The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-12-01


just $25, 2S8 of it and no more went
in there. Tho rest you paid to the
manufacturers No wonder that the
men whose little children shiver in
shoddy or COVER under the handful
of clinkers think that the tender mer-
cies Of such protection are cruel. And
is, it equal? L am far within the
bounds when L assure you that it
takes from more than thirty millions
of people, for the doubtful benefit of
eight millions, at least $1,000, 10000
annually, of which not one.fifth part
ever reaches the Treasury. The great
bulk of it goes into the pockets of The
protected" And who are the pro-
tected? The agricultural interest is
the largest in the land, say one half of
all The people. These can't be pro-
tected, for they raise a surplus of raw
material which must be sold abroad,
and the price in london fi1es their
compensation: You might give them
bounty, but protection to allois pro-
lection to none, and 1T is nothing if
not partial SO they get none. z1,s'ii
Thenita the case Of the five mil
lion unskilled laborers, for instance.
They are all the government pets.
What Protedtion do you give them !?
Their only capItab their sole com.
modify which they daily offer for
sale, is their sinews and muscles. The
only way you can. "protect" them is
to put prohibitory tax on the inn
importation of foreign labor But in
stead Of that what do we find? Why,
the protected capitalist is bent on re-
dncing 10 the lowest point the price
OF the labor already here by import
ing enormous masses Of the. cheapest
labor in the world. and this "protec-
ton" permits him to do without pay
ing one cent of duty; Now, nv
friends, sauce for the goose, at least,
should in decency, be sauce for the
gander. eIfgovernment must meddle,
for Gods sake let it meddle impair
tally. If machinery made by man is
70 be protected, why should Gods
machine be neglected? IF workman
ship lis to be forbidden admitance,
why welcome the workmen? Pro-
lection to American Industry! It
needs no protection but its own en-
ergy and skill, least 6f all such pro-
lection. Your embraces smother it.
You have protected your merchant
nag off The face of the ocean. and you
are gradually protecting your farmers
OH the face Of the earth. Now my
friends, i'll told you the secret of all
this it is more than likely that 1
should only be told that was disloy-
ALSO 1 will again ask Mr.. Repub-
lican Wells to tell you. He says :
"The unproductiyes, being the chief
makers. of the laws for the protection
OF labor, shape all their devices so
cunningly that they continue to grow
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rich faster than the producers" "The
tendency of affairs in the United
States is towards an iunequitable dis
tribution of the annual surplus of pro-
duction and to impair the power of
the masses to accumulate property
and better their condition" But the
Republican party has paid one hun
dred and twelve millions of The debt
in one, year. Yes, gentleman, it has ;
and by the species of robbery which
have just explained. Every dollar
Of that payment has cost you two
dollars. and more, and if it never had
been attempted at all you would have
been six hundred millions richer to-
day. The time is not far distant
when few men will be SO Ignorant of
the first principles of finance as not to
see that the boasi of Republicans fis-
cal ability was q blunder and crime.
| A New KIND OF INsURANcE.-Mr.
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