The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-07
PROTEC TION
is MAINSTAY
Benefits OF Republican
Policy Adopted
Long Ago.

| Editor Advertiser: 1 overheard ar
| argument between two gentlemen il
| which one commended that the con-
sumner was the party who paid the
tariff, an example given by him as
| follows: He had received some car
| tridges of English manufacture which
We're of superior make the duty OF
which was As per cent, being really
prohibitive. That an inferior United
| States make sold in the United States
| for sS6 per NJ while the superior Eng
lish sold in Australia for $2'
per NJ. That the United States manu-
facturer sold the same goods in Aus
tralia at $3.50.
This was true and it applies to most
/ United States manufactures, which are
purchasable in China and elsewhere
abroad for much less than they are
retailed in the United States.
The gentleman making the argument
and illustration merely forgot to tell
that although Americans pay higher
for American manufactures at home,
they are enabled to do so on account
OF the advanced wages paid to artisans
by reason OF the protective tariff,
which is the main cause of prosperity
in the United States.
The protective tariff supported by
the Republican party, which prevents
the competition of articles manufac-
tured by poorly paid mechanics In
Europe, together with the immense
produce of the agricultural districts Of
the Union is the cause of the great
prosperity of the United States. OF
this there can be no doubt.
Even admitting that this protection
fosters the formation of trusts whose
earnings are finally, in natural cham
nels, distributed amongst the people,
is it not better that our people enjoy
home comforts such as only the nobil-
ity OF Europe enjoy than that our me-
chanics should be compelled to come
down to a bare existence, which is all
the European mechanic gets?
The principles of the Democratic
party, one of which was tariff for
revenue only" have changed very
much Of late years, the people feeling
that fair protection is essential to
the prosperity of the country. So that
in respect to the tariff the principles
have drawn more close than of yore.
AS no nation has all the necessaries Of
life within it's own borders, and there
fore it is necessary to deal with other
nations it is Imperative that the tariff
should not be prohibitive against the
offering of the manufactures and prod
ucts of other countries in our markets.
OF this the Republican party is very
sensitive and endeavors to scrutinize
closely the possible importations and
fix the tariff to suit. An observer will
note that in items which we do not
produce the rate is placed extremely
low to encourage the importation and
manufacture in our own borders, thus
giving employment to our people while
a market for the products
of other countries. The endeavor also
is to make the tariff on imported man
ufactures not prohibitive but fixed at
such rates as will afford our own man
ufacturers such remunerative profits as
will enable them to pay good wages
to the workman. The protection thus
afforded not only enables the masses
to enjoy better living than similar
masses in Europe do and to educate
their children up to higher standard
but incites the inventive ability of the
people in all directions. During the
past fifty years. since the Republican
party has been the dominant one al
most exclusively, the country has adj
yanced with rapid strides until it Is
unquestionably the foremost nation of
the earth With perfected improved
the farmer has tiled the
soil and garnered his crops and. by
means of assisted railroads he has been
enabled to obtain the highest prices
for his products, and is not dependent
on the markets in his vicinity only but
can offer them in distant centres or
ship them abroad.
The assisting of railroads by subsi-
dies or grants of land has pushed the
settlement up the regions west of the
and enabled us to absorb
the tide of inl1nigra ton from Europe
To such an extent that the centre of
popula sion in 1900 has moved west to
! noint IN Illinois The great rebellion {
IF 1851 was put down by the Repub- !
ican administration and it is admitted .
+ can be looked back TO as the greatest +
blessing America has had from its in
,eption as government. The inven- (
i've genius of the people is nowhere +
exhibited to a greater extent than in
he fertile regions of the South whose
have been developed in
manner undreamt of by our grand
athers.
In every region throughout the length
md breadth of the United States the
yhir and throb of machinery goes on,
.rasping and converting the mineral
gricuIturaI and other resources of the Il
country into mediums for the benefit
f the human race Assured of the
protection for the sale of his products
he pioneer does not hesitate to push
N into hitherto considered desert
racts. compelling the soil to yield by
means of conserved waters. The wood
nan. by electric power, converts the
crest into merchantable forms. know