The advocate., 1892-06-01


toward putting everything else on the
the free list finally. l want to say TO you
that every time you take protection off
from any favored industry you place the
man interested in that industry in tie
ranks of those who are fighting against
protection. l want to say to you that
this Is the way protection was built up.
As one man got protection on his article,
the man that had to consume his article
saw that the only way to balance him.
self and to even himself up with the
other fellow was to hay protection prt
on the product of his labor; aud la we
went to log-rolling, and put a tariff on
different things, until we got them ~
into the ring. My friend from J0,E,
GMr. Dolliver one Of the most brilliant
men In the house, in his speech the
other day, let the cat out Of the bag and
showed how protective tariffs are built
up by grants Of special privileges; how,
whenever you get them, when any COM
munlty Is benefited by this system, they
at once fall into the ranks of those who
battle for protective tariffs to help the
other fellows out.
l will read you an extract from his
speech, which may explain the whole
matter:
No people in the United States SEQ more
clearly the relation of the farm to les Cus-
toners than the people of Iowa and Ne
brasks. Last summer the contract Of
building little torpedo cruiser was awarded
to the Dubuque Iron Works. We were agree
ably surprised to find shipyard in Iowa
equipped for such contract. Tho Dubuque
were filled with rejoicing over
the building of that one little cruiser cost
ing SIP 600. The Democratic newspaper
opened it's account with the headline in
flaming capitals, "Hallelujah" first
time that old Hebrew expression ever found
its way in a Democratic newspaper in that
section of the country. Laughter. 1t
pointed out how every citizen of the town
and the whole adjacent community would
share in the bounty of that expenditure of
money.
Turning over to the editorial page the
reader found an argument very like chat
delivered week ago by my friend from
in affect advising US, whenever
we wanted anything else, to go to England
for it, and said to myself that if the De-
mocracy of the west would only take into
their politics little of the common sense
that they apply to their business, instead of
winning new victories on the free trade
platform, as predicted by my friend from
Nebraska, there would not be enough Of
them left to call the caucus to order laugh
ter for the principle to which refer is
by the wise and simple alike.
They were going to have Sl12, 900 dis
trlbuted among the people Of the city Of
Dubuque; and this will explain how you
can make even q Democrat a defender
Of the "robber tariff" Every Democrat
and Republican Of that town saw that
they had gotten their hands into the pub
lie pocket to the extent Of $4,000,
which the people Of the United States
were paying in taxes, and that there was
that much money to be distributed In
that little town. They were TO get part
Of the Doodle. l can readily conceive
what rejoicing there was in the camp,
just as J. can imagine what a rejoicing
there was In the home of the feudal
baron who built his castle on q hill and
made his forays down upon the plain to
poh Rha buohaulnonu y,hn k;llaH kha uoll