The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-16
A WOMAN'S VIEW.
\ PRACTICAL WAY OF LOOKING
AT THE TARIFF.
Protection aSa Free Trade Thrsngh Femi-
nine Spectacles-Sonlethin That Every
Profit

nine Spectacles-Something That Every
Woman in the Land May Read with
Profit.
Especial Correspondence
NRw YORK, Sept. st came about in
This way. My eighteen-year-old boy
asked his father what protection meant,
and his father with that wisdom usually
found in men said, $50 ask your
mother, my sonv' hesitated bit be-
fore l told him what l thought of it,
md at last began. MY boy" answered
I. "protection is the salvation of your
country. 1t means putting the Ameri
ran dollars into the pocket of that great
mass of honest men and women, thu
working people Of America. 1t meana
giving them fair wages for good work.
It means giving them the time to learn
TO do the work as it is done by the best
N 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
Of the worbinglnan-and the small
white faced children belonging to him,
who tell il their hungry looks the story
Of 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 TO.
dirty, low howell and a miserable pit.
lance 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
I'm Ireland. You know what caused it.
1t came from the rich people going tc
London to spend their money, and 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
draws design for her own gown and
bas it woven in English looms. That is
}he point we want to reach.
This spring when the court was in
mourning the shopkeepers said they
aidn't mind very much, as the Ameri-
tans 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.
A GOOD EXAMPLE BY MRS. HARRISON.
Mrs. Harrison did her best in this
direction when she wore at the inau-
guration ball brocade woven in
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
much? That was made of American
Glk trimmed with lace manufactured
right here in New York city, and the
material was just as pretty and the
trimming as dainty as any that ever
passed through a French or English
mans hands"
MEMS CLOTHING ABROAD.
But" said the boy, ''aren't mems
clothes cheaper laughed at this and
kaid: Don't you remember your Cousin
Arthur's frock coat? He thought he
paid small sum for it in London, but
when he got home he had to pay tailor
here to reft it. Still it wasn't right.
Then he went to another tailor; still it
1t didn't fit, and at last he went to an
Dther 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
Rn English botch. So poor Arthur found
himself, as the old provsrb goes, with
Ri 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
home use, though Just inside the collar
would have been an American tailor's
stamp.
You've seen the storm coat that was
brought over to me? My measurements
were sent exactly, and the result is that
have coat that trains on the ground,
that is too big for me in the neck, and