Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-14
POLITICS A SCIENCE.
Protection That Wil Protsct-A Chang
Wanted-What Shall It Bef


There is no use denounclng any insti-
tuition unless we can improve upon it.
There is no use denouncing the Repub-
lican system of protection unless we can
outline better system. As far as pro-
lection means the shutting out of for
eign manufactured goods, which can be
az we'll manufactured here, am in favor
of it. That is good as far as it goes, but
it does not 60 far enough. 1t does not
reach the cause of the troubles which
we mostly complain Of.
Let us see what it does amount to.
We shut out manufactured wooden
goods, for instance. by taliff. Well,
the result is that the foreign manufac-
here and the goods are manufactured
here. That makes more employment
for American labor. But we find that
European labor comes in and shares
this employment faster than additional
employ ment is provided in this way.
Protection simply means transfer
ring European manufactures and
European laborers to American soil
It means increasing the wealth and
increasing the poverty of the country.
It means increasing the value OF land
and the income of the landlords, but not
any benefit in the aggregate to the null
titude. 1t means grading and degrading
America just the same as Europe is
| graded. ~
What we need is protection that will
| change the relative condition of capital
and labor, of poverty and wealth, of rich
and poor. Which will protect the poor
| and make them better off make it surer
and easier for them to get q living I;
which will limit and ultimately prevent
| the concentration of wealth in the hands
of the capitalists, and the consequent
| degradation and enelavement of the
!, many. Everyone admits this. Repub-
| licans and Democrats, rich and poor,
saints and sinners admit that this is a
leading issue we have to face. 1t is only
a question of method or policy as to how
we are to do it.
The profane rabble, the great multi
tude whose personal appearance is Of
| fensive to aristocracy, who wipe their
noses on their coat-sleeves and eat with
out napkins, whose tastes are not es-
thetic, and who feel more at home in
| the saloons than in the prayer meet
ings-t these people are the despair of
philanthrophy, the terror of politics and
| the menace of civilization. How are we
! going to protect these people, and how
are we going to protect ourselves from
them, for they are increasing like the
locusts of Egypt. Some well meaning
and truly sincere Christian troopers are
trying to convert them and feed them at
| the same time; but tell them if they
had the United States treasury to back
them they could not feed them as fast
as they come, because they are q pro-
| duct of home industry-the indefatiga-
BILE industry of Dragging and lying, of
political, social and religious false pre-
| lenses.
They are made what they are by over.
work, underpay and the ignorance neces
sarily accompanying those slavish and
inhuman conditions.
Politics ought to be a science instead
(. of an obscene scramble for Office. The
people are misguided by false cries into
taking sides in struggle In which the
| interests of both parties are neglected.
When politics becomes science instead
of q brawl land this must soon take
place), then it will grapple with the
fevils that threaten civilization and which
make the blessings of modern progress
unattainable to vast multitudes of people
| and these evils will by common consent
| be abolished.
We want protection that will protect
protection from abnormal interest, rent
and other monopolies that continually
tend to make the rich richer and to keep
the poor ever with their noses to the
grindstone or hovering in the neighbor-
hood of almshouses, free lunch saloons
and soup kitchens. Politics, guided by
science in the interest of the nation and
the human race, would go shape legisla-
ton as to mitigate the evils arising from
inequality and tend towards equality
and liberty, the essential elements of
true republicanism or true democracy
but politics guarded by the money lend
ers of Europe, through their offices in
Wall street, attempting to map out the
policy and control the nominations and
machine politics of both parties in this
country, aims only to destroy the repub
lie and prevent the fulfillment OF the
promises and hopes of human liberty
and equality engermed in the declara-
tion of American independence.
New ages bring new issues. The old
dangers are passed. New and greater
party of progress, the party which will
safely guide the ship of state, burdenad
with'its precious freight of human lives
and liberties, which will hold this ma
tion in it's place as the foremost nation
in the world, is the party which will
preserve the principles of equality laid
down by its founders.
TO foster inequality la to destroy the
essential nature OF republicanism yet
this is what is being done in the name
of frepublicanism, name falsely uttered
by perjured lips. The party of progress,
the party of the future, the party which
will rescue the ark of American liberty
and foil the conspiracy OF European
Shylocks, is the party which will run
this country on the principles on which
the founders of it intended that it should
be run.
It will not do to try to fool the Yankee
nation much longer by phrases that
mean nothing. 1t will not avail to
declare for free silver and then support
| a man who is the nominee OF Wall
street to oppose free silver and who
represents no principle but Doodle and
the perpetuation of the very evils that
the people complain of. The masses OF
the people, Republicans and Democrats
outside of the Office holders and hood.
lers want change. They want better
times-for the people. The times are
very good now for millionaires
this is the most prosperous country
| in the world for millionaires
but the people whose earnings and
whose rights are stolen from them tc