Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-22
BLOODY FRUIT.
Dire Consequences OF high Protee-
tive Tariff.

tive Tariff.
No strife is so bitter and relentless
as that engendered by racial prejudice
or by national jealousies- Nineteen
hundred years of Christianity have not
been so potent for the inculcation
among the peoples of the Christian doc
trine OF the brotherhood of man as to
counterfeit the continued impeachment
in favor of so-called patriotism, which
often is argument in favor of national
hatreds and racial bitternesses.
This land has often been the scene of
bloody encounters between persons of
alien birth, who, unmindful of the hos
pitality shown them by these shores,
have carried their old country feuds
across the water and have disturbed
the peace and order of parts of the re-
public for the qualification of their
own deadly hatred. The orange and
the green have become one red at
times, fighting like fanatics over oc-
curences of bygone ages. Such saw
agery as extended itself among various
aliens has been promoted by native
Americans in their own fanatic patriot
ism, their own demand that whoever
has come from beyond the seas shall
conform in the waving of flags, in the
observance of a New England Sabbath,
in regulating their personal habits to
fanatlcaI American standard. This
situation has been deepened and inten-
sifed by the utter dishonesty of the re-
publican party in maintaining high
protective tariff laws exclusively for
the benefit of the manufacturer.
That policy has maintained free
trade in labor while making a closed
market for American products It has
resulted in driving distinctively Amer
lean labor from all the paths of indus
try and has supplied its place system
atically with aliens who have been
coaxed hither by the promise OF high
wages to be given them by protected
manufacturers, who wish to have the
benefit of free trade in labor Ali the
while Americans were told by preach
ers of tariff legislation that the one
purpose was to dignity, enrich and en-
noble the American laborer, and all
the while the real benefciaries were
bringing the cheapest labor of the
world into this market-laborw with all
It's racial prejudices, all its savage
promptings and all its willingness to
underbid native labor.
The Hun and the Slav have taken the
place of the American laborers at
mines. Tumult and disorder have
arisen in various places as the result
of lOckOutS and of strikes and of en-
counters between contending savages.
The real responsibility for such exhi-
bition of barbarism in America lies at
the door of the republican protective
policy, that has steadily sought to dis
courage or forbid importations of fab
RIGS, but has opened wide the ports of
America to the least enlightened peo-
Piles of the earth and has brought them
here for no other purpose than to drive
out intelligent American labor as be-
ing too high-priced for the greedy cor
porations that would have a tariff law
benefit them in both ways by giving
them cheap labor and monopoly
market.
The inevitable fruit of McK1nleyism
ripened in bloodshed at Spring Valley.
Everywhere in the land it has repeat
edly borne bloody fruit.-Chicago
Chronicle.