Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-01-25
REPUBLICANS FOR
PROTECTION.
SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE.
As Usual 1t Is An Expensive Institu.
tiOn! but We Have Learned Some
Valuable Lessons in Political Econ
Omy.

Democratic organs which assert that
the Republican party is disposed to
abandon the protection issue convict
themselves of studidity as well as men,
dacity. The protection of American
industry, in every form and in every
State of the Union, is a fundamental
and undying principle of Republican,
ism. The American people, speaking
through the ballot box, have just de-
livered an overwhelming mandate for
protection. The issue of protection
against free trade, of American wages
against British wages, of American
prosperity verses foreign interests was
never more directly presented to the
people than in the recent Congression-
al campaign. 1t was the principal
theme of debate on every platform
from Maine to California. 1t was
discussed at length and with elaborate
fullness in the columns of every daily
paper throughout the United States. 1t
was the one great dominant ques-
ton upon which the voters of the
American Republic were asked to rem
der their verdict. And that verdict,
read in the election returns, which
protray North absolutely solid under
the standard of Republicanlsm, a
South torn froI.l the mailed grasp of
Bourbonism, House of Representa-
tives Republican by more than two
thirds majority, is the most impera-
tive command. ever pronounced by
American voters in behalf of equitable
and consistent protection to American
labor.
With the mighty mandate still ring
ing throughout the land, with the
knowledge that they will control one,
if not both, of the legislative branches
of the government after next March
and with the certainty that 1896 will
witness the election of Republican
Congress and President, Republicans
have every reason possible for firmly
upholding the great principle which
has been one of the chief tenets OF
Republicanism since the days of Abra'
ham Lincoln. In defeat the Repub.
lican party has remained loyal TO pro-
lection, confident in the justice of its
cause and assured that it would be ul-
timately sustained by the people. In
this hour of splendid triumph, when
the voters have crowned the policy
of legislating for American interests
with emphatic approval, it is the
height of folly for Democratic mouth
pieces to chatter about alleged Re.
publican retreat from the ground or
which Republicanism has stood in
trenched from the hour of its birth.
The duty of Republicans in the
present Congress is plain, and that
duty will be performed. The people
have decreed that the country shall
have rest and peace from the disasters
of tariff reduction. This demand will
be Loyalty obeyed by the Republicans
at Washington, and every Democratic
attempt to break down still further
the bulwark of protection will be re-
sisted and defeated. The course OF
the Republican majority of the Fifty
fourth House of Representatives will
be governed by the requirements OF
the situation when that House comes
into formal existence. But of one
thing the people may be absolutely
certain. The Republican party will
take no step backward in respect to
protection. Whatever the next House
may do regarding the tariff will be for
the promotion of just, impartial and
national defense for American in.
terests. New York Press.