The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-10-14
SAYING OF
WISE men.
Protective Tariff System as Seen
by all Ameri-
cans.

Il believe that the protective sys-
tenn has been a mighty instrum Int
for the development of our national
wealth and a most powerful agency in
protecting the homes of our working
men-President Harrison.
The present phenomenal prosperi-
ty has been won under tariff made
in accordance with certain fixed prin-
ciples the most important of which Is
an avowed determination to protect
the interests of the American pro-
Queer, business man, wage-earner and
farmer alike.'-Theodore Roosevelt.
Experience of more than forty
years in business life has taught me
under low or revenue tariff business
oppression and financial distress has
been the rule, while under protection
good business and general prosperity
has been the result. Hon. n. ID.
Sperry, in American Economist.
Protection has already made us
the richest and strongest nation on
earth, and und ar a properly Restrict
al immigration will bring us much
that is most valuable in the popula-
ton OF other lands. Senator Hoar.
Protection creates a home market
without which the cultiyators of the
land in America would b. but little
better off than our aborgines.'-
Hon. j. S. Merrill.
The present business system of the
cosntry rest on the protective tsriff
and any attempt to chnage it to a
free trade basis will certainly lad
to disaster. President Taft.
"A condition of prosperity came
with the policy of protection and
condition of adversely came when the
theory of free trade was yielded to
and this has been withuot exception"
L. p. Campbell.
Certain great trusts or great cor
porations are wholly unaffected by tn
tariff. Practically all the Others that
are Of any Importance have, as a mat
ter OF fact, numbers of similar Ameri-
csln competitors; and of course,
change in the tariff which would
work an injury to the large corpora
ton would work not merely injury but
destruction TO its smaller competitors
ard equally of course, such a course
would mean disaster to all the wage
workers connected with either large
or small corporations Theodore
Roosevelt
Protection steadily enlargss the
home market for farm products
Former Senator Casey.
Everyone knows that the average
American consumer pays more than
the average British consumer: Yet the
British consumer, in spite OF that
advantage, is by no means so well off
as the American consumer."- |
London Daily Tel graph.
Every dollar Sent abroad to pur-
chase goods that We can produce at |
home makes us a dollar the poorer"
H. X. Thurber, in American Econo-
mist.
No matter how capital combines |
Dr. how labor combines or how thay
differ among themselves. their in
-erest are ms parable and it. ought |
TO be plain to both that they cannot
afford to go out of business in ia
VoT Of foreign labor and foreign capt.
al by abandoning the policy of pro-
lection. CONGRESSMAN Hamilton.
They tell us that a protective tar
n was only designed for infant in
lustries, that We have outgrown that
infancy and are no longer in need OF
he duties that enabled us to gst them
started We have grown it is true.
)ut let me tell you that the other
GLOW has grown up to."-Vice-Presi-
lent sherman.
TO increase production here, di-
'ersify our productive enterprise, en-
arge the field and increase the de-
nand for American workmen; what
american can oppose these worthy
nd patriotic objects. mckinley
Neither our nation, nor any other
an stand the ruinous policy of read
listing its business to radical changes
n the tariff at short intervals."-- :
'heodore Roosevelt.
THE success of the United States
q material Development is the most
lustrious of modern times. It Is my
CELEBRATE judgment that the pros
Gritty of America is due mainly to
= system of protective laws'-Prlnce
ismark OF Germany. +,
WHY Plunge Into Democracy. I