The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

mercial life. then successively sal
mon packer, Collector OF Customs
and special agent of the Treasury
Department for Alaska, cultivator of
prize-medaI peaches on the side and an
enthusiastic apostle of the American gos-
pei of protection in general.
Ashland is a good place in which to
raise children and chickens he said, ''but
had not seen my children for over year
and half, and during my. absence the
great democratic army OF free-trade
tramps ate up near all the chickens.
Where was /? OH that is a story of
ITSELF
I'm June, 1894, lett Oregon to attend
the Denver convention of Republican
clubs, being chairman of the delegation,
hope never to be repeated railroad strike,
worked my way eastward by circuitous
routes and entered the employ of the
American Protective Tariff League-head-
quarters in New York. | at first mad
charge of the New England States, but
during the campaign OF 1894 | was as
signed to special duty in West Virginia
and Southeastern Ohio, doing missionary
work among the pottery workers. had
the honor twice of saying a few words
from the same platform that proudly up
held the next President of the United
States. His name? to be sure. His name
IS William Mckinley. His cam paign
ended, as you know, in the crushing out of
wisconsin in Wilson's own State.
''It was then deternined to send me to
Europe to study out the theory OF free
trade on its native heath, and / spent
ten months in Great Britain, France, Ger
many, Holland, Belgium and Switzer-
land, and am back now, a better protec-
ZIONIST, be that possible, than ever.
80 a sire cI1rn for the lame halt or Hind
American free traders-it there are any
left-would be a tour of Investigation
among the working people of Europe, Just
such as / made, and if, with desire to learn
the exact facts, there be added the ability
to make judicial summing up, the YER
dict must be for American protection for
Americans in America. was homesick
long before / finished my errand and was
oyerjoyed to get back.
America is good enough for me, and
too good for the man who says 1t isn't
WHAT has Europe profited by the opening
up of our markets to her manufacturers
Well, this is no place for figures, but, in a
broad sense, thousand fold, we have
suffered thereby. The surplus revenue of
94,000, ,000-.say $40 600, 000-which England
had to her credit last year-the first time,
almost, within the memory of man-rep-
resents not all of her share OF our own de-
ficit. being but the taxes paid by her man.
uIdCLuIeTS, HleTCudutS anu u611D-OWQGTS on
the increase of business We graciously do
mated them.
II crossed both ways under the Ameri-
can flag going eastward OH the st. Louis
and returning on the ST. Paul, and would
go out of my way to travel on those boats.
They are without exception the staunchest
built, most comfortable and easiest riding
boats that CROSS the Monroe channel, ahd
they made our ship-building friends over
the way have sinking at the stomach,
for with but twenty thousand horsepower
to the thirty thousand OF the biggest
Cunarders, they equal them in speed and
in very heavy weather really outhold
them. American engine builders are really
the superiors of any in Europe. Given
demand for an engine to superpower theirs
at lower consumption OF coal and we do
1t just as easy.
The building of first-class battle-ships
and swift cruisers in San Francisco and to
turn them out in quantities to suit has
had really more effect in bringing Sails
bury around to realizing sense of the
beauties of arbitration than all the diplo-
matte papers ever penned, and the spon-
taneity with which the American people
as people sustained their chief magis-
trate when he broadly enunciated an
American doctrine after an Hawaiian
blunder, twice emphasized, was an eye
opener to all Europe and will have good
effect always.
my plan of protection includes the pro-
lection of our coast and general domain
L am in favor of building navy. A
million dollars spent on an American
battIe-ship means the saving OF many more
millions, otherwise lost in trade, prestige
and self-respect. Let united Europe see
that united America is organized for de-
tense, and bullying insults will be sup