The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-01-01


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H attract the crowds, bn-
Irfow people willdo the rest TICS.
e feature will be daiVch l
We bv Dana Thompson, wh9fto do
srtised to dive from a tow( of fight
biyb, turn a somersaultM f age
a tub Of water four feet Tx
feet square. Iel for one ming.
he company wi'sne venomous batrSd
our people " and most vicious ele
to comps,dis own party, which indi-
o;shee<that he is honest. But he
uri, 6ens his argument by questioning
N honesty of those who differ with
him. Perhaps it was a slip of the pen,
doubt if any one can seriously ques-
ton the honesty of Henry Clay, Abe
Lincoln, and Tom Reed. take lit
tie broader view. say an American
who opposes protective tariff must
be dishonest, ignorant or unpatriotic,
Most college professors, even at Har.
ward, are free traders. | impute it
to their ignorance. The most learned
professor, when it comes to laying out
a cotton row, is more ignorant than
the average cotton plantation negro:
aud in trailing deer he is infinitely
more ignorant than the measliest old
hound in Florida.
The old time crackers had an axiom,
"A peck of corn you raise is worth a
bushel you buy" That is protection
in d nutshell. Protectionists do not
seek to protect banana growing in
connecticut. They aim to produce in
our own country everything that can
be produced here with as little labor
as elsewhere. For example: Make
the duty on oranges such that we can
compete with the West Indian who
gets his labor for rs cents a day. THE
NEWS advocates protection when it
asks our people to patronize home
merchants and home producers.
Horace Greeley tells of the benef-
Client influence of protection in the
"a Sc of Connecticut man who owned
1000 acres of land, and paid $50 per
acre to have 800 acres cleared, the
timber being destroyed as worthless.
He afterwards had the other 800 acres
cleared, and the contractor gave him
40 per acre for the timber, and made
no charge for clearing the land. A
protective tariF had been enacted,
enabling iron furnaces to start up,
and they bought charcoal from him
thus netting the land owner 1872, 900 on
the 500 acres last cleared, and utiliz-
ing the timber, which had heretofore
been destroyed. This is one instance
of the benefit of wise protective
tariff 1t ~ bes us to utilize waste
products - unemployed labor. Free
trade mi ght do the same, if we would
stick to it, because it would make US
~ poor that wages would 70 down to
that level which would enable Us to
compete with the cheap labor of
other countries.
1t is free trade that makes the rich
richer and the poor poorer. The rich
man is far better able than the poor
man to protect himself from its bale
full effects.
! do not regard protection as a
question which can be fairly discussed
in newspaper article. phose who
seek to know the truth should study
Horace Greeley's book, the speeches
Of Henry Clay and Stewards speech,
opposing tariff reduction, made in
lSj4, predicting the financial crisis OF
1857.
1t was the fear of democratic tink-
rring with the tariff that caused the
panic of 1888. The bankers do not
wilfully cause panics. They may
Irccipitate them when they get
scared at democratic success and call
in their loans.
If calling out troops will cause pros
perity, Germany should be far more
prosperous country than the United
States; as fact the American work.
ingmen were never so prosperous as
they are today, those who lead sober
prudent lives. Perhaps there never
we're so large a proportion OF. them
who wasted their wages on liquor and
on riotOus living. AS for the trusts:
The labor trusts are the worst, the
most cruel and barbarOus. But one
who does not like the trusts need not
use their product. If he does not
like the Standard Oil Company he can
use lightwood splinters.
The COlonel's statement as to our
% cent dollar may be true. If so we
will have tremendous crash whenever
it comes, which may not be until
Congress destroys the
confidence of the people who save
their money. He says when money Is
plenty times are good. Times should
surely have been good in the South
during the last days of the war. They