New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-04

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Servants by Mrs. Nj. E. w. Sherwood
in North American Review for Noyem.
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WHY THEY ARE PROTECTION.
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Hon. II. X. Thurber of New York: I
| am a Protect1onist because thrift follows
the enactment of wise laws; Because I
love my own country better than I do
foreign countries; because Protection
builds up our town into cities and en-
hances the value of our houses and
lands; because every dollar sent abroad
to purchase goods that we can produce
at home makes US dollar the poorer;
because Protection in this country gives
labor better wages than Free Trade; be.
cause it is better for this country to feed,
clothe and house our own labor in this
country, than to support foreign labor
in other countries with our money; be-
cause it is true, as Peter Cooper we'll
said: mo goods purchased abroad are
cheap that take the place of our own
labor and our own raw material.
Congressman J. +. Dolliuer "f Iowa:
I believe in the doctrine of Protection
because the facts of our national exper-
fence thoroughly exemplify its truth.
No great American statesmen, except
the half-forgottep leaders of the
Slave Power, have disowned the
Protective system. The Importers
Trust and the Slave Trust have been
alone in their hostility to that system,
each for obvious reasons peculiar to
itself. If the doctrine of Protection is
not true, our people have blindiy fol-
lowed blind leadership. If the policy
of Protection is not wise, it indicates
that the human race, outside of England,
has not sense enough to take care Of it.
self. will not thus disparage the aver
age common sense of our own country
nor thus discredit the average common
sense OF mankind.
Hon. L. R. Casey Senator from North
Dakota: Because Protection steadily
enlarges the home market for for farm
products. England buys the worlds
surplus wheat. She demands "a big
loaf for tuppence.'' Accordingly, she
gluts her markets from every source,
and usually is able to dictate unpro6t-
able prices for American grain. When
our exportable surplus is large, prices
are rarely good; when small, always; so
that, strangely,a deficient yield is some
times good luck for the farmer. Well
paid wage earners are generous con-
sumers. Protection alone lnsures Amer
lean labor against European pauper
wages. When, under Protection, Amer
lean industries shall employ bread-eat.
ers sufficient to nearly consume Ameri.
can cereals, then the farmer will nc
longer sell his grain at cost of produc-
ton or less. He will escape the compe.
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dustry will be protitable-his calling
honored and truly independent.
Hon. Justin Morrill,, Senator from
Vermont.
Firsr-It brings together diversified
industries which never fail to vastly in
crease the personal intelligence, indus
try and wage-earnings of the people.
Second-It adds prodigiously to the
power of increasing, by machinery and
steam and water power, the necessaries
of life and of advanced civilization, and
also greatly cheapens the cost of sub
sistance.
Third-It furnishes an opportunity
for every person to find the employ
ment best adapted to his or her genius
and capacity that will secure the larg-
est income or the greatest happiness.
Fourth-It creates home market,
without which the cultivators of land
in America would be but little bette,
off than our aborigines. t.
Fifth-It is the bulwark of National
independence in peace or war. "
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