Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PROTECTION. [ARTICLE]

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PROTECTION.

In a little pamphlet by Mr. Geo. Brickett, of Lynn, Mass., is presented the theory and practice of pioteotion. It contains the whole statement and deductions. Out it out; paste it in your hat; carry it in your pocketbook: If you think it wise to protect an industry that* you are not directly interested in, I make this proposition toy ouj: Tax yourselves only 1 cent a year, and I will open a new American industry, agreeing to employ 1,200 native American laborers at wages of SSOO a year, or I will give them $450 a year and allow them 365 holidays. You are following me as an arithmatician. In round numbers there are 60,000,000 people to be taxed: One cent from each amoants to $600,000 1,200 laborers at $450 each wo’d take of this amount, 540,000 Leaving for me $60,000 In the new industry 1,200 laborers are ployed at good wages and very light work. Sixty thousand dollars is a fair ramus erat ion for my severe mental strain. Twelve hundred and one of our population—pure native Americans—are engaged in a business profitable to them, and tho other 50,998„790 are losers of only one cent each. This business I will continue; and I will further agree not to reduce the wages of my help, to employ only natives, and not to import laborers from Hungary, Poland or Italy to compete with them.— There will be no “shut-down,” no strikes, and in ten years I agree to have a free library, gymnasium and hospital for my help. I further agree to find politicians who will point to this new industry as one that has grown up entirely under the beneficent workings of protection. I will refer to this industry myself as depending absolutely upon the glorious American idea of protection. Don’t forget to attend the Gypsy entertainment at the Opera House, next Tuesday evening. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Bep.) remarks: A Republican policy which keeps Republicans away from the polls, or which makes many of them vote the Democratic ticket, is a first-rate policy to drop. Between this time and the meeting of the national conventions in 1892, the party must either reform its present leaders or get new ones. Mr. Blaine remarks: The United States has reached the point where one of its highest duties is to enlarge the of its foreign trade. Therd is not a section nor a line in the entire [McKinley] bill that will open a market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork. Supper served from 5 to 8 o’clock p. m., Tuesday evening, at the Opera House Admission to the entertainment 10 eents. Price for cupper 15 cents.