The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-04
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THINGS TO THINK OF.


1.-THE main question at issue lin America
is ENGLISH FREE TRADE against the CoNTI-
MENTAL YSTEM OF PROTECTION. The
American election is infinitely more impor-
tant TO Englishmen than their own internal
politics Just at this juncture. The re-
suit Of the American election will help to de-
eide many important issues in Great Britain"
London Sunday Times, July 10, 1885.
Protection to home industries ! regard as
the most important plank in any platform
after the Union must and shall be pre-
served Gen. u. s. Grant, in 1855.
1T is my deliberate Judgment that the
prosperity of America is mainly due to her
system of protective laws."-Prince Bismarck.
1--WE should be slow to abandon that sys-
tenn Of protective duties which looks to the
promotion and development of American in
dustry and to the preservation of the highest
possible scale of wagesfor the American work.
man."-Benjamin Harrison.
mo mans wages should be so low that he
cannot make provisions in his days of vigor
for the incapacity of accident or the feebleness
of old age."-Benjamin Harrison.
1.-THE wages of the American laborer cannot
be reduced except with the consent and the
votes of the American laborer himself. The
appeal lies to him."-James G. Blaine.
I've believe in the preservation Of the
American market for our American producers
and workmen.'-Benjamin Harrison.
This is not the time to weigh in an apothe-
cary's scale the services or the rewards of the
men who saved the Nation" -Benjamin Har-
rison.
Against whom is it that the Republican
party has been unable to protect your race?"
Benjamin Harrison to the colored voters.
Eyes. | was a rebel and a Democrat, but /
thank God ! have never been a Republican"
Rev. John A. Brooks, Third-party Prohibi-
tien Candidate for Vice-president.
1--WE don't want any Republicans in our
country."-SenatOr Colquitt and Representa-
tive Stewart, of Georgia.
"And If one receives not enough it is be
causs he did not serve long enough, and can
he be heard to complain if he gets a just rate,
equal to his fellow-soldiers, and for the re-
mainder of the relief necessary to his support,
he shall be allowed, as other citizens must, to
accept the charity of the local authorities"
&C. C.. Matson, chairman of House committee
on invalid pensions, in his report on the de-
pendent pension bill, April Ia, 1888.
with President Cleveland Great Britain
knows where she is.'-Glasgow Herald.
"The only time England can use an Irish
man is when he emigrates TO America and
votes for free trade. London Sunday Times,
July Is.
'On the adoption of free trade by the
United States depends the greater share of
English prosperity for a good many years to
come. As the British Hosiery Review reiter-
ates, We venture to assert that England viii
reap the largest share of any advantages that
may arise from the adoption of the ideas now
advocated by the free-trade party in the
United States London Economist.
III saw the other day in one of our Indian
apolis papers a good overcoat advertised for
$LS7, and it must be a pretty mean man that
wants to get one for a dollar. amin
Harrison.
81 hold it to be true that whenever the
market price is so low that the man or the
woman who makes an article cannot get a fair
living out of the making of it, it is too low
Benjamin Harrison.
Il believe IN free trade as l believe in the
Protestant religion. President Cleveland.
.'Grover Cleveland has done more to adj
vance the cause of free trade than any Prime
Minister of England has ever d~6ne."-London
Spectator.
W 1.-THE capitalists can control the work.
ingman only so long as he eats up to-day what
he earns to-morrow."-W. l.. Scott, Mr..
CIeyeland's political manager.