Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — GARRISON ON PROTECTION. [ARTICLE]

GARRISON ON PROTECTION.

William Lloyd Garrison, one of the founders and organizes of the republican party, was at one time a protectionist, but more recently referred to the protection theory •s follows: ‘The protection of American la bor has a taking sound, but it really means the restriction and taxation of that labor. Protection against what? Have we not the best educated and most intelligent population on earth ? and does not this imply industry, thrift, skill, enterprise, invention, capital, beyond any Other forty millions of people? Have we not muscles as well as brains? Have we not a oountry unrivaled i_ the variety and abundance of itsratural prodnetion and the abounding riches •f its mineral resources? What gKtfe need we to claim or ought we

to have? If, in as open field, we can not successfully compete with “the cheap and pauperized labor of Europe,” in all that is necessary to our comfort, or even to our luxury, then let us "o to the wall. Was the slave labor of the south at all a match for the free labor of the North? In which section of the Union was industry best protected or wealth most augmented? Is it not ludicrous to read what piteous calls are made for th protection of the strong against the weak, of the intelligent against the ignorant, of the well-fed against the half tarring, of our free republican n .tion against the eff-te governments of the Old World, in all that relate! to the welfare of the people? With all that God has done for us, in giving u, such a goodiy heritage, am not we con. j trive to live without erecting barriers against the freest intercourse > with all nations? Must we guard our ports against the free importation of hemp, iron, broadcloth, silk, coal, etc, tc., is though it were a quest foil of quarantine for the sma 1-pox or Asiatic cholera? defusing to Jo so, will the natural consequences be “vacant factories,' fuinaces standing idle, the ships j of manufacturing mdustry.closed, labor begging and starving for want of emplo meat,” and all the odier fearful results that are so confidently predicted by the advocates of the protective policy falsely so called.”

Attention! If you desire a fine lead of hair of a natural lim end ’ree from dandruff, Hall’s Hair Benewer is tn best and safest preparation to accomplish it. The old stocks having been woiked off, why do nottbenumer ous American tin plate mills which lave been started—on paper at east—during the 3 tst year and a half begin supplying the market, as Mr. Niedringhaus and others promised would be done? Then* was received Thursday of last week at the Chicago custom house, 1,349,000 pounds of tin plate to be ns ad by local establishments All of it came from Wales and pi id a duty of 2.2 cents a pound. Why did not the American manufacturers offer their product to the Chicag« firms instead of allowing the Welshmen to contii ue o monopolize the business?