Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-11-13
A PROTECTION ARTICLE
A Young Washington Count,
Voter
MAKES A VERY ELOQUENT PLEA.
A Ringing Comparison Of Cleye-
land aud IIarrisOI.


For over thirty years the peopls ~
the Uulled States have upheld and
maintained the principle Of protpcll u
10 American industry aud American
labor. In the light Of the recent elec-
tlons IL Is doubtful lf this principle
shall ever be wholly eliminated from
our Industrial fabric. Every attempt
to abandon IL has proved disastrous not
only to our manufacturing industries,
and the labor dependent thereon, but
to our formers, merchants and me.
chanics as well.
President Jackson OF whom the
Democratic party is justly proud, was
friendly to protection, and II the South
had followed more closely the teach
ings Of Clay, Jefferson and Jackson,
they would have been today the equal
II not the superior OF the New England
states as manufacturing centre.
However 1t does not AXE the eye of a
prophet to see that the South Is
gradually accepting the theory as
the best medium by which to develop
its resources. The cotton planters are
tired Of depending on Europe to
buy half their crop, and the arguments
Of those who believe that local defects
will prevent the south from ever be.
coming u great manufacturing center
are now considered absurd. They neeu
"a, Jefferson once said, the factory
located on the farm. Again the south
Is fast realizing that she has other
interests which need the benefit of n
close market. Her seml.tropical fruits
hnd their best market here at home.
The iron miners of Virginia, Ten
nesse and Alabama desire TO market
their product In the domestic factory.
aud sngar. rice and other products are
receiving more attention by the south
ern planter now than In the past.
1t is not an idle assertion to say that
bourbonism OF the Democratic party
has retarded the southern growth,
more than the results of the civil war.
What difference between the advent
OF the LRepublican and Demo-
cratic parties into power. thirty
years and more ago q young
party, unskilled In the management OF
governmental affairs was ushered into
power when even then the rumbliDgs
of discomfort could be heard through
out the land. The treasury fresh from
the hands OF Democratic administra'
ton was already In precarious condi-
tlon. The products from the mines
and the farms, the inventions of fertile
DFdlusg NUu luo mcOhhhiSoi OohhN
vances Of skillful hands were already
burden on the market. Following
close upon this season Of distress and
business uncertainty came the civil war
with all the horrors only such war
could imply. Things looked dark in
deed for the new administration, but
there was a man at the helm In whose
veins there was not a drop Of vaccil-
latiug blood and on whose brow nature
had stamped the impress OF courage
truth aud honesty, the three cardinal
principles Of an American citizen.
The burdens of government
already enormous through the mis-
management and imbecility OF
the previous administration, and rem
dered doubly so by the war then pend
ing or in progress, were bravely, wisely
and intelhgently borne, and through
out the entire struggle with aGversity,
when the skies were overcast, and the
hour for the final dissolution of tn