The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
NATIONAL, N~OTsELFIsH.

esshe slow growth Of ! nation, oil
parts and all industries cannot advance
With equal step, Some must uuavoid-
ably pluck the Arst fruits of any be-
nedcent policy. The Eastern States
were in position to get the lions share
Of benefit from protection at the out
set. but now Western and Southern
producers begin to share the bountiful.
results, and there are found some East
ern mel who deplore that state of
things. Here is an Eastern furnace;
built by protection, but nov abandoned
BY reason of the cheaper production of
Alabama. SIf that is protection" q
some, slet us have less of it," But it
Isl pretty time to object, after pock-
citing the largest share of the advan-
tages for twenty years. Here il an
Eastern textile mill, which Western or
Southern competition rendersn no longer
profitable. sLower the tariff, SO that
no more mills shall be erected?" Hard
~; protection was never intended for
the exclusive benefit of any man or set
Of men, but for the benefit of the whole
country.
There is something which does not
appeal strongly to the American love
Of fair dealing and common honesty in
the proposal to kick away the ladder
by which some have climbed, lest 9TH
ers should rise to the same opportuni-
ties and the same prosperity. The
nation, for national purposes only,
offered its incentive to manufacturing
and mining development in every part
! Of the country. The section which
y happened to be readiest to pluck the
fruit has plucked the most of it for
twenty years. Would it be less than
indecent to reverse the policy now, in
order to deny to other sections their
turn? II need protection no longer"
says one. Yes, the long experience,
established business, and large capital
which protection has given you enables
you to stand alone, but what business
hay you to say that the work of de-
y yeaePins a great nation shall stop with
It is one of the grandest things in the
whole history of human government
that so few Eastern men, whose indus
tries have been built up by the protect
i've tariff, now show any disposition to
deprive OF rs of its advantages. In
spite Of many selfish temptations, few
Eastern men indeed consent to such a
course. Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vania still stand by the Republican
policy as firmly as they did when the
cream of all the benefits came to them.
The popular majorities are rather larger
in Pennsylvania, as time passes, and.
rather smaller in Massachusetts, be-
cause in the latter State immigration
of foreigners and migration of Ameri-
cans to the West have changed the pop
ulation considerably. But the over
whelming preponderance of public SEN
timent in both States is Just where it
was. 500 other Eastern States; Con-
necticut is not more close and uncer-
tain than it was many years ago; New
York was carried for Harrison, but
twenty years ago voted against Grant.
But the weight of the Empire State in
national councils has at decisive mo-
ments been cast for the policy which
built up and still sustains its manu-
featuring industries. The people are
not ingrates. They donot want to deny
to their sons and brothers in Western
and Southern States the benefits they
have SO long enjoyed. To the majority
in Eastern States, the appeal of free
traders is simply a temptation to sell
their nations growth and greatness for
q possible selfish gain. They do not
believe in the gain, hut if they did
would nevertheless vote for the nations
greatness.-New York Tribune.
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