Evening journal., 1889-06-17
LETTERS FaoM TIE PEOPLE.
LOGICAL PrntactIon.


Editor OF EvEzTNo JOURNAL.
DEAR SIR: Allow me to congratulate
our Legislators on the good results of
their last advance step in applying the
doctrines Of protection TO home indus.
tries by purging from the ranks Of local
statesmen, hucksters, peddlers, etc, all
who are not able 10 pay $50 or $l00 fee
vnd furnish q mortgage bond Of
$500 for their respectability. The
Law, however, is not as fully
enforced IS 1t should be and its pro
moters could wish, there being still q
few poor men who evidently have failed
in getting bondsmeR, engaged in peddling
groceries, milk, ice, organs, sewing
machines, soaps, etc, from door to door.
1t is to be hoped that our high tariff
mayor, senator, Legislators and chief Of
police will arouse themselves and see to
1t that the law is enforced so that no
guilty one escapes, for to
be effectual II must secure to the
protected class the promised monopoly Of
the home market OF else large number
OF the deceived ones will thereby be
driven into the franks of tariff reform.
No more must the unlicensed provision,
whether against heat. thirst, hunger or
comfort, be retailed to the consumer out
side Of the store. which is covered by the
mercantile license. True, this will in
convenience the scattered housekeeper
somewhat, but what of that
II the law directs 1t to be,
and, besides, how can we gather the
full benefits OF protection to our indus
tries and strengthen the home market il
the poor be not obliged to 60 to the
stores to purchase all their provisions
against heat, thirst, hunger and comfort.
In this connection | would like TO suggest
that step further might be well taken
by future Legislature, which the Sena
tor says, ''is sure to be Republican and
high tariff by placing good
license fee. not forgetting the
$500 mortgage bond, upon sew.
ing women who 60 out to work al
homes, nurses who go out to nurse, and
washerwomen who go out to wash; fol
people who have established millnei
shops, laundries and hospitals should bt
protected in their home market as well al
the grocers, etc, else their industry and
enterprise goes unrewarded, and the high
tariff policy Is discredited throughout
the state of Delaware, and II
may, indeed, in that case 1t is safe to say
our state win backslide into the PERM
cious heresy of Democracy and tariff
reform Some difficulty may be feared
from the large number of colored Repub
lican voters who are maintained in all
their dudish elegance as street corner
nuisances by the proceeds of the wash
tub, as they would be wiped out, as II
we're; but, even in that case, think
their native and inherited stupidity may
be relied upon to keep them
still with their old friends, the
Republican party. Be this as it may,
however, all the classes from whom fiat
Is to be fried" at the time of our cleo
tions, grocers, laundrymen, druggists,
jewellers, coal, ice and all the local
barons Of industry as we'll as those of
national prominence must be protected
and the former baneful practice Of allow
ing poor people to buy in the cheapest or
nearest market must be prohibited so
that the fullest protection may be had to
every degree Of industry and enterprise.
Who can have failed TO notice the de-
lightful Sunday calm now prevailing each
day on our streets from which the frag-
rant strawberry and redolent cabbage
have been bRnished to the heaps Of the
corner grocery, where 1t should always
remain till foul and rotten, IL not asked
for by the hungry householder or one OF
his many servants thank Heaven undol
high tariff and Republican laws no wage
Garner can be poor, for is h'
not fully protected against the
pauper labor Of all countries by our bene
ticient laws), and will not hail the absence
from our thoroughfares of peripitati'
poor seamstresses, nurses and washer
women, also, who ought to locate theil
business, hang out sign and await the
coming of their patrons instead Of offend
ing the air by going out to wait Ipor
them and solicit their patronage. In
happy expectation / remain
A LOGICAL PROTECTIoNIsT.