Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-24
RECORD OF PROTECTION.
What Vote for Mckinley Heans in the Light
of the Nations History.

During the protection period, end
built and all were running full time.
Our workingmen were all employed.
English factories were running hall
time. At the close of this period
there was but one pauper to l3l per-
SONS i'm New York, while i'm England
there was one pauper to thirty-nine
persons.
Under the Democratic party from
1S:,2 tn lS43, we again had IA free trade
tariff. At the close of this period
American factories We're practically
all closed. In New York there was
one pauper to every thirty inhabi-
tants. The English factories were
running full time, and England had
but one pauper tn 80 persons.
Again. from 1913 to 1857, we were
under Whig rule ana a. protective
tariff; then many new factories were
built, all running full time. At the
close of this period there was but one
pauper i'm New York to ISL persons.
In England there were bread riots,
factories We're running less than half
time, and one pauper to every forty
three persons. Addrew Jackson
said of this period that we had the
greatest prosperity this or any other
country had ever seen.
From lSi7 until 1861 we again had
free trade and Democratic rule. AT
the close of this period factories were
idle, American labor unemployed.
American credit at a great discount,
the Government i'm debt and paying
II per cent, for money to pay the
running expenses of the Government.
President Buchanan. In his message
of December, 1860, practically admits
that the Government was bankrupt:
that our factories and laboring men
were idle and demanded ii protective
tariff President Buchanan signed
the Morrill, protective tariff bill i'm
February, 1861. During this period,
from 1857 to 1861, England saw her
greatest prosperity; laboring men
were much better off there than in
America; her factories were all rum
ming and she had full control of her
markets. At the close of this period
England had but one pauper to every
80 inhabitants. New York had one
pauper to every thirteen and one
half inhabitants.
From 1851 to 1893 the country was
under Republican rule, with Pro
tective tariff. From the signing q
Morrill, Tariff bill factories sprang vi
as by magic all over the United
States. Laboring men in large mum
bers from all the free-trade countries
came here to get the benefits of oul
protective tariff and American wages
During this period we had become
the largest manufacturers of all th'
nations on earth. Under reciprocit,
and a tariff we were fast taking th'
markets of the world, and no nation
on earth ever experienced such pros
perity. Our greatest prosperity wa
under the Mckinley law, from lS9
until the election of Grover Cleveland
i'm 1892. Statistics show that undo
President Harrison we had i'm New
York but one paupcr to 555 in inhab
litants. The English records of lSg
show one pauper to thirty inhabi
tants. My authority for thes
astounding pauper records is TIN
Encyclopedia on Protection, page
1919, published by the New Yorl
Press.
During President Cleveland's frs
term the Mills bill-the worst taril
lever framed-passed the Democrati
House and was killed in the Republi
Senate As the tariff law was no
changed prosperity continued il
lspite of the fact that a Democrati
President was in the White House.
In 1892 the Democrats came int
full power with both houses of con
gress, and the Free Trade APOSTLE
Grover Cleveland, President. With
In ten days after this calamity ther
were more than 81 .OOO,OOO of order
for factory machinery counter
manded- Factories began to close
Wages were cut down until nov
there are from 2.O0O.00 to 5000. 90