Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — War in the Protection Camp. [ARTICLE]

War in the Protection Camp.

The distinguished gentleman from Ohio who addressed the meeting at Music Hall told his audience that if Rhode Island dared to touch the wool on the sheep’s back the wool-grower would turn around and make this State a howling wilderness. In other words, we are here not by the grace of God, but by the forbearance of Western shepherds. The protection which these eminent agriculturists already demand for their staple is rapidly destroying our manufactures, so that one after another the mills are closed and the operatives driven to some other industry. The Republican candidate for Governor was constrained to withdraw from manufacturing by the unsatisfactory condition of the business under the present tariff. It is perilous talk for Ohio to shake her fist in the face of Rhode Island and tell us that if we don’t die decorously by slow starvation we shall be destroyed by the great blizzard of the West blowing us into the Atlantic Ocean.— Providence Journal.