Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-09

country has been mulched for many
years by the Steels trust. The manu-
facture of silk in New Jersey has been a
great industry for many years. Natural
~ the manufacturers wish for free raw
silk. The manufacture of silk has been
50 highly protected that it has become a
monopoly. The looms are worked in "A
great part by cheap imported labor and
today those centerS of the silk manu-
facture are the headquarters of anarch-
ism in America. Do YOU suppose that
Mr.. Wilson will advocate the destruction
of the silk manufacture in New Jersey?
There is more reason for the destruction
Of the silk manufacture han there is
for the destruction of the sheep industry.
The great mass Of the people can Get on
quite well without silk. / have been un-
able to see where either Nebraska or
New Jersey have been injured by the
proposed reduction of the tariff. The
American lab0rer whether on the farm.
ranch or in the mines or mills should be
protected against foreign competition
and the party that does not protect him
will he DESTROYED. The man who thinks
that free trade will ever prevail in this
COuntr? is a dreamer. The American
labOrcr who eats three square meals a
day can not and will not compete with
China and India where labor is worth
only ten cents 4 day and where a human
being lives from years end to years end
on five cents per day for Il family of two
persons. The bridegroom is fortunate il
he has an income of ten cents per day
the year round. The democrats of the
North will not dare to take away tho
protection on manufactured goods cX
ccpt where there is absolutely no danger
of competition as in the case of rails
When the competition is 50 sharp tina
the price Of labor must be cut down
then nj the strike and the shutdown
and the politician who has advocated
the course that has brought this abou-
will get it in the neck. and he knows it
The people Of the North have grow
rich from protection and the people 0
the South and the West have paid tn
price.
All we ask is a square deal from oul
friends, will we Get it?
General Hancock. one time presiden
tial candidate on the democratic tickc
t,. ,r,.i1,n. ,,J .I+In,,l -.lnf..+.l ~,
he made a statement that has become
proverb. He said that The tariff is ;
local question: About the same tim,
another very distinguished soldier an(
one who was really elected prcSidcn'
two terms made another Statcmcnr
which has become equally celebrated. IIC
said in substance that the democratic
party could always be relied upon to dC
some f0ol thing at the crucial momcnI
10 wreck itself. The democratic party il
more than two millions short of repre-
S~cnting the majority of the American
people; but the great mass of the Amcri
can people are democrats in the I'm,
sense or meaning Of the word. DrmOc
raCy means 4 government Of the people
by the people and fer the people. il
means equal justice, equal taxation
Only when it has departed from the
fundamental principles rs laid down b,
Jefferson and the fathers it has been IL
fcatcd. It has invariably gone down il
defeat when il has represented a section
or a faction.
DIR. w. f. COLE.
Brownsville. Texas, April Z. 1913.