The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-09-14
REEDS ROCKY ROAD.


lie Will tlu0 tho GeOpuo ~AsVss"s -. 49,
blessings % Nigh Protection.
Tom Reed saws that the republicans
will have nothing 70 do In the next
campaign but read the testimony OF
MIR. Cleyeland's letter upon the tarin
bill =,
There is something more. Reed Will
find that the very foundation OF pro-
lection has been shaken by the contest
inst concluded For the first time the
voters have learned by direct observa-
ton that protection Is synonymous
with corruption and fraud Before
this time the majority believed that
there had been fraud and corruption In
tariff laws They are ut last con-
WINGED that when taxation departs
from a revenue purpose and begins 10
lie used for the benefit of private cor
porations, inevitab bly, corruption Is the
beginning OF the departure and fraud
the constant accompaniment
Millions of Americans have read
daily how senator's demanded and re-
ceived concessions to the sugar trust
To the iron interest. to the cotton nils
to the glass and pottery makers None
of these senators argued for the puplic
welfare The argument was in eacn
case for the interest
Mr.. Reed can give in his speeches n
few extracts from Cleveland's letter
Then some American citizen VIII ask
him why. if manuf acture is the great
end OF national effort. free choice to
raw materials for staple industries -
denied TO our manufacturers And
unless he elects to be a willful public
liar. he must reply that protection Is
pool of interests in which not Ameri-
can industry. but American pull,
creates the scale according TO which
Legislative favors are granted
II is true that few democrats have
been traitors to their party. But the
people havs seen in that pcrhdy the
working of the republican system Oh
high protection. In their treason THESE
men have been republicans and pro-
| tectionists What they have done has
been in the usual republican and pro
tectionist way. True of one. true o.
all protectionists. Protection goes u
, Washington to get favors: not to hon
4 estiy govern honest freemen Every
favor il gets i a lever with which L
: get another. Protection always favor
higher protection and will spend none.
4 To buy an advance. Protection
against anything short OF prohipitio'
and a monopoly of the market. IL
against extending manufactures ~
plan is always to limit production an
!. secure scarcity prices for monopoly
, That il does not succeed is due TO TN
opposition of the democratic party an
y ~,,;@ .,f.. NO IL ion.
Another obstacle will arise befor
!, Reed The business world, whose II
!. disposition To approve changes ma
= done more 10 intrench tariff roooer
= than ANYTHING except the lobby
manipulation. has perceived that col
/, slant and feverish uncertainty is
- in.eparable as corruption fro'
- the protective system. There ca
- be no permanent tariff schedu
y when il is designed for pr
- lection. because new conditions OF pr
duction are continually arising. The
can be no perpetuity in protecu
- system while IL embraces four or II
thousand articles which few wish
~ sell at abnormal prices and the ma
&c wish To buy at natural prices y
eS only system OF reasonable certainty
a revenue system. and the plain pu
no ness men have grown sick OF tar
=, tinliering.
Protection is inseparablc from frau
X 1t is insepara BILE from tariff tinkeri
and uncertainty.
= When Reed takes out Clevelands
lsr ter he will read II to public opin'
which has been educated to the 10
40 of protection by the oircumstan'
he which called forth that document.
ne. lsss tariff reform seemed radical
NJ scores of business men in Reeds >
lie, England. to whose ears free trade
a. now rather "A pleasing sound. la
ge' reform has had its day in the west q
south. Free trade and taxation
70 revenue only will be the western 9
ten southern platform heacefor;h. and
zen il will be found crowds of busin
rds men who have been calling thensei
moderate protectionists. y ! com
ian 10 be understood that Christian y
OUT .,sty and protective tariff are inc'
DR. l ,,,tihla ST Louis Republic.