Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1892-09-09
A WOMAN'S VIEW.
4 PRACTICAL WAY OF LOOKING
AT THE TARIFF
Protection and Free Trade Through Femi-
nine Spectacles-Somethin That Every
Woman in the Land May Read with
Profit,
Especial Correspondence.1


asked his father what protection meant,
and his father with that wisdom usually
found in men said, $50 ask your
mother, my son!' Ihesitated bit be-
fore | told him what l thought of it,
and at last began. "My boy" answered
|. protection is the salvation Of your
country. 1t means putting the Ameri-
can dollars into the pocket of that great
mass Of honest men and women, the
working people of America. 1t means
giving them fair wages for good work.
1t means giving them the time to learn
to do the work as it is done by the best
in the world. People who don't think
talk about materials being cheaper in
England and in France-people who
don't care buy their frocks on the other
side, pay the duty on them and then
count that they have got them cheap.
Have they?
DON'T WRONG THE WORKING PEOPLE.
They have got them at the expense
pf the workingman-and the small
white faced children belonging to him,
who tell in their hungry looks the story
nf the short wages father gets, are the
best evidences Of the wrong of free trade
and the right of protection. We can do
anything we want in this country-we
have got the brains, we have got the
money, and, thank God, we have got the
men. The big manufacturers may tell
you that their workmen have to learn,
but the foreign workman who comes
over to teach them gets in exchange for
dirty, low hovel and a miserable pit
tance a pleasant home with a garden
about it, good schools where his boys
and girls may be educated, and the feel
ing that he is an independent man.
you have read about all the trouble
in Ireland. You know what caused it.
1t came from the rich people going tC
London to spend their money, ana that
will be the trouble in this country soon
unless the women rise up in their might
and decline to buy anything except that
which is designed and made in their own
country ~.--..-
English women of position, realizing
the way things are tending-that is,
women like the Princess of Wales and
the queen herself-have tried to make
Irish poplin fashionable, and today Lady
Zetland, wife Of the viceroy of Ireland,
is doing everything possible to push
Irish lace, SO that many of the fashiona-
BILE hats are trimmed with it, and many
of the court dresses have it upon them.
An English woman thinks she has done
something for her country when she
Aro hor nd
has it woven in English looms. That is
the point we want to reach.
This spring when the court was in
mourning the shopkeepers said they
didn't mind very much, as the Ameri-
cans would come over there and spend
their money. Now why do they do it?
They made their money here, and the
best kind of patriotism is in circulating
the money made in your own country,
among your own people. That is the
patriotism the American women do not
know, which they have got to learn and
which protection teaches.
GOOD EXAMPLE BY MRS. HARRISON.
Mrs. Harrison did her best in this
direction when she wore at the inau-
American mills, designed and made by
an American dressmaker Then, too,
my boy, you remember the silver gray
wore and which you all liked so
much2 That was made of American
silk trimmed with lace manufactured
right here in New York city, and the
material was just as pretty and the
fviv ai,ofx hot
passed through a French or English
mans hands,"
MEMS CLOTHING ABROAD.
But" said the boy, "arent mems
clothes cheaper?" laughed at this and
said: Don't you remember your Cousin
Arthur's frock coat? He thought he
paid small sum for it in London, hut
when he got home he had to pay tailor
here to refit it. Still it wasn't right.
Then he went to another tailor; still it
it didn't fit, and at last he went to an
other one, who had the frankness to tell
him that there was no use trying to do
anything with it, as, although no tailors
in the world cut like the American ones,
even they can't make good job out Of
an English botch. So poor Arthur found
himself, as the old proverb goes, with
an elephant on his hands. His English
coat wouldn't fit, couldn't fit, and he
had the doubtful pleasure Of knowing
that he could have got coat for one
half what this had cost him, could have
had it made of equally good cloth, and
it would have fitted him and been of
some use, though just inside the collar