The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-09-20
WHY is IT NEEDEDi
GOVERNOR J. 3. FORAKER TELLS WHY
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

teotion NJ Labor and 20 Have n1anufsct-
uring Embellishments 10 Furnish En-
ployment
In his Richmond, Ind, speech Governor
Foraker said In political economy pro-
lection means exactly what is meant by
the term in its ordinary use. Protecting
home industries and home labor is the
same thing In principle as protecting
health or life or property. Your object
Is to guard against threatened alarm.
Whether you will protect or not does not
depead on what may be the particular
kind Of danger or the source from which
It may come. You protect your life and
health from smallpox, from yellow fever,
from violence, from any danger that may
threaten. You protect your property from.
fire, from storm, from thieves and rob-
bers. A good part Of your life is spent in
protecting It.. It requires as much care
and attention to protect your property as
It does to accumulate 1t. You are to-day
protecting yourself in one way, and to-
morrow in another. That you shall be
thus protecting yourself is a natural law,
Just as natural as any other that we
obey.
It is the same with nations that It is
with individuals. They protect them
selves, or at least should do so, against
whatever danger may threaten. With ma
tions, as with individuals, it is important
to be Independent as well as prosperous
An individual Is never in satisfactory
situation, no matter how prosperous he
may be, 80 long as he is dependent upon
somebody else for continuance Of that
prosperity. The individual should learn
to do everything that may be necessary
to his proper support. II he be blessed
with property, he should learn how to use
it, instead Of using the property Of some
body else. He should depend upon his own
resources. So 1t is with nation. No
people can be Independent and perma-
nently prosperous who do not depend
upon themselves and use their own nat
ural advantages.
They should supply their own food,
their own clothing, their own fuel, their
own munitions Of war, their own farm
ing Implements, their own machinery.
They should raise their own sheep, supply
their own wool, make their own iron and
steel, build their own railroads, and, in
short, supply themselves with everything
else they may need, SO far as their nat
ural advantages will allow. To this end
they must have their own coal mines, iron
furnaces. steel plants, factories, machine
shops, woolen mills, and all other facil-
tiles for supplying their wants. All this
is evident when we take only the most
practical, business-lke view Of the sub
ject.
But there are other considerations that
demand the same policy. That people
ore strongest. who are most dependent
upon themselves. In country like this,
Of vast extent and varied climate and
soil, they lean upon one another and sup
port each other, and thus continually
grow more and more homogeneous. The
mutual interests and dependencies bind
them together in stronger bonds Of union
than any the law can provide
But one Of the greatest benefits of sys.
tenn Of diversified pursuits is the educa-
ton 1t affords. Only men Of brains and
good character can make good mechan-
les. To make machinery and operate It
requires thought. 1t means intellectual
development. The more our industrial
pursuits are multiplied, the more the 60
MUS and intellect and morality of our
people are developed. Our laborers are
made better men and better citizens. This
is good for them, good for their families,
good for the country, and good for pos
terity.
Everybody recognizes the truth Of all
this The only question Is as to how we
can most surely secure these conditions.
II the people Of the United States were
the only people ON the face Of the earth,
we should have no trouble. We should
naturally 60 along developing our re-
sources, diversifying our industries, and
trading with ourselves.
Our trade would not be limited to the
thirty-eight states and the territories, but
it would be absolutely free, just as 1t is
to-day, and ever has been. That would
be the natural and appropriate condition
Of trade with us, for the simple reason
that although we are large country, d.
vided into many states and territories, yet
we are one people, living under the same
government, and having common inter-
ests, ambitions and purposes. So that
what hurts or helps one section hurts or
helps every other. There is no harm,
therefore, that can come to one section
of our country from competition with an
other that we have not agreed and bound
ourselves by our union and form Of gov
crnment to bear and share.
But there are other nations than ours,
and they have different forms Of govern
ment, different classes of people, differ
ent kinds Of civilization, and different
social and industrial conditions. In the
matter of trade we owe them no obliga-
tion, and they owe none to US. We are
Independent Of each other in every sense
of the word. Therefore, where interests
clash, each country is free to do for itself
the best 1t can. Accordingly, they under
sell us whenever they can, not only in
the markets Of the world generally, but
also in our own.
They are at liberty, when they can do
30, to bring their wares to our very doors,
and there sell them to the exclusion of
the wares of our own manufacturers But