The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-10-23
An influential Convert.

WAbcOuslu oEato JOurnAl 81; ~
Colonel ". N. Grosvener, who was for many
years . conspicuous free-trade advocate, has,
by the unanswerable logic Of our country phe-
nominal progress for the past twenty years,
been finally converted to the doctrine Of Ameri-
can protection to home industries. He was the
writer, Boine years since, Of q work entitled,
Does Protection Protect? in which he substan.
italy upheld the theories now maintained by the
free trade doctrinalres Of the east As q Jour
Snalistic, he was engaged some years In writing
free trade articles for The st Louis Demo.
crat The absurd campaign of 1872, in which
the free-radet democracy were supporting
for the presidency one Of the tmoat; notable and
aggressive pEotsct then living aud dis
cussions which that campaign engendered seem.
to have put Col Grosvener upon new train Of
thought which, aided by the benefi cient work
5ings OF our protective system since, has in,
iduced him TO- openly proclaim his change OF
opinions. In nm ddress before Tho; Union
League club, Of Philadelphia, he declared that
,ssitical' assaults Of his old free trade as
tsociatcs upon the protective system fare not
intelligent; = they are ignorant, derinp and
incapable. Inthe hands ofsuch men, with what;
ever. theories, the nation would be wrecked q
able to learnsonething in fifteen years. Many
things which s have doubted or disbe-!
Sieyed have been demonstrated before my:
eyes. 1t ID not the Sparta of manhood to
shut the eyes to. the truth. al have never been
one of those who believe that by much think
ing they can spin ont Of themselves an infalli-
BILE theory That sort Of political economy
has ever had my profound contempt have
tried to be an honest student of facts, and
when the facts call for new conclusions am
not afraid to form them u pity the man that
can learn no new thing from this miracle-work-
Ing ssgrn netSIna The ss man
as they work new wonders every tlay II; Nv
own opinions have in many respects been;
changed by the results realized during the
past ten years, and especially by tho i1-
creasing rewards of industry here. Il sN may
be that after the asperities Of the present
election and camRaign are over, the geniuses
The New York Times, The. Evening Post, not
to mention The Louisville Courier4J ournal, viii
revise their economic creeds, will study anew
the tariff question in the Light Of later develop
ments, and like their hilom fellow disciple
Colonel GrosyeneT I, 30 regenerated into ::
free traders are halting between two opinions,
and after mature deliberation at the demo-
cratic national convention, q committee!
composed Of some OF the most radical
Of the alleged revenue % reformers did
not dare TO insert 10 plank in their plat
trade but by cfrcumloc ation and unmeaning, IL
not contradictory sentences, constructed i for
smula which rs . specimen OF ambiguity IL not
surpassed in the English or any other language
Two adverse ideas in II are so ingeniously:
balanced that IL is still matter Of dispute
even among its authors as 70 which has the
and the color Of the chameleon
could not be more indeterminate. II Is hardly
among the possibilities that the good sense Of
the American people will lead them to side
with party whose position upon 80 important
nm issue is 30 equivocal and uncertain.