The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-17

protection is not always I'm every country alike
profitable. The principle Of protection csnnoe
be applied in every country with the same
value and the same profit, and 1 will tell you
why and / win tell you why IL has become OF
lasting profit TO the United States. IL fs be-
cause the United states Is a world within it
self Now II we were a little narrow country
that only had one or two products, probably II
we sought TO protect those products we would
only raise the price upon ourselves Dut we nave Az,
Pacific from the Gulf To the Lakes from lau-
tude % degrees on the borders of the Tropic OF
Cancer TO latitude 40 degrees away on on the
borders OF British Columbia. We have the semi
tropical products in Southern California, and In
the northern ATTITUDES we have the cereals; we
have the fruits, we have the cotton we nave WOOL
we have hemp-we have a world within our
selves. And so large does this principle OF pro-
lection become and so varied is its Application
that no man can say that this man or that man
is protected at the expense OF his neighbor. De-
cause every pursuit, every calling In which man
engages comes in for a share OF the great be-
Inefficient influence which protection gives 20 :
Nation situated as the United States Is situated
So that when they talk TO us about free trade
tell them in England that compared with us
they know nothing about II. We have got aoso-
Lutte free trade among G5,UOO,000 OF our own peo-
pie, and we have protection against the w.
600 900 OF people that live outside OF US.
Now, understand my duty TO be to look out
for these 65, OOO, 900 of people at hcme. The old
saying used TO DO that the city OF Prague was
the cleanest city In Europe and the reason was
that every man brushed mis- own doorstep NOW
Cleveland-if / may say so-who want 10 look
out for trade beyond the sea and 70 benent man
kind beyond our keeping, / think have got
larger Job on hand than than they viii accom-
plish and know that the nation which most
and best looks out for itself is acting not only
according TO the law OF intelligent selfishness
but according 10 the best law OF brotherly love
and philanthropic regard for man for the richer
we grow the more we impress ourselves
upon the entire world as exhibition
and proof OF what intelligent men
can do under self-government without the
aid of a noble or king That il what this country
has done. We framed our Government without
the protection OF kings and in spite OF them. We
grew up without the favor Of the great in Europe
and in spite OF them. We grew up without the
patronage OF nations in Europe and in spite OF
them; and to-day we have grown so large that
the little nation OF 900 in the struggle OF l776
has become great aud grand and so powerful
that 10 overshndows them all. The example OF
this Nation ia worth more TO struggling national
tiles and to suffering humanity throughout this
world than anything that il was In the power or
the American people TO produce. The policy
which has done that is the policy OF protection,
which has built up every industry at home
which has caused our wide interchange OF do
nestle products, and which has surrounded our
Interests by great power against injurious in
trusion from abroad and with perfect safety at
home.