Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-02-02


worlds carrying trade. In the days
when this beggar Protection was ~
ing in our straw, American vessels
manned with American seamen car
ried to market and received handsome
pay for it, seventy-five per cent. of the
American goods that found sale
abroad.
It brings the blush Of shame to the
cheeks Of every man who loves Amer
lea to stand in the harbors of the great
sea coast cities and amid the forest of
masts that crowd the wharyes look in
vain for the flag Of his country.
In brutal disregard Of fair play to
the working man Protection will have
nothing less than the whole world in
which to buy its labor, and backed
by the power Of the government to
keep off competition and insure prof
it on the goods it sells, it denies to
labor the world in which to buy it's
necessaries, crying to heaven for ven
gance on The party that u1coVers its
villainy.
Do the working men Of United
States know who it is that Protection
will rot permit a tariff-tax to be placed
upon labor coming here? Il is be-
cause Protection wants unhampered
immigration to use as a club over the
heads Of those now in its employment.
It has them under the harrow Of the
worlds competition for place and bread
and it intends to keep them there.
Well, the people of this country
have decided that there shall be some
competition in the sale of the necess-
aries Of life and they have sent men
to Washington to reduce the tariff tax,
but this Protection beggar with the
notion in his head that he owns the
edTtn lSGlS LllEJ ABOUT IL.
Before you put on your PARTISAN
spectacles, just a word with you my
high tariff friend, You who are absolu-
tcIy sure that Protection is principle
Of government, and that the proposed
reduction in tariff-taX is the cluse of
the present misery and want at which
your heart and mine turns sick. [
take it we agree on one or two propo-
siti0nS
Am | hight in thinking that the
government Of these United States
was created by the people and is to be
used by the people to protect their lib
critics and to guard their rights, and
that it is the function of the govern
ment to collect from the people sum
of money sufficient to support it and
to see that it is used for that purpose?
If so, suppose the people were to
decide that the money needed for
government expenses should be raised
by direct tax instead of raising it in
the underhand, costly way in which it
is now raised, | say suppose instead of
paying q million dollars a month to
collect the revenue at the custom
house, as was paid last year, the peo-
pie decide to raise the means necessary
to carry on the government by direct
tax; would you dare to go before the
people and say in your platform,
Whereas, The sum Of $4OO,O0O,0OO
is needed each year to support the
government, and
Whereas, The people have decided
to tax themselves directly to raise this
sum; therefore
Resolved, That we, the party of
Protection favor taxing the people in
addition to the sum needed by the
government the sum of $500,000,000
to be paid to the mine and mill own
ers of the country"
Would You dare TO remove the mask
from your face for an instant in the
presence of the voters OF the United
States?
If not, and you know you dare not,
what becomes of your boosted "prin-
ciple Of protection:' T. NJ. DYER.