The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-01
Joseph Dana Miller Shows
That the Party Has Al
ways Had a Progress
slVe Element.
GARFIELD -STORRS---B --BUTTERWORTH
What Is Protection ?-Who Attacks
American Industry ?-How Is
the Attack Made?

There are many Republicans who i'm
agine that the party to which they swear
allegiance was always the party of pro-
lection" Of course, no such unkind and
uncomplimentary thing can be truthfuliy
alleged of nearly one-half the voting
population of a country where the spread
of intelligence has. to greater or less
degree, embraced all classes Just as
in community composed of the follow
ers of paganism doctrines Identical with
those of Christianity take root and
spread, so in the dark circle of intellect
uaI Republicanism the light of the true
faith has occasionally sputtered and gone
out. The case might, indeed, be stated
much more strongly. The party that fell
from the great heights of Lincoln to the
mental level of Mckinley, which from the
enuneiation in the emancipation proclam-
alton of the rights of man, took to the
work of proclaiming the rights of some
men to plunder the others, held within
it and high in it's councils men whose
words read at this distance of time like
bugle blasts to the battle yet to be waged
for the emancipation of commerce from
the shackles which bind it.
GARFIELD'S VIEWS.
Not the least of these is James A.
Garfield, Republican President, and mem
ber of the Golden Club. Commerce."
he cried, in a speech delivered in the
House of Representatives April 1, 1870.
links all mankind in one common
brotherhood of mutual dependence and
interests, and thus creates that unity of
our race which makes the resources OF
all the property of each and every MEM
ber." In a speech delivered in Faneuil
Hail. that honored temple of liberty, he
said:-"Is there any man in America
wise enough to measure the wants OF
trade? : Remember, that all ma
tions are placed under contribution to
supply the City of Boston; every cline
sends its supplies. Do you sup
pose any. man in the world is wise enough
to supply the wants of this population in
q. circle of twenty miles around Boston?
Now, multiply that by a hundred and
get the population of the United States.
Is there any man in the world wise
enough, is there any Congress in the
world wise enough, to measure the wants
of forty-five millions of people, and tell
just what is needed for their supplies?
No, fellow-eitizens, but there is some-
thing behind legislation that does-does
all so quietly and so perfectly. Every
man seeking his own interest, millions of
men acting for themselves, under the
great law of supply and demand, the
laws of trade. feed Boston, feed the
United States, clothe, house and trans
port the nation and carry on all its
mighty works in perfect harmony 9nd
with ease, because the higher law above
legislation-the law of supply and de-
mand-pervading and covering all, settles
that great question. far above the wis-
dom of one man or a thousand men to
determine it"
have ventured to quote this entire
paragraph. though lengthy one. be-
cause it ought to appeal to my Republi-
can friends, who will applaud the name
of Garfield during this campaign. There
spoke the true member of that little knot
of missionaries known as the Golden
Club that organization composed Of the
friends of America and American in
stitutions at a time when such friendship
was rare in England. I would rather
have said that in Faneuil Hall than sfiave
been elected Governor of Ohio by eighty
thousand. The man whose life went out
where the white surf comes in at Elberon
was not a hero, save in those last hours
when his strong soul rose to do battle
with death, but he is q prominent figure
in political history, and he has the dis
tinction of being, perhaps, the last free
trader the Republican party will have the
honor of electing to the Presidency of
the United States!
EMORY A. STORRS.
Emory A. Storrs was not member OF
the Golden Club, but he was the fore
most leader of the Republican party in
the West. And he said this in 1S70;-'I
will inquire precisely what is meant by
protecting American industry? Against
what or against whom is American in-
dustry to be protected? Who attacks or
proposes to attack American industrya
How is the attack made? Is American
industry so feeble that it cannot, wfth-
out assistance from the Government, pros
tect itself?" And, further on, he said.
speaking of the deserted ship-yards:-
ut is against protection that they need
to be protected" and much in the same
strain follows.
Such utterances from the Republican
leaders of the past might be added to
almost without end. Western Republi-
canism has never been in favor of tariffs
as high as German, Smith and Murphy
would give us. 1t was Kruete Nelson
who made the last. or almost the last
free trade speech in Congress, to be
afterwards elected Republican Governor
of his State. Three Western Senator'S
voted on the final motion against the
Mckinley bill-Paddock, Plomb and Petti-
grew. The Chicago Tribune" until oom~
PEELED to fight in line with the party.
has always been more or less of a tarlfG
reform sheet, though always the leading
Republican organ of the West. But iR
was Ben Butterworth, of Ohio. who
made the last feeble stand against tho
reactionary policy of Mckinley, in hjS
speech delivered in the House May 13
1890 That speech makes an epoch in
the history of the psrty--it was the last
shrek of freedom, the last FAINT protest
on the part of the hypnotized victim as
she was pushed into the arms of Nc
Kinley, that with his brutal fingers he
might choke the little life that remained.
And that grim extortioner and prefer
naturally solemn statesman did it most
effectually. Butterworth is now practis-
ing law and finds it more profitable than
attacking the copper trust and the tim
plate lswindle. He has lost his place ip
the councils of the party because he
moved on. while the party stood still.
That is the disadvantage of having an
intellect and a conscience. If he had
only had extreme gravity and a solemn