The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-22
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
Thursday, July %, 1897.
Protection Sentiment.
| THE Cull, San Francisco, Cdl.,
JUiy 3, 1897.

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The people of the Nation have had
sufficient illustration of the ruinous
effects of Free Trade to make them
turn from the path that leads to dis
as.er and poverty and shun it for
evermore. The late Presidential
election, with its overwhelming ma .
iority for Protection, represented
grand movement on the part of the
voting masses that was not to cease
with the realization of the popular
desire for an administration, backed
by majority in each branch of
Congress, that would give the coun-
try a genuine American policy. The
movement has continued and the
trend is more and more toward
those principles which are the glory
of the Republican party and which
constitute the best safeguard of the
Union.
The experience of the Nation with
the combined ills of Free-Trade and
Clevelandism during four years of
business distrust, closed mills and
poverty taught the people better
than statesmen and politicians, with
reasoning and statistics, could teach
them. They had practical demon.
stration of the very results that
were foretold when Democracy as
sumed the reins of Government in
1892. The people were misled then
by theorists, who talked eloquently
of the benefits" that would ensue
from looping off Tariff from wool and
lumber and coal and numberless
other things. AS Lincoln once said:
"You can fool all the people some of
the time and some of the people all
the time, but you can't fool all the
people all of the time.
The Democracy fooled a majority
of the people in 1892, but it was diff
ferent in 1896. The many had ac-
quired wisdom in the school of hard
experience. OF course, some people
may always be fooled, but the vast
number who control the destinies of
the Republic were quickly unde-
ceivod. When Cleveland went into
Office in 1892 lie had solid Demo
cratic Congress to work with. In
1894 the Congressional election left
hardly enough Democrats in the
House of Representatives to make a
respectable caucus This was but n
prelude to the complete victory of
last year.
There is no cessation now to the
growth of the Protection sentiment.
Especially is it spreading in the
States of the South, the stronghold |
of Democracy. The AMERICAN TARIFF
LEAGUE, which has been serving |
newspapers with Protection litera-
ture, announces in the last issue of !
the AMERICAN ECONOMIST that for
the service in question an unprece-
dented number of replies have been
received from neutral and Free
Trade papers. Since the last gener-
al election the total number of news
papers thus served has increased
from $40 to 5,GG3. The bulk of the
increase came naturally from Pro
lection papers, but 4Sf came from
Free. trade and $50 from neutral
publications.
From Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
Tennessee. Texas and West virginia
was received the majority Of the ap-
plications from newspapers which
have hitherto been arrayed under
the Free Trade colors. The most
surprising increase is that of Texas,
where formerly The LEAGUE furnish
ed its literature to only fourteen pa
pers, and where now the number
is increased to 1903 This is deemed |
the strongest possible evidence that |
the principle of Protection is to-day |
accepted in every section regal dless
of previous party affiliations. Free
Trade is dead and buried. That
ruinous policy cannot be resurrect-
ed. We shall attain our full meas
ure of prosperity only through the
wise application of the American
policy Of Protection. !