The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-16
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

An Krisaman's Reasons why He Lis Re-
publican and q Protectsonists.
10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal.
am a Republican and protectionist from
che marrow Of my old bones to the legs that
keep them warm. Now. the question - why
am what amt The rascally free-traders give
this, that and the other reason why Irish-Amer-
leans are swarming into the Republican party.
Let me give the real and true reasons
am a Republican because the Democrats
party and their low tariffs did drive all the
gold and silver of America over to England,
from iS47 10 1860: and il was that money which
enabled England to get up the Sumters and
Alabamas- that swept our ships and our flag
from off the seas; and because it was the money
az Amar,ca carried over to Engl and TO settle up
balances of trade, that enabled Engands free
traders to supply the rebels with the arms and
ammunition with which million OF Americans
were killed or crippled, while suppressing
rebellion fomented by free-traders ia the inter
est Of their schema am protection1st, be-
cause IL was low tariffs that always drove the
money of America into England, and it was
that money that enabled Englande Of
blood TO practice their corsair atrocities on Ire
land and the Irish. am Republican because
The Democratic party and their pet tariff would
again drive all the gold and silver out Of Amer
lea, thus putting it beyond the power of man or
of God to save the Nation from ruin and dis
grace. Money is the organ of industry-its life
and it's soul; and any system that would drive
IL out is an internal system; no matter by what
pet name it may be called. am Republican
bor stocks. bonds, mortgages and all promises
TO pay are regulated and controlled by the
amount of gold and silver in the country. And
because just IN proportion as our gold and silver
is driven out, to settle up balances of trade, the
value of labor and land will sink lower and low
er, while all bonds, mortgages and promises to
pay Will remain MP, up sky high. AS scheme
20 ruin the farmer, the labor and the great mass
of people, free trade is about equal to anything
which Satan could invent. / am bitterly OPP
attached to the party of high prices. Locke
lworks, vol ii, p. 29) shows that all debts and
taxes must be paid by land and labor: There"
he says, "they will terminate" What, then,
am to think of party that would bring down
the price of the labor and the land upon which
all the debts of the Nation are hypothecatedf 1t
Is an Internal party; a diabo1cal party; roDoer
party Our agricultural statistics show that
over one-half of the farms of the West and the
South are mortgaged for over 90 per cent. OF
farmers, if the rascally Democrat succeeds in
his scheme of bringing down prlcesf They Will
20 further west, young man They Will not DO
where they are. do hate, abhor and detest
this free trade party and it's ruffan cry OF
a'cheap goods 'cheap prices In Petty's Po-
iitical Anatomy of ireland, .. 10. we are told
That low prices are at the bottom of Irelands
miseries ID proved IN Clarendon's Letters, Lith-
COWS Tour through Ireland, Prior's List
wards Argumsnts for the Poor, and
other works now before Ray, the cele-
brated English traveller, says that in all his
travels he found that high prices Stimulated in
dustry and was the only cause of prosperity.
while he found cheap places those in which the
workingmen the most degraded and de-
pressed. DIR. Franklin works, vol. H. p 1861
maintains that cheapness destroyss industry,
and makes a people lazy and idle. Maltha Brun
maintains the same. and does Lord Bacon
and others too numerous to mention. But what
authorities do we need2 Just look at the cheap
places of the world to-day What do you fndl
You find man slave brute, dolt q beggar
andIa bicot. am Republican because the fiscal
policy of the party il calculated TO keep up
prices; and have before me the works OF such
travellers as Arthur Young, Samuel LANG, NJ
Simon Bayard Taylor. Lithgow and Ray show
ing that dearness of provisions and high prices
in general are the prime cause of the prosperity
of nations and the happiness of the working
classes p. G. CARROLL.
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