The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-03
COMMUNICATED.
Protect Your Own Home

and citizens of your community, Dem
ocrats as well as Republicans.
The Republican party, whose prin-
ciples were upheld and maintained
by that great statesman and noble
character, Abraham Lincoln, himself
farmer, and by that loyal, generous,
and true hearted American, William
Mckinley, a man of exalted ideas and
iustice who held the welfare of his
country to be OF vital importa nee to
himself, and whose every effort while
in the service of his country was for
the betterment and uplifting of his
fellowmau These men supported
the principles as laid down by the
Republican party: and where can
you find the man that can truthfully
speak i'll of either of these magnifi-
cent characters.
ask you my farmer friend which
is it best for you to do, sell your pro
duct, or keep it? You answer: sell it,
of course. This is true, as any sane
man will TELL you. But ask, if You
are lot protected against free trade
lthe liquidation of theDemocratic par
ty) and against the low wages and
pauper labor of foreign countries.
where viii you find ready market
for YOUR output.
The Republican party stands 10 day,
and always has stood, for protection
of our own interests. Protection of
the farmer and his welfare Protec-
tion of the free people of this grand
old Republic against the pauper la
Dor and sweat-shop systems Of foreign
and seryie nations.
Now, why are we for protection.
Because itpromotes the prosperity
and welfare of the country"
Because our country has always
been prosperous under Il protective
tariff, and has languished and with
cred without it. "
Because it relieves wage earners
from foreign competition. and there
by enables them to become liberal
consumers of the home product"
Because it steadily and surely Ell
larges the home markets for our own
products"
because we want labor to get the
best wages possible for its efforts"
Because by protecting ourselves,
agriculture will find sure, rich mar
ket at home"
Because every dollar we send
abroad to purchase that which we can
produce at home, makes us just one
dollar poorer"
Because protection in this coun-
try gives better wages than free
trade
Because it is better for this coun-
try TO feed and clothe its own labor,
than it is to support labor in foreign
countries with our money"
And last, but not least:
Because we love our own country
better than we do foreign countries -
These | think are good and suffi-
Gent reasons why, we as a party, up
hold and support a tariff for protec-
ton.
Look at the newspaper files of the
country DUNG the last Democratic
administration, from 1892 until 1897.
Is it not fact that conditions then
were quite different from those which
prevailed since 1898, under a ReDubli-
can administration?
Are the years of 1893. still fresh in
the minds of my readers?
Have we forgotten the universal
cry of thousands of honest, hard work
ing men and women in the streets of
our large cities, clamoring for employ
ment when none was to be had?
Have we forgotten the thousands
of forlorn and helpless women and
children crying for bread, while the
father sat in his poor and desolate
home, sorrowful and detected, as he
looked upon the pinched and drawn
faces of those around him, shivering
from cold and hunger?
Is our memory so short that we do
not remember the great armies of the
unemployed, as they sought day af-
ter day for something to do, by which
they might earn a few dollars in Or
der to keep the wolf from the door
Have we forgotten the numerous
suicides that were the direct result of
all this misery and wretchedness?
say, have we forgotten these things?
If we have, let us look at the files
and see what story they have to tell.
Take Harper's Weekly for January
10, 1894, and look at this picture:
Free food for Chicago's poor Long
lines of hungry men, women and
children waiting in the cold for their
poor allowance of bowl of soup and
piece of bread, just enough to keep
soul and body together through the
long cruel winter. At night, the
street is their bed HundredS Of