The diamond drill., 1894-09-29

honestly, that protection TO American
industries is imperatively demanded.
That was BUSINESS.
Hence the new tariff law recognizes
the truth, the justice and the necessity
of the principle OF protection for which
the Republican party has boldly and
honestly contented for many year
and thus gives the lie 20 the Chicago
free trade platform. But while the
Democratic tariff law In many provi-
sion recognizes protection as a living
principle OF national economy, that law
is still so fine a sample Of Democratic
how not-to-do-it" as 10 damage what
u even pretends 10 protect. IL is arr
rant botch work.
When the Detroit Free Press, the
leading organ OF Michigan Democracy
talks POLITICS, IL extols the Chicago
platform Of free trade. But when IL
talks BUSINESS, IL endorses the doctrine
of protection as necessary for the fos-
tering and upbuilding OF American in
tereSts.
In It's issue Of Septcmb Der 3, the Free
Press publishes and editorially en-
dorses an interview with Alexander
MacGruthar, director OF the Standard
Pearl Button Company, Of Detroit,
the justice OF protection. But the Free
Press was talking BUSINESS at that
time and not PoLITICs--at least not
Democratic politics. for IL was very
good Republican politics.
That interview represents Mr. Mac
Gruthar as very much pleased with the
amount Of fraud, robbery and uncon-
siitutionality" In the shape OF protec.
tion afforded To the industry in which
he is interested The Austrian manu-
facturers had found way of lodging
the old tariff law, by drilling no holes
in their buttons and then importing
them at low rate of tariff as ''manu-
factured pearl" instead of buttons,
thus demoralizing the markets The
new law prevents this dodge and thus,
as the Free Press claims, AFFORDS THE
PEARL BUTTON INDUSTRY MORE PRO
TECrioN THAN THE MCKINLEY LAW
DID
II the Free Press had been talking
POLITICS IL would have denounced this
as "A fraud and a robbery and uncon-
stitutional," but since IL was talking
BUSINESS il gloried in the fact that n
local factory had escaped the blight Of
Democratic free trade.
Some OF the expressions made by Mr..
MacGruthar in this interview SO highly
endorsed by the Free Press are very
pertinent Since they embody good
Republican doctrine and are also com
menh"d by the Free Press, the people
can safely rely upon them as axioms Of
sound political economy.
Mr. MacGruthar says: I'VE need
some protection, such as Is provided in
the new bill, for IL is difficult TO build
up an infant industry. The help have
To be educated and the expenses of
turning out the goods are consequently
greater than they would be IL our
establishments had been running for
generations" This is what the Repub-
lican party has claimed for years. And
the Free Press endorses il as good
BUSINESS principle, although it is con-
trary To Democratic politics.
Mr. MacGruthar again says: at is,
Of course, impossible for ms TO compete
with Austrian labor. Skilled labor
over there, II has been shown, receives
about SO per week and our men will
not work, nor should they be asked to
work, for any such figures. The pres
ent tariff bill solves the difficulty
nicely for both manufacturers and
American workmen by providing am
pie protection, leaving a cl ance for
good profits To the manufacturers and
the opportunity TO make liberal earn.
ings for the workman. This is not u
matter Of POLITICS; IL is BUSINESS. The
Republican party has never asked the
American workman 10 work for any
such wages and SO IL erected the pro-
tective policy as a barrier between him
and European wages. The Free Press
commends that barrier on BUSINESS
principles although IL fails TO square
with Democratic politics.
The Legitimate conclusions are plain.
Republican politics and good bust
ness policies are synonymous.
That is demonstrated by the course
of the Democratic administration in
framing its tariff bill, and has been
conceded by the leading Democratic
organ Of the state.
Democratic politics not only vary far
from good business principles but IL
carried outare destructive of American
industries
That Is demonstrated by the coward
ice OF the Democratic administration
in abandoning its declaration Of fraud,
robbery and unconstitutionality" and
adopting the Republican principle Of
protection as the basis of much Of its
tariff law, and IL is further demon.
strated by the admissions of the Free
Press.
The best interests OF the country are
safer in the hands OF the Republican
party, whose policies are based on
good business principles, than in the
hands OF the Democratic party, whose
policies are not only contrary 10 good
business principles but even destruc
tive Of them.
DIsgustcd with Democracy.