Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-09-30
A ROCKY ROAD TO TRAVEL.
SHERMAN FOR PROTECTION
Experience Has Demonstrated that
Protective Tariff Means Pros

Protective Tariff Means Pros
perity.
(From Sherman's Speech OF Accept
ance.J
First, then, let me say that / am a
protect 9ulst. I am sufficiently practi-
cal to value the utility OF fact higher
than the beauty OF a theory, and l am
a protectioni9t because experience has
demonstrated that the application Of
that principle has lifted us as a nation
to a plane Of prosperity above that oc-
cupled by any other people.
especially commend that plank Of
our platform which promises an early
revision OF tariff schedules. That pledge
Will be fulfilled in ali adjustment. bar 4
in every particular upon the broad
principles of protection for all Arneris
can interests; alike for labor, for capt.
tai, for producers and consumers. The
Dlngley bill, when enacted, was well
adapted to the then existing conditions
The Developments OF industrial pros
perlty In a decade, which In volume
and degree have surpassed our most
roseate expectations, have so altered
conditions that IN certain details of
schedules they no longer In every par
ticular mete out justice to all. In this
readjustment the principle OF protec-
ton must and Will govern; such duties
must and will be imposed as will equal
lie the cost OF production at home and
abroad and insure a reasonable profit
to all American interests. The Repub-
lican idea Of such a profit embraces not
alone the manufacturer, nor alone the
capital invested, but all engaged in
American production, the employer and
employed, the artisan. the farmer, the
miner and those engaged In transporta-
ton and trade; broadly speaking, those
engaged In every pursuit and calling
which our tariff directly or indirectly
Affects. During statutory application
OF this principle. prosperity has abided
with w, When revenue tariff has
been the law, adversely and want have
been our portion. Our Democratic
brethren, whose memories are as short
| as their promises are frail, and who
have always exhibited lack of capaci-
ty to profit by experience, unmindful of
the distress and destruction that ar
| r.yef and departed with the last Demo
cratic administration. declare In their
platform that they favor such imme-
| "a 80 oh Hftfa
as may be necessary TO restore the
tariff to revenue basis" A revenue
basis" "tari1 for revenue only, "uiti.
mate free trade''-all have an identi-
cal meaning; that meaning being an as.
sault upon TIE American Industries, an
attack upon the American wage scale
a lessening demand for the products OF
| American soil and American toll; less
work, less pay. less of the necessaries
OF and comforts of life. In the light
Of history. what issue of the campaign
SO vitality affects American citizens:
Experience, that effective teaeher-ef.
sective save with the one-man power
new parading under the title of the
Democratic party--has taught the ma.
tior valuable lesson and the result
Of tie coming November election viii
once more prove the American people
to be apt scholars. What the laboreI
OF the land, skilled and unskllled. dc,
sires is the opportunity at all times &c
exhange his brain aud Drawn for good
pay in good money. A protective tar,
itf and the gold standard. both now the
existing achievements OF the Republic
can party, in spite Of Democratic dppo
sltion, give the laborer that opportuni
ty.