The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
THE PROTECTION ISSUE.

THE PROTECTION ISSUE.
Tie American people are prosperous
bey0nd ali precedent, because for
thirty years homo manufact ures have
seceived adeq quate protection. Our in
dustries have been 80 diversified that a
large and steady demand for all the
products of the farm. the mine, the
mill, the factory and the workshop
has been maintained. Washington.
Jefferson, Jackson. Clay. W. bster and
al the great statesmen of the first fifty
years Of our government, believed in
tho principle Of protection. TO this re-
mark John Z. Calhoun is the only ex-
oeption, and in the early part of his
career he WAS favorable to protection
policy, especially when national debt
VAS to be paid of.
Republicans. n party, did much to
maintain the true principle of free
trade when they conquered the rebell-
ious states.l The victory of the Union
arms made free ee.tEadeiamong the states
: Apermanent blessing for all the people
Who live under our flag. Free trade
England never did this for any of her
colonies or dependencies. Free trade
goes everywhere our flag goes. Eng
land confers no such advantage to her
colonial subjects. Her Golden clubs
ask ns to do for British manufacturers
what their government will not do for
them herself. More than this, the Re-
publican party offers reciprocity to all
neighboring peoples, on fair and equal
terms. This IL IS far as We ought to
20. Commercial reciprocity implies
equality Of advantage. Protection is
needed and insisted upon only where
tho conditions of business are unequal.
: That protection has made us pros
porous, no we'll Informed man can
truthfully deny. The labor In tho
country, both In the towns and rural
districts wss never in such demand as
It is today. Labor was never so we'll
paid, universally, ~ it is, today. La
Dor gets cssh-in par money-with no
oounterfeits or discounts in currency
% tho laborsr's loss. Manufacturers
give credit to jobber, merchants and
middle men. but the working men get
cash and run no risks. The same is
true Of farm products; farmers COM
mand cash for all they have to sell.
They give no credit. Manufacturers,
merchants, dealers in grain, cattle, etc.
pay cash, give credit and run their
risks. Sometimes they make profit
often they lose their profit and their
capital too. In these days it is capital
which runs the risks, at least that sort
Of capital that invests in commodities
produced BY labor.
We have heard something OF discon-
tsnt--snd designing politicians are
doing ali they can to make fools be.
lieysz there - occasion for it. They
petnt to strikes - proof Of this preva-
lent sense Of calamity. But strikes for
higher wages or fewer hours of labor
only occur when demand for labor
exists. In nonprosperous times strikes
do no occur. The rawlings Of the anar~
chist do not express the condition of the
honest masses in this country.
We arc told by advocates OF somo Of
tho mushroom parties that there are
interests more important than that of
tho tariff. We do not see the situation
In that light. That al classes Of Ia
boe should be employed at living
wages 10 most important factor In
tho general welfare. Protection Sc
cures this. It Is doubtless important
that . sound currency be maintained,
that vice---esp pecially the vice Of drunk.
eness should be prevented-.but the
prime necessity 10 that every man
should have chance to earn his bread
BY honest work. Poverty multiplies
vices, makes drunkeness, creates crime;
makes men reckless and violent. Give
men work and crime is at its mi MI
mum. The 3protestive system speaks
for itself. Stand by 1t at the polls and
tho present prosperity will. be main
tained. a." *.5..ss
Afadavits are out proving that,
during tho war, Adlai Stevenson, tho
Qemocratic candidate for Vice Presf-
dent, Was : member Of the copperhead
order Of tho: Knights OF the Golden
Circle. No member Of such = treason
able band q fcoDspirators should ever
seosivs any once from loyal voters.
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