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Vote For Cleveland

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
August
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bccause, for one reason, he stands for the broad and liberal commercial policy of an age, and does npt, like Mr. Hamson, represent the narrow and exclusive policy of China and Spain. Freedom from self-imposed trade restrictions is the only policy under which we can prosper. By reason af such restrictions labor troubles are more numerous this year than ever before inf our history and are growing in magnitude all the time! By erecting a tariff around the country to prevent trade, ruin is brought to many industries, the war between capitalists and laborers is intensified, and agriculture is seriously depressed. In the present law taxing agriculture and commerce we are realizing the consequences set forth by Daniel Webster in one of his great speeches. He said: "With me it is a fundamental axiom, it is interwoven with all my opinions, that the great interests of the country are united and inseparable; that agriculture, commerce and manufactures will prosper together or languish together; and the legislation is dangerous which proposes to benefit one of these without looking to consequences which may fall on the others." Mr. Cleveland represents the policy that would relieve agriculture and commerce of the "dangerous consequences" of the present system of taxation for the benefit of

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