The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-04-07
AMERICAN PROTECTION.

AMERICAN PROTECTION.
The treaty recently negotiated be-
tween Germany and Russia was med
eled closely in It's essence after the
Mckinley bill, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, combining as 1t does protection
and reciprocity, or, to express it still
more accurately, protection by recip-
rocity. That treaty and our act of
congress are equally based on the pro-
tective idea. Germany was promoting
its manufacturing interest, Russia It's
agricultural interest. England is to-
day the only free trade country in the
ciyilized world which has freedom, the
other countries which do not protect
homess interests being, like Portugal,
Turkey and Japan, prevented FROM so
dong by treaty agreements with Great
Britain. Even the British colonies
have adopted projection.
But it seems from Berlin advices
that Emperor William is not content
to stop with the measure of protection
secured by this Russian treaty. Under
it cheap rye can be procured from
Russia and especial advantages secured
for German products and fabrics, but
he is apprehensive, as he we'll may be,
of American manufactures. He sees
that the free trade craze Of 1892 was
only momentary alteration of the
national mind, and that the people are
sure to recover from it before other
countries can get much benefit there
from. "He recognizes" says q cable
gram from Berlin, "that the unbounded
resources of America constitute a
standing menace to European trade
and industry, and, although he has the
greatest sympathy for America and
Americans, the emperor is also awake
to the danger of the repetition of such
blow as that inflicted by the Nc
Kinley policy" The German emperor
is herein not at all peculiar. The
statesmen, manufacturers and general
public of intelligence throughout
Europe, from Queenstown to Novgo-
rod, recognize the same fact. About
the only people who are blind to the
enormous advantages to Americans Of
"the Mckinley policy are the Demo
Gratis of the United States, and good
many of them are getting their eyes
open.
In this same connection it is added
of the emperor's views on what the
dispatch calls The Mckinley policy:
ellis idea is that Europe must be
prepared to take common stand
against any commercial measure which
directs itself not against any individ-
ual nation in Europe, but against all
Europe. The well known ambition of
the emperor to bring about friendly
common relations between the Euro
pean nations showed itself years ago
by the calling of the international con-
gress in the interest of the better pro-
lection of workmen."
The emperor is quite right in sup
posing that the American policy of
protection is not directed against any
individual nation in Europe, and it is
alse certainly inaccurate to say it is
directed against all Europe. 1t SIMPLY
aims to develop our own resources
and maintain our own prosperity,
without concerning ourselves with its
effect upon any other country. States
manship is based on patriotisu, and
not upon any Quixotic attempt to leg
islste for the world: at large. The
United States has never sought to
cripple or destroy any other nation,
only to promote its own legitimate in
teresus. This policy cannot be thwarted
or seriously hampered by anything all
Europe could do. The only obstacle
in the way of its normal Development
is the free.trade democracy of our own
country, and the present Indications
are that this obstacle will be removed
as soon as the national machinery of
elections will permit.