The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-26

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THE Forum for February. which will be pub
lished on the 25th, will contain article by the
Hon. William D. Kelley-'How Protection Pro-
tects"-upon which he spent several months Ia
Dor and great pains to make it an exhaustive re-
view of tariff legislation, and strong state
nent possible of the subject applied to
present conditions. The following extracts
from the article are published in advance Of the
appearance of the whole:
''Tne scale of protective duties should
be adapted to secure the right of every
owner OF land to provide for his present wants
and the future of his family. and to add to the
wealth and power of his country by developing
and bringing into profitable use all the resources
of his estate, whether they be the products OF
the farm, or those OF the forest, the mine or the
quarry. The landowners of nation. however.
not that portion of it's citizens who most
dependent upon the maintenance of system of
duties which should, under all the vicissitudes
of trade and changes in the course of inter
national commerce, defend their rights; for.
though commercial depression may prevent
them from making profits to be boarded or ex-
pended in the improvement OF their estates.
they may procure sustenance from them.
But it is not SO with the landless millions.
Their estates consist OF their thews
and sinews; of the training of their eyes and
hands to quick cooperative action; of their
taste for and aptness in the production OF the at
tractive in form, texture and color; of inventive
genius, which enables them, by new combina-
tions of mechanical principles, or the applica-
ton oe science TO the arts, to increase the pro-
ductive power of nations. These and the ike
aptitudes constitute the estate of millions of
people who are known as artists, artisans, labor
ers, by other terms of designation; and who
have the right to demand that their estates
shall be defended by the nation, though their
defense shall require other agencies than the
power of a navy and army. The daily wages
of these toiing millions are units of measure
ment by which their estates are told, and their
means of comfort and health ascer.ained. And,
l repeat, it is the duty of governments so to adj
just the regulation of its trade and commerce
TO secure to its own people whatever benefits are
to be derived from the development of the
teral resources of the country and the CONVEX
sion of its native raw material into useful com
moditieS.
"A tariff adjusted to these aims would protect
every branch of industry. yet would not call
into existence single monopoly. 1t would
like beneficent providence, shed Its blessings
over all, and prevent the recurrence of such
seasons OF suffering, depression and want as oc-
Cured between the close of the war and the
going into effect of the tariff of 1924; between
the overthrow of protection by the compromise
act of 1888 and the adoption of the tariff of 1872
or again. such followed the free-trade tariff
of 1916 in spite of the fact that gold fields
had il a single decade yielded one thousand one
hundred millions of dollars. Here was direct
and unexpected gift from Providence, bestowed
for the purpose of proving. even to the wilfully
blind, the truth that protective tariff is the
only defensive instrumentalty known to modern
industrial warfare; and that, by securing the
prosperity of all classes of the people, and thus
avertine long seaso ms of idleness and distress,
it is, while apparently law for the benefit of
producers only, IN fact a boon to those who
neither sow nor reap, but are consumers only.
"We are without navy, and al
though millions of trained soldiers Of tried
and proved discipline and courage fill our
workshops and till our fields, are with
out organized army military appoint
ments for foreign war: Yet lurking fear
for the national life haunts the dreams of
any American citizen. The dangers that
threaten our eountry belong to an industrial age,
and will come. it come they must, from
tangling diplomatic alliances, or unwise legiSa
ton touching international trade; for if our navy
were strong that OF Britain. and
organized army as numerous. wel-dscipined.
and ready for mobilization that of Ger
many Austria or Russia, they would not enable
us to defend the rights OF ou' people to employ
and improve their apttudes, ,nius. or manual
skill. and to their subsistence by
the employment of their gifts and training in
the conversion of otherwise unused and
profitable raw materials into wares and fabr les
for their and for commercial inter
change with other countries. But one me ans has
yet been discovered of defending and protecting
in the enjoyment of these elementary rights the
people of any country which may engage In in
ternational trade. and that is by the enforce
ment of system of customs duties high enough
to secure the home market to its own laborers.
This is the only available defense II the warfare
between industrial nations To be effective it
mus: provide system of duties ascending in
rate with the additional labor involved in each
advance of the material used, and sufficiently
high to secure the home market in all ordinary
times to the labor and capital OF the country. so
that the nation may grow in wealth and power
by the constantly increasing number and pro-
ductive ability of its people"
Mr.. BARNUM's determination to take his cir
Gus and go to Europe unless grasping railroad
monopolies offer him reasonable rates of trans
portation is one that will cause excitement aud
constern alton throughout this broad land. The
right of attending the circus is one which the
American citizen, both of tender and mature
years, regards inalienable, or, at least, one
with which bloated corporation has a right TO
interfere Imposition of all sorts has been en-
6ured with comparatively little murmuring
Even when the railroads conspired with the coal
5arous to raise the price of fuel to point which
increased in altitude the Thermometer went
down. their action was accepted submissively.
This patience under oppression has evidently
excited the monopoIists to fresh ven
sure and hence the extortionate demands
upon circus proprierors There is a limit,
however at which the public patience will end,
and it will, undoubtedly. be found at the door
of the circus tent. The public is rot personally
in the amount OF profits realized by
Mr. Barnum and his business rivals, but it
knows that high rates of transportation for the
and snakes and things means high
r,rieaa for and that hiph nricaS for