The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-04-08

people want this restored. This will be
the issue in the next campaign. 1t was
so set forth in a speech made by Sena-
tor Sherman, of Illinois, during the
sitting of the last Congress. He covers
the ground completely when he
says:
One great issue towers above and di-
vides the voters of the United States.
Other questions may come and go, but
the protection of the American people s
industrial life overshadows them ALL 1t
reaches into the depths of the perma-
nent sources of prosperity. There is a
deep seated feeling among the people
that business is more prosperous, work
more abundant at fair wages. and that
they are better off under a Republican
than a Democratic administration. This
belief, traced to its source, is founded
on historical fact. The abandonment
of the protective system has always
been followed by disaster. A revision
of the tariff by the Democratic party
has always produced adversely and
business depression, as uniformly re-
deemed by the return of the protective
schedules of the Republican party.
When revision becomes necessary the
Republicans preserve the protective
features and the Democrats destroy
them.
The Republican party bases the duty
on conditions and builds it high enough
to keep the pay rolls in our country at
American wages and standards of liv-
ing. 1t secures the home market for
our own producers. 1t sees no advan-
tage in creating either idleness or an
excessive surplus by flooding the coun-
try with free listed or revenue duty
imports. 1t exalts the home market
above any to be reached at the expense
of freight commissions, inspection
charges and foreign tariffs. The Ameri-
can people instinctively know that we
ought to be able to supply by our own
industry all of every article we have
facilities to produce equal to our
wants.
The people understand that supply
ing our home market with The work of
their own hands makes the difference
between activity and idleness, betW cen
a Republican and Democratic admins
tration. We therefore limit the i'm
ports of competitive article the like
of which we can produce in quantity
adequate for our needs by a protective
duty on the article. This further gives
revenue, collected as toll, from the i'm
porter and tends to equalize differences
in conditions of production. When we
have so supplied our own wants we
seek foreign market for our surplus,
so there may be no idle period. We
know, however, the American market
is the greatest field for the employment
of our people and the sale of our pro-
ducts. Secretary Redfield will lecture
US in vain on foreign markets. This
generation has learned once more that
distance lends enchantment to his
view.
1t has learned, too, that Democratic
tariff reform is always conceived in
theory. but enacted in sectional dis
crimination-protective in a few places
and destructive in all. And it. is true,
as Senator Sherman says. that ''from
the horizontal reduction of Morrison to
the perpendicular ruin of President
Wilson, it is the signal for everybody to
hunt his storm cellar till the Democratic
administration is over. 1t is always
good time to rest if one can keep from
worrying too much"