The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-09-24
Protaotion tho Better Policy.
THE DALLEs, Sept. 81, 1892.

~ tlemanly criticism upon the tone of th'
:, protective :"song I sing" but which al
r, lows the public to be judges "for a that
K of the blows strike. No courtesy could
be more acceptable, and invite "Free
L Trade" and his argumentatlve associates
;s ;s to friendly showing in your journal Of
E, our respective policies,as factors of Amer
ican progress and their results to the ma
st tion at large under proof, not assertion OF
r. theory, OF the superb sovereignty now en-
:, sured to the common and skilled labor OF
the United States and their investiture
v not of abstract rights, which means bond
r age of poverty, but free access and invi-
y tation intended by the constitution, of our
government TO every man who studies,
). values and will seize its defensive powers
i and privileges.
e In discussing free trade and protection
and their relative value to the American
nation, and tn ereby to arrive at safe con-
clusions and be able to judge which of
these policies, whether unlimited free
trade or defense OF our people and their
progressive industries and influences, it is
most important for US to adopt and to
foster, it is proper for me to state, that L
wish 10 do so, without political ascerbity,
but with entire respect to gentlemen
maintaining opposing opinions, and
fair presentation of all arguments offered.
1t can but be matter of extreme i'm
portance to our nation that 1nasmuch as
we proclaim to the world system of
economies par-excellence, ,and beneficent
distribution of rights and privileges to
all men, who bow to our flag and become
citizens. that we r1gidly protect that flag
and these privileges which under 1t are
| offered for distribution, and also to pro-
| tect the effort of the native born and
adopted citizen to support themselves or
to accumulate, against the people, or
| ganIzed machinery and capital of other
nations, who have no interest but to OBJ
| tain our raw material, feed their labor
and increase their capital, and make US
buyers of their manufactured article at a |
price which will support their labor and |
pay adequate profit upon their capital |
employed, including taxes and good |
charges.
Allow me to ask any questioner if our |
nations welfare is not increased by man
ufacturIng our own raw product to the |
extent of the demand therefor, the en-
ployment of our skilled and unskilled
labor, of our manufacturing capital, the
payment of the taxes of manufacturing
capital, the building of homes for labor
ers, and what IS very important having |
said laborers and their families as con-
sumers of farmers products, which to
save spelling must find quick and close
market to obtain a profit? From such
showing, which believe IS fair, the en-
tire operation aud earnings of the capital
and labor involved In this proposition re-
bounds to American welfare and progress,
and what is sound economy, allows COM
petition for its earnings to be the regu-
lator of fair prices to consumers.
Napoleon was an able statesman. He
stated, that formerly land was the only
kind of property, but progress had pro-
uuC6u duObucI-luuuStlI3 duu IL was |
as necessary to defend one as the other.
No free trade in this. 1t is not out of
place when 1 hear men advocating the
buying of foreign commodity or manu-
factnred article, or of fostering foreign
labor and capital instead of our own, or
of Offering them IN free trade our markets,
to assert that it Is better for our govern
ment to encourage the manufacturing and
distribution of its earnings at home for
the benefit of our own people, than to
foster foreign interests.
The reference of "Free Trade" to the
right to buy cheap German hat calls to
m ind the fact that when our country was
under the full control of the British gov
ernment, a shop for making hats in Mas
sachusetts was declared IN the British
parliament nuisance, and Earl Chat
ham ,vexed that Americans dared to man
ufacture for themselves, declared that
ture so much as hob nail, and one of
England's most renowned statesmen, the
honored Joseph Hume, said that he de-
sired to see the manufactures Of other
countries ''strangled IN the cradles"
have referred to these well-known il
lustrations to convince the reader, that
even so long ago more than one hundred
years, the policy of not allowing nations
who traded with England to defend their
own people and their Industries was fully
entered upon. Let me ask, for whose
benefit did they by force, by intrigue, by
destructive, cruel war and the desolation
of nations over which they obtained
power; 1 say, for whose benefit were the
barriers defending these people, these ma
tions swept from existence and free trade
for England established instead?
Where is Ireland? Where Is India? ] he
last, like the United STATES, 'abonnded in
natures richest blessings, an unmeasured
warehouse of resources. Under the con-
troll of England, with its free-trade policy,
Incia's production of cotton, opium, rice,
indigo, etc., to be used in their mapufac-
lures upon their own soil, and in the en- ,
ployment of their own people, was taken
from them, and diversity of employ
ment broken up. It's most productive i
lands opened out to the wild beast, and {
Its people discouraged with their wonder
full industries and manufactures removed !
from them, or destroyed; as George
Thompson, in q speech IN the British
House of Commons since my recollec- I
tion, said. these lands were covered by I
the bleaching skeletons of five hundred s
thousand human beings who perished
here in the granary of the world. The
same authority says, that twenty years
after the industries of these people were
thrown open without defense, the men, 6
women and children were driven from
the work shops to the field.
Such are the historic lessons of this I
century in which England, the same as T
today, was the cunning robber, making
all nations possible yield at her own :
price their raw material, and forcing I
them to be the purchases of her concen- +
trated manufactures. a
have this paper upon this subject of 8
attempting to force this nation by politi-
cal infri one and the most I1nh0undad |