Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-14
A Good Subject to Talk About.

day of February, A. D. 1879, con-
tains the following very instructive
and significant editorial item:
"a few years ago several Of the
"most influential journals in the
"Wcst were engaged in u persistent
"and vicious attack on the policy
"of protection, which in this coun-
"try has achieved signal success.
"These journals have long since
"been silcnccd by facts which have
"becn accommodating, until the
"proof has become overwhelming
"that protection is the shortest road
to low prices"
The policy Of protection has in
decd achieved a signal success in
this country "a success which
would have been the destruction Of
any other country under the sun.
The great natural resources Of the
country have enabled it to carry
burden in the form of its "protec-
tive policy, under which any other
country would have tottcrcd and
fallen long ere this.
We should say that the policy of
has achieved d signal success in this
country! For years the manufac-
turcrs Of the East have compelled
everybody using their goods to buy
them ut the most cxorbitant
prices, and still they arc not salts
fed. They now ask for more pro-
lection, or, as II should rightly be
called, support. II was only the
other day that Mr.. Blaine presented
to the Senate q memorial from
manufacturers in Maine, demand
ing subsidy for a mail steam
ship line 10 South America, in
order that they might be enabled
to ship their goods to markets in
that part Of tho world. They are
not satisfied with having a monop-
oily Of the home markets, but want
to tax the people for the transpor-
tation Of their goods to foreign
markets. Tho government has
yielded them an inch and they
want M ell.
As 70 the prominent western
journals being silenccd in their
attacks on the policy of protection,
If thoy are at MI silent on the sub
ject, u Is for lack OF contradiction
and not from any change Of heart
~ our Republican would have us
believe. Indeed the number of
journals advocating and defending
"protection" have fallen off 80
rapidly of late years, that now,
hardly u journal ofany prominence
can DO found - outside Of those
issued in the interests Of large man
ufacturiny companies = that il
willing to defend the system for
either party or sectional considera-
tions, When the Wood tariff bill
was before Congress last Winter, we
did not find Western journals silent
in regard to the present tariff law
Every Democratic newspaper, as
we'll rs the entire independent
press attacked it tiercely; and many
Republican papers denounced il in
unspairing terms, despite tho fact
that their party in Congress-, ruled
by Eastern manufacturers, opposed
and defeated Mr., Woods bill (which,
If IL had been adopted, would have
been long stride towards free
trade. The Chicago Tribune was
among tho Republican papers That
denounced the present law, and i'll
one issue described it in the follow
ing mild language;
I" II recks with fraud, special leg
+" islation, and subsidy. II il a vast
system to license robbery, to en-
F" courage perjury, to promote SNUG
Cling, to impoverish the farming
+" classes, to destroy industry, and
!" to bring about the very condition
"of affairs which now SO unhappily
"oxist in all the manufacturing
I" districts of the land. Instead of
J" being sanctiiied by any inherent
principle, or entitled to any re-
" spcct because Of its effects upon