The herald., 1896-08-08
THE THREE P'S

The Republican party, taxing ltS cue
| from Mr.. Mckinley, has adopted as It's
| campaign motto the magic words, IA
'triotism. Protection and Prosperity
This motto is being inscribed upon hags
| and banners at various q. .. +. mead
| quarters throughout thecountry' ana
speakers who advocate Mckinley's elec-
| ton will doubtless ring the changes on
| those words from now until election gay
| Rightly understood and interpreted
| those three words constitute an excel
| lent motto for every American voter.
Patriotism is good thing. and when
| exercised with ordinary discretion 1t
tends to solidfy public sentiment in be-
| half of the free institutions of which we
as a nation feel proud. The more gen
uine patriotism there is among the peo-
pie the better for the country as
whole. Albeit. there is good deal
passes for patriotism which Is really
nothing but buster, froth and bombast
Protection is also good thing. II is
| the duty of civil governments, as far as
possible, to protect all citizens in the
enjoyment of their natural rights. This
is really the chief if not the only proper
function of a civil government. The
people need to be protected against
everything that is intrisically bad. They
should not. however, be protected CD
against things that are good and need
full. To call that protection is perver-
sion of language Every man born into
this world comes hither endowed with
certain natural and inalienable rights.
One of these natural rights is the right
to trade-to exchange products-when
and where and with whom he can effect
exchanges. Every person endowed
with ordinary common sense knows
that such a right exists in each indi-
vidual, and that if it belongs to one per-
son it must also be inherent in every
one among e5, 600 900 or any other num-
Der of people. BY all means let us have
protection and plenty of it. We should
be protected against crime, mobocracy.
contagious diseases, war; famine-and
McKinleyism. We should be protected
against encroachments upon our nat
ural rights, whether by the federal gov
ernment, the state, county, or munich
pal governments. Every man who is
peaceable citizen and who doe1 or pro-
duces that which is useful should be
protected against being robbed or pun
ished for doing so, even though the pun
ishment inflicted upon him be perpetra-
ted under the forms of law and called
taxation"
With plenty of true patriotism and
genuine protection the people will be
prepared to fully appreciate the third
word in the motto-prosperity. Cnfor-
tunately, however, the advocates of
protective tariff fail to understand the
real meaning of the word protection,
or else they do not wish to understand
it. They use it as catchword to con-
fuse the minds of voters and mislead
them into the support Of candidates and
measures that effectually block the road
to prosperity.
1t will be the duty of campaign speak
ers and writer's while advocating the
election of our next president, William
]. Bryan. to occasionally digress from
consideration of the money question and
briefly explain to the masses the neces-
sity of being thoroughly protected from
tariffs for robbery only, such as are ad-
vocated by the Republican standard
bearer And it can be easily shown that
the way to secure such protection is to
elect Mr.. Bryan and a congress that will
be in harmony with the new president,
both on the money and the tariff ques
tiopc