The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-31
PROTECTION.

Extract from speech by Congressman Goif
OF West Virginia, before the Home Market
Club of Boston.l
Where is the market you would
seek abroad! You want the markets
OF the world, do you, Mr.. Revenue
Reformer, Mr.. Free-Trader? Will
Massachusetts sell her wooden goods,
her boots, shoes, hats, cottons, in
England! Gentlemen, England has
more than she wants, and to spare,
now. Her warehouses are full, her
markets glutted, her factories idle,
her working-people hungry. Surely,
then, you do not seek that market.
You will not go to France, Germany
and Belgium, will you? Strange as
it may seem, it is those countries that
have driven England to the wall, with
the products of their toll. Not to
Italy, Russia, India, not there, ]
pray you. God save the free people
of my native land from that COMPETE
ton, their homes and their labor from
that degradation. You will not find
it in Ireland, will you? Not while
England rules her as she does to-day.
Before you can sell to Ireland at a
profit you will have become more dis
tressed than is that "most distressed
green isle of the sea-" The city of
Boston might pause at Ireland and
think. Ireland was one day like
Massachusetts is now, so far as the
prosperity of her people was concern
ed. Dublin was then like Boston is
now, comparatively. When the Brit
ish merchants called upon William,
King of England, and complained OF
the progress of Irish industries, to
their injury, he replied, in substance,
"Gentlemen, l shall do all in my
power to discourage Irish manufac-
turers." How well he and his success
ors have fulfilled that promise let Ire
land say tonight. The silk trade of
the city of Dublin was the wonder of
the world. 1t has ceased to be. The
lace trade of Limerick was Ireland's
boast; it has gone. The wooden
trade of Waterford, of Cork, of Tip
perary, sent the fame of the Irish
manufacturers to all lands, and now
all lands, save English lands mourn
for the desolation of Waterford, of
Cork, and of Tipperary. The blank
ct factories of Kilkenny commanded
the markets of the world, and now no
market, not one, knows them. When
England had her heavy hand on Ire
land she reached across the Atlantic
and placed it also on the American
provinces. The colonists arose in
their might, and England withdrew
her hand from them somewhat MAIN
ed, but strong enough and heavy
enough to still crush the industries of
Ireland. Ireland was compelled to
cease her manufacturing, to purchase
from England, to accept British free
trade, to become the victim of the
English system. God save this fair
city Of Boston from such fate.
thought to-day, as l viewed this
grand metropolis, as l stood in your
great establishments and witnessed
the wonderful achievements of your
grand army of skilled workmen, as l
heard the music of your industries,
and realized the contentment of your
happy homes,-as l stood in the
glare of your factories and was fasci-
mated with the whirl of your wonder
full activities,-I thought what is the
secret of this great success? solved
it, to my satisfaction, at least. 1t is
owing to the fact that you have been
true, that we have adhered to that
cardinal doctrine of our fathers, for
which they struggled here on this sa-
cred soil, for which Massachusetts
has ever commended, never faltered,
that American industries and Ameri-
can labor shall be protected by the
strong shield of American law. l
believe that our fathers were right.
/ believe that by the American system
the protective tariff-we have grown
to be the grandest nation on earth, a
nation of freemen, with impartial
laws, with splendid schools, with hap
Ply homes, with over 60,000,000 citi-
zens, who dred no master, fear no
king, and kneel to none but their God.
l am a protectionist. l believe in a
high protective tariff. l am for my
country, first, last, all the time.
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