Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-30
WANTS PROTECTION.
Connecticut Gentleman Wants Adequate
PROTECTION Furnis he'd for His Camel.

A Connecticut Gentleman Wants Adequate
Protection Furnis he'd for His Camsl.
1 own a camel. bought her Of Bar
mum. want her hair protected. Ny
neighbors tell me the Mckinley bill does
it, therefore m for the Mckinley bill.
AS look at it, a camel is as good as a
sheep. The hair of the camel has as
much right TO be protected In this country
as the wool of the sheep. II not, why
not? Ono ia as constitutional as the
other. IIr, for the Mckinley bill, say
1t protects nv camel's hair against the
pauper labor camel's hair OF other coun-
tries. If it be objected w Delano and
his sheen-raisers that there are not as
many camel's in this country as sheen.
/ admit it but reply that there may be,
| PERTAINS. n we Will adequately protect
| them. Wby not establish here the
camel raising industry, as We are try
| ing, by the Mckinley bill, to establish
| tin plate MANUFACTURES! Indeed, the
| argument is all on the side of the camel,
| for, as understand it, there is not
lngle tin-plate mandatory in the
land, while l have one camel TO start
with. In the name of my infant indus
try, ask to be protected.
To the objection that our climate is not
adapted TO the raising Of camels, l reply
that it NAV be modified and made so by
the construction of vast government
made Conservatives 10 shelter them in
the wintry weather, the construction of
which would furnish employment to
many thousands of Idle workmen in the
country. Certainly there is sand. in al
mosr every state in the Union, for camels
TO walk on, water TO drink, and grass to
eat, unless it be in the Dakotas, and
they need not raise them there.
Now, Mr.. Editor, | claim to be a true
American. | believe in the great Re-
publican American idea of protection
protection to everybody who wants il
and, of course, is willing to pay some
thing TO promote party elections for 1t.
The government ought not only TO put q
high tariff on all foreign and pauuer-
labor camel's hair, as it does on wool,
but should offer bounty on homegrown
hair, Just as Mckinley's bill does on
sugar. This would foster this in faut in
dustry, raise the wages of the laboring
man, make us, as a nation, gloriously
independent of the effete nations of the
east, keep our money at home, give the
lie to that "dismal science' that tells
us to sell in the highest and buy in the
lowest market, and carry out to its
legitimate result our great American
idea of protection. Then could we join
with our Caledonian brothers, with new |
spirit and significance, in their national |
song.
"The camel are coming etc.
Mr.. Editor, an a poor man, but I |
love my country and want to raise the |
wages of the workingman. l cannot af-
ford to hire anybody to lobby for me at |
Washington. hear you ara violently |
opposed to British free trade and a warm
advocate of tne Mckinley bill. You
must, therefore, have deep sympathy |
for all such Infant industries as mine. Is
it too much to ask you to write Major
Mckinley and ask him to put a still
higher tariff (it low stands in his bill
only about II per cent. / believe,) on
the pauper labor cancels hair with
which our foreign enemies are trying to
flood this country? Please be sure, also,
to tell him that was in the Union army.
Yours, for a consistent protection, ~
W. H. SPEsSEER.