The Minneapolis journal., 1906-11-21
.MCCLEARY VOICES
PROTECTION PLEA
Minnesota Congressman Supports
High Tariff in Speech
in Boston. la.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Boston, Nov. 2O.-At the eighteenth
annual dinner Of the Home Market club
at the Hotel Vendome last night, the
principal speech was made by James T.
McCleary, representative in congress
from Minnesota. Speaking on .sProtec-
tlon a Consistent National Policy, Not
a Selfish Sectional Scheme,' Mr.. Nc
Cleary said in part:
The democratic nominee for the
presidency of the United States in 1880
declared the tariff question to be a To-
cal issue. While there is an element Of
truth in this, it is not the statesmanlike
ance of General Hancock was properly
condemned
''To look after ones own interests
Is perfectly natural But selfshness
need not be shortsighted or narrow. It
may be farsighted and generous. There
Is selfshness that embraces the ma
ton, selfshness to- which we give the
Ihls larger and wiser view that the
d; home Market club SO strongly stands.
Inns club puts nationalism above Sec
t1onailsm and patriotism above selfish
ness. And for this stand it is Justly
honored among all men who comprehend
Its purposes.
New England vs. West.
"New England's swift-moving rivers
predestlned her to be a manufacturing
sectlon; But nature has not been gen.
erous to her in providing within her
borders the raw material of manufac-
ture. These must be brought in from
other places. Some of them could be
optalned at less expense if they could
pc brought In free Of duty from other
!ands. Not unnaturaHy, therefore, there
IS in this section a strong demand for
the removal of the tariff duties on such
| materials.
'''This demand covers, among other
things, free wool and free hides. Even
| more important is the demand for free
1000 products. But these are the fin
Of our country. Our people out in the
mississippi valley cannot be blamed if
they are as 1nsistent for protection to
the products Of the farm as are the
people of this section for protection to
the products of the factory.
1T takes something more than short
slghte,d.ness3 to see the whole. truth and
adopt it. 1t takes patriotism to see
protection as a consistent national pol
icy, knowing no north and no south, no
east and no west, knowing no favored
industries, but providing adequate pro-
| lection to all American industries of
farm and factory alike.
Not Selfish Scheme. :,
"Protection should not be. regarded
as merely selfish sectional scheme
| under which the strong may take what
they want while the weak must be sat
1stied with what they. can get. Right
ly understood, protection is wise and
| benefcent system which gives the
square deal to all.
| ''The narrow view sets the sections
over against each other, and tends to
break up and disunite our great nation
al family Just as surely, tho not as
evidently, as did the political sectional
ism Of forty-odd years ago in the civil
war. Rightly understood, protection is
a cement holding together in mutual
interdependence the vast areas of be-
loved country, with all their varied in
| dustries. = #... -
| ''The larger view requires largemind-
edness to comprehend it. But I have
an abiding faith in the intelligence and
integrity Of the average man. This
larger and wiser view should be taught
in our schools, proclaimed from our
platforms and urged in our periodicals.
To spread this national view is work
worthy Of this great club, which has
done and is doing SO much in this line
of patriotic service.'