Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1895-11-30
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gates has meant the monopolIzation o
our markets, by foreign waves, which
should be reserved for native industry
1t is we'll to judge by comparison. Ger
many was not recognized As manufac
turing country previous to the years
1879. On July 10 of that year a general
tariff act introducing high protective
duties became law and today in the
value and Importance of her msnufac-
turtles, Germany ranks third among ma
tlons. Are the perils of protection SO
great? il go why is not France ruined by
her great debt incurred ia the Franco
PrussiaD war. Her great losses in Rama
ma canal and other ventures still leave
her probably the most prosperous of ma
tons, and that, mind you under a pro-
tective system. Why even the United
States ranked first among all nations of
J the earth, her manufactures for one
year possessing a value of S7,215, 0O0,O0O
while those of Great Britain, her most
formidable competitor, depending upon
all nations for supplies, possessed val
us OF but 81, 100,O00,OOO. The prosperity
of the United States is due to protection
and our financial reverses a premonition
of evil through tinkering the tariff. The
icsl but financial one on which all per-
sonsl sens; Utilities must be laid aside for
the benefit of our country. shall now
mention one of the articles admitted free
of duty through the democratic policy
and few of the effects resulting there
from, Cotton, one OF the chief indus
tries of the United States, is produced
in great quantities in INDIA. where labor
receives 615 cents a day enabling fami-
ly to live on rice, their only article of
diet. To enable US to com Sete with In
dla In the production of cotton wages
must be paid in an approximate degree.
1t ls true then that we can not compete
with India, for Americans cannot live
on 81 cents day and will not live like
coolies. Applausel The result has
been TO throw thousands out of employ
ment and the possible ruin of a great in
dustry. What is true Of cotton is true
OF wool, coal and many other productions |
he principle Of protection lasted in the |
United States for third of a century. |
Under protection the United States |
reached a pinnacle of prosperity never
known In the history Of the civilized |
world; under protection the Vorkingman
has received the highest wages ever
known. Much higher We fear than he
Will ever receive again. Under protec-
ton despite bloody civil war the Amer
lean people have so reduced a gigantic
c ational debt thal under the late repub-
lican administration their credit stood |
The highest in the world. Under protec-
ton the west bias been settled and great
cities have grown where there was only
waste and wilderness. lApplauseL Dem
tariff dnties and announcement of the
national finances produced. the panic
and widespread ruin of 1857. Republi-
canlsm IN 1861 restored high duties and
started the nation upon a career OF pros
perlty without parallel in the history
oI tue WORT. Democracy by the repeal |
ot tnat tariff has ehut DOWN thousands
of mills, caused 9Si banks to close their
1oors locking up S2,000,000,000 threw
Blk million men out of employment and
placed the years 1893, 1894 and 1895 on
record as the most calamitans years ever
'ncountered byAmerlcan business men.
Applause j. As the evening is some
what advanced and it is necessary to {
proceed with the actual business work i
IL organizing the League, 1 shall con- :
'lude the lecture with the following IA
Die: hunter named Grover Cleveland /
vas gong through the forests of Colum- /
'ia WI dog name democracy. Dem [
'cracy, who, by the way, wss very
mall dog, he suddenly spled In the i
he distance large lion, labeled Free {
Trade, devouring the working people. I
lie stralghtway ran after the huge beast, I
,ut was much impeded in this progress {
through his having to make way past {
ONE stoDes upon which were written I
lhlnese Exclusion Act, Hawaiian Policy,
Foreign Mismanagement, etc. Demo r
racy suffered some severe falls through | q
hese stones. But help was at | o
and for Grover Cleveland went TO Q
is assistance with bottle OF Wilson's b
arlff mucilage and pasted him together.
ut IN such way as to leave q half | Il
cad and tail on each end. At this june b
ure appears hunter clothed in Protec- a
ou gsrtments, upon which we're written | V
j golden letters Mckinley; he also per- il
elves the lion, free trade and fires at {
i'm protection bullet which enters the | {,
obs throat, but he turning around l.
uickly the bullet returns by a back exit II
nd kills Grover Cleveland upon which e
he lion rushes upon Mckinley intend. Ii
lg to DESTROY him but he places upon
rs hand High Tariff Gauntlet and "
,unging his arm through the lions throat il
ltches hold OF his tail, pulls him inside a
ut and be hes been running the other cl
ay ever since. Democracy endeavored
run both ways simultaneously, but Il
Ieeting with failure has renamed sta oil
onary and by Nov. 7th. l 90 will prob IL
bly, have starved ito DEATH" Laugh el
IT and Applsusel.