The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-02-02
PROTECTION is ssLFIHsNess.

David A. Wells contributes valua-
BILE article to the February Forum on
the tariff. It is retrospective and pros.
| pective; but mostly retrospective. Mr..
Wells proves conclusively that Protec-
| ton is robbery, under the Ruise Of law,
and that its only base is selfshness, of
| the basest sort. He also rakes up some
interesting bits of history, showing
most of the present leading Protection
lists have changed their opinions, in
order to hold their places in corrupt
party, that is manipulated solely by
men of millions and combinations of
millions, for the benefit of special in
terests. Mr.. Wells proves that all the
leading Republicans now preaching
Protection were only few years ago,
radical tariff reformers, and states
their alleged conversion was not mat
ter of conscience, but of party disci-
pline. About the best thing in Mr..
Wells paper is his expose of
the famous Protection writer
Henry q. Carey, of Pennsylvania.
For the past ten years Mr.. Carey has
been recognized as the leading writer
on Protection in the United States,
aud there has been nothing in Major
Mckinley 8 speeches On the tariff, ex-
cept recapitulations of Carey. Mr..
Wells shows up the selfish and hollow
hearted Carey in great shape. 1t
seems Henry g. Carey in early life was
free trader, but the Protectionists,
recognizing his ability, gave him a
pocket interest in some Pennsylvania
coal lands, and then Mr.. Carey COM
menced to see things differently. He
became convert to Protection, and as
his pocketbook grew fatter ana fatter,
from the practical workings of this
theory, he became proportionately more
lucid and convincing as Protection
writer
But let us not fail to quote from Mr..
Carey, before his pup eyes were opened
by view of the pocket of coal, given
him for his conversion. In 1S48, Mr..
Carey published book on the tariff,
under the comprehensive title of "Past,
Present and Future" No more mod.
ern writer on the robber tariff has hit
the protected lords of Protection hard
er with the English language than
Mr.. Carey hit them, before he
traded his conscience for coal
pocket. Here is an extract from
Mr.. Carley's book on the Protective
tariff:
lne WnOlb ByBtBm mere DeIy larS
ceny. 1t is on attempt TO fitch that which
cannot be openly demanded. II is one of
those Inventions of man by which the
few are enabled to grow rich at the
expense OF the many, and is therefore
greatly favored by that class of men who
favor living by the labor Of others to
living by their own. The man who plumb
highway robber."
The above reads almost like section
from Democratic stump speech of 1892,
and yet the same man who wrote the
above, Is now a menial, doing menial
service in the interest of the robbers,
who took him In as valuable ally
aud have divided their plunder with
him.
Mr.. Wells also shows up many other
leaders of the Protection army, among
the number General Hawley of Connect.
icut, Allison of Iowa, Wilson of Iowa,
and Morrill, of Vermont.
Mr.. Wells shows that the late Presi-
dent Garfield was among the very first
citizens of the United States to accept
membership in the Golden Free Trade
Club of England, and that he was as
sociated in membership with such illus
trious Americans as Charles Sumner,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, VIM. Cullen
Bryant, Henry W. Longfellow, VIM.
Lloyd Garrison and Charles Francis
Adams.
AS TO the prospective of tariff reform
Mr.. Wells very truthfully says:
whether the Representatives, of the
Democratic party in Congress assem-
bled will courageously and intelligently
fulfill the mission entrusted to them by
the American people remains TO be
seen. But it is certain their pathway to
success is not along the line of timid
conservatism"