Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-04-20
PROTECTION STATES.
FREE TRADE STATES.

| am personally convinced that
~ such contest as | have sup.
posed, the votes Of Delaware,
Maryland, Kentucky and possibly
Georgia, would be added to the
list of protection states. Alabama
in less than ten years will assured
ly be a protection state, and | have
strong hopes Of both Missouri and
Arkansas enllsting under the pro.
lection within "A decade. But not
to lay myself open to the charge of
undue enthusiasm have construct
ed az above the list Of free trade
states. OF those have put into
the protection list there is not one
that, in such contest as supposed,
would not vote overwhelmingly for
protection to home industries.
Let me then recapitulate. BY my
table, ont OF i0l total electoral votes
and thirty-eight states in the Union,
twenty-seven states and 297 cleo
tOral votes would be cast for pro.
tectlOn-while only eleven states
and 10i electoral votes would 90
for free trade In other words
more than two-thirds of the states
(three.tourths, indeed, within
small fraction) and much more than
two-thirds very nearly three
fourths) of the electoral votes would
be on the side OfprOtection to home
Industries. Now,
IT Is A PERTINENT QUESTION
to ask the gentlemen in Congress
who favor tariff reduction and who
consequently must be classed with
the free traders however much they
may protest against the title it is
very pertinent, | repeat to ask these
tariff reducers If they have ever
thought how hopeless minority of
states and popular vote they were
in? ! am not confusing the situa.
ton by having any reference to
party politics. am presenting
the naked issue OF protection vs..
free trade. free from entangling al |
liances whatever.
Now, again, let me predict that /
before this question is finally set.
tied it will go before the people
just as | have supposed it above,
and tue party that endorses free
trade will be found 10 be in a much
more hopeless minority than the
figures / have given above would
indicate. For every year the senti-
ment OF protection Is growing and
within a decade | am positive that
more than seventy electoral votes
would have to be added to my list
Of protection states.
THE GROWTH OF PROTECTION.
\ few days ago had occasion to
visit Western city on business,
and took advantage Of my trip to
pay a visit to an Old friend of NINE
in neighboring iOwu, This friend
IS an ardent free trader and was
a journal devoted 10 that
policy, and conducted with very
much ability. | found him badly
lemOraliZed. shall use his own
language, to show how the protec.
ion sentiment IS growing In the
South.
"Last fall,p said he, 81 received
some very substantial aid and en-
,ouragement towards extending the
sphere of It's usefulness, and getting
n our work on tariff revision. |
sent every week for ten weeks an
Extra edition of FIVE thousand IN
copies to people in the South,
Georgia, Tennessee. \ La Jana,
North Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana. was encouraged to
believe that the paper could do '
rood for the cause and benefit it. &
ielf. Well, | did not get a single {
nor a single advertise. {
nent from all this experiment-and /
ct me tell you the paper was made |
~ interesting as any in the cOun. $
~. No expense was spared-I l
lad a big bank account-Of other s
nenr and my friend smiled-~"and /
drte blanche to use ir. Not a sin '
,ie subscription, repeat, but | l
Ind get, by actual count, l,l57 let 4
ers from persons to whom | was t
ending the paper, Indignantly tell. !
ne me they did not want any free t
rade organ sent to them that they a
gere in favor of protection to home 4