Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — PROTECTION PARADOXES. [ARTICLE]

PROTECTION PARADOXES.

The protectionists oi this country are just now endeavoring thro’ diplomacy to persuade the protec tion countries of Germany and France to lower their duties on certain American nroducts. The logic of this request is that high duties are very good for this country but very bad for foreign nations. Our Administration boasts of reciprocity treaties which have secured free admission or graetly reduced duties on many American nroducts going into foreign lands, without abating in return any tax upon imporrs into this country. The log.c °f this policy»is that it is highly praiseworthy to untax necessaries for foreign peoples but that it is a patriotic duty to heap still higher the taxes on the necessaries of our own people. The Republican stumpers point with pride to cheaper sugar as the result of untaxii g it, and then claim that five hundred other articles have been or will be made cheaper by taxing them. The logic of this claim is that increasing a burden generally makes the load lighter. Great are the paradoxes of pros tection. Cl 'veland was the only President to deliver his inaugural address extempore. Fillmore made no inaugural. Garfield was' the first President to make any political speeches in a foreign tongue. German was used. Sisoe the election tbe demand forttabOrna has fallen off and the I ■umbvre shut down but a revival Lais. £ is* -