Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-13

and promotes national prosperity.
Although as manufacturing COM
munity it does not as yet compare
favorably with many of the older
sections of the Union, its people
have for that reason probably a
keener appreciation of the value of
manufacturing industries, aseviden-
ced by their efforts to secure manu-
featuring est lblishments. They
know that with the existing disad
vantages under which they labor,
The removal of the protection now
given to manufacturing industries
would make the maintenance Oftheir
present manufactories and the es
tablishnent Of new ones impossible,
and they look to the continuanc,
of the republican policy of protec
ton for the future development OF
those vast manufacturing industries
which, Oh account of their CONNER
cial and geographical situation, the
abundance of material and facilities
for man ufacturing, they have every
assurance to reasonably expect.
..The growth and prosperity of the
commerce of the Pacific coast is
dependent largely npon the protec-
tiOn policy. 1t is protection which
builds UP the commerce between the
states; which directs trade into
domestic channels; which creates a
variety of industries within the
uatiOn, the rapid and constant inter.
change of service between persons
employed in different industries,
and promotes the exchange of
domestic products between the diff
ferent sections of the Union. The
most wonderful and valuable COM
merce in the world is between 65, 200,
600 of people protected by the
American tariff system. The in
crease of our foreign imports would
mean not alone loss to our domestic
Industries and of labor TO our work
men, but to our internal and inter
state commerce.
"The people of the Pacific coast
understand what is meant by tariff
for revenue only. The Mills bill, as
All educational document, was a
success. They have been taught
that tariff for revenue only would
put on the free list nearly every
hing they produce grain, veget
ables, wool, fruit, coal, lumber, lead .
would place the producers Of tht
coast as to barley, vegetables, ami
mails, coal, lumber, in competition
with Csnada and other foreigl
countries; as to wool, in competitions
with the cheap labor product o.
and South America; as t,
lead, in competition with the Mexi
can product; and as to fruit, with
the West Indies and other cheap
labor countries; aud would reduce
the price of everything they pro
iuce, while increasing the price OF
everything they buy from abroad.
The Mills bill, which passed the
house of the fittieth congress, if it
had become a law, would have de-
stroyed our principal industries.
1t placed wool, lumber, coal and
other articles produced on the coast
on the free list. With such proposed
legislation the democratic orators in
vain attempted to make the people
here believe that free wool would
Increase the price of wool, and to
'etine upon the distinction of free
rade and tariff for revenue only.
"The staple production of the
itates of the Pacific is wheat.
There, as elsewhere, it is with the
'armeIs that the efforts of the free
raiders are being directed. The pur-
pose is To make Them dissatisfied
with their present condition, to
magnify Z cir grievances and to
make them believe that their lack
If prosperity is due to vicious legis-
alton or to the lack of proper legis-
ion, to show that free trade, the adj
free from abroad of the
articles they consume, is the pana-
sea for all their ills. But it is not
difficult to make manifest the fallacy
Df free traders-that We must admit
the product of other countries If we
wish to sell our surplus product to
them. For years the market for sur
plus agricultural products abroad
has been constantly declining, both
rs to demand and price, and it is
evident to all intelligent aud think
ing men that our dependence in the
future must be upon the home mar
ket. The time is not distant, l fear,
when We viii fnd no renumerative
market abroad for any one of our
agricultural products ex-
cept cotton"