The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-15

have to put up sound dollar or two
of the dollars the country merchant
sent him.
He then went on to show the losses,
under free coinage, to the banks de-
| positors, the insurance policy holders,
| the pensioners and those with fixed
| salaries and the disasters to the govern
ment and to the business institutions of
| the country. He also showed the
profits that would accrue to the silver
barons of the mining regions of the
| west.
| Going from silver to protection, he
said:
PROTECTION.
In speaking of the silver question, fell
low citizens, have referred to the pro-
lection Of American industry In 1894
the people of this country declared for
that system by the heaviest majorities
given since the war. 1t is still sys-
tenn, precious and priceless, 10 the ma
ton Some Democratic leaders now
affirm that protection is an issuse as
dead as slavery. Possibly, by this,
they mean, simply, to concede that the
Republican victory of 1894 was an over
| whelming defeat for the British free
| trade cause. Certainly IL was as de-
cisive a victory, for the time being, as
any that occurred during the appeal 10
| arms for slavery which ended under the
famous apple tree Of Appomattox, thir-
ty years ago. But the suggestion is
| more significant and more sinister; il is
an attempt to induce the American peo-
pie to believe that American industry
is no longer threatened. No speaker
at a Republican meeting can perform
his full duty without summoning his
hearers again to the defence of Ameri-
can industry; for until the whole wide
world IS far more advanced in civiliza-
ton than now, the struggle, by AIneri-
ca, for America, will continue. So long
as other nations pauperize their labor
classes. so long must We uphold our
tariff berrierS, ike a shield and a bull
wark between this country and the I'M
der-paid and under-fed labor of the
world. Protection furnishes work and
affords living wages to laborers, helps
them to save earnings, and to build
homes and to enjoy some of the luxurie5
OF life. Foreign nations degrade and
under pay their labor and give no home
but the almshouse to countless thous-
ands. Protection reduces the friction
between labor and capital
Strikes and 1ock-outs are most fire.
quent in free-trade England.
Capital is more over-bearing there
than here. Labor is more self-reliant
here than there. Protection benefits
farmers by enabling mechanics and
manufacturers to buy their products.
and by bringing the consuming world
10 the farmers door, and by increasing
the value of far lands. Protection
benefits the merchant, lawyer, doctor,
nd h,x
Ing them all among q prosperous and
not a pauper people and by making
their clientage a solvent one Protection
benefits the nation by diversifying its
Industry and making it Independent OF
the world and self-Sustaining both in
peace and war. Any tariff emitting
the protective policy is dishonest, dis
astrouS and a fraud upon the many
for the benefit of nobody but foreign
importers and hobby riders. Any tariff
unregardful of protection will ruin
Americas industries or pauperize the
workmen therein. Either resule will
deprive the average American Of his
savings and little home, deprive his
child of education and his wife of home
comforts, Will put husband and wife and
child all into slaviSh, miserable and
hopeless bondage to hard labor to keep
the wolf of starvation from the door;
and will involve in general destruction
the whole matchless home market Of
America, and viii build up markets,
factories and fortunes across the ocean
at countless cost, in money, misery
and tears and death to the manhood
and womanhood of. America. More
over, fellow citizens, 1t is not true that
the Democratic party has abandoned
yts
FIGHT AGAINST PROTECTION.
1t IS true that the Populist-Demo-
cratic combinations platform affirms
that no change is desired In the tariff
until the silver question is settled, but
it is also true that it pledged its sup
porters to a tariff for revenue, which
means, that il by the income tax or any
other system, sufficient revenue can
be obtained to defray the actual ex-
penses Of the government, not one cent
of protective tariff would be left and
hence not one cent Of protection given
to any industry. The convention which
adopted that platform was full of the
enemies of protection and the men who,
like Senators Hill, Murphy and German,
believe in some protection, were de-
fed and overthrown, and the leader
chosen as candidate for president by
that convention has been a lifelong
opponent OF that system, and is now
unsurpassed and unrivaled within the
limits of the Union in intensity Of de-
votion to the cause of free trade. And,
fellow citizens, while, because OF the
stupendoIs majority with which the
American people in 1894 expressed It's
approval of that alleged fraud and
robber''-while because of that 1 do
not deem it necessary TO enter into an
argument in behalf of protection
nevertheless, I appeal to you now to
remember (while we are being assured
that there IS no such fssue') that the
most plausible explanation OF this atti-
tuda Is, that Mr.. Bryan and his fac
ton do not dare TO again go before the
American people on that issue. -Four
years ago he likened protection 10 a
deadly poisonous thing called the Can
nibal Tree" etc.
And ask you in all sincerity ST 1t is
not reasonable to suppose that this same
faction (Which for so many years has
opposed protection IN its platforms and
legislated against il when IN power,
and which is now asking US to elect.
as president, an out-spoken free~trader)
VIII not, II returned 10 power. renew
its assaults upon protection, and leave
US again, as II did in 1898, al the mercy
OF the free trade world, with allindus-
tr les Frustrated and with fear upon
every side"
No. the tariff Is not a dead and settled
issue Millions OF men wish IL was.
nee upon time an old sk;nflint de-
parted this life and one OF his neigh
bors told friend about it. WHY. YOU