The record-union., 1892-10-28
The a B c of Projection.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN The vast amount
of idle nonsense we hear from the Demo-
cratic party against protection is the
merest hypocrisy, as every man, in one
sense of the word, is a protectionist.
Take even an old lop-eared SOW and she
will protect her litter of pigs; the mare
will protect with teeth and heels her colt;
the hen her chickens; in fact all animal
creation will do SO, as well as the fowls
With so many examples before them
/ do not wonder that the Republican
party, as soon as it came into existence,
resolved upon adopting this measure.
Did the Democrats of the country re-
Gently, when cholera threatened to be-
come an epidemic by the arrival of a
shipload of passengers from a foreign
port, many of whom died en- route, up
braid President Harrison for recon-
lEending the most stringent measures to
suppress it, even going so far as to sug-
gest that no more vessels be Permitted
in our ports from foreign ports where
cholera was known to prevail?
If the Democrats wished to be consist
ent why did they not rail out against
this, and demand that hereafter our ports
shall be open 10 the free entry of any
ship from any port, doing away with
quarantine regulations altogether?
The United States is abundantly able,
with all her resources, to manufacture all
that is needed for consumption. beside
furnishing vast amount for export. Our
mechanics are as skilled as any on the
face of the earth; our capitalists as pro-
gressive and iar-seeing, though, l must
say, there should be a more compreheu-
sive understanding between capital and
labor, to the end that labor strikes should
cease at once and forever. But here
again comes in the everlasting idea of
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OF the laborer great deal for a small
compensation, and the laborers banding
themselves into unions to prevent wages
from going to starvation rates.
1t is not possible that the manufactur-
ing interests of the country are exclu-
slvely in the hands of Republicans.
Every schOolboy knows to the contrary.
Thus We are able 10 see at q glance that
the Democrats, rank and file, are not a
unit upon this measure.
My neighbor, Mr.. Kicker is a Demo-
crat, and his stable is broken open by a
free-trader thiefwho rides oil upon his best
animal. Mr.. Kicker instantly raises a
hubbub and demands the protection OF
the law. made and provided for the ar
rest, trial and conviction of the thief.
though his action is rather Inconsistent
with his theories pertaining to National
affairs.
l hope at the approaching election to
see the National Republican party tri-
umphant. as it deserves to be. There are
1eW if any old soldiers who cannot see
how utterly inconsistent the Democracy
have been. Largely they participated in
framing the Declaration Of independence,
which declares. 1--WE believe ali men to
have been created free and equal,' and
yet in 1861 the country was confronted
with Shareholders rebellion, which SO
nearly bankrupted the country that a
protective tariff was necessary for its
welfare, TO clothe the SIX keleton left after
the conflict with sinews and flesh. All
hail the new era in the history of the
l Unlted States since the birth of this
young Samson. JAMES D. MCCAIN.
Kelsey, Ii Dorado Co., CAL, Oct. 18th.