The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-01-27


. Teacher What Our Future Tariff Pol
10y Means.
The victory for Mckinley and protec-
tion has been great victory in every
sense of the word. IL is not only VIC
tory of great majorities. but IL is VIC
.ory for a great principle. 1t is not q
victory for any particular section, but q
victory for the whole country. Ii is not
victory for any particular class of men
or for any party, but q victory for the
whole American people. The victory is
only what every one expected In a
square battle between protection and
free trade there could be but one result,
and that result triumph for the Amer
lean system of protection. Ii is for this
reason that William J. Bryan and all
his free trade supporters have so strenu-
ously endeavored TO switch the issue Of
the campaign away from the question
of the tariff.
But with Mr.. Bryan's free trade rec
ord open TO the public, with the great
apostle of protection" as leader on the
other side, with partial free trade al.
ready casting its deadly blight upon
our industrial life. with that product
of ignorance and incompetency, of Sec
tional discrimination and individual
favoritism, the debt producing, indus
try destroying German bill, as the law
of the land, the dominant and decisive
issue was bound to be the tariff. Much
as the free traders did to befog the is
sue, they could not change it, That be-
ing so, the result was foregone con-
clusion. There is none so blind as
him who will not see, but there was
none so blind that he could not fore
see the coming of the political tidal
wave, which sweeps the country back
to prosperity, back to its prosperity of
four years ago.
The briefest actual trial Of free trade,
or of any approach to it, has always suf-
feed to turn the people back from any
leanings toward that economic fallacy.
The disastrous experience of the last
four years, under this free trade admin
istration, has thoroughly sickened the
American people Of that policy. In
1892, after more than 80 years of pro-
Of prosperity. The triumph of the free
trade party in that year sent us down
to the lowest depths of industrial de-
preston. The four years since 1892
have been one long history Of hard
times, of disaster and distress. No part
of the country has been left unscathed.
The south has suffered with the north
and the east with the west. No man
has been spared The farmer has seen
the value of his farm and of his stock
decrease, his market destroyed and his
crops left unsold upon his hands. The
merchant has seen his goods grow dusty
Oh his shelves. The manufacturer has
been forced TO close his mill The wage
Garner, whose whole capital is in his
power to labor, has had the chance to
labor taken from him. The capitalist
has suffered with the rest. There is not
person i'll this country who has not
helped to pay, either by actual loss or
by sacrifice of comfort, the tremendous
cost of this trial of free trade
Truth has to be taught. Lies find
their own way, said Speaker Reed.
The free trade liar was abroad in 1892.
The provisions Of the Mckinley law
were grossly misrepresented, history
was distorted figures juggled and facts
suppressed. The lies found their own
way and won the election of 1892 for
free trade.
The victory for protection won this
fall is not the result of "a sudden within,
or OF blind reliance or unsubstantial
claims, or from any desire to see what
the party of protection will do, but it
is the result Of deliberate conviction
based OH experience. All that this great
victory means we have not yet had time
TO appreciate, but something of it's
meaning we know and all the people Of
the country know. As to the past, it
means that the American people have
grown tired of keeping foreigners at
work while American workmen sit in
idleness. It means that they have
grown tired of letting the foreign pro-
ducer have the American market as
free gift. It means that they have
grown tired of closed workshops and ST.
lent machinery. 1t means that they
have grown tired of national deficit;
that they have grown tired of bond is
sues. Ii means that they have grown
tired OF business stagnation and indus
trial depression. 1t means that they
have grown tired OF hard times 1t
means that they have grown tired of
free trade and of all its train of evils.
1t means that they have seen the folly
and the hollowness of all the free trade
rant about tariff taxation - that they
have found out that free raw materi-
all is IA snare and delusion; that they
have learned that 1.-The markets of the
world is only catch word to deceive
the minimizing and the unwary. 1t
means that they have learned the value
Of our home market. IL means that they
have learned that the prosperity of the
American people depends on the en-
ployment Of American labor It means
that they have come to believe with
William Mckinley that nothing from
abroad can be cheap to- the American
people which means idleness among
ourselves. It means that they have
learned that "a revenue tariff levels