lovsr-Uke hope and confidence ol which our Western Democratic Fond campaigners wiU need a goodly store to carry them through toe cruel disappointments and failures lying before them.