The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-12-13
Written for the Democratic Press,l
PROTECTION,

Written for the Democratic Press.l
PROTECTION.
Farmers. workmeB, your attention.
While protective laws scan,
Deep and daring. their invention.
Bringing want and woe to man
Who is better for protectionp
Who. ask you. can you tell2
Basking under its reflection,
Who, except the rich themsel'i
You are told, without protection,
Furnace. forge and mill will stand,
Death. disease and cold detection
Flood and overflow the land.
This is falSehood. meant to blind you,
Lies on lies, from men of stealth,
Whose sole object is to grind you
And hoard up ill gotten wealth.
For, behold, with high protection,
All these ills, and many more,
Crowds who crave work meet rejection,
Sent us tramps from shore to shore.
See. free trade on history's pages.
such disasters are unkents
AM SO AdT lIOIu WdkCSs
Ten times ten more paid per cont.
View her now. without protection.
See her ships upon the sea,
See her men. mark their complexion.
The result of trade made free.
See poor Sam, with all his guessing.
Crowded back and undersold,
Tariff laws his poor expressing.
Rascals pilinG mp his gold.
See his farmers toiling, shaving,
Getting poorer year by year;
Sharp projections razor shaving
Halt and hide by selling dear.
Every farmer. his brow branded
by protection as a slave.
by protective laws commanded
From his cradle to his grave.
See his dress, thin and tattered,
Shoes and stockings old and torn,
BY sad laws bled and battered,
Food for tariffs dreadful jaws.
AL he buys is at ransom,
All he sells is under cost,
Getting skinned so very handsome,
Hear Sans slave of freedom boast.
Sam. you stop protection sowing
He'll. and branding farmers slave,
Or heH ON hell find a growing, F
Springing up from freedoms grave.
With protection you must grapple,
Cudgel it with all your might;
Tariff law take by the thrappie.+
Choke the devil of oRtright.
Why should commerce be obstructodf
Can you give us ample caute2
Can exchange e'er be conducted
Fair and square with tariff laws2
Uncle Sam, you cease your boasting.
Without a ship on any sea,
Calculate how much its costing.
Rceping trade from getting free.
Your press. sinking with corruption.
Paid. tho masses to mislead;
Expect one DAY dire eruption
From this sink OF hlth and greed.
just behold your r. G. Porter
shipping lies in from abroad,
Filth and cant in devil's'mortar.
Clear OF tariff every load. 49,
Your workingmen how woll you treat.
All dressed in shoddy cloth;
No other nation can you beat,
stuff to mako devil wrolh. I'D
Your rivers small, your land is scant.
With no coal or iron to spare;
Before you staring sac grim want.
IL any try to sell your ware.
sam, 10 see you quake and shiver.
Afraid. least you buy too chsap,
Such sad disease of lungs and liver
W0ald make very devil weep.
Your workmen have seen working
For hundred cents . day,
For board alone saw them forking
Two-thirds of this sum away.
Talk of Europe ana low wages
In heavens name. let me know,
Did hell itself in all its stages
Fer pay wages half SO low2
Hand in hand with high protection
Search and you'll get wages low,
To this rule find no exception
In any land where'er You go.
Who makes cash from high protectiOnI
Who is it gets tho lions sharef
Why fer tariff such afroction2
Did il skin them, like you, barer
Who demands you TO electionf
Who com mmands you how to voter
Who says, F." Slave. you vote protection.
Or be cashiered on the spotp'
Farmers. study out protection.
Find it is the DEVILS lure.
-,Brcwed In He'll, a strong injection.
Meant to purge and keep you poor.
Workmen. understand protection,
Know what it is meant to do,
'Tis the DEVILS own connection,
Pumping labor out of you.
such a way Of wholesale grabbing
By tariff arm OF might,
Night and day it keeps slabbing.e ~.
Barr. pg up the road to right. ~
Why against free trade such lJing1
Who can show it is unjustf
Faisehood sick. and tariff dying.
DO they will. and go they must.
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