The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
Observation-Disclosures.

and saves? Food, clothing, shelter,
warmth, decent surroundings, are
natural wants. Self-justicc de-
mands that man supply them. If
able, yet neglectful of these, he is
held shiftless and foolish.
The wants of the civilized man
are more varied than those of the
savage. Simplicity is we'll, but
taste and refinement are well also.
Shall man lapse back to barbarism.
live in a cave and be unkempt and
rudely clad?
Self-justice calls for acquisition,
for means of culture of soul and
body, for provision against sickness
and old age.
With growing means philanthropy
is possible-help and education for
the unfortunate. Better still, plans
for self-help for the needy can be
carried on.
Peter Cooper, Protectionist and
a philanthropist whose life was a
benediction, could leave the noble
Cooper Union building and the
plans he devised for the good of the
people carried on there, because he
was diligent in business and cared
honestly for himself as well as for
others.
AS with the individual, so with
the family. The fathers first care
is the support and fit employment
of its members. The mothers love
goes out first to the children near
est her heart. They may be kind
and helpful to others, but it is d.
vine instinct which leads them first
to see to those of their own house
hold. Others cannot fully share
itsNprecious privileges, for they do
not, as do those in the sacred circle,
share its cares or burdens.
The family just to itself can be
helpful to others. If not thus just
it becomes a nindrance instead of Il
help, adding nothing to the comfort
Of the needy because poor and COM
fortress itself.
Widen the circle, and we see that
as with the family so with the larger
family which We call Nation.
Self-justlce must be practiced. To
promote first the welfare of its peo-
pie, to plan for their varied employ
ment, to develop its natural re-
sources, to frame its laws and shape
its policy so that national prosper
ity shall be assured, to say to other
nations: eff you share our trade
you must fairly help to pay our ex-
penses, your help being so levied as
to foster and protect our industries"
all this is but the fit and wise re-
suit of self. justice, and only thus
can Nation be permanent power
for good, help to the world.
When Ireland was starving, and
only yesterday when Russian peas
ants were dying in want, our people
gave of their abundance, and the
great ships of our navy bore their
gifts across the ocean. Poor nations
can do no such work, failing is self
justice, philanthropy is impossible.
Here is a morale of Protection
1t Is simply self-lustlce, care nrst
for those of our own national house
hold.
Theoretical Free Traders, of the
scholarly and religious sort espec.
tally, in their fine essays upholding
what even John Stuart Mills styled
ga science based on assumptions, "
take it for granted that Protection
is narrow selfishness and blind greed
for gain, and that their theory is a
scheme of worldwide fraternity and
Christian philanthropy. Sometimes
they put on airs and pity our poor
delusion.
But protection stands on the solid
basis of self-justice as on the granite
rock-each great national family
must care for itself that it may so
prosper as to be helpful to all.
IL scrinturn he wanting. the word