The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-06-24
THEY ARE PRoTEcTIoNIsTs.

Brief but welehty Reasons Given by Sem
ators Morrill,. HOar. Cullom and Frye
Advantages to American Labor the Chief
keason-It Makes % strong In Peace or
War.
SENATOR MORRILL's REASONS.
First-It brings together diversified
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 Observation-Disclosures and
also greatly cheapens the cost Of sub
sistence.
Third-It furnishes an opportunity for
every person to find the employment
best adapted to his or her genius and
capacity, that will secure the largest in
come or the greatest happiness.
Fourth-It creates a home market.
without which the cultivators of land
in America would be but little better
off than our Aborigines.
Fifth-It is the bulwark of national
independence in peace or war.
SENATOR HOAR'S REASONS
lam protectionist. because think
by that policy the wOrkmen of America
will be we'll paid and not underpaid.
Because think by that policy the va
riety of industry will be created here
which will make America strong in
peace and in war.
Because the industries so fostered
will develop the skill and brain power
of my cOuntrymen, and raise the people
of the United States to the first rank in
intelligence among the nations of the
earth.
Because that policy has already made
us the richest and strongest nation on
earth. and under properly restricted
immigration will bring to us much that
is most valuable in the population of
other lands.
SENATOR CULLOM's REASONS.
First-Because as a result of q large
degree of our protective tariff system
the United States has become one of the
foremost nations of the world.
SecOnd-Because by the policy of
fostering American industries the de-
velopment of our manufacturing inter
ests have been secured: the inventive
genius of our people has found a field;
American labor has become the best
paid, and consequently our laborers the
best housed, clothed and fed; and the
wonderful development and progress in
this country in all that makes a people
great, have elected the admiration of
the civilized world
In view of these facts which are well
known, l believe in Sncf a protective
tariff as will secure reasonable protec-
ton to American labor and industry.
SENATOR FRYE's REASONS.
Because facts confront us, not theo-
ries. l have seen the wage-earners of
Great Britain and Continental Europe;
know how they live; that they are
homeless and landless, as far as owner
ship is concerned; that they are helpless
and hopeless as to any brighter future
for themselves or their children; that,
in their scant wages there is no margin
for misfortune or sickness, pauperism
being the only refuge. l know that in
this republic the prudent, temperate
and Industrious worker is sure of an
abundant reward; that his ambition to
succeed seldom meets with failure: that
he owns land and home; that luxuries
to the European iabOrer are necessities
to the American. How then can we
compete with the former and maintain
our superiority in these regards? Steam
and electricity have made of the world
one neighborhoOd, eliminating largely
the protection once afforded by time,
distance and transportation. There is
one way only Of solving this problem:
Legislation for our own, a tariff for
protection.