The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-06-03
PROJECTIONS ADVANTAGES
Experiencs Has Taught the Country
the Benefits Of the Repub-
lican Tariff


It Is well that tie paople OF this
country should bear in mind that the
democratic party is opposed to pro-
tective tariff as a principle OF govern
ment, and will do all In its power to
break 1t down. The proposed demo-
cratic policy. says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, is q tariff for revenue only.
and their free trade purpose is to
sweep away the whole protective sys-
tenn. Throwing open the gates to for
eign products necessarily means
competition with the world in wages,
as In other respects. A moments re-
Fiction Is enough to show that Ameri-
can wages, which are much the high
est, cannot be maintained IL the mar
gin of protection is removed. Ocean
ships have now vast carrying capaci-
ty and cross the seas In half the time
formerly required. In a single day 15,-
000 immigrants are sometimes landed
In New York, and the same ships
many thousand tons OF freight. With
facilities of this kind, that may be add
ed to indefinitely, 1t is clear that pro-
lection alone Is the bulwark against an
unlimited flood of foreign goods, and
the first to suffer would be American
wage-earners. Here Is food for sober
minded thought when democratic bat
teries are playing on what that party
conceives to be any weak spot in pro-
at great pains to exaggerate, every
vague charge that can be brought
against protection and that may be
used to divide its supporters. It is
reckless game, but 1t is reckless party
that resorts to 1t.
In the matter of competing rates, the
development of American industries
under protection, and the high skill
and spirit that are the result of Amer
lean wages, have caused great
growth in the exports Of manufactured
articles from the United States, which
Is the proof that, in general, our fac
tories turn out what is best and cheap
est. Our manufacturers are selling
abroad $500, 100000 of their products
year, which they could not do unless
they had reached lead in quality and
prices. 1t will be time enough to say
they can be underbid when the figures
establishing the assertion are given.
Our shipping has not grown, like that
of Germany for example. for the sim
pie reason that the German policy is
to protect ships with subsidies and
preferential rates on inland railway
freights. No such aid is bestowed on
American ships, and so our merchant
marine declines, while that of the Eu-
ropean countries where ships are fos-
tered by the government grows rapidly.
Foreign ships crews are not as we'll
paid as those on American vessels. But
the American standard will never be
sacrificed unless party different from
that now In power takes control. II is
admitted that this country, where ship
subsidies have been defeated by fill
clustering democrats in congress. can
not vie with the subsidized shipping
OF Europe, but our manufacturers own
to no disability to compete, abroad as
well as at home, along protected lines.
What have been the lessons Of ex-
perience in the United States in regard
to republican and democratic tariffs
and republican and democratic admin
istrations? Citizens must have short
memories who have forgotten the perl
cd between 1894 and 1897. with it's
mongrel democratic tariff reform, its
millions of unemployed men and it's
long period of business depression.
Perhaps there are some who will not
learn even in the school of experience
but It cannot be believed that persons
Of that caliber form majority of the
people of this country. When tariff re-
vision becomes necessary the only or
ganization that can perform the duty
safely is the party of protection. the
friends of the policy that has been test
ed and found good Ask democrat
II he is for protection in any form and
he will answer in the negative. or must
avow that on that subject he disagrees
with his party. The democratic fight
is not on inequalities that may. in
course Of time, develop in a protective
tariff; the democratic party wars on
protection itself.