Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-10-13

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| true to Freedoms cline,
viii see that Billy Wilson has
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IT. c. Harbaugh, in Cincinnati Tribune.
PROTECTION.
Written for the Herald.
Paul, the inspired writer. teaches us
that to fail in protecting or providing
for our own people is to deny the
Christian faith, and to become worse
than an in6del This is sound phi
losophy, as well as an expression of
the lessons of truth. safety, and COM
mon sense, as taught by long expert
ence in the affairs of men and the
welfare of the individual home, society,
and government.
Protection is founded in the very es-
sence Of our existence. In all periods
and walks of life we expect protection
when we need it, and we should ex-
tend its benefits to others at the prop
er time and place.
Every government, in all its essen
tails. is as absolutely as distinct and
isolated, as far as its needs and auxil-
iaries to its progress and success is
concerned, as is the individual or the
household. Therefore, the best in
stincts of the individual, or of good
government, are correctly measured
by the means adopted and put in oper-
alton for the protection of the interests
and welfare of each This is a truth
which the facts of history most fully
attest, and prove that Protection, in its
widest application, is but another
name for life, liberty, security, success,
and happiness, and confers the great
est amount of good to the greatest
number of people.
No amount of free-trade fallacies, no
matter how we'll worded and glibly
told with glittering generalities and
catch words to gull unthinking people
and blind them to their own interests,
will, for moment, stand before the
lessons OF the ages, which point with
unerring precision and certainty to the
fact that every nation and government
was the most successful and powerful
while protecting its own people and
their business in every legitimate way,
and that the entering wedge of disinte-
grafton and decay only came when
the policy was adopted transferring the
workshops of their mechanics to the
soil of other countries or governments
and depreciating the worth of the
products of the farm. the forest, the
mine, and the mandatory by admit
ting suicidal competition of pauper
labor of all the people of the earth.
This competitor is especially dan
gerous to the better paid labor of our
own country, which increased remu-
neration for toll alone enables Amer
lean workers to attain the dignity and
realize and profit by the benefits and
satisfaction of a civilized and enlight-
ened people.
Protection is life. progress. and at
tainment Of the higher objects of hui
man existence, and has for its motto |
the noble words of encouragement to
endeavor: Onward and Upward. y
Free Trade and its cognate theories
and auxiliaries all tend downward to
the lowest plane of existence, and to
his courage, effort, or improvement by
affording no inducements for develop |
ing the better thoughts of an advanc-
ing people, but brings the crude prod
ucts of the world lowest workers to |
compete with the highest and most
scientific, with the inevitable result
that the better workman is injured or
ruined, while his pauper competitors
are in no wise benefited or their con-
dition improved.
Protection has given us the proini-
nence we now enjoy. And looking
upon other less favored people, we
should hesitate. and recollect, before
we undermine the very foundation of
our own greatness that even small |
leaks sink great ships and that our
only true policy is to continue to
strengthen the means that have made
us great and independent Nation,
and resist to the utmost the intro
duction of the foreign idea of free
trade. And no matter how little we
may feel its baneful effects at first, it
never has had, and nevsr can have,
any except the worst consequences to
our people and Government.
Think in time. Study these mat
tiers carefully and conscientiously, and
then go to the polls and vote intelli-
gently for the good of our own people
and country, and the Great Ruler will
give new lease of prosperity at home.
respect abroad, and the sun will again
shine brightly upon all our people
and the clouds of financial disorgani-
cation and distress be removed that
have been hung as dark pail over
the industries of the Nation by the in
Fiction of free-trade heresies and stu
pendous blunders of the incompetents
who compose the heterogeneous ag-
gregation of idiocy, stupidity, venali-
ty, and political harlotry, known as
the present Democratic administration
of 'perfdy and dishonor'' at Wash
ington. DAVID THE SCRIBE.
Winchester, Va.