Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — The Policy of Protection. [ARTICLE]

The Policy of Protection.

That policy protects the trusts and oppresses the workingman; it increases the price of all the laborer has to buy, and reduces the price of all he has to sell. It does not reduce taxation, but increases it. and gives the increase not to labor, but to the capital represented by trusts. In the contest between high taxes and low taxes, between trusts and the people, between capital and men, the interest of the laborer, whether he works in the field or at the furnace, in the mines or at the mill, is defended and protected by the Democratic party. It is not an issue between free trade and protection, but between higher taxes and lower taxes; between cheap clothing and cheap whisky; between the people and the trusts. The growth of the trusts is a menace to the laborer as well as to the consumer. The Democratic party arrays itself against mon*opoly in every form; the Republican party is the champion of the money power, take whatever shape it may. —Louisville CourierJournal.