The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-07
Stray Shots for Protection.

WIFI tillS COuHlty'
This country never yet Jagged in
the march Of progress, and doesn't
propose to do so now.
Mem. for Chairman Mills: The
American people will be heard upon
your motion to sell them out.
Every pound of foreign wool i'm
ported displaceS an equal amount of
home prouduct. Remember that.
Wool and salt are chosen for the
free list this time. Coal and iron ore
will 20 next, if this first step sue
eeeds.
No workingman need apply to the
Ways and Means Committee-the
voice of labor il lost in the yell for
free trade.
Life is too short for mistakes, too
serious for experiments in theories.
We know where we stand under
Protection.
A million wsge-earners have near
lv six millions in the savings banks
of this State. Oh the blight of Pro-
lection
Wool. potatoes, peas, beans, tOma-
toes-all vegetables in fact-put on
the free list. Does the farmer like
the prospect?
Anglo .maniacs may wear all the
foreign wool hats they want, but
they ought to pay for them. An
American wool hat is good enough
for sensible people.
Hundreds of thousands are pouring
into our country to escape a pauper
life abroad. What can be offered
them if we get down to the foreign
wages level?
The Mills of Texas would grind
fast if permitted, and crush out our
most prosperous industries. The
wheels won't turn, though, while
Uncle Sam IS at the crank.
In the Argentine Republic there
are 100000 sheep and the herders
are paid So per month, while in Mon
tana they get $40 per month. The
tariff maintains this difference in
wages.
If wool goes on the free list, every
farmer who shears his sheep this
spring might just as we'll kill the an
imals at the same time. If he doesn't,
the free trade policy will soon do it
for him.
If there are any two materials in
the tariff list which, on Mr.. Mill's
principles, ought to be free, they are
iron ore and coal. But the free trad
ers have not put these articles on the
free list, because they are mined in
free trade States. Is this an honest
revision?
There are along the Hudson nearly
one hundred brick yards. the aggre-
gate output of which for the past seas
on was about 800 ,00O, 900 of brick of all
grades. And the new tariff bill puts
brick on the free list, so as to destroy
this great industry, or reduce the
wages of the brick makers to the for
eign level!
A new generation of revenue re-
formers is urging us to adopt the
same theories by which their f1thers
led us into disaster. Shall we listen
to and be misled by their doctrines,
or shall we not rather be guided by
the solid facts of experience. which
prove to Us that the American policy
of protection and encouragement to
labor and industries is better than
theories or maxims of the sham sci
ence of political economy?
The Mills bill as published begins
with "Be it enacted" 1t has no pre-
amDle stating its purpose. 1t is not
described as "a Bill to Reduce Amer
lean Wages and Diminish Employ
ment." or IA Bill to Enable the
United States to Take the FIRST Firm
Step toward Free Trade" or "a Bill
to Enact so much of President Cleve-
lands Proposals as the American
People will Stomach" or "a Bill to
Make the American People Prosper
Gus by Making them Idle" or IA
Bill to Elevate the United States to
the Level of Irish Prosperity."-
Irish World.